The elections were at this time essentially in the power of the different clubs into which the aristocracy had grouped themselves; the system of bribery was organized by them on the most extensive scale and with the utmost method.
A citizen convicted of bribery in an election, embezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny, is by the law of Virginia deprived of the right of voting.
Bribery of the English ministers was not spared, and in September the invaders recrossed to England.
His father, of the same name, had held an important military command in Sicily, but on his return to Rome he was prosecuted on a charge of bribery and condemned to exile.
Bribery sits in the vestibule of every law-making assembly.
It is a great corruption fund for bribery and for bribery only.
I merely want to know the exact and real truth of Miss Fitzgerald's connection with this bribery and corruption business.
Long before this time she had made rebating and bribery cardinal and unforgivable sins.
The whole rotten record of rebates, of sinister political advantages gained through bribery of one form or another, has long since been bared.
Two boroughs, Penryn and East Retford, had been disfranchised for bribery and corruption.
Bribery and corruption was thus made an easy task.
Direct bribery is a clumsy weapon and one difficult to conceal if practiced on any considerable scale.
By practising a wholesale system of bribery the government managed, nevertheless, to obtain so large a majority that the Princess of Wales exclaimed in great exultation "Now my son is really king.
Lucas, driven from Ireland, was somewhere on the Continent, and several Irish members had been removed from the House by bribery and other methods.
To listen to any group of men discussing the political situation one unacquainted with the law would never mistrust that bribery in legislatures was a state's prison offense.
The chief briberyfound in the legislative assemblies was contained in the proposal submitted by the demagogue.
One of our authorities does indeed emphatically assert the ultimate prevalence of bribery in the equestrian courts:[633] and circumstances may be easily imagined which would have made this resort natural, if not inevitable.
The knights mustered readily under his banner, for they had no illusions as to the meaning of the bill; it was impossible to conciliate an order by the bribery of a few hundreds of its members, whose very names were as yet unknown.
A political society must be tainted to the core, if bribery can be given and accepted as a serious and adequate explanation of the proceedings of its leading members.
Never was there such bribery and corruption among the officials as in the years after 1912.
From Ming time on, fashions changed quickly as soon as government regulations which determined colour and material of the dress of each social class were relaxed or as soon as they could be circumvented by bribery or ingenious devices.
The alliances were not stable but broke up again and again through bribery or intrigue, which produced new combinations.
These struggles, which were carried on more by means of diplomacy and bribery than at arms, lasted until 1936.
He accused the society of dishonest political practices, interference with the government, bribery and corruption.
No Carlton Clubs, Reform Clubs, nor any sort of clubs or creatures, or of accredited opinions or practices, can make a Lie Truth, can make Bribery a Propriety.
In the case of the late Bribery Committee, it seemed to be the conclusion of the soundest practical minds that Bribery could not be put down; that Pure Election was a thing we had seen the last of, and must now go on without, as we best could.
What is the attitude of the people towards bribery and corruption?
To make the precautions against bribery complete it will doubtless be necessary to add to the secret ballot the English system of accounting for election expenses.
This system of accounting has put an end to bribery in England.
Another political reform which promises excellent results is the adoption by many states of some form of the Australian ballot-system, for the purpose of checking intimidation and bribery at elections.
Forcible seizure, excessive taxation and bribery have been of everyday occurrence.
To insist on the Government investigating into any alleged bribery and infringement of laws by officials.
But Spotswood would not have been so pleased with himself if he had realized the resentment which this open briberyof the people's representatives caused throughout the colony.
Many of the addresses of various bodies to the Virginia Governors lack the ring of sincerity, because they were obtained by bribery or threats.
He still exists, and continued to the end of Mr. Hastings's government to furnish constant sources of bribery and plunder to him and his creatures.
The discretion of the inquisitor was so wide that bribery itself could be safely indulged in.
Pietro Balsamo, known as Carino, one of the hired assassins, was caught red-handed, and his escape by bribery from prison created a popular excitement leading to a revolution in Milan.
Well, it's just this: they do say yo're tryin' to fasten a criminal charge of bribery on me.
That astute lawyer had been careful to have nothing whatever to do with actual bribery or corruption, and he was crafty enough to disassociate himself from direct dealing with agents.
If bribery would not do, he should certainly vote for equipping a fleet.
Bribery alone could purchase security from the Algerines.
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