Party conventions take advantage of this disability on the part of the voter to work an electioneering device known as a "straddle," the aim of which is to please opposite interests by giving each a place on the ticket.
The controversy had so far followed the ordinary lines of partisan contention in Congress, which public opinion was accustomed to regard with contemptuous indifference as mere sparring for points in the electioneering game.
I went down to Northampton to report electioneering incidents for the National Reformer, and spent some days there in the whirl of the struggle.
You may be sure I shall not make use of the vulgar electioneering arts to coax gentlemen out of their votes.
These modes of electioneeringwere not true of all the candidates, nor perhaps of half of them, very many of them being gentlemen of first-class integrity.
I accompanied him on one of his electioneering trips to Island Grove; and he made a speech which pleased his party friends very well indeed, though some of the Jackson men tried to make sport of it.
Constant efforts were made to expose defalcations in the revenue, to curtail exorbitant salaries, and to put down electioneering corruption.
The expectations formed of the squire's capacities for popularelectioneering were fully realized.
My troubles are great enough without adding Canadian electioneering views to the difficulties I have to contend with.
He had been asked by the electioneering agent for a small trifle of some hundred pounds towards the expenses, and this, by the generosity of his father, he had been able to give.
Though all the town was busy with these electioneering doings, there was nothing for him to do.
Of course the publicans would open their taps and then send in their bills for beer to the electioneering agents.
The sitting members were of course accused, both as regarded themselves and their agents, of every crime known in electioneering tactics.
Generally speaking, in an electioneering country (I mean in a country full of political life, and used to the manipulation of popular institutions), the election of candidates to elect candidates is a farce.
It has so many poor men inside it, and so many rich men outside it, that its electioneering value is impaired.
Certain individual peers have, from their great possessions, great electioneering influence, but, as a whole, the House of Peers is not a principal electioneering force.
The overt electioneeringpower of the Lords does not at all equal its real social power.
In all big towns in which there is electioneering these houses are the centres of illicit corruption and illicit management.
If she insisted on Miss Battersby accompanying her daughter to Portugal in the capacity of chaperon, she is almost certain to have prejudices against electioneering as a sport for young girls.
I was told in the office of the Conservative and Unionist Association that no man living was more crafty in electioneering than Mr. Titherington, and that I should do well to trust myself entirely to his guidance.
His activity in electioneeringhad introduced him to the notice of some Whig nobles.
It was given out that the polling would take place at Ailesbury; and Wharton, whose skill in all the arts of electioneering was unrivalled, made his arrangements on that supposition.
As to politics, the four or five last newspapers are filled with the most scurrilous and abusive electioneering pieces for and against myself and Thomas Stokeley.
But then in these electioneering matters one never knows what one may have done to compromise oneself without meaning it; and the Major was a little anxious to find out what he had said.
And then it was not worth while going out any more that day--for the electioneering agent, who knew all about it, was not coming till the last train.
I don't know how it may be about this electioneering business.
Tifto was very well for Chester or Newmarket, very well perhaps for the Beargarden, but not very well for an electioneering expedition.
There were many ladies present and they thought that the Duke's son was just the person who ought to come electioneering among them.
Government, that is, into the toils of popular electioneering and party politics, when all the abuses which I have enumerated can and do arise.
He is, therefore, delivered over to the politicians who make of him an electioneering agent, who reckon him as such, and who would never pardon him if he failed them.
After his return from the "war," Lincoln set aboutelectioneering with a good show of energy.
President Kruger before he departed on what may probably be his last electioneering tour.
At one electioneering meeting the President said that he refused to have electric trams at Johannesburg because he could not see his burghers deprived of the means of selling their forage.
In proportion as the presidential electioneeringseason approaches, Mr. Seward repeatedly and repeatedly attempts to impress upon the people's mind that he will not accept from the nation any high reward for his services.
The methods of electioneering are given by Miss Tarbell in the following words: "Wherever he saw a crowd of men he joined them, and he never failed to adapt himself to their point of view in asking for votes.
In 1836 Lincoln made an electioneering speech which was fortunately heard by Joshua Speed, and he has given an account of it.
I should say that it was simply an electioneering trick, and a very unfair trick, were it not that all his own side seem to believe it.
Though his electioneering speeches were neither long nor pithy, still he had to think of them beforehand.
Some there were not without a suspicion that the story against Melmotte had been got up simply as an electioneering trick,--so that Mr Alf might carry the borough on the next day.
The elder had in old days been accustomed to electioneering in the interest of his own family, and had declared himself willing to make himself useful on behalf of Mr Melmotte.
During the recess electioneering became warm once more, and the students gathered in little knots to discuss the situation.
If you want to become an officer, say the word and I'll do the electioneering for you.
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