At the convention he received, however, only 217 votes for candidate; and his name was then withdrawn.
On the one hand, the Independent Republicans, whose votes elected Grover Cleveland, although still professing allegiance to the Republican party, will never again ally themselves with those who supported Mr. Blaine.
The radical element procured the nomination of General Winfield Scott, a Southern man of anti-slavery proclivities, and Scott blundered through the campaign, losing votes every time he made a public statement.
These efforts proved abortive, perhaps adding many votes to the majority with which Lincoln was reëlected.
He renewed and vitalized the rule of the Democratic party whereby the candidate must secure two thirds of all votes cast in order to receive the nomination.
The majority of the votes in the coming election was what each side sought.
Its demand for expansion towards the southwest was based upon the common desire, the common law of growth, and this growth was the only means of winning new votes in Congress and in the electoral college.
But the fortunes of both sides depended on victory in the field as well as votes in Congress, and all eyes turned again to the movements of Lee.
They asked for the maintenance of the Union as it was; but in the ensuing election they polled three hundred thousand fewer votes than Fillmore had received in 1856.
Occasionally a woman is elected as executive, and when the man representing the household is away or dead the woman votes and takes part in the assembly.
Votes had done all that the mere expression of opinion could do.
No person shall be eligible to any office by the votes of the people who does not possess the qualifications of an elector.
The concurrent votes of the two houses shall be necessary to the enactment of laws; and the style of their laws shall be--Be it enacted by the General Assembly as follows.
The votes shall then be counted by the moderator and clerk, who shall announce the result and give certificates to the persons elected.
At the Virginia election last week, the Republicans cast seven votes in Petersburg and three in Richmond.
Some of the Southern Democrats, who just now are endeavoring to secure negro votes for their party, deprecate these declarations, and the resolution has given rise to some discussion in the South Carolina press.
The five New England States, already strong advocates for increasing protection, gave in the House seventeen votes in favour to two against the experiment.
They refused to debate motions to rescind, and came to successful votes as a "silent legislature.
Eight years later there were eighty-eight votes for a higher tariff and nineteen opposed to it.
The North has credited it to the persistence of New England; the South, pointing to the five Southern affirmative votes out of the eight, has attributed it to the indulgence of their section.
Virginia and South Carolina furnished twenty-seven of the negative votesin the House.
Of the nineteen votes from Pennsylvania, only one was cast for slavery in Missouri.
A comparison of the votes in House and Senate indicated slightly the sectional tendency which was to characterise the tariff question when fully developed.
This was done by the votes of the New England States, where the slave-trading vessels were generally built, added to those from the three Southern States.
The votes on this question seemed to be governed purely by individual opinion.
They had cast seventy-one votes for John Adams and sixty-eight for Thomas Jefferson.
But the Representatives from these three States gave a total of eleven votes to Adams, six to Jackson, and two to Crawford.
At the same time, no man was allowed to be a candidate or to receive any votes unless he was a well-known advocate of the Government of the United States.
Out of some eight thousand voters in the city, less than five thousand votes were taken.
Thus was to be secured the political support and votes of the negroes, who were expected to be the controlling citizens of the late Confederate States.
This compromise was adopted in the Senate, and later, after close votes on amendments, the House also agreed to it.
Lincoln carried all the Northern States, save three of the electoral votes in New Jersey.
He resigned, and was re-elected by his district, six votes only being cast against him, but he died in January, 1857.
Non-residents from Missouri cast the majority of votes at this election.
Members of the legislature are not to be bought; and constituents are awakening to the fact that votes must not be sold--even for such trifles as rabbits and tea and cake.
No sooner was the House met than the tidings flew from mouth to mouth, and in rapid succession a series of votes were passed bidding defiance to Lambert and the army.
Similar votes were passed in the Lords, and the Commonwealth was constitutionally at an end.
Antony kept such a man, whose duty it was to report to him not merely on the senate's resolutions but also on the speeches and votes of the senators.
Quite another principle is in force, however, in the second place, where the group as a unity predominates over all individuals and so proceeds that the passing of votes shall merely give expression to the unitary group will.
I am an Abolitionist, but I am also a citizen watchful of constitutional Liberty; and I say if President Lincoln is inaugurated on the votes of Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, every citizen is bound to resist him.
It was determined that henceforward the votes for President and Vice-President should be given separately.
He had by far the largest number of votes in the electoral college, and thesevotes came from all parts of the Republic except New England, while so far as can be ascertained the popular vote showed a result even more decidedly in his favour.
In the contest which followed he justified his position by polling far more votes than his Republican rival.
When the votes of the Electoral College came to be counted, it was found that instead of Jefferson leading and yet leaving enough votes to give Burr the second place, the votes for the two were exactly equal.
But many who voted for him had hardly recorded their votes before they became a little afraid of the thing they had done.
But when thevotes were counted it was clear that he was the popular favourite.
It is by this rather than by any consideration of how their votes would be used that I ask for woman's suffrage.
As the news was brought out from time to time, how two ballots had been taken and the votes were still equal, a silence strange and solemn fell upon the massed crowds surging round the Municipal Buildings in the lamp-lighted streets.
They are now proceeding to disqualify votes on that foot; but as his decision could not possibly please both sides, I fear it will come to us at last.
Amidst the gratulations of his countrymen and votes of honor, he withdrew to the bosom of his family at the home of his childhood.
It is vain to say that the candidate represented opinions obnoxious to a considerable section of the country, or that he was chosen by votes confined to a special section.
There is the Bell faction, the Breckinridge faction, and the Douglas faction, all three Invertebrates, declaring that the Union is in danger, and asking your votes in order to save it.
But the same popular tyranny, misnamed Popular Sovereignty, upheld by these Presidential candidates, is also upheld by another candidate, now seeking your votes as Representative to Congress.
Two years later the charge for votes and parliamentary proceedings to and from the colonies was fixed at 1-1/2d.
The same rule held for votes and proceedings in Parliament.
They might send free printedvotes and proceedings in Parliament.
At the same time it was provided that the rate for newspapers, votes and parliamentary proceedings should be 1-1/2d.
Any telegraph company, with the authority of two thirds of the votes of its shareholders, was empowered to sell to the Postmaster-General all or any portion of its undertaking.
Votes and proceedings in Parliament when addressed to or by members of Parliament were exempted from the provisions of this Act.
The Government party cast their votes for him, in hopes of drawing off a portion of the Liberal party from the support of Kossuth.
In several of the States, however, the elections of this year do not afford any substantial ground for predicting their votes in the Presidential election, as questions were at issue now which may not greatly influence them then.
The Chair can not decide a disputed question when nobody votes on the other side.
He introduced the Declaratory Act, which was a sort of salvo to the national honor, that a majority of votes might be secured for the Repeal Bill.
In all elections votes are required to be given openly viva voce, and not by ballot, except that dumb persons entitled to suffrage may vote by ballot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "votes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
