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“...the days when ballot-box stuffing
was quite freely indulged in, repeating being practised by
both Tammany Hall and the Republican Party. So general
vas this foul practise that men boasted openly of having voted
early and often; and many, in fact, considered themselves
good American citizens because they not only voted once on
Set" ^ ^ different
district, -^e oftener they voted, the batter American citizens
they considered themselves to be
Of course all the ballot-box' stuffing and repeating was
Hir"? old parties, and when, in spite of all of it,
Henry George polled sixty-eight thousand votes, there was
good reason for the old party chiefs to fear the new movl...”
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