As part of the same arrangement, Torrio had, in the spirit of peace and good will, and in exchange for armed support in the April election campaign, bestowed upon O'Banion a third share in the Hawthorne Smoke Shop proceeds and a cut in the Cicero beer trade.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

During the election campaign, both candidates, Davis and Bush, reportedly received anonymous telephone calls.

Following his return, Lincoln continued his campaign for the August 6 election for the Illinois General Assembly.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

In the campaign for election to his fourth term in 1849, Johnson concentrated on three issues: slavery, homesteads and judicial elections.

* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

After only about a month, Clinton postponed his plans to be a coordinator for the McGovern campaign for the 1972 United States presidential election in order to move in with her in California.

* In March 2006 it emerged that the Labour party had borrowed millions of pounds in 2005 to help fund their general election campaign.

The Seguro Obrero Massacre took place on September 5, 1938, in the midst of a heated three-way election campaign between the ultraconservative Gustavo Ross Santa María, the radical Popular Front's Pedro Aguirre Cerda, and the newly-formed Popular Alliance candidate, Carlos Ibáñez del Campo.

Allende had two main competitors in the election — Radomiro Tomic, representing the incumbent Christian Democratic party, who ran a left-wing campaign with much the same theme as Allende's, and the right-wing former president Jorge Alessandri.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

During the 1992 U. S. presidential election campaign, the civil rights of gays and lesbians, particularly their open service in the military, attracted some press attention, and all candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination supported ending the ban on military service by gays and lesbians,

In his 2008 election campaign, President Barack Obama advocated a full repeal of the laws barring homosexuals from serving in the military.

This campaign featured Republicans who voted for Bush in the 2000 election giving their personal reasons for voting for Kerry in 2004.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

During Hillary Clinton's campaign for election to the U. S. Senate, the couple's daughter Chelsea took over much of the First Lady's role.

* 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party's upcoming election campaign.

Al-Mustaqbal was to campaign against Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, presenting a list including Mohammed Dahlan, Kadoura Fares, Samir Mashharawi and Jibril Rajoub.

In addition, Michael Noonan received £ 3, 000 in 1992 towards his election campaign, Ivan Yates received £ 5, 000, Michael Lowry received £ 5, 000 and Sean Barrett received £ 1, 000 in the earlier 1987 election.

John Bruton said he had received £ 1, 000 from Dunne in 1982 towards his election campaign.

and Dunne had also given £ 15, 000 to the Labour Party during the 1990 Presidential election campaign.

Under heavy pressure from Washington, López Gutiérrez allowed an unusually open campaign and election.

As Lincoln's election became evident, secessionists made clear their intent to leave the Union before he took office the next March.

In 1835, Johnson made a bid for election to the " floater " seat for his district in the Tennessee House of Representatives ; he " demolished " the opposition in debate and won the election with almost a two to one margin.

The Whigs thought Andrew Johnson a dangerous prospect as a United States Senator, and made it a priority to prevent his election by the state legislature.

Johnson again organized a convention for January 1865 which in turn made provisions for the abolishment of slavery and an election in March for state government offices.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

The party gained ground in the 1923 general election but ominously made most of its gains from Conservatives whilst losing ground to Labour – a sign of the party's direction for many years to come.

In the 1929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment !, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.

In 1669, Captain Richard Cobb had a banquet in his house ( to celebrate both his marriage to Mary Gorham and his election to the Convention of Assistance ), serving wild turkey with sauce made from wild cranberries.

His Holiness Abune Paulos died in August 2012 and transitionally a new pope is elected until an election is made next year.

In November 2008, the SPD re-elected Franz Müntefering as its chairman and made Frank-Walter Steinmeier its leading candidate for the federal election in September 2009.

Nonetheless, the politically astute army officers then stepped aside from political office ( the national presidency ), and made way for a general election of the national government of Guatemala.

All important decisions are made at the GA, including the election of the officers, establishment of commissions, the approval of the budget, and any changes to the statutes and by-laws.

Following the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the US presidency, the new administration made renewed efforts to join the ILO even without League membership.

At the general election of 2002 that it made a breakthrough, getting 6 Teachtaí Dála ( TDs ) elected to the Dáil with 4 % of the national vote.

Labour Party and opposition leader Neil Kinnock made endless calls for a general election throughout 1991, but Major held out and decided not to call the election until he finally set an election date of 9 April 1992.

Major retired from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election, made public on the Breakfast show with David Frost.

Franklin Pierce won the presidential election, and in 1853 he made Davis his Secretary of War.

However, a redistribution made Wannon notionally Liberal, and McLeod retired before the election held a year later.

In 1993 Fraser made a bid for the Liberal Party presidency but withdrew at the last minute following opposition to his bid due to Fraser being critical of then Liberal leader John Hewson for losing the election earlier that year.

The rejection, ostensibly attributed in large part to Van Buren's instructions to Louis McLane, the American minister to Britain, regarding the opening of the West Indies trade, in which reference had been made to the results of the election of 1828, was the work of Calhoun, the vice-president.

The 1994 election defeat of the Nepali Congress Party by the Communist Party of Nepal ( Unified Marxist-Leninist ) ( CPN ( UML )) made Nepal the first communist-led monarchy in Asia, with Man Mohan Adhikary prime minister.

She said that she refused to break promises made by the party during the election.