However, in his 1905 message to Congress following the election, he proposed that " contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law.

An election was held in 1905 to move the county seat to Heflin.

The strip contained a number of references to contemporary events, such as the 1904 election of Theodore Roosevelt ; the recently built Flatiron Building ( 1902 ) and St. Regis Hotel ( 1904 ) in New York City ; and the 1904 – 1905 Russo-Japanese War.

In 1905 an election was held to move the County Seat from Edwardsville to Heflin.

In a summer election of 1962, Rohnert Park was incorporated, comprising, housing an estimated 2, 775 persons, the first town in Sonoma County to incorporate since 1905.

It was renamed " Beckemeyer " after an election held in 1905.

In the November 2011 general election, Butler was defeated by Councilman John Linder, who became just the second Democratic Mayor since 1905.

Amidst administrative reforms following the 1905 uprising, Finnish women's demand for both the right to vote ( universal and equal suffrage ) and the right to stand for election were met in 1906.

In his first public speech as Prime Minister on 22 December 1905, Campbell-Bannerman launched the Liberal election campaign, focusing on the traditional Liberal platform of " peace, retrenchment and reform ":

This event led to his election as town marshal on April 10, 1905.

Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal party split, Balfour eventually took the Unionists into opposition in December 1905, and in the ensuing rout in the election of 1906, Austen Chamberlain found himself one of the few surviving Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons.

As Premier, his first task was to win a workable majority in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which he did in the 1905 provincial election.

Conservative leader R. B. Bennett was Rutherford's opponent in the 1905 election.

He controlled a huge majority, albeit slightly reduced from the 1905 election, and enjoyed widespread popularity.

The Conservatives and Liberal Unionists returned to power in the 1895 general election, remaining in office until 1905.

Colebatch encouraged Mitchell to stand for parliament and, in 1905, he managed Mitchell's successful campaign for election to the Legislative Assembly seat of Northam.

In 1905 the city enacted election reforms, such as personal voter registration and the establishing primaries for all city offices.

Nicolae Iorga ran in the 1905 election and won a seat in Parliament's lower chamber.

" In the succeeding municipal election of 1905, which saw the return of incumbent Fagan to the office of mayor, Hague was elected to a fourth term as constable.

As a reward for his efforts in turning out votes in the 1905 election, Bob Davis named Hague as the party leader for the Second Ward and arranged for Hague to be appointed as Sergeant at Arms for the New Jersey State Assembly.

The new province's first election was held on December 13, 1905.

Scott was also very interested in higher education, having promised the creation of a provincial university during the 1905 election campaign.

O ' Brien saw its prime importance and negotiated during 1905, which, after the January 1906 general election, was to become the Bryce Labourers ( Ireland ) Act ( 1906 ), and during the course of the next five years financed the erection of over 40, 000 commodious cottage homes, each on an acre of land.

In the 1905 election, he led the Tories to victory for the first time in 33 years by defeating the Liberal government of George William Ross.

The general election some weeks later was uneventful, and Broward was inaugurated on January 3, 1905.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

`` This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw '', Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said.

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

Ordinary Williams said he, too, was subjected to anonymous calls soon after he scheduled the election.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

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.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.