My Virtual Reading Room

"For years, women fight for the right to vote
On terms on a par with a man!
They've got what they wanted--the right to vote--
What next if they do 't when they can?!"

(Franz Lehar, "The Merry Widow")
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And from the Baker Street Journal Twitter (@BakerStJournal):

"His appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him without observing him.
A shock of orange hair,…a bulldog chin" (TWIS)

"by God, when next it comes to a vote—“ (VALL)

"elected to the office through the votes of the ruffians who in turn expected to receive favours at his hands." (VALL)

He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them. (REDH)

"Its power was used for political purposes, principally for the terrorizing of the negro voters” (FIVE)

"the next election, has cast a gloom over the county” (HOUN)

"The despotism and hatred of Liberalism” (STUD)

"too intimately concerned with politics and finance, to be fitting" (REIG)