Excerpt from The Machine Abolished: And the People Restored to Power MV dear sir As the Democratic Mayor of the City of Oswego elected in 1892 and in 1893, I became well informed in regard to the sentiments of the voters of that city concerning the non-partisan or town-meeting system of elections devised by you, and urged upon the State Legislature in the sessions of 1893 and 1894, and which I myself was heartily in favor oi. The measure was heartily approved of with substantial unanimity by the people of that city immediately upon your describing and explaining it in the public prints, and was asked for, either by signatures to petitions or in personal letters to those in power at Albany, by an overwhelming majority of the tax paying and more intelligent classes of voters in both parties. In fact, the only opposition to it here that I heard of came from a small handful of self-seeking politicians, also of both parties, who, how ever, were able, I am sorry to say, to persuade a Democratic Governor to kill it by a veto after it had passed both houses of the Legislature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.