electioneerers

President, ministers, chiefs of parties, and their followers, are all electioneerers: the whole community is kept intent on the mere personalities of politics, and every public question is discussed and decided with less reference to its merits than to its expected bearing on the presidential election.

Representative Government 2002

If I thought it well for them to be voters, jurywomen, electioneerers, and candidates for office, I have no conceivable motive for seeking to interpose a barrier to their following such a career.

THE WOMAN'S ADVOCATE 1869

If I thought it well for them to be voters, jurywomen, electioneerers, and candidates for office, I have no conceivable motive for seeking to interpose a barrier to their following such a career.

Editorial Department. 1869

If I thought it well for them to be voters, jurywomen, electioneerers, and candidates for office, I have no conceivable motive for seeking to interpose a barrier to their following such a career.

The Woman's Advocate. 1869

President, ministers, chiefs of parties, and their followers, are all electioneerers: the whole community is kept intent on the mere personalities of politics, and every public question is discussed and decided with less reference to its merits than to its expected bearing on the presidential election.

Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill 1839

These were only general phrases, to be sure, not arguments; but these, joined to her ambition to see her son member for the county, at length overpowered Lady Mary's better judgment: her urgent entreaties were now joined to those of Lord Glistonbury, and of many loud-tongued electioneerers, who proved to Vivian, by every thing but calculation, that he must be returned if he would but stand -- if he would only declare himself.

Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Maria Edgeworth 1808

Perhaps I may know more about her in a short time, for I intend going to C-----, where my uncle once lived, in order to see if I can revive under the rose -- since peers are only contraband electioneerers -- his old parliamentary influence in that city: and they may tell me more there than I now know. "

Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Perhaps I may know more about her in a short time, for I intend going to C-----, where my uncle once lived, in order to see if I can revive under the rose -- since peers are only contraband electioneerers -- his old parliamentary influence in that city: and they may tell me more there than I now know. "

Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838