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1481 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 52.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their votes to be affected by failure to get what they want. While on the other hand the church people who are for Sunday closing will, if their wishes are thwarted …
1482 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 53.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… their votes to be affected by failure to get what they want in this thing, while on the other hand, if the church people do not get what they want, and have their …
1483 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 54.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… in voting the appropriation. But even if the majority is on the other side, the resolution will not be permitted to pass the Senate without the adoption of …
1484 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 57.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote of a majority in both the House and Senate, which does not seem to me at all probable, and the act should receive the sanction of the President, which seems …
1485 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 61.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes, the only force at their command-required Congress to legislate upon a religious subject, to decide a religious question, and to take their side in …
1486 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 65.5 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote for, or support for any office or position of trust, any member of Congress, either senator or representative, who shall vote for any further aid of any …
1487 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 65.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes and jeopardize their “coming back again.” It is likewise known that those who thus secured this legislation have repeatedly announced since, that …
1488 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 66.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… of votes .” And in an editorial notice of a Sunday-law meeting in New York city, the Examiner (Baptist) said:—President Frances E. Willard’s annual address, of 1887 …
1489 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 67.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… and votes will do the same thing? In fact, what else are these declarations of theirs but an open bid for such procedure on the part of just such classes as those …
1490 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 81.2 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“ Resolved, That we give our votes and support to those candidates or political officers who will pledge themselves to vote for the enactment and enforcing statutes in favor of the civil Sabbath.” Sunday-law Convention, Elgin, Ill., Nov. 8, 1887.
1491 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 90.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… to vote for, or support for any office or position of trust, any member of Congress, either senator or representative, who shall vote for any further aid of any …
1492 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 91.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… who voted for it would ever come back here again? None, I hope...You endanger yourselves by opposing it.”— Senator Hawley, Id., p. 6759 .
1493 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 91.6 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
“The reason we shall vote for it is, I will confess to you, a fear that, unless we do so, the church folks will get together and knife us at the polls; and-well you know we all want to come back, and we can’t afford to take any risks.”
1494 The Captivity of the Republic, p. 103.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… final vote was taken by which Congress committed the government to their side of the controversy, and could have stood where he did in the committee-room …
1495 Christ and the Pharisees, p. 26.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… not vote for that Sunday law, setting up Sunday here for the Sabbath of this nation, we will never vote for one of you again as long as we live, for any office under …
1496 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 7.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… it voting an appropriation to yet another school, making four in all that the Catholics had secured. As soon as the other denominations heard of this, they …
1497 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 13.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… are votes that depend upon the course they take; and therefore it is easy to understand how they can count any question unprofitable that will put them into …
1498 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 16.1 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… losing votes, so afraid of losing party prestige, that they dare not discuss, much less denounce, the encroachment of church power upon the Constitution of …
1499 The Churches and the Public Treasury, p. 31.3 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… , and voted down, and put out of existence. There is no more reason why the government of the United States shall make an alliance with religious denominations …
1500 Civil Government and Religion, p. 58.4 (Alonzo Trevier Jones)
… a vote of the convention. A resolution was adopted expressing gratitude to the National Association, for the advocacy of a suitable acknowledgement of …