But, guided by a fuller knowledge, the working classes would be able to discern what sort of men they should choose for their representatives, and instead of Electing "platform swaggerers, who bring us nothing but the ocean to make our broth with," they would confide the chief power to the hands of the truly wise, those who know how to regulate life "according to the truest principles mankind is in possession of."
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
She could not think, she said, to Hubert's joy, how grown men even took the trouble of Electing members who had no influence over their own party and spent most of the time in childishly hindering the other.
"Helena Brett's Career"
Desmond Coke
Having protested his interference as unwarranted, the quarter court in May 1620 adjourned without Electing a treasurer.
"The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624"
Wesley Frank Craven