1774. [Caucusing] answers much to what we stile parliamenteering or electioneering.—William Gordon, ‘Hist. of the Am. Revolution,’ i. 365 (Lond., 1788).
1789. All the world here is occupied in electioneering, in choosing or being chosen.—Tho. Jefferson, ‘Writings’ (1859), ii. 580. (N.E.D.)
1790. Officers are to manage their troops by electioneering art.—Burke, ‘French Revolution,’ p. 315. (N.E.D.)
1796. That base business of electioneering, which is so directly calculated to introduce wicked and designing men into office, is yet but little known in Connecticut.—Morse, ‘American Geography,’ i. 472. (N.E.D.)
1796. A rendezvous kept by one Fay, a celebrated electioneering character.—The Aurora, Phila., Dec. 5.
1798. They boast that it will be a good electioneering stroke in the county.—Mass. Mercury, Oct. 19.
1802. Removal for electioneering activity, or open and industrious opposition to the principles of the present government.—Tho. Jefferson to Levi Lincoln, Oct. 25.
1805. Barna Bidwell, Esq., has furnished another pamphlet for electioneering purposes.—The Repertory, Boston, Feb. 19.
1805. A late electioneering address, published in New-York.—The Balance, May 14, p. 151.
1806. Cock tail, then, is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters—it is vulgarly called bittered sling, and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that it fuddles the head.—Id., May 13, p. 146/3.
1821. Doct. Fiske has adopted a mode of electioneering, rather novel in this part of our country.—Mass. Spy, March 21.
1823. “Electioneering Campaign.” Heading of an item in the Nantucket Inquirer, Dec. 2.
1824. [These] are called electioneering tricks to help Gov. Eustis.—Id., March 29.
1824. I had not gone into the Senate of the U.S. to electioneer for Mr. Calhoun for the presidency. I had gone there to do the duties of a senator.—William Smith in the Columbia Telescope: Carolina Gazette, March 27, p. 2/1.
1826. So long as the present system of electioneering continues, the Legislature must be made up of all kinds of materials.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 18.
1826. Electioneering is carried on [in the western country] with unblushing effrontery.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 214.
