"Vote Early! Vote Often!" (1858)

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"Vote early! Vote often!" or "Vote early and often!" is from New York City politics. Does anyone have earlier?
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_American Heritage_
_Dictionary of American Quotations_
by Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson
New York: Penguin Books
1997
Pg. 382:
Vote early and vote often.
--ANONYMOUS
[In _The Age of Jackson_, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. associates this with New York City political strongman and iconoclast Mike Walsh. A bold friend of the underprivileged, Walsh headed the SPartan Band, a group of rowdies who participated actively in local elections. On March 31, 1858, in a speech in the U.S. Congress, Rep. William Porcher Miles referred to the "vote early and often" adage as "advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of the northern cities."]
THE FUSION MOVEMENT.; Speeches of the Hon. Horace Greeley, the Hon. Joel T. Headley and the Hon. Mr. Westbrook--The Union Platform. GREAT MEETING AT KINSGSTON. Anti-Adiministration Convention in Ulster County. REPUBLICANS AND AMERICANS IN COUNCIL,
New York Times (1857-Current. Aug 20, 1858. p. 1 (1 page) :
He had another strong pejudice, and that was against the Democratic doctrine of the City of New-York, as enforced among the Irish there, viz.: "vote early and vote often!"
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New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 24, 1858. p. 4 (1 page) :
They vote early and vote often, and would be ready every month if their country should need their patriotic services so frequently.
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New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Mar 19, 1859. p. 4 (1 page) :
Those who "vote early and often" will henceforth be compelled to "divide" with their backers.
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JUMBLES.
TIMOTHY TODD. Punchinello (1870-1870). New York: Apr 30, 1870. Vol. 1, Iss. 5; p. 71 (1 page)
He was quite willing they should vote--early and often, if need be;...



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