Proportional Representation League

[3][4] Prominent members included League Secretary Stoughton Cooley, Rhode Island Governor Lucius F. C. Garvin, federal judge Albert Branson Maris, and economist and labor reformer John R.

[5][6][7] The League's activities included distributing information to inquirers on the reform and publishing pamphlets, books and The Proportional Representation Review.

The issues included articles by pro-rep luminaries of the time, including Alfred Cridge (husband of suffragette and socialist author Annie Cridge), Massachusetts Representative Wm H. Gove, Professor Ernest Naville and Sir John Lubbock.

[8] In 1903 he conducted the election of the executive of the Trades and Labour Congress using Hare-Spence PR (Single transferable voting).

Tyson authored two pamphlets that were published by the PR League -- Proportional Representation including its relationship to the Initiative and Referendum (1904) and Proportional Representation - its Principles, Practice and Progress, with description of the Swiss Free List, the Hare Spence Plan and the Gove System.

Hoag had authored the pamphlet The Representative Council Plan of City Government, published by the PR League in 1913.