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In view of the forthcoming Presidential election the following account the American political" ayihtt—frauh- Encyclopedia Britannien, by Vispunt Bryce, is of interest.

2ND, LUXU.

PLATFORM AND CANDIDATE. When the national convention has been duly organized by the appointment of com. mittees and of a chairman, ita first business is to discuss and adopt a series of resolus tions (prepared by the committee on resolu. tions, but subject to amendment by the A whole), eh, tazen convention as together, embody the views, progner and policy of the party, and constitute What is called its platform for the ensuing This declaration of principles

The machinery of an American party consists of two distinct but intimately con- nected, gots of bodies, the ens permanent, Pelection.

tent.

the other temporary, or rather intermit. and plans is, sonietimes of importance, not The function of the former is to only as an appeal to the people in respect manage the general business of the party of the past services and merita of the from month to month and year to year party, but as pledging them to the mes That of the latter is to nominate candi-ures they are to introduce and push for dates for the next ensuing elections and ward if they win the election. It then to make declarations of party opinion in proceeds to receive the nomination of vari tended to indicate the broad lines of party ous aspirants to the position of party policy."

candidate for the presidency. The roll of state is called alphabetically, and each state, a reached in the roll, is entitled to

The permanent organization consists of a system of committees. one for each of the more important election areas. There is a committee for very city, every county and every congressional district, and in some states even for every county and every congressional district.

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by a network of committres, each having a sphere of 'nets corresponding to some election area, whether a Federal area or

A state area.

presoat a candidate. Thereafter a vote is takea between the several aspirants. The roll of states again called, and the chairman of each state delegation an-

In Demo- nounces the vote of the state. cratic conventions a sinte delegation, whom instructed by the state convention to cast its whole vote solid for the particular as

favoured the majority of

mais rule) in the conventions of the other

delegation, must do so (this is called the parties individual delegates may vote as they please. If one aspirant hus obtained on the first roll-call an absolute majority of the whole number of delegates voting- PRIMARY. FUNCTION OF THE The other and paralle branch of the or, in Democratic conventions, a majority party

organization consists of the bodies of two-thirds of those voting he is held to have been day, chosen, and the choice is If, however, no whose function it is to nominate part then made unanimous. candidates for elective posts whether one obtains the requisite majority, the roll Jegislative or executive, Thene-bodies are? meetings of the members of the parts resi- is again called until some one competitor secures the requisite number of votes. dent in each election area. In the smallest Sometinies one or two votings are sufficient, areas, such as the township or city ward, bitt sometimes the process has to be repeat- the meeting is composed of all the recognized many times it may even continue for ed members bf the party who are entitled

several days before a result is reached. to vote, and it is then called a primary Where this happens there is much In the larger election areas such as county or city, the number of voters who would be entitled to be present renders it impossible to admit all, so the nominating meetings in these areas are compored of delegates eircted in the various primaries -and-the-meeting is included in the area." called-a-nominating convention.

POWER OF THE "ROSÉES."

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for the display of tactical skili by the party managers in persuading delegates who favour one of the less prominent as pirants to transfer their votes to the per-

who seems most likely to unite the party,

When one aspirant has been duly selected the party candidate for the presidency, the convention proceeds to choose in the same way a person to be a candidate for This in a mich the vice-presidency. simpler matter, because the post is much. de sought after, and it is usually de patched with ease and promptitude. The to nominees are then deemed to be the candidates of the whole party, entitled to the sitpport, at the ensuing election, of the party organizations and of all sound party men throughout the Union, and the conven. tion thereupon dissolves-

WHO WORK THE PARTIES? It is hardly too much to say that in the United States the parties work the govern- ment." The question follows who work the The action of the parties de- parties? pends upon and is the resultant of threo factors, which are indeed more or less individual present in all constitutional representative There either by their governments.

Every registered enter belonging to the party in the local election area for which party candidates are to be nominated is presumably entitled to vote in the primary In rural districts little dificulty arises, because it is known what citirena belong to each party bat in cities, and especially in large cities, where man da not

neighbours by sight, it becomes actes sary to have regular lists of the party voters entitled to attend a primary-and. these lists are either prepared and kept by the local party Committee. or are sritied previously on by the votes of the persons the party rolls. The composition of these list is of course a serious matter, because the primary is the foundation of the whole party edifice. Accordingly. those who control the local organizations usually take pains to keep on the lists all the voters whom they can trust, and are apt to keep off those whom they think likely to show leaders, who are powerful a dangerous independence. By their con talents or by the influence they enjoy over stant, activity in this direction, and by the citizens: (6) rich men, who can supply of the with the very large sums.

party. their influence over the pliable members of the party, they are generalis able to have money needed for maintaining the party a primary subservient to their will, which machinery in efficiency and for fighting the is ready to nominate those whom they may elections; and (e) the opinion of the maso

dis suggest as suitable candidates, and to of the citizens, who, though generally choose as delegates to the conventions per-posed to adhere to the traditions and fol.4. BOER on whom they can rely. In this way low the leaders of the party to which they a few leaders may sometimes be able to belong, do, especially in the more educated obtain control of the nominating machinery classes and in the most advanced zections of a city or oven of a state for the loent of the country, exert a certain measure of committees usually be instructions res independence, and may refuse to vote for

the party if either dis ceived from the committees above them.

trust those candidates peronally or dis approve of the policy which the party seems to be following. It need hardly be said that the relative importance of these three factors varies from time to time. Fortunately that of the second has grown weaker in recent years.

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....... WHAT THE HYSTEM MEANS,

POWER OF THE PARTY. The great importance of these nominat ing bodies lies not only in the fact that there are an enormous number of state, county and city offices (including judicial officesy filled by direct popular election, but niso in the fact that in the United States a candidate has scarcely any chanco of being elected unless he is regularly

The national parties have been so perva nominated by his party, that is to say, sive in their influence, and the working of the recognised primary or convention. control the primary or the convention (as their machinery has formed so important the case may be) of the party which is a part of the political history of the United strongest in any given area is, therefore, States, that it is necessary here to call high signficance of this The io ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, to attention to the,

Republic. control the election itself, so far as the element in the system of the party is concerned, and in many places one Party ate has made nearly ail elec tions, including those for state offices and party has a permanent majority,"

city offices, the functions of which have, 28 a rule, nothing whatever to do with national partyisenes, matters of party strife fought upon party lines....It has disposed voters in state, and city elections might otherwise. disapproved for in "full strength so much support that now in the large, the sake of maintaining majority of the states-Laws have been for national purposes the local party nacted for regulating the proceedings at organization, and it has thereby become a fruitful source of municipal misgovern primary nominating meetings. These lawsu vary greatly in their detain from state tament. It has thrown grant power into the «because - where the hands of party manager state, but they all aim at enabling the

at perties in voters to exercise a free and unfettered voice the strife between the two great in the selection of their candidates, and keen and the result of a contest doubtful, discipline and obedience are deemed need. they have created a regular system of elec tions of candidates preliminars to election fut for succcf It has tended to efface riate lines, and to diminish the interest in of office holders front among the candi-

stabs iseses, sad has thus helped to make dates.

the nation overshadow the state. THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.

As the desire to dominate primaries was found to lead to many abuses, both in the way of manipulating the lists of party voters and in the unfair management of the primary meetings themselves. 4 tent was started for reforming the

move

which, beginning soon after 1890, Ratto support party candidates of whom they

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