This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of 1892 in a published statement. "The respectable Democratic voters," they said, "knew from recent experiences that it was useless for them to go to caucuses and primaries and district conventions and elect delegates who would simply be insulted by a committee on contested seats, if they dared to assert the slightest ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of 1892 in a published statement. "The respectable Democratic voters," they said, "knew from recent experiences that it was useless for them to go to caucuses and primaries and district conventions and elect delegates who would simply be insulted by a committee on contested seats, if they dared to assert the slightest independence or the slightest opposition to the candidacy of Senator Hill. They knew that in every caucus and in every district convention in which they might elect delegates, no matter how great the majority, other men with sham credentials would appear before this February convention, would be placed upon its preliminary roll, and would be seated by the committee on contested seats. As a body, therefore, the Democrats of the state of New York deliberately stayed away from the caucuses and district conventions by which delegates were sent to the February convention."11 In addition to the fraudulent unseating of delegates, it occasionally happens that ballot stuffing, bribery of delegates, disorderly proceedings, and the various other forms of fraud and violence which are so common at caucuses and primaries, occur also in conventions. Here it is possible to apply the w Statement of the Syracuse Delegates at Chicago, 1892, 7. An exactly similar case occurred at a senatorial convention held several years ago at Cambridge, Mass., at which the writer was present. 11 Statement of the Syracuse Delegates at Chicago, 1892, 31, 32. same remedy as in the case of the primaries, namely, the rigid enforcement of stringent penal statutes. 4. "Snap Conventions." This device of the professional politician has already been described in the preceding chapter, in connection with the more important evil of "snap caucuses," ...
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