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Excerpt from The Defeat of Party Despotism
For there will be caucuses and nominations still. The return of the republic to its original holding ground in majority govern ment, from which now these many years it has dragged its an chors, will not supersede the reasonable and salutary functions of parties and party councils. It will only take from these their ah solute and domineering power. But will not the caucuses and conventions still have power enough, in the name of reason, when the two parties no longer hold undisputed between them the complete control of all national, state, and municipal affairs, sub ject to no limitation but those imposed by their mutual rivalries or mutual collusions? And is the caucus likely to use its power, still formidable, less wisely and conscientiously for knowing that the nominations and projects of both parties not Of one or the other only are subject to be reviewed and negatived by free citizens at the polls? That, unless, between them, nominations are made which command the general respect of the citizens, the election day itself will be converted, under the Operation of a well-devised majority election law, into a great nominating con vention Of the whole body of citizens, acting under the strongest sanction and protection of law, for indicating the candidates who are to be voted for at a second balloting? The individual citizen, the scattering vote, will have come to its rights again. And, as a general rule, it is the intelligent and conscientious vote that scat ters; the ignorant and thoughtless vote is cast in blocks.
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