MR. TAFT LEADING.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1463, 11 June 1912, Page 5

MR. TAFT LEADING.

HIS CHANCES IMPROVED. MR. ROOSEVELT'S BITTER COMPLAINT. CHARGES OF 'UNFAIRNESS. By Telegraph—Press Ass.opjation—Co.pyriEiit, (Rec. June 10., 'rp.lilii p.m.' New York, j-iin'o 10. The National ('oian.ij.tt'pes.. .at Chicago have decided to gH:e.' .M.r. Tatt ibrty-.tfig'h.t of the contested delegates; flfli.ers are expected to follow/ Vi. 'IV.ft'.; chances are thus enormously- iherpased.. Tho Chicago Na.tso.nai_. Committee lias, already added T1 d,elevates 1 Tafl s' list, but none to jiiy'-iiobs.e,velt;s.i So' far only the claims of the Southern delegates have been dealt vv.i.t.li.. ' Mr. Roosevelt is annoyed St the WHlfmitteo unseating 'two Alabama, -.(jck'g'jites and substituting o.tlver.s' ' <vl:o;« he de-i clorcs have no ripltfyj®'-r'ojfe..Ait % tl'C Mfr* volition. He odds iiiaf before now election officials have be'eii •Kn'fc'lff.gaSl.idr deeds not a whit ititHn -tlic committee is perpetrating.

HOW THE PRESIDENT IS CHOSEN. A COMPLICATED' PROCESS. 'I'he Republican C'oiivenfipn. itosplocp' tjifl party's candidate for ;ii'«. Presidency is to meet at Chicago;, in -flboiie a,, ■ time. This will <]<;cidc;-lviiie'tlrpc.vSfi;i-^rU.Vif_t; or Mr. Roosevelt is to. fe the :Koiij.il)!.iciin: party's candidate. IfVMr., Sooseyelt is, defeated, th'ero are reports, that he may stand as the candidata-nf a »' party to be formed. Thei,Heaioc'vati.t;!pa!%.--rcill. select their candidate' ai a later. date. Various other parties, inch as tiio Socialist?, Prohibitionist's;, .'etc'.,- ,'wiil .doubt It.ss. also nominate candidates,', yrho will have not the slightest (;h;u!'ce 'of .elected... On November 5 next (hi' ac'ual. constitutional machinery for .electing..the President sets to woric'.;.-: ■' On. \t iiis. ,;(late t!ie ■States take what is'; constitutibnajly. 'the. preliminary step oi' hi-.lding a .pop;: Unvote to select the',. ';-Elp.et'6r.s,' ..w'h'o '.'..arc : -to; choose the l'residentr,'-'l'liesei :Eluctpi's,. jpk, tlie second Jlonday'''iii»,Thiniary nest/'iarS-' to meet in the eapit.tis of.'.their ve.sjiectivo States, and then jive their votes. The votes are openpd;-and-.<:o(nited : iii Aiie presence of both iHpiisesvof^Qoiigv^'^'i the second AVcdnesJ.ay - iii.. and i the, new Presidenl. his term on March -f. The eletlioiv on Xpvemb'r ii is in reality the ending oi' tiio Piysideniia! enmpnign, as all thai iotio-vs iui.- bi-coine. mere formality. An in the "Keview of tievirws,'.' in ci-.'si-ribiii? the process of cliposinj-rtlip;' .I'rcVi'tLeiiti said:— ... : History rpcords;:,.th^fieW^ ; W.whing'>., lon was chosen I're-ident of the I'iiiled Stales without first having l.wn iionviii-.' ated and even without an. oppor'ing can.didale. So was his su;cfs.;or in oliifp, Join. Adams. Since thc^th<^clia^«ii.'nl t.hp.ugh' gradual,- have been, marked,' ar.d liavo led up to our nominations I hat v ina liq.. : th-o.j-iiicc"tora!Co lego but a mechanical devico for ing the popular party organisatipns. ' .. Originally, lnciiibeis hi' tlio. Electoral College were to v.oto'.fpffetyjo.Mppi^ii^ ; one receiving the /-Hignesfcjviiinljer.'bf.:^ to l>e President, aiuh.the 'next'.Jiighest -to be Vice-President;::; 'i'h-e daiiKer m: ; a succession that -thc:.p.ol;tVcal: : rcyPi' each time from oikv Mtic'to. the other made imperativp tiio cliaugti' by' whicli the . Electors should vote- lor -only ..o:ni person for Presidriit; iiiiuL : : fpf'-raiiotiioiv : .fP.r Vice-President. Two or three object-' lessons, 100, of iri:bspoiisil>iO:.and£liGphazard action by ; throwing the ife I/ouso or of Vicc-Prfsiileiit, lo the .Srnate because no one jUio y<jtcs cast, showed the' necessity "o? centerin!: tlio efforts of thc."Bo«rJy • parties each ori-..\ ticket and of imprising'.'.oiii'-the: membf-is of the Electoral College^a imoriili obligation to cast their ballots uniformly .for th« nominees of tlie party w hich'had clcc'ed them. .'i-X. '--'-:^-~-- : . T

Tlie forerunner of. our natiaral nominating convention -wnj. 'confer-: cnco of incin!>iH'fi , thf/'.f:aii!G. ; political faith w!;o-<rot together on. their' own initiative and ..lnaiiiiate from their constituent* assumed- to lad-.' vise as to who, in .ihi'ir juilgpipsit, was entitled to bo party standard-bearer. : ■•Tins'. cauc\is;must\']iepes-: sarily have proved .to Iw too inide nr.d unsatisfactory toTsoryoylon;,':,its .-the. ,I'resj-dent-choosing machinery:? ']]ii;such'.«n semblage, only represented in Con'gross;i:by. members':,of" one and the samV political, party. had a voice and all thn T o'liPi\s I ft '"yiLhnut representation. li?:iwas i '.tpii;remedy":;these dofects ami to .iilo of tlnS parties, wherever; .they- jj-icrhi._l;e, to exerciso at least;'a.nomiuat:;cGuU:qi:oi the PresidcntiaU'noriiinatipu' that;! he )ia-: tional convention, miolinj. eviyy., lour years, carao to bo evolved, The iir.st of those. nominal!])!: conventions, made up of for that purpose, mot. in 1532, more tlnm fortv years after tin: ii.r.Ht Jhrp'si.der.nal election. To be suio, 'the credent : nls u.f momborship were, ii.ot (00. critically scrutinised, nor ivere : there!;!:,full. jielegahoiisf from each conventions; yet .'.they.'really .reprp-. sentative, and their - Vffirpi as a rule, accepted as ;ilu- official decrees of their rospectivfi? partips; :ln. time, national committees wp:e appointed to carry on the work of-:tKe..c;\ni for the party inyh'rraifgiugiithp ipreliminv aries of the nexfc/jrouvcnHpn,:.' 'sftyiiVM' party organisation', ;.'H■ith : ,^:OjV:f l l^V(ia!nelUa_i , law of party goyerhmentjaimV observed by cortventiGns-:,aiui coiiunittecs; came into existehee','; was pcri'ccted. and modified to meet now conditio.')?,, and became tho establisheaiV'custom'. Snd co.ns.i-. tution of the political .yarties.. t The promulgation- of l'res:d'mi!a! tjr>c.ts by national iioitxitfatiiiß7 , sj9M>^Al;t9 1 ] l S.??y? I li? posed of dcleiates' : choso'ii. Ait conyehtHHi to represent Stntc.;:and QoTVp!'f:.ssipua : i (Issiricts in tlie same ruiiiher. (later i.n (ioulile tlie number) of Sanal6vp and 'laves in Congress I;.:ih prevailed f: r nlo're than sevenly-iive. years.