THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 29 January 1908, Page 19

THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

CANDIDATES EMERGING.

XEW YORK, January 22.

The Democrats intend to nominate Mr W. J. Bryan at the Denver Convention in July.

Mr C. Hughes, the Governor of New York, in a letter to the Republican Club, announces that he is willing to accept the nomination for the Presidency against Mr Taft (Secretary of War).

The mode of electing the President is as follows : — Each State appoints, in such manner as the Legislature thereof directs, a nunfber of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or anyone holding office, under Government, shall be appointed an elector. The electors for each State meet at their respective State capitals on a day appointed, and there vote for a President *by ballot. The ballots are then sent to'"Washington, and opened by the President of the Senate in presence of Congress, and the candidate who has received a majority of the whole number of electoral votes cast is declared President for the ensuing term. If no one has a majority, then from the

three highest on the list the House o( Representatives elects a President, ,th« votes being taken by States, the represent tation f rom each - State' having one vote". There is also a Vice-president, who, -on; the death of the President, becomes e^ offieio President for the remainder of tha term. In case of the removal "or death ol both President and ViPA-nrctident, a statute provides for the succession of the Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, and others, so that the State can never be without a Head or Ruler.