THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

Waipukurau Press, Issue 292, 6 August 1908, Page 7

THE U.S. PRESIDENCY.

The term of office of President Roosevelt expires on’-March 4th, 1909, and the Democratic candidate for the Presidency is Mr William Jennings Bryan, who was first nominated in 1896. The Republican candidate is Mr W. H. Taft. Mr Bryan, who was born in 1860, is two years younger than the President,- and achieved some fame in his youth as “ The Nebraska Boy Orator.” He is the editor of a weekly paper published in Lincoln, Nebraska, has practised law, and was Colonel of an infantry regiment raised by himself during the war with Spain. Mr Bryan is one of the finest orators in the world, with a voice of marvellous flexibility, and capable of the most musical intonation. He is a coiner of phrases, which linger in the memory of an audience, and, as was evidenced by the vote which gave him the nomination, is exceedingly popular. In the election of a President each State appoints a number of electors in such manner as the State Legislature directs, equal to the number of Senators er Representatives the State may be intitled to in the Congress, and these meet in the capitals of their respective States and vote by ballot for the President. All the State ballots are sent to Washington and opened by the President of the Senate in the presence of Congress, and if one of those nominated has received a majority of the whole number of votes cast, he is declared elected. If none has received a majority, the House of Representatives elects a President from the three highest in the ballot each State having one vote. President Roosevelt, it may be remembered was Vice-President, and succeeded io the Presidency on the assassination of President McKinley on September 4tb, 1-901. He was elected to the Presidency in 1904, and has since held the office.