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Article II of the Constitution provided that the electors should be chosen as prescribed by the State Legislatures. Some Legislatures used to choose the electors themselves. Elsewhere the people elected them-a small group of known, trusted, respected men who were sent to the State capitals, where each man voted for two national candidates without indicating which candidate he wanted for President, which for Vice President. The election of 1800 was thrown into the House of Representatives because no candidate had a majority of electoral votes. Aaron Burr managed to delay the election of Thomas Jefferson to the Presidency...
...Constitution assigns to each State the same number of electors as the State has Congressmen. When electors were first chosen by popular vote, many a Legislature provided that people should vote for two electors at large-corresponding to their Senators-and one elector from their Congressional district, corresponding to their Representative. But as party politics developed, it was discovered that a State's importance in national politics was emphasized if all its electors could be won by one party or another. Thus came the final transformation and the practice that is universal today. In each State, each party names...
Other circumstances under which a state's electoral vote can be but seldom is split are: 1) when two weak parties join forces and present a fusion ticket sharing the electoral votes according to a predetermined arrangement, 2) When enough voters go out of their way to "scratch" the names of individual electors...
...York State Federation of Labor, by viva voce vote (about 395 to 5). Reason: "Tested and proved champion of liberty, equality and justice...
...campaign, but when President William Green of the A. F. of L. addressed the New York convention last week, he said: "I am convinced that Governor Smith's speech of acceptance and his reference to the abuse of injunctions has made a deep impression, in every industrial state. . . . I am satisfied that, when they go to the polls, they will stand by those who stood by them in their hours of need...