Word: strife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is to be no political strife; the object of the convention being rather to illustrate the methods pursued in conventions held by the larger parties. A good attendance is expected in view of the unusually great interest expressed everywhere, this year, as to the outcome of the Minneapolis and Chicago conventions. There will be a chairman of the national committee who will make the opening speech; to be followed by the secretary, who will read the call for the convention. The temporary chairman will then be appointed, after which the roll of States will be called and nominations made...
...each other to change from the type of federal Union to that of consolidated governments. In this alteration all chance of local autonomy would disappear, probably never to exist again on this continent. Moreover, I saw plainly, as did every other rational person of my acquaintance, that the strife concerning slavery would afford a perennial source of war-breeding trouble between the North and the South...
...Party adlesion tends to purify politics; under a strict party vote. - (a) Deals would be eliminated. - (b) Bribery would be less frequent. - (c) Factional strife would be less common. - (d) Conscientious men more influential when in than when out of a party; H. H. Darling, Harvard Monthly...