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...broken. In 1860, the Democratic Convention at Charleston had balloted 57 times before splitting over the slavery issue, after which the southern delegates withdrew and the northern wing nominated Douglas on the second ballot. In 1840, the Whig Convention at Harrisburg had taken "many, many" ballots ? nobody counted them???before nominating W. H. Harrison. But even if the number of ballots at these Conventions had been as great, the endurance record would have been less, for in the earlier days there were fewer states. At the Harrisburg Convention, for example, 22 states voted, as compared with 48 states...
...were discovered just over the border at Rutland, Mass. They fled, according to their own account, in fear for their lives. One heroic Republican remained behind, risking sudden death, in order to bring up the question of no quorum, if the Democratic minority tried to do anything without them???tried for example to call a Convention for a new State Constitution in place of the present Constitution which gives the country districts (Republican) disproportionately large representation...
When the Chamber had been aired and deliberations resumed, several Republican members were absent. The Lieutenant Governor ordered the High Sheriff to arrest them. He went and came back without them???producing a physician's certificate stating they were unable to attend...
Shortly before the primary La Follette forces distributed stickers?some 200,000 of them???bearing Mr. La Follette's name which were to be pasted on the ballots by the voters...
...that with John Weaver it is largely a question of things heard on the run, of the seeping in of idiom, of a certain eager understanding of the way the ordinary mind works. I doubt the accuracy of his ex-pressions?but I am sure of the spirit of them???and, therefore, they are nearer right than any academicians' accurate transcription of dialogue could...