The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-31

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 1 legal status. their decisions are never questioned
 There will be 1oO2 delegates in the next | democratic national convention, or 1908 | if the representatives from the Philip | pines are seated. In the republican con vention there will be 992 delegates This difference in number is due to | territorial representation. The democratic convention allows six delegates each to Alaska, Arizona, District of Columbia, | Hawaii New Mexico and Porto Rico. In l the republican convention only Alaska. | New Mexico and Arizona are allowed | six delegates. The others. including the l Philippines, have two each. In other
 respects the basis of representation Is | the same-every state having two dele 1 gates for each electoral vote i The unit in the democratic convention s 1 the state; in the republican convention, 1 the congressional district. Hence dem
 ocratic state convention can instruct all 1 the delegates from that state to vote | for a particular candidate. republican l state convention can instruct only the ! four delegates-at-large, and each con l Pressional district can instruct its own
 two delegates as 1t pleases. l Democratic national conventions recog- nize the unit rule by which, when so l authorized by a state convention, a ma
 jority of the delegates from that state
 can vote the entire delegation as ! unit. Thus forty delegates from New l York can cast New Yorks IS votes. Re
 publican national conventions do not rec
 ognize the unit rule The vote of every 1 delegate Is counted
 In deno ocratic national convention the ] votes of two-thirds of the delegates are
 r.ecessary to nominate a candidate. In l republican convention a majority nom l inates
 1 The two-thirds rule was adopted by | the first democratic national convention held In 1892 In order to give a semblance 1 of unanimity to the nomination of Van 1 Buren for Vice President. Folks sup porters revived it in 1S44 in order to de- l feat Van Buren's renomination for Pres l ident. The rule has been adhered to l in every democratic convention since l that time. Its purpose Is. often defeated, 1 however by the unit rule which makes 1t actually possible for little more than one-third of the delegates to nominate the candidate through the simple pro- cess of allowing a bare majority of one in each state delegation to vote the 1 minority.
 l The native born New Yorker never
 marvels at the greatness of his native city, but the man who "came here to
 
 | ders.
 Here Is a city with a population of
 4SOo.000 only 300, GOO behind London and growing seven times as fast as the Brit
 ish metropolis. Inside of 10 years New York should be the largest city in the world.
 marriage ceremony is performed here l every Il minutes or at the rate of 45,0O0 a year. There are 132 department stores with 10000 employees, and there are 250, GOO people in town who work at night.
 The city now has more than 200o mil lionaires against 2s in 1885. The city uses 476,000,000 gallons of water every day; the statistics are not clear as to just how much of this goes into watered stock.
 There are 250.0Oo visitors entertained at the hotels every day; the hotel properties are valued at $s0OO0,0OO. Every four minutes there is a birth and every seven minutes death.
 The city has a total of 112 theatres and two grand opera houses, with combined seating capacity of 10000.
 In the city there are 5000 lawyers, 5000 actors 5000 actresses, 5000 artists, 10000 musicians, 15,0O0 stenographers, 5000 sales men and saleswomen, 1900 farmers, 1900 undertakers and S52 female barbers,
 A newly arrived southerner brings this story with him. A traveller in the noun tains of Tennessee obtained lodging for the night in lonely cabin. Late in the night he was awakened by the head of the family addressing his daughter. Liza said the father, "hain't that young man gone yit?"
 Mop. pap, he's here yit.'
 "Where's his arm; is it round yer wast?"
 Yep, pap"
 "Darnation tell him to taket away"
 You'll have to tell i'm yerself, pap; he air stranger to me-"