The Ordway new era., 1920-05-07
Political Pot
Summers and
1t May Boil

displayed now tndt ohc Souhe' s-
bly has been held and another is to
be held in few days. These assem-
blies are for the purpose OF e.ectihs
delegates to the state assemblies OF
the two political parties. In the work
ing this assembly business some times
gets fellows goat so to SPEAK. IN
,hc first place q national convention
DAT. is set then the wheels pcglh 10
turn. Delegates to the national con-
v.ntions must be selected so the party
leaders start in.
The chairman of the national COM
mittee makes call. The various
state chairmen make their calls. Then
innumerable county chairmen all
oycr the nation make their Calls.
Then the precinct committeeman
make their calls and they begin 10
work up to the big job of selecting
the man who is to b. the nominee OH
theRepublican ticket and the nominee
on the Democratic Iicket, ana any
o.her ticket there might be to enter
the field. Each party, however Is IN
dependent OF the other.
To get the ball rolling the precinct
chairman calls caucus. Inc caucus
elects an allotted number of dele
,ates to the county convention, the
ountv convention selects an allotted
YER of delegates to the state con
ention. The state conven selects
IN allotted number of delegates to the
hationaI contention. The national
convention selects the man the pre-
sidential nominee. The job is done
similarly in each of the party5 and
then the whole task is thrown back
to the people to vote, to elect.
It's a big task and that sort of ma
nipulation, if practiced by corpora
tions, would break them in business
and break the banks that handled
their business. But then the govern
ment is for the people, by the peo-
pie and of the people and so long as
all this expense is paid by the indsyi-
dual who gets so honored as to he
delegate to the, county convention,
those to the state, and those to the pa-
tional, it does not make much cff-
ference to the party treasury.
Locally the pot is simmering and
there are those who have let II be
known, in a quiet way-a sort OF
feeler, that they are going to run
for this or that office. Some may be
"just itching" for the job but prefer
to let a little tip fall where another
might take it up and suggest that
Cyrus So-and-So would make good
candidate for office and that IL he
was sufficiently urged, he might prs
xibly concede." Later he "falls' and
then the usual "I have been 'mplored
and prevailed upon" sentehS, - ste
reotyped for general use in the print
ing offices for the balance OF the "op-
en- season"
Sometimes there are those who
come out and say they want the job.
That's a very good way If a man want
ed a Job in a manufacturing plant,
an office or store. he would go and
say, Il want the job.,, He wouldn't
be very likely to announce that his
friends had so urged him that he fina.
ly gave in" and therefore was apply
ing for the place, not that he espe-
cially wanted it.-and he would not
be very likely to get it.
There should be this urging on the
part of the people in general when
thew know Of a man or woman who
would make good official. but when
that person decides he should make it
known that he wants the job and go
after it.
In each of the two political partys |
there are some known candidates but
then they are not plentiful as is u.s.
unally the rule.
In the mast campaigns there were |