Election Superstitions and Fallacies
"It is somewhat late to consider whether the superstitions and traditions of a hundred or more years are to stand, in the result in November."
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The Democratic Predicament
“As at present constituted, the Democratic party is not and cannot be a united, homogenous body, and ... it cannot become such a body until some new, spirit-arousing national issue effects a complete rearrangement of party lines.”
Voting by Mail
“There is no logical reason why a man who has the misfortune to break his leg, or to contract an illness that confines him to his house, should therefore lose his right to vote.”
Library of Congress / Prints & Photographs Division / Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives. The Progress of Nationalism
“There is no longer a vestige of pure Jeffersonianism in our politics. When the exercise of any new power by the general government is proposed, the objection that that power is not expressly conferred by the Constitution is never heard.”
