the nomination of their party candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, and shall nominate candidates for their party presidential electors at such nominating election.... Nominating petitions for the office of delegate to the respective party national conventions, to be chosen and elected at said nominating election, shall be sufficient if they contain a number of signatures of the members of the party equal to one per cent of the party vote in the State at the last preceding election for Representative in Congress; provided that not more than five hundred signatures shall be required on any such petition. Every qualified voter shall have the right at such nominating election to vote for the election of one person and no more to the office of national delegate for his party, and to vote for the nomination of one aspirant and no more for the office of presidential elector as the candidate of his party. A number of such candidates equal to the number of delegates to be elected by each party which is subject to the provisions of this law, receiving, respectively, each for himself, the highest number of votes for such office, shall be thereby elected. Every political party subject to the provisions of this law shall be entitled to nominate, at said nominating election, as many candidates for the office of presidential elector as there are such officers to be elected; that number of aspirants in every such party who shall receive, respectively, each for himself, the highest number of votes of his party for that nomination, shall be thereby nominated as a candidate of his political party for the office of presidential elector.

(d) Every delegate to a national convention of a political party recognized as such organization by the laws of Oregon shall receive from the State treasury the amount of his traveling expenses necessarily spent in actual attendance upon said convention, as his account may be audited and allowed by the Secretary of State, but in no case to exeeed two hundred dollars for each delegate; provided, that such expenses shall never be paid to any greater number of delegates of any political party than would be allowed such party under the plan by which the

number of delegates to the Republican National Convention was fixed for the Republican Party of Oregon in the year 1908. The election of such national delegates for political parties not subject to the Direct Primary Nominating Elections Law shall be certified in like manner as nominations of candidates of such political parties for elective public offices. Every such delegate to a national convention to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President shall subscribe an oath of office that he will uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Oregon, and that he will, as such officer and delegate, to the best of his judgment and ability, faithfully carry out the wishes of his political party as expressed by its voters at the time of his election.

(e) The committee or organization which shall file a petition to place the name of any person on the nominating ballot of their political party to be voted by its members for expression of their choice for nomination as the candidate of such party for President or Vice-President of the United States shall have the right, upon payment therefor, to four pages of printed space in the campaign books of such political party. . . .

In this space said committee shall set forth their statement of the reasons why such person should be voted for and chosen by the members of their party in Oregon and in the Nation as its candidate. Any qualified elector of any such political party who favors or opposes the nomination of any person by his own political party as its candidate for President or Vice-President of the United States may have not exceeding four pages of space in his aforesaid party nominating campaign book, at a cost of one hundred dollars per printed page, to set forth his reasons therefor.

Every person regularly nominated by a political party, recognized as such by the laws of Oregon, for President or VicePresident of the United States, . . . shall be entitled to use four pages of printed space in the State campaign book. . . . No charge shall be made against candidates for President and VicePresident of the United States for this printed space.

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67. Convention Oratory

The nomination of the candidates for the presidency and vice presidency is, of course, the chief business of a national convention and the point around which the party warfare is waged. The placing of the various candidates before the convention is a high art, and although it seldom has much effect on the outcome of the balloting, the presentation speech is regarded as an occasion for oratory of a peculiarly American type. The following extract from a speech by Mr. Martin W. Littleton, nominating Mr. Alton B. Parker in 1904, may be regarded as illustrating convention oratory of a superior character:

The country, anxious to win in this great crisis, called upon New York as the battleground. New York answers with a candidate who carried the State by sixty thousand majority. (Applause.) The country called upon New York for the best of its brain and blood, and New York answers with a man who cut his way through poverty and toil until he found the highest peak of power and honor in the State. (Applause.) The country called upon New York for a Democrat, and New York answers with a man who learned the simple lessons of Democratic faith in the furrowed field, who took them with increasing strength to the bar and finally honored them by his exalted station on the bench a man who, throughout his career from poverty to power, never in fair weather or foul forsook the standards of his party faith or deserted the colors of his command. (Applause.) As my brilliant and amiable and distinguished friend, Senator Daniel, of Virginia, says, a Democrat who never scratched the ticket in all his life. (Applause.) The country called upon New York for a Democrat free from factional dispute, and New York answers with a man friendly to all factions, but a favorite, or afraid of none; a man who will take counsel and courage of both, but who will take the bitterness of neither -a man who will not stir the hatred of the past nor share the acrimony of the present, but who will lead us up toward the future into a cloudless atmosphere of party peace. (Applause.) The country called upon New York for a man who measured up to the stature

of this lofty place, and New York answers with a candidate who grew from youth to man in the humble walks of life; who lived and learned what all our common folk must live and learn; a man who ripened with advancing years in the rich attainments of the law until he went, by choice of those who knew him best, to hold the heavy scale of justice at the highest point of our great judicial system, where, with the masters who moulded State and Nation, and the men who drive commerce o'er the wheel of Time, he surveyed to the very ground every inch of this great Republic and saw with expanding vision the material growth and glory of his State. (Applause.)

The country called upon New York for a man to fit this, the critical hour and place in our national life, and New York answers with a man who puts against the strenuous sword play of a swaggering administration, a simple faith in all the perfect power of the Constitution (applause); a man who puts against an executive republic the virtue of a constitutional republic; a man who puts against executive usurpation a knowledge of and a deep love for the poise and balance of its three great powers; a man who puts against the stealthy hunt "with the big stick" a faithful observance of constitutional restraints. The country called upon New York for a man of stainless character in private and public life, and New York answers with a man whose path leads from the sweet and simple fireside of his country home where he enjoys the gentle society of his family, to his place of labor and honor at the head of one of the greatest courts of Christendom. And nowhere through his active and useful life has aught but honest praise found utterance on the lips of those who know him best. (Applause.) If you ask me why he has been silent, I tell you it is because he does not claim to be the master of the Democratic party, but is content to be its servant. (Applause.) If you ask me why he has not outlined a policy for this Convention, I tell you that he does not believe that policies should be dictated, but that the sovereignty of the party is in the untrammeled judgment and wisdom of its members (applause); if you ask me what his policy will be, if elected,

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I tell you it will be that policy which finds expression in the platform of his party.

With these, as some of the claims upon your conscience and judgment, New York comes to you, flushed with hope and pride. We appeal to the South, whose unclouded vision and iron courage saw and fought the way for half a century; whose Jefferson awoke the dumb defiance of development into a voice that cried out to the world a curse upon the rule of kings and a blessing upon a new-born republic; whose Madison translated the logic of events and the law of progress into the Constitution of the country; whose Jackson reclaimed the lost places of the far South and democratized the politics of the nation; and whose soldiers showed the wondering world the finest fruits of brain and nerve and heart that ripen in her temperate sun, and who, through all the sons she lost, and all the sons she saved and all the tears she shed amid the sorrowful ruins of war- and through all the patient loyalty and labor of after years so wrought for human happiness that all the world exclaims, "Her greatness in peace is greater than her valor in war." We appeal to you of the Old South and the New to join with us in this contest for the supremacy of our party. We appeal to the West, whose frontier struggles carried our civilization to the Pacific slopes, whose courage conquered the plain and the forest, and whose faithful labor has built beautiful cities clear through to the Rocky Mountains. We appeal to you, as he did follow your leadership through eight long years of controversy, you turn and follow him now when victory awaits us in November. We appeal to New England, faithful sentinel among her historic hills, in the name of all her unfaltering and brilliant Democrats, living and dead, to join us in our labor for success. (Applause.)

We appeal to every Democrat from everywhere to forget the for harmony. bitter warfare of the past; forget the strife and anger of the older, other days; abandon all the grudge and rancor of party discontent, and, recalling with ever increasing pride, the triumphs of our fifty years of a constitutional government of Liberty and Peace — here and now resolve to make the future record that resplendent