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Show HOW SENATORS ARE ACTUALLY MADE. There' aro thoso who fall back upon up-on tho Constitutional provision nnd declare that tho plan devised by the founders of tho government is still good enough. Hut they forgot tho fnci or chooso to Ignore It that our present way of electing senators Is grotesquely different from that which tho Constitution prescribes nnd Intends. In-tends. The Constitution Intends, nnd means to piescrlbo, thnt the ontlro Legislature, Including evory Individual member of It, shnll tako putt In tho actual cholco of a United States Senator. Sen-ator. As a matter of fact, under tho existing system ,n senator is usually not chosen by tho legislnturo In nny truo senso. Ho Is chosen by tho party caucus of tho party which hns a majority ma-jority of tho members of the two housos of tho legislnturo on Joint bnl lot. It Is rogardod, under the present systom, ns virtually necossnry for legislators leg-islators elected In tho usual way on n party ticket to outer tho party caucus and to nbldo by tho result. Thus. If tho Legislature has 150 members, of whom 75 nro Democrats nnd 71 nro Republicans, It Is almost invariable opinion of strict party men thnt tho mnjorlty cholco of tho Democratic caucus ought to bo promptly accepted by tho ontlro loglslnturo. Under UiIb systom, ovory ono of tho 74 nonubll- can, votes must be thrown away. They will be expended upon a complimentary complimen-tary vote for some Republican who cannot by any chanco be elected. If tho Democratic caucus should bo closely close-ly divided between two candidates the nb representnlg, as Ib, so frequently, fre-quently, the case, the private cholco of thV machine or tho boss, and the other representing n. decent publlQbp-Inlon publlQbp-Inlon nnd some rcgnrd ior tho traditions tradi-tions of statesmanship It Is nevertheless never-theless itho doctrine of tho party man thnt If the machine candidate can be forced through tho caucus by a majority ma-jority of a slnglo voto, every man who hns gone Into tho caucus must accopt ihn rnaiilt nnl thn mnn mi.at 1a nln ted In the face of an 'outraged public opinion. Thus .10 men would control u teaislnture of 150 men. From "The I'rcgress of the World," la the Amcr-lent Amcr-lent Review of Reviews for Fibrillary. |