Show I s1 Origin of Caucus CUcus I Caucus Is said s to 10 have arisen from a corruption of the term calk ors house After violent fighting be he between tween tho the military and the time erg ers of Boston in 1770 the and the tho the better botter to meet moet tho soldiers formed themselves Into a society at the meetings of which inflammatory addresses addre were delivered and the most violent resolutions passed passe d against n tho the British govern goern government government I ment and Its agents and instruments i In America The tories topics scoffed at lt atthe atthe the th meetings and the tiro term became in time softened into caucus However Dr Murray declares declare that the tho word vord existed previously and he ho suggests the Greek a n cup eup perhaps because at private meetings tho the flowing bowl Is sometimes found |