Party Platforms in State Politics

petent student of political science once engaged in conversation a fellow railway-passenger from another section of the country and commented on the significance of a recent change in the organization of a large city. Oh, we did that only to get rid of So-and-so, was the reply. To assure reasonable accuracy, at any rate in details, it is almost necessary for a writer on the law governing parties and party activities to confine his observations to a field in which he possesses personal acquaintance with men and measures, and a knowledge of the history of local politics. Argument in support of this proposition will be superfluous to those who are familiar with the frequent inadequacy of the indexes of the volumes of state or to those who have tried to puzzle out the import of a long clause by comparing it with the original act. In the cause of merely learning the phraseology of the law, it is unfortunate for the investigator and others, not only that the rule of a few states that amending bills shall be so prepared and printed as to show the new matter proposed, old matter to be retained, and old matter to be omitted from the statutes, is not the rule of all, but also that the same rule is not everywhere employed in the printing of the statutes. Perhaps a lobby of the aggrieved could be organized. If one were to judge the importance attached to the party platform by the references to it in the indexes of election laws, or even by the space devoted to it in such laws, he would conclude that it is a matter of little moment. There is reason to believe that such a conclusion would be correct

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