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...chosen by a minority of the voters of the State, yet the Presidential votes represent the entire State. Only a student of government or a thoroughly professional politician can explain what the Electoral College actually is and does, the reason being that it has been transformed from an important bit of governmental machinery to an inconspicuous, though still essential, instrument of party politics...
Attorney Serri, fuming, not a bit rueful, retaliated with a letter of complaint to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, copies of which were sent to Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent and the Brooklyn Bar Association. Wrote Mr. Serri: "By indirection, with almost unspeakable vulgarity . . . [Judge Atwell] practically approved and incited the repetition by the officers of such conduct in this city. I doubt whether in all judicial annals there can be found such open incitement to public disorder and breach of the peace as the words of this judge. ... I submit to you that for a Judge...
Nominator Roosevelt wiped up this bit of political mud with a public statement: "Full accommodation was provided for me and my family in the Assembly Chamber, but as I reached Albany late and walking up many steps in a slow process, it was easier and cooler to listen to the speeches outdoors...
Said Mrs. Hannah Andrews, of Brooklyn : "He was a lovely man, so gay and happy, never minding his comedown in the world a bit. I'll never forget the day he brought home a saxophone. Just like a child, the way he took it up. He was one of my best boarders...
...David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood is a bit thicker than water, the supposedly comic relatives shake hands all around and the play is over...