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...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts Legislature, and author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill" spoke last evening in Room 6 of the Union before the Political Club on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce has advocated the adoption of direct nomination of party candidates at the primaries as a substitute for the present method of nomination by conventions...
...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts legislature, will speak before the Political Club at 7.30 o'clock this evening in Room 6 of the Union on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce is the author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill," which on its introduction at the last session of the legislature attracted much attention as a political reform measure...
...Robert Luce '82, who is now serving his fourth term in the state legislature of Massachusetts as the representative of the Somerville district, will address the Political Club at 7.30 o'clock tomorrow evening in Room 6 of the Union on "Caucus Reform...
...overlooked the fact that in the actual working of the old system, this same fault exists. Did a man defeated for one office, under the old system have a fair chance to succeed as a candidate for any other place? A simple exposition of the working of the old caucus system,- the system that will be in operation if the reform is not adopted,- answers this question, and affords the best argument in favor of the new plan...
Hitherto, at the approach of Senior class election, the political managers of the societies have arranged a caucus meeting in their respective houses, to pledge their senior members to support a certain slate. All participants in the caucus are considered in honor bound to vote for a man for that particular office for which he is slated, and for no other. This slate is generally labelled "Representative Ticket"; it does represent an immense amount of intersociety diplomacy, but at least two thirds of the class have had no voice in arranging it. The pledge supporters of the slate generally constitute...