One-Man Power in the American Party
A LEADING Washington correspondent, one who is friendly to the administration, and who is in the confidence of the President, in writing, April 8, about the coming presidential convention at Philadelphia, said:— No conclusion has been reached as to the temporary and permanent presiding officers of the Philadelphia convention. . . . The President, it is understood, will make the selections. The President will also, it is said, name the candidate for Vice-President. The President’s ideas concerning the platform will prevail, too, and we thus have the most extraordinary example of one-man power known in the history of an American party in recent years.