local self-government, the municipal offices and others.
Consequently, each public office to which a particular
territorial subdivision is assigned requires a special con-
vention of delegates to settle the candidature on behalf
of the respective party. If many offices in the same
electoral unit have to be filled up, for instance those
of the State, -- Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, State
Secretary, State Treasurer, Attorney-General, judges of
the Supreme Court, etc., -- the selection of the candi-
dates is made in a single convention, called the
"State convention." It is the same with county or
city offices, which, very often but not always, are dealt
with in a single "county convention" or "city conven-
tion." The principal conventions, apart from those
of the State and of the county or of the city, not to
mention the national, are as follows: the legislative
assembly district conventions, for selecting the candi-
date for the State legislative assembly; the senatorial
district, for choosing the candidate for the Senate of
the State; the congressional district, for selecting the
candidate for the House of Representatives at Wash-
ington; and the judicial conventions.

Among the conventions, some proceed from the
primaries by direct election, other by elections at two
or even three degrees, to wit, the State conventions,
whose members are generally elected by the conven-
tions of legislative districts; ¹ and the national conven-
tions, which issue, in part at least, as we shall see,
from the State conventions. As the national conven-

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