structure of the committees, from the precinct up to
the central State committees, now the mode of their
election, and sometimes their authority is specified.

The regulation of the conventions by the law of the
States had to stop, naturally, at the threshold of the Na-
tional Convention. Still it has attempted to penetrate
even there, having provided, in Wisconsin and in Okla-
homa, for the election of delegates to national conven-
tions in direct primaries, and, as we shall see, in a third
State in the West the law has given to the primaries
the choice of the members of the national committee
for the State.

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