Excerpt from How Presidents Are Made There is a general impression that presidents are elected upon issues; that is, questions of national policy that arise from time to time, supposedly every four years. This is a mis take, as few presidents have been chosen on is sues, and few issues have been settled by presi dential elections. Personality and Opportunity have had much to do with the result, and it is interesting to note how often accident or inci dent has played an important part in president making. Parties are the natural outgrowth of politics. For the most part men have voted for their party candidate regardless of issues, often when they knew that the party candidate was not the best man and that the party platform was wrong on the main issues. Party allegiance in a large majority of cases overtops patriotic judgment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Our Presidents and How We Make Them Our American system makes the President the centre and focus of political life. He is at once Prime Minister and independent executive. He blends the functions of what in parliamentary government is the head of the Cabinet, and what in other government is the head Of the State. He is a vital part of the legislative power without being amenable to its control or dependent on its life. He is the framer of policies and the arbiter of parties. All this makes the election of President the central chord and the arterial force Of our broad political action. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Presidents of the United States In studying the lives of the Presidents, there is made appar ent not only the greatness of these honored men, but the fact of the Nation's progress as it has gathered to itself more and more the conditions and elements of an enduring strength. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The President of the United States Tms vivid portrayal Of The President Of the United States, which appears now for the first time in separate form, was written by Woodrow Wilson when he was Presi dent Of Princeton University in 1908. At that time he had no thought that he would occupy the great Office of which he wrote. It is, therefore, of peculiar interest to note how theory and practice have met. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Our Presidents and Their MothersIt seems to me that a work treating thus inti mately with the mother influence upon great Ameri cans is particularly appropriate at this time now, when hundreds and thousands Of mothers through out the land have made such heroic sacrifices and have exhibited such marked patriotism. The hand that rocks the cradle has ruled our nation before, and rules it today. Then, as now, it was not autocratic rule. Then, as now, it was the ia spiration of true democracy and the course chiefly responsible for everything that we are, and every thing that we hope to be. Mothers - thank God for them! May their sweetness and tender ness forever sway temporal power!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Vote That Made the President Mr. Hayes was thus declared elected by a majority of one. If any vote counted for him had been counted on the other side, Mr. Tilden, instead of Mr. Hayes, would have had the 185 votes; if it had been rejected altogether, each would have had 184 votes, and the House of Representatives would im mediately have elected Mr. Tilden. One vote, therefore, put Mr. Hayes into the presidential office. To make up the 185 votes counted for him, 8 came from Louisiana and 4: from Florida. Whether they should have been thus counted is a question that affects the honor, the conscience, and the interests of the American people. There is not a person living in this country who has not a direct concern in a just answer. Not one will ever live in it whose respect for this generation will not depend in some degree upon that answer. The 12 votes were not all alike. Some had one distinction, some another. But, not to distract attention by the discus sion of several transactions instead of one, and because one in the present instance actually determined the result, I will confine my observations to a single vote. For this pur pose let us take one of the votes from Louisiana, that, for instance, of Orlando H. Brewster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.