. The Saturday evening post. ct in either the Chicago or the San Francisco part did you play, even if it should so happen that you do know the name ofthis important individual, in selecting him or her and letting him or her know what youas a citizen would like to have done at the convention, what you thought would be bestfor your city, your district, your state and your country? Granted that you are the average American citizen, busy with his business, occupiedin the heart of his home when he is not at his daily occupation, I must give theseanswers, based on what I learned, as
. The Saturday evening post. ct in either the Chicago or the San Francisco part did you play, even if it should so happen that you do know the name ofthis important individual, in selecting him or her and letting him or her know what youas a citizen would like to have done at the convention, what you thought would be bestfor your city, your district, your state and your country? Granted that you are the average American citizen, busy with his business, occupiedin the heart of his home when he is not at his daily occupation, I must give theseanswers, based on what I learned, as an inquirer, at first hand at both the Chicago andthe San Francisco conventions and what I have discovered since that time in energeticinquiry: The average American citizen had nothing to do with the selection of delegates tothe two conventions. The average American citizen in all probability did not know the day or place whenand where the delegates in his district were chosen. 3 4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November IS, 1920. The chances are that the average American citizen, if hehad desired to assist in the selection of delegates, wouldnot have known without deep inquiry how to go about thebusiness of making his voice legally and effectively heardin the selection of such delegates. The average American citizen—and, remember, we arenot criticizing the delegates, for the impression of anyonewho attended these conventions was that most of themdid the best they could under the circumstances—watchedthe approach of the conventions with some interest,without realizing in the slightest that his interest shouldhave developed along about the time that the delegatesfrom his district were being chosen. The average American, after the conventions—and thisis true not only of the 1920 conventions but of all conven-tions within recent decades—has a feeling that somehow hehas been left out of the game, sidetracked as it were, whilehis candidates were chosen for him. The most important
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