Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . didates sometimes announcedthemselves for offices within the gift of the people; but if that practice had con-tinued to modern times, the number of candidates thus appealing for the suffrages THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION. 243 of their fellow-citizens might have threatened to equal the number of votersthemselves. The more common plan was for the party leaders to hold privateor informal caucuses. The next method was for th
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . didates sometimes announcedthemselves for offices within the gift of the people; but if that practice had con-tinued to modern times, the number of candidates thus appealing for the suffrages THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION. 243 of their fellow-citizens might have threatened to equal the number of votersthemselves. The more common plan was for the party leaders to hold privateor informal caucuses. The next method was for the legislative caucus to namethe man. The unfairness of this system was that it shut out from representationthdse whose districts had none of the Ojiposite [)olitical party in the adjust the matter, the caucus rule was so modified as to admit delegates spe-cially sent up from the districts that were not represented in the , it will be seen, was an important step in the direction of the jjresent system,which makes a nominating convention consist of delegates from every part of aState, chosen for the sole purpose of Tnaking THE WHITE HOUSE AT WASHINGTON, D. C. The perfected method appeared in New Jersey as early as 1812, in Penn-sylvania in 1817, and in New York in 1825. There was no clearly defined planfollowed in making the presidential nominations for 1824, and four years laterthe legislative caucus system was almost universally followed. After that, thesystem which had been applied in various States was applied to national matters. THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL COXVEXTIOX. In the year 1826, William Morgan, a worthless character, living in Bata-via. New York, attempted to exjiose the secrets of the order of Free Masons, ofwhich he had become a member. While he was engaged in j^rinting his book, 244 FAiMOUS FllEtilDENTIAL CAMFAIGNii PREVIOUS TO 18^0. lie disappeared and was never afterward seen. The Masons were accused ofmaking way with him,
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