ABSTRACT
The body of the Organization of American parties contains the following three essential organs: the primary assembly of the members of the party from which all the powers of the Organization emanate; the committee of the party which is the controlling power within it; and the conventions of the delegates who choose the candidates for elective offices on behalf of the party. The good citizen is reduced to playing the part of an involuntary dummy amid involuntary dummies of the "ring," which manages the local Organization. The influence of the county committee, to which the ward committees and village committees of the district lead up, is still more excessive. It rules over the local Organizations with powers which are sometimes despotic. Generally, it frames its own rules and by-laws, and makes, at its good will and pleasure, those of the Organizations over which it presides.
