ABSTRACT
The electoral monopoly which the party Organization acquired and consolidated after the war, delivered the public service into its hands and led it to exploit that service commercially. The advent of the commercial boss marked the furthest point in the evolution of the party Organization. It indicated the complete elimination of political principles and ideas from its existence. Clearly they were no longer what kept the organized parties together, and the latter were living an artificial life. In fact, the quarter of a century which has elapsed since the constitutional settlement of the problem of the South, in 1870, has been simply one long demonstration of this fact. The Organization contributing to the moral disintegration of the parties, impeding their transformation and at the same time keeping them artificially alive, marked the furthest limit of the action of the Caucus which imbued the whole political existence of the country.
