...principles, any distinctive tenets. Both have traditions. Both claim to have tendencies. . . . But . . . tenets and policies, points of political doctrine...points of political practice, have all but vanished." That is the impression which our American parties have made upon the most acute and most thoroughly...

...literature no more despairing words than Bryce's in The Am. Commonwealth, II 344: "In the United States tenets and policies, points of political doctrine and points of political practice have all vanished : all has been lost except office and the hope of it." And in II 485-9 : " Place-hunting is...

...principles, any distinctive tenets." After explaining in full his reasons for this statement, he added that "tenets and policies, points of political doctrine...points of political practice have all but vanished." The. doctrine of States' rights is popularly supposed to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic...

...support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away but have been stripped away by Time and the progress of events, fulfilling...

...the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and politics, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away but have been stripped away by Time and the progress of events, fulfilling...

...the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the government. Tenets and politics, points of political doctrine and points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away but have been stripped away by Time and the progress of events, fulfilling...

...those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the govern-, ment. Tenets and policies, points of political doctrine...points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away but have been stripped away by Time and the progress of events, fulfilling...

...support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the Government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away, but have been stripped away by time and the progress of events fulfilling...

...support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of the Government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished. They have not been thrown away, but have been stripped away by time and the progress of events fulfilling...

...of America, Mr. Brice tells us, " neither party has any principles, or any distinctive tenets; . . . tenets and policies, points of political doctrine, and points of political practice, have all vanished : all has been lost except office and the hope of it." s I need not enlarge upon a state of...