Excerpt from The Preferential Ballot as a Substitute for the Direct Primary: Address Before the National Popular Government League at the Second National Conference Held in Washington, D. C. On January 4, 1915 In all three of the foregoing cases a bad matter is made worse by the fact that the imperfections of the systems, and the burdensome nomination or campaign conditions which they involve, are great obstacles to getting the best of citizens to accept a nomination. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.