Choosing the Candidates for the United States Presidency
ENGLISH readers, trying to follow the newspaper accounts of the first stages in the United States Presidential Election, which now form so large a part of the American news, must often have found themselves rather at sea amongst the primaries and conventions and split votes and Dry blocks with which the path to the White House is beset. An American President is elected from amongst (or between) the candidates of the great parties, who are themselves elected by a complicated process, all of which Mr. Ratcliffe will expound in his talk tonight. One of the most popular of the band of English lecturers who tour the lunch-clubs and.uplift societies of the States, he is completely familiar with every aspect of the American scene.