 Neither party has anything definite to say on these issues; neither party has any principles, any distinctive tenets. Both have traditions. Both claim to have tendencies. Both have certainly war cries, organizations, interests, enlisted in their support....  The American Commonwealth - - Page 22by Viscount James Bryce - 2007 - 624 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 602 pages
...support. But those interests are, in the main, the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of Government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished. . . . All has been lost except office or the hope of it.* . . . " What," said an ingenuous delegate... | |
 | 1920 - 844 pages
...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... | |
 | United States - 1924 - 898 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 612 pages
...support. But those interests are, in the main, the interests of getting or keeping the patronage of Government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished. ... All has been lost except office or the hope of it.* ..." What," said an ingenuous delegate at one... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Democracy - 1896 - 598 pages
...sometimes illegitimate, gains.' ' Republicans and Democrats have certainly war-cries, organisations, interests enlisted in their support. But those interests...All has been lost except office or the hope of it.' ' There is scarcely any subject on which the best men in America are so fully agreed as upon the absolute... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Democracy - 1899 - 666 pages
...sometimes illegitimate, gains.' 'Republicans and Democrats have certainly war-cries, organisations, interests enlisted in their support. But those interests...All has been lost except office or the hope of it.' ' There is scarcely any subject on which the best men in America are so fully agreed aa upon the absolute... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - Political science - 1899 - 396 pages
...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... | |
 | William Garrott Brown - Political science - 1903 - 234 pages
...their support. But those interests are in the main the interests of getting or keeping the patronage or the government. Tenets and policies, points of political...points of political practice, have all but vanished." He, too, believes that there was a time when the organizations were animated by principles ; but now,... | |
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