On Sunday and Monday parleyings went on, caucuses were held, and no change was yet apparent.
The time was short, but before the caucuses met a new candidate must be found, and the word passed down the line that the dear people had changed their minds over night on the subject of the next mayor.
In fact, even the deliberations of the workmen's caucuses must have been known to Gage.
Word was even spread among the peasants that the Congress would meet at Moghilev, and some delegates went there; but by November 23d about four hundred had gathered in Petrograd, and the party caucuses had begun.
Almost all the real work of the session is done in caucuses of the different groups and political factions, which almost always cast their votes in a body and are represented by floor-leaders.
The first bitter frontier fighting between the advance cohorts of the new giant and the old--the struggle for the caucuses and the polls--had begun.
The Congress presidential caucuses were put down by the will of the people, and in both parties at the same time.
Caucuses have been held without proper notice being given, and party henchmen have been employed to work for an inside clique or ring.
Similarly, the Senate chooses its own committees from lists drawn up by the caucuses of the two political parties.
He knew whom he could depend on when the town caucuses were held, yet feared the attempt of Daley to overthrow him, although confident of his ability to intercept the little scheme.
In the mean time the twelve bolting delegates assembled at another place, where they were joined by eleven others, chosen by bolting caucusesin the senatorial district.
At the caucuses held in country towns, delegates are chosen by those present without enrolling names.
There are different methods of manipulating caucuses and conventions, and as the exciting political scenes of this story are to take place at the Senatorial Convention, we will explain the latter.
On the eve of the caucuses the war of the factions waxed hot.
Now see here, Sargent, the caucuses have been called in most of the towns in the county for next Saturday.
There are men in this State who would peel to their political shirts if they could lick Thelismer Thornton in his own district just now when the legislative caucuses are beginning.
Outside of the factional clinches of the House and Senate caucuses the early days have little serious business.
They're going to have real caucuses in this State this year, they tell me.
And yet, as the tide of caucuses swelled and reports of results flowed into State headquarters, Chairman Presson and his lieutenants found themselves unable to mark men with the old certitude of touch.
In this manner the voting continued for six days, through thirty-five ballots, the House taking recesses to give members rest, caucusesopportunity to meet, and the sick time to be brought in on their beds.
The public expected different action and the preliminary caucuses showed an anti-Nebraska majority; but the Custom-House had done its work well.
The anti-machine forces held meetings - caucuses if you like - to decide upon the course to be pursued.
The machine's policy is to keep the caucuses of the dominant party in the Legislature as much a close corporation as possible.
The maintenance of their rule depends on it Under a Presidential Constitution the preliminary caucuses which choose the President need not care as to the ultimate fitness of the man they choose.
In almost all cases the President is chosen by a machinery of caucuses and combinations too complicated to be perfectly known, and too familiar to require description.
In the caucuses and conventions they competed with almost brutal ardor for nominations, equivalent, in their happy anticipations, to elections.
To secure this office, caucuses and conventions were packed and votes secured by methods little short of outright bribery.
The legislature of 1899 passed a law providing for “primary elections” to replace nominations by party caucuses and conventions.
The people break loose from their caucuses and conventions, and vote in a body for their honest enemies, rather than for corrupt friends.
The first of these caucuses was held shortly before the Schmitz-Ruef board took office.
The matter was brought up at one of the Sunday evening caucuses and some of the members of the Board of Supervisors insisted that the board had been pledged by its platform to a rate of 75c.
Several caucuses were held by the Democrats to determine on their course of action and overcome the opposition in their own ranks.
These caucuses were held in one of the largest drinking saloons in Cheyenne and all the power of whiskey was brought to bear on the members to secure a repeal of the woman suffrage act.
It was also during this period that party activity was stimulated by the general adoption of the new system of party caucuses and party conventions to which President Jackson had given the impulse.
But nominations are only the beginning of the contest, and obviously caucuses and conventions cannot conduct campaigns.
Thus a handful of Democrats would visit Republican caucuses or primaries and a handful of Republicans would return the favor to the Democrats.
In 1866 California and New York enacted laws to protect primaries and nominating caucuses from fraud.
In connection with these caucuses there had been many scandals, some direct proofs of brazen bribery and corruption, and dark hints besides.
In practice this rule transferred the selection of Senators to secret caucuses of party members in the state legislatures.
He attended party caucuses and conventions, ran for the state legislature, and sometimes defeated a lawyer or metropolitan 'business man' in the race for a seat in Congress.
We sedulously avoided caucuses and school-meetings, our time was far too precious to be squandered in jury service, we forgot to register for elections, we neglected to vote.
Being busy farmers, we hold our caucuses and other meetings in the evening and usually in the schoolhouse.
Right in the school meetings and town caucuseswhere they raise money yearly for the expenses of our small government!
Caucuses they have had, it seems, and caucuses they are to have again,--victory and defeat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "caucuses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
