Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1897 — Direct Vote of the People. [ARTICLE]

Direct Vote of the People.

It Is a singular aud not generally known fact that no official of the United States is elected by the direct vote of the people. The President and Vice President are not named In the ballots cast at a presidential election, but in their stead appear the names of a number of geutlemeij, most of whom are unknown even by name to the great mass of voters. The members of the President’s Cabinet are selected by himself and are confirmed on ills recommendation as his personal advisers. Supreme justices, judges of the Circuit arid District Courts are named by the President, who, with his Cabinet, nominates, with a few trivial exceptions, all other United States officials. Members of the United States Semite are elected by the Statu Legislatures. Representatives lire voted for directly by the people, but neither Senators nor Representatives are properly officials of the United States. While the people of this country are tho ruling power, the eXereloe of that power, so far as the United States Government is concerned, is largely indirect.