Excerpt from The World's Work, Vol. 2: May, 1901 to October, 1901; A History of Our Time The aim of the Day primary election-law is to substitute a secret nomination election for the nominating convention. The nominating primary is held seven weeks before the elec tion to allow time for a campaign. The pri mary election-day is also one of the registra tion days, so that a voter when he registers for the general election can cast a secret ballot for the nomination of candidates that he prefers. 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.