Popular Rule Quotes
Slogan that Theodore Roosevelt developed to go with this attempt to nominate Presidents with Primary Elections. Prior to his 1912 run for the Presidency, presidential nominees were selected by the delegates to the party national convention. Since then the parties have used various combinations of delegates that were bound by primary election results in their state and other delegates who could use their judgment. No combination has been totally satisfactory and both major American political parties tinker with the combination every four years.
Note the similarity to Lincoln who Ataturk very much admired.
The emphasis was Gorter’s. He was very critical of the top-down, authoritarian type of communism that had evolved in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. The letter was widely published. There were few left wing intellectuals who would take Lenin on at the time but Gorter was one.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland for a similar view.
