President-Making in the Gilded Age Quotes

“reporter described the scene that is repeated every four years: “[T]he building seemed peopled with a multitude of howling lunatics and given over manifestations of insanity…. It makes no difference who is nominated. There are the same wild performances and the same rampant idiocy.”
― Stan M. Haynes, President-Making in the Gilded Age: The Nominating Conventions of 1876-1900