The Week.

The article comments on various political developments in the U.S. In Massachusetts the speeches of the gubernatorial candidates have called attention to a situation that has its parallel in New Jersey, and that throws an interesting light on the workings of the direct primaries in those States. It is what the Boston and Springfield press calls the platform anarchy, and the New Jersey papers, the platform tangle. Each candidate ran for party nomination this summer on his own platform. When the conventions net after the primaries, the platforms they laid down differed widely, in some cases, from those upon which the nominees had stood.