Minnesota inflicted the abysmal and now largely illegal primary election system on the country, putting into effect an 1899 law requiring the same.
These have become state funded party elections which primarily operate to keep the Republicans and Democrats in npower, and everyone else, out. Reform, and a restoration of democracy in the United States will require making these non party elections, which could very easily be done, and which has been somewhat done in Alaska. Wyoming's legislature recently acted to ban open primaries in an anti democratic move.
The American League completed its last season as a minor league baseball circuit.
Li Hongzhang was accepted by the Allied powers as the representative of China for peace negotiations to end the Boxer Rebellion.
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