And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government ex… - Upton Sinclair

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And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy. The officials who ruled it, and got all the graft, had to be elected first; and so there were two rival sets of grafters, known as political parties, and the one got the office which bought the most votes.