Meanings of machine element in English

Wolfe was admittedly leader of the machine element in the Senate.

The only practical line of division is between the machine element, and the anti-machine element.

But with his vote really meaning defeat for the machine element, he promptly changed his vote from no to aye.

The division in the Republican caucus, counting Welch and Price with the machine element, was on machine and anti-machine lines as follows:

On the other hand, the machine element, even before a member had reached Sacramento, had their work for the session carefully outlined.

Telfer's appointment to a committee which he made important, shows that the machine element as well as the anti-machine sometimes makes mistakes.

Naturally the machine element in the Commission, and the defense was necessary, for the Commission is vulnerable, and was attacked at many points.