Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 30, 1925, Page 6

PAGE SIX ‘he Casper Baily Srila E, HANWAY ©. HANWAY AND E. (Wy e as second class matter, ed every evening and The Sunday Morning Wyoming. Publication offices: Tribune posite postoffice. ASSOC ATED PRESS ad t use for Press ts exclusi 1 in this paper ai >t publication of ews published herein. Member of Audit Bureau of Circula , Chicago, ; Suite 404 £ SUBSCRIPTION RATES Carrier and Outside State 4 the Datiy T cs KICK, IF YOU DONT GET YOUR TRIBUNE et The Primary go this lay inter, the legislature of Wyoming providing for the nomination of can state and nation, ffices of county, of the states of yote people. At or the union adopted ral years ago, Idaho repealed the law, has yet done this. Several efforts have been but h effort has been un- eat many enemies and opponents, even among the »yple who originally sponsored it, it has a good many defend but ver) enthusiastic supporters. Fourteen years of ample opportunity for a law to demonstrate and the wisdom of its enactment. The truth is ary law, z an agency for good government has the balance and found wanting. The results whe of the primary condemn it. If it was a good law, it ought to be sear good fruit. If the primary system is better than the con- the vention system, it should have produced better candidates than — - the convent stem has produced. If hag operated just the S| other y - Do you suppose the primary would have chosen from the { the Republican ranks a more capable and suitable man, or a man in whom the people had more confidence, or a man better Car ualified than the National Republican convention did in leveland when they nominated Calvin Coolidge for president Pi in 1 or Warren G, Harding in Chicago in, 1920? On the k at some of the governors who haye other hand been nominated at the primaries—Governor Ferguson of Texas, mpeached; Governor Walton of Oklahoma, impeached; Gover: r Small of Illinois, indicted, and sued civilly for illegal use Governor McCray of Indiana, indicted; Goy- Davis of Kansas, indicted. The people of the United iles were nev called upon to witness such a disgraceful at any time during convention days, peuk proudly of the United States senate as eatest deliberative body in the world.” Since the adyent the primary e neyer, hear of this proud boast. Instead, : give igh of relief when congress adjourns and thank Ww sd that they didn’t do any worse. Te house of representa- bet not any better. While congress is in session, we look u pe and sympathy to the president, who was nominated 1 con for protection and guidance nial fall primaries come along a host of un: ore date elect themselves for office, many of them Mt olly unqualiifed by education, experience or general fit Ly M hem were € ard of by the general public, eral dc find out much about them ‘ Mo. h te at the € vo hree of the ih on. Whe ther mber of candidates for the same to minor offi the candidates are neither e , the candidate whose name begins with the letter variably defeats the candidate whose name begins letter v down in the alphabet. The voter follows the , ‘ esistance oti r candidates that he does kne narks the first name that he comes to on the bal l aid in pa , that this is not a very gent mode of selecting “1 men for office. The 1 by the primary system seldom is of rity of his party, and seldom represents rity sent of his party. A concrete example of occurred in Michigan a short while ago which clearly il r this point. In a congressional district in Michi candidates (self appointed) ran for congress on a party at the primarie Less than fifty per cent of the parts turned out at the primary election, a of the twelve can tes. running, the one who got the highest vote received less . han threo per cent of the pa vote. Yet he was declared nom ted and one hundréd per cent of the party vote was called ur to support him in face of the fact that only three per had nominated him ‘ Under the convention system, at precinct caucuses, where every yoter Is privileged to attend, delegates are chosen to the conventions. Usually these caucuses are neighborhood The delegate chosen is usually a well known trust- n or woman in whom the neighbors have full confi- delegate represents the precinct and is responsible inhabitants. We have come to a sorry pass if in a neigh- borhood meeting we cannot by a majority vote select one man woman whom we can trust. The delegates meet in conven- The dele count meetings. where all prospective candidates are coiintdered | 84—Fiesh | 37—An oversser In the Che Casper Dailp gates know who the candidates are and what their qualifica- tions are before they are voted upon. The political party is re- sponsible for the candidates chosen. The life of the party de- pends upon selecting and putting into office, men and women who will inspire the confidence of the people and who will not betray their trust after they get in. A party cannot continue to exist whose numbers do not at least in the main make good, Its continued existence depends on re-election, and that de- pends on public confidence. The state convention and the nat- ional convention is but an extension of the same principle. The conyention system is truly American in origin. We have a rep; resentative form of government. It is neither a monarchy—a government directly in the hands of one man—nor a democracy a government, directly in the hands of millions. Our fore: fathers and the framers of the constitution wisely made it so. Immediately after the Revolution the colonists set about to es- tablish the new government. There never was # more pro- pitious time for the formation of the republic of the United States. Or just succeeded in breaki British monarch and on the other hand they were daily witnessing the hidVoc of the French Yeyolution under the auspices of a pure democracy. the one hand the ‘colonists bad wuy from the tyrannies of a With those two glaring e before them, they shaped the great American republic—a representative form of govern- ment, which has endured for nearly one hundred and fifty - years and became the greatest nation on earth. John Quincy tid “The from genuine liberty consists in a mean the d an’ individual and a only espotism of million. The theory of a representative form of government is that the intricacies of the business of government and the rights and obligations of society are so complicated, that the citizens who are busy in their own lines of activity to muke a special study of the details and complexities involved, who best ac- complish the purpose by selecting trusted rey entatives, who are qualified, therefore, to represent them, make the necessary study of the various subjects and thereupon enact, interpret or execute the laws of government. The same principle applies in the mutter of selecting officers. Under the convention sys- tem, better officers are nominated, because the candidates are more carefully chosen and the party is responsible for them. Furthermore, they are responsible to the party. The primary system is not truly an American institution. It is an abortion in a republic, the same as the initiative, the referendum and the recall. If we doubt the wisdom of our forefathers, after one hundred and fifty years of experience, and want to convert this republic into a pure democracy, let’s keep the primary and enact its companion measures. If we do not, let’s get rid of it. Many hopefully still think that it should be retained as an instrument in the hands of the people to be wielded in behalf of good government. It has not proved an’ effective weapon for that purpose. It has made for. inefficiency in office, burden- some and expensive dual elections, apathy on the part of the voting public and almost the entire elimination of party re: sponsibility. The conyention system should be restored. Perhaps, it would not be wise for the legislature at this session to repeal the primary law, but in view of the general dissatisfaction there is on the subject among the people gener- ally, the legislature should submit the question of its repeal to a popular yote at the next general election. The expense of taking such a referendum would be only nominal, and if the people want to return to thé representative system*of nominat- ing candidates for public office, they will have an opportunity to say so. In two years from now the legislature will then be in position to register the will of the people, as expressed at a popular election. ¢ CROSS-WORD- PUZZLE | Qine iNTERNATIONAL GYMDICATE.. SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. 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(Copyright, 1925, Consolidated Press Association.) WASBNINGTON, Jan. 50.—The idea advanced recently by Colonel House that America become-an as- soclate member of the League of Natloris, participating in its confer- ences but agreeing to its commit- ments only on considering the merits of each. convention or treaty, hae bobbed, up anew with the plan ap- proved by the American commission- ers tq the opium conference at Gen eva. ? Machinery ‘had to be devised to ge- cure the appointment of a body to Supervise marcotics and just as. jur- ists who were forming the world |court turned to the council of the League of Nations, so the delegates to the oplum conference “have done Ukewise, but with ona significafit change , that the appéinting in the United 11 of the league.” ment; based on ith the world pro- Y be, in the end, ja Jing the protocol !t- American pur- taco! means of ami self so as to insure ticipation. Far from being regarded jas an evasion by the United States of its responsibilities, there is beginning to be a realization abroad that. the system of government in Washing- ton which requires ratification by two thirds of the senate of all tnter- national agreements of a binding character males it necessary to deal with the United States as a special case. The willingtess of the Geneva delegates to the opium conference to recognize this as a sequel to the controversy of the last six years Jover American membership in the League of Nations.* Mr. Coolldge has followed President Harding in stating emphatically that*the Unit- ed States will not accept the pres- ent covenant of the League of Na- tions. And the League hasn’t modi- fied its covenant to meet the objec- tions of ‘the Republican party now in power. Indeed, the chances are that the-amendment of the coven- ant in any particular {s going to be a difficult process and that the same end may be achieved by having the United States as an informal asso- clate of the league. It is the influence of the United States in world conference rather than any specific treaty relationship that is mostly desireds by the league, though many Americans who favor the league hope informal parti¢ipa- tion ultimately .will mean full-fledg- ed membership by the United States, The practical question however, is higw to. bring American influence to t under the circumstances that exist today. The United States has in recent months shown a disnps! tion to relate itself to league activi- ties, sending commissioners and min- ieters to sit in conferences called by the league and already President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes have agreed to accept a league Invitation to eit in a conference to consider reduction in armament. All during the war the European powers consented to the use of the phrase “The Allied’ and Associated Powers,” .with the knowledge that the, United. States was an “assoc! ate.” Something of the sort has been devised by the opium conference to insure American ‘co-operation, Some of the Geneva. dispatches would seem to indicate that the new plan might be the formula for. all contacts between the league . and the United States, but opinion here in. official quarters does not agree with such a view. Rather it is be- Meved that, each case will stand.on {ts own bottom and that while the formula. used with respect to the opium board may be applied tn other international actions involving the PUZZLE SOLUTION Solution to Thursday's Puce STLTAIN” (Ta MS TT ATT] SAIC ViE MO BS wie PIAlS TEMMr [Alo MMATs IAlPIc | AMMCTOIRIR UIs talrl [Ol] HOO DERERE Oe Sau BEBE NOT. JUST SOMETHING TO EATS But a well-balanced food that is 100% nourish- ment—and easily digested. Order a 12 biscuit package today. 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