Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1923, Page 3

FIGHT ON PRIVARY | INTENSIFIED AGAI [AcCray ‘Financial Troubiés Bring to Fore Strong Op- position to System. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Politiclans believe that one result of thé finaneial troubles of Gov. McCray of Indiafid, who may be asked for his resignation by republican leaders of that state, Wi ‘be to call ‘public attention to the evils’ot the primary election system. MeCray, then s -man of great wealth, exercised hi$ ‘l¢gal prerogative to spend his own monéy In the Indiana guberna- torial primaries of-1920. One estymate | places his personal disbursements as high as $500,000., A distinguished In- dianian, who was himself once governor of the state. declares freely that the primary system ‘Mas'put % premium on delinquency in office,” | permitting rich men with personal ambitions to thwart party purposes and party welfare, The politician quoted says he; spent only $2.2%0 to be nominated ‘and’ elected under the old convention eystem. “You can't carry half a congressional diftrict ~:ththat much money under the pri- mary system,” he adds. President Harding's hostility to the primary was well known, but he pever. expressed himself more foreibly regard- ing it than in a letter addressed to this writer in_February, 1922. On that ‘oc- casion Mr. Harding suggested ' that ‘many of our present-day ills in goyern- ment” are due to the extinction of thé convention and delegate system of nom- inating mén for public office. The late esident went further and declared the overwhelming majority of poli- ¥, but v lack the courage to make ir antagonism public. Text of Letter. Mr. Harding's letter, which is pub- lished by permission obtained in the proper quarter, reads as follows: “You have fairly construed, in your | dispatch regarding my views on the primary system, what was in mind and what T ventured without previous deliberation. Lieartily believe we would cure man f our present-day ills in government if we could emphasize party sponsor- hip and have it thoroughly supersede the expres: n of individual ambition. curious fact that ninety nine men interested in politics out of a hundred, who discuss with me he trend of modern political methods, | wure outspoken in the belief that the system has not contributed | 1o our political progress: and scarcely one of these ninet willing to take an open stand for his | cony ictions. There were many ab in the practice of the c tem. Lut instead of curing the abuses we took a long step in an experiment which, T confess, is very disappoint- ing to me. u know, of course, I not speak from any p(r<onal dis- pointment. 1 came to the as the first nominee of my under the primary system. 1 only | write you these things hecause vour | own comments on the subject tended | to suggest them." { my | | republican governors (Sheup, Colora- Intsrest In Revived. The approach of the 1924 national | oampaign is bound to re e in(-rP:!‘ In and discussion of the primary idea, | The more ardent adherents of Presi- | dent Coolidge. like Senator Moses of | are warning | n enter the; on only as the result of pri-} mary contests in their own states. to | desist frnm “menacing party soli- darity.” The Moses admonition, while | [ directed especially at Senator Hiram Johnson, is meant to head off other aspirants like Pinchot f Pennsyl- vania, Lowden of Illinois, and other: Mr. Finchot spent nearly $150,000 of his private fortune to bea publican machine in the Pennsylvania | gubernatorial primaries of l'l22 and ! he might regard it worth his while to | put up as much or more to capture the state delegation for the national | convention in 1924. It is precisely | possibilities like this, open exclusive- | 1y to rich aspirants with rich | friends, that have brought the pri- | mary into much disrepute ‘The prin- ciple remains the same, even when it | works out in the elevation to office | of undenlably able men like Gifford | SPECIAL NOTICES. THERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING OF Local No. 90. 0. P & ¥opt 218 pan.CHA §i00 REWARD F ¥ leading ‘to the d the w Mrs. ) f’rr-»um-biy drawn up between August 7 and 11, inclusive, 192 Probably placed in bank vault with oitier “ Apply GEO) GENTANDER: @ st. n.w. 24 MAKE YOUR GAS WATER HEATER AUTO- ; Jave, B8 wavo sleps: see demonstra tion 1405 N. Have coil taken out of_furnace. 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