Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1931, Page 31

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO RESORTS. Primary,” delivered last night in the National Radio Forum, ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a Nation-wide hool up of the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tem follows: Strictly speaking, the direct primary election method of nominating candi- dates calls for no defense except by reason of the possibility that people will blindly consider the attacks made upon it. When given a choice between | the primary and its only known al- | ternative, the convention, the cause of | | free and representative government must, in the face of experience, choose the primary as clearly preferable. With all the ills attendant upon the ccnduct of primary campaigns it still is | not practicable to right-about face and | return to the convention system and | the evils attending it. With the convention system, the candidate without the favor of bosses and corrupt political machines had lit- tle more n the ghost of & chance to succeed. The convention brought with it dummy candidates, who held dele- gates for the purpose of trading for favor alone; it found the bosses gerry- | mandering districts from which dele- gates were to be chosen; it was accom- | panied by the bribery and corrupting of TH! address of Senator Gerald P. Nye “In Defense of the Direct “The House with the Home Atmosphere» Both American and European Plans Most beautiful location in Atlantic City, facing ocean and Park Atlantie City’s Great Spring Season January to May inclusive Interesting rates prevail - commensurate with conditions Golf, Horseback Riding, Roller Chairs, Piers, Theatres, Movies and countless other amusements. Ownership Management Josiah White & Sons Co. — RESORTS. RESORTS. ATLANTIC CITY, REST AND RELAX ON THE **Ship’s Deck” Atop olton Manor ‘ One of rhe Finest Holels i - In Atlantic City SPECIAL LOW WEEKLY RATES Marvelons calsine: nationslly famows. ry minute at defightful . Booklet, Write wire reservations. 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For help in planning the trip— Ask Mr. Foster REG. U. 5. PAT. OFF. FRANCE. The Inter-Colonial Exposition in Paris will bring to you the | the evils of the increased use of money NYE FINDS VOTERS GAIN MOST IN DIRECT PRIMARY Old Convention System Aided Bosses and Made Popular Choice More Difficult, Senator Says. delegates; it permitted those in control to ignore duly elected delegates and, through fraud and trickery, deny their credentials in favor of those proposed by men favorable to the machine,buf not from the le in any sense: i gave power to selfish interests allied with the invisible governments of po- litical bosses; it brought with it a bar- gaining for offices and ils through trading of votes for candidates. In a few words, the convention system of- fered itself to those possessing great political power as a means to the de- struction of the will and wish of the people. Drive Since World War. Since the days of extreme reactior, following the World War, there has been & most persistent drive to abolish the direct primary and return to the discredited convention system. This imovement has had the support of powertul interests. But the effort be- comes most active following each fail- ure at the polls of reactionary candi- dates, who have not been able to maks huge fortunes spent in their behalf turn the trick, as once it did, back in the good old convention days, when darkness, through lack of publicity, permitted a dollar to do things which would not stand the light of day. ‘With each disclosure of lavish out- ys of money used in primary cam- paigns there comes from politicians the cry of “down with the primary; let us go_back to the convention.” These politicians ascribe to the primary all and corruption which have been re- vealed in the past decade. Our hope lies, we are told, in a return to that un- sullied and respectable cavens system. Unfortunately for those politicians whose implements of political warfare were serjously dulled the advent of the primary, a fla angel bars American passage backward. In its light there is more ?any visible than ever before in our history the cause for opposition to the primary plan. The gold now being used in an effort to corrupt an electorate and to buy pub- lic office can be sgen and even counted, while back in the days of political in- nocence, for a return to which days politicians of the old school and some of our great malifactors of great wealth sigh, no one was even able to estimate the 'sums spent to tontrol the pure party cavens and dominate the guileless convention. It would seem at times that those loving darkness by their very advocating put us in the way of light. It is not at all difficult to understand | RESORTS. OCEAN CITY, MD. 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I cannot consider their ardent wooing for support of a return to the conven- tion system without recalling those rt-wringing lines written by one whose humor and sarcasm carried him into the realm of the poet long enough to produce this: “How dear to my heart is the old-time convention, When fond recollections present them to view, The proxies, the slates, the deep-tangled instructions, And every loved trick that our politics knew, The speeches, the motions, reports of committees, The ayes and the noes, and the gavel that fell; ‘The caucus at midnight, the saloon open by it, old growler that ne'er saw And e'en the the well, The old-time convention, the hand- picked convention, The boss-ruled convention that served him so well.” A wave of liberalism, challenging out- worn and tyrannical institutions, gave birth to the primary election system. 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