The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 24, 1919, Page 12

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TR G AT : PAGE TWEL'VE Natlon-Wlde Attack on Prlmarles Judson King, Expert on Popular Government Shows Peril to Democracy in Reactionary Leglslatlon #| attempt on the part of #| “big business to take from the hands of the Ameri- can people the tools of self-government,” writes Judson King of Washington, D. C., executive secretary of the National Popular Government league, to the Nonpartisan Leader. He notes that the primary system is being assailed wherever gang rule is in danger. Mr. King refers to the attempt. of Minnesota reactionaries to repeal <the direct primary law, by passing the Warner-Hompe bill, which already has been adopted by the house. He refers to the fact that Idaho already has passed @ law repealing the direct pri- mary and this law has already been signed - by a Dbitterly anti-League governor. He refers to the attempts being made ‘in Montana and other states in which the farmers are organ- ized to take similar steps to prevent them from choosing their candidates for office at a fair, open primary elec- tion. The Warner-Hompe bill in Minne- sota is intended frankly to prevent Nonpartisan league farmers from hav- ing any voice in choosing the state of- ficers and congressmen to be elected in 1920. It provides for the selection of all state and congressional candi- dates by a state convention, with dele- gates elected direct. Because Minne- sota normally has a heavy Republican majority, old-line politicians expect to be able to nominate whomever they choose at the Republiean convention and then cram their, choice down the throats of the peopfe IDAHO PROVIDES STRAIGHT-OUT REPEAL The Warner-Hompe bill has behind it the influence of Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, in spite of the fact that in 1911 Burnquist, then a member of the legislature, voted for the portions of the direet primary law which it is now proposed to repeal. . So did Speaker . Nolan and Representative Warner, the latter a co-author of the repeal bill, and a number of other standpatters, . who show by their ac- tions now that their votes in 1911 for the direct primary were not genuine. In Idaho 2 stralght-out repeal of the primary law also is provided, with a return to the convention system, but in Idaho the delegates to the state convention will be still further remov- ed from the people, as they will be elected not at primaries, but by county conventions. The Idaho repeal act has been passed and signed by Governor Davis against the expressed disap- proval of both of Idaho’s United States senators. Senator W. E. Borah, Re- publican, told friends in Idaho a few months ago that he would campaign the state against his own party if they repealed the primary law. Sena- tor John F. Nugent, Democrat, wrote Gerneral Attacks Courtsmartial HERE is a nation-wide ; members of the legislature that he was™~ “bitterly - opposed” to placing power to nominate candidates: “in the hands of a small number of men, most of whom are standpatters and reac- tionaries of the first magnitude, who have money to spend to subserve their own interests.” Reviewing the attempts that are . being made, on a larger scale than ever before, to wipe out progressive legislation, and particularly fair elec- tion laws, Secretary King of the Na- tional Popular Government league: says: CONVENTION SYSTEM' IS RULE OF FEW'. “He who holds the power to select candidates. will control the govern- ment of a state from coroner to su- preme court. “In practice the converition system means political power vested in a few, which is autocracy. The direct pri- mary means power vested in the many, which is democracy. We have just fought a war to prove that democracy is better than autocracy. i “Such attempts as are being made by the politicians of Minnesota to kill their direct primary law, are not con- fined to that state. Coming into my office there are reports that standpat Republicans and Democrats are trying to repeal the direct primary law of New York; the same thing from Ten- nessee, where the Democrats- rule; - ‘again from Idaho, where the Republi- cans are in power and so on and on. “There is a nation-wide attempt on the part of big business to take from the hands of the American people the tools of self-government which will permit them to make orderly, consti- tutional progress for economic and in- . dustrial justice,~ and the battle is joined. - ° “If Americanism in pohtxcs means anything, that thing is majority rule. If American plutocracy refuses to sub- mit to majority rule, it. is therefore un-American, and a political party that refuses to abide by a majority vote of its members will not last long in these 3 days. “The American method of reform is through the ballot box. The old Euro- g‘;an way was through revolution. e monarchs of Europe always re- sisted any reform until nothing was left for the people but revolution. Europe is now abandoning the old ,method and establishing popplar gov- ernments. Can it be that the reac- tionaries of the United States desire to introduce the old European method here? Perhaps not consciously, but it must be plainly said that their ef- forts to prevent-and to abolish the direct primary, the initiative and ref- erendum, the recall, and to establish state constabularies and a’ big stand- ing army here, if successful, will bring about revolution whether they desu'e it or not.” o Acting Judge Advocate of the Army Testifies on Unjust Pumshments Before Senate Committee (From the Literary Digest) WO days before the pub- lication of Mr. Lane’s ac- count of the uprising at Fort Leavenworth, ex- cerpts from which are given in the preceding article, Brigadier General- Samuel T. Ansell, acting judge advocate of the | } army, gave testimony before the sen- | ate military committee that strongly favored justice for the “hundreds of men who have been unjustly sentenc-- He is quoted in a speclal dis- ed" i b g e TS patch to the New York Times, under date of February 13:: “The sentences imposed for slight 'offenses by the courtsmartial have shocked every sense of justice,” said General Ansell. “They have reached the heights of injustice. The sentences in many instances bore no reasonable relationship to the offenses committed. “For 40 years the army has been cursed with red tape in its courtmar- tial proceedings,” said General Ansell. “'l‘emble mjusj;xces have been m-.,