Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — THE WORDS OF A STATESMAN. [ARTICLE]

THE WORDS OF A STATESMAN.

[Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania.] The Australian system has produced effects far wider than the mere achievement of a single reform. It oilers not only free and pure elections, but free nominations. It offers a method of nomination that is free to all and it emaneiEates us from the rule of the political osses. There is abundant testimony that it is the best, the most rapid and the most facile of obtaining the unbiased wish and mind of the voters. It seoures tranquility, purity and freedom of choice. For all these reasons I hea*;t :, v avor it.