Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1915 — FIRST PRIMARY BILL DEFEATED; ANOTHER [ARTICLE]

FIRST PRIMARY BILL DEFEATED; ANOTHER

Democrats Are Trying Hard to Oet Measure in Shape That Will Secure Passage. Urged by Governor Ralston and Senator Kern the democratic leaders of the state are making a heroic effort to pass a direct primary law. The Rinear and Jones measures have failed and now Senator Van Nuys has introduced a measure that is to come up at'once. Van Nuys opposed the other measures and it is hoped by thq democrats to find favor with his bill, which will probably be amended to have some resemblance to the defeated measures. Governor Ralston will probably devote sopie time to urging the passage of the bill. Thomas Taggatr is opposed to it. The party platform declared for it and democrats are saying that to go back on the platform is to breed distrust, dissatisfaction and defeat. The San Francisco exposition, opens tomorow. Eighty thousand exhibits are ready afte years of hard labor. Probably you are planning to see them before the yea is over. The United States is in need of more modem coast defenses according to Secretary of War Garrison and he has asked that artillery be supplied that will shoot 20,1100 yards. Our present guns will not carry as far as the large guns on the ships of the war vessels of foreign countries.