Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 121, 22 May 1922 — Page 9

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, MAY 22, 1922.

SEE CONTEST IN ONLY ONE OF TEN INDIANA ; G. 0. Pr NOMINATIONS

By Associated Press) . INDIANAPOLIS, May 22. Only one , contest for the nomination of 10 state mi i . . .

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state convention, to be held this week, "was in sight today, party leaders here " predicting that nine present office- - holders would receive re-nomination -by acclamation. The one contest cen- . tered between Patrick J. Lynch whose A re-nomination for clerk of the supreme , court is contested by Henry Roberts. .. Mr. Lynch's present term expires Jan. -i. 1923. . Candidates, who party leaders said vould be unopposed for the convention nomination, follow: For secretary of state Ed Jackson,

term ends Nov. 27, 1922. .,, For state auditor William G. Oli- - ver, whose two-year term ends Nov. -24, 1922. , For state treasured Ora J. Davies,

.. Kokomo, whose two-year term ends .. Feb. 10, 1923. , ,.: For superintendent of public Instrucytion Benjamin J. Burris, Washington, " whose terms ends March 5, 1923. - - For judge of the supreme court - David A. Myers, Greenburg, whose 6 year term ends Jan. 1, 1923.For judges of the appellate court - Solan A. Enloe, Danville; Charles F. Remy, Indianapolis; Willis C. McMahan. Crown Point, and Alonzo L. Nicholas, Winchester, each complet- . ing four-year terms Dec. 31, 1922. Nominations are to be made on ' Thursday, the second day of the con- : vention, the opening day's program be- . " ing one of speech-making and prepara"'tion'for the second-day sessions. Be- ! sides bringing together all of the ' party's stkte leaders, the convention also will be marked by the presence of ; several national political figures. John j .T. Adams of . Iowa, chairman of the it .... 1 AAmvmlttAA -nrlll Via intrnH(prf

at the opening day's session, after the .. keynote speech has been sounded by " United States Senator James E. Watson, and speeches have been delivered . by Governor Warren T. McCray and - Mrs. Douglass Roosevelt Robinson. . Caucus By Districts " " After the opening session of speech- . making and the introduction of party leaders, the delegates will caucus by districts in the evening to seleck members of the resolutions, credentials and rules committees, these committees meeting later at night to draft the reports that will be presented on

Thursday. The principal committee

will be that on resolutions, which will frame the platform proposals to be submitted to the convention. Before adopting the platform-and completing its work with the nominations of the state offices,-the convention will be addressed on Thursday by

Albert J. Beveridge, the party s candidate for United States senator. Mr. Beveridge's nomination also will be affirmed by the convention, it being bound by the primary vote giving a majority vote to the former Progressive party leader. Reflecting the big Republican vote cast in the landslide of 192", the state convention will have the laigest number of delegates that ever sat in a political convention in Indiana. A total of 1,720 delegates are en'itled to seats in the convention, one for each 400 votes or majority fraction cast In state.

to make two campaigns for one office, has operated to keep more good men from attempting .the feat, than it has resulted in bringing good men into ofice. Another Objection Another objection made to the direct primary is that it has the effect of destroying party organization, making party discipline impossible, and therefore Is subversive of the whole theory of government through political parties. A man who has got his franchise to public office through the means of direct appeal to the people in the party primary is not subject to party discipline. He is not greatly obligated to the party organization for his office and as a consequence the party organization is in no position to reproach him for failure to help carry out the party progress. At the time the direct primary wa3 devised and spread over the country, it was felt that party discipline the

power of the party leader, and the solidarity of party organization had become too great. : Chief Purpose.' The chief purpose of the primary in its beginning was to give the peo

ple a chance to defy the power of party leaders who had become so strongly intrenched that they were overarrogant. Just now, however, chiefly because of the direct primary, we have gone to the other extreme. President Harding, in his speech to the women voters of New Jersey the other day, made a naive admission. He said: . "I presume you have had some dis

appointments. , I presume the party

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election. If there were no primaries in the southern states, and if the candidates for office were nominated solely under the old convention system, it would result in a dictatorship on the part of the party machine such as would constitute the precise danger to escape which party primaries were devised. The same thing is true of some Republican states, notably Pennsylvania, In Pennsylvania the Republican party is so overwhelmingly strong that if there were never any party primaries there would not In a sense be any popular election. Some strongly Democratic states, like those in the South, need the direct primary : and

some states that are practically al-1 ways Republican, like Pennsylvania, J also need the direct primary in some j form or other. i Need to Study Subject The present article does not pur-! port to be more than a recording of j

the fact of an obvious political phenomenon, and some casual observa tions about it. The observations here set down do not by any means ex haust the possibilities. Persons' whe' have no preoccupations one way oi the other, but whose chief interest lies in making the machinery or democracy work as well a3 possible, will need to study the subject carefully to find the middle course which, in this as in most cases, is the surer ground. (Copyright, 1922, by The New York Evening Post, Inc.)

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e rage of intelligence and a homogen-1 known to all the people of the state about the primary in its practical ap-

ous people. ; In such a state it is possible for this individual voter to have some knowledge of all the candidates for each office, and that knowledge, when diffused among the kind o population

some myself. I Oregon has, can be depended on to

within the time limit of an ordinary primary campaign. New York Situation. Furthermore, a state like New York, which contains a large city, is apt to have a considerable element of pop-

plication is that it was taken in the form in which it was first devised in sparsely peopled western states, and was appled to the wholly different conditions of the densely populated eastern states, without sufficient ef-

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strange but it is absolutely true. ... But in states with as large a popula-! wimng t0 face political realities must It has not been possible to do every- tion New York, the case is quite! admit that the large mass of foreignthing that the party in which you and;different It is practically impossible , born voters in New York City is not I are associated hoped to do when wejfor an) or even any considerable por-!as well adapted to function intelligentcame into power. jtion of the people of the state to have ily for the public good through the maThe reason for this inability to live adequate information about all the I chinery of direct primary as is the nn in nartv nrnmlsps that Mr. Hard-'ianj.tA. it ; .-vi- s - m.-

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(Contiirv?! from Page One.) Senator New for the Republican nomination, he must now spend another five months in a campaign to defeat the Democratic nominee. By the time the election is over in November Mr. Beveridge will have spent very little

short of a full year in the effort to represent Indiana in the United States senate. - . " ' ,' T " ; Sacrifice Unreasonable The sacrifice involved in doing this, is, in the case of a man like Mr. Beveridge, unreasonable. It was a fine thing for him to make this sacrifice. He only did it after prolonged urging from persons both in Indiana and throughout the country who were eager to achieve that strengthening of the intellectual quality of the senate which his presence would give to that body. ,Mr. Beveridge had a wholy different career and an extremely agreeable one open to him. He had written one of the outstanding literary works of his time; it had been a success financially and in every other respect, and most of the motives which move men called him to continue in that, career. On the other hand, in this particular case, it must be admitted that if there had been no ' system of party primaries in Indiana, there would have been practically no possibility of getting Mr. Beveridge into the United States senate. The party local organization was in the hands of persons unfriendly to him, and he would not have had the faintest chance to get the nomination under the convention system. While this happens to be true in this particular case, the larger truth is that in most other cases the existence of the party primary, with the need which it imposes on a man

ing complains of is largely the direct primary. Although Mr. Harding's

party has a great majority in the house and senate, he is unable to put

the party platform through because, he has nothing with which to threaten : those Republican members who choose to defy Mr. Harding and the I party leaders. They owe no partic- j

ular allegiance to the party leaders, or to the party organization. For their offices they are dependent less on the party organization than on their own efforts exerted through the direct primary. - Chief Indictment The chief of the indictments made against the direct primary Is that the houso and senate, and the other miscellaneous public officials who have come into office as a result of it, are of a lower caliber of intellect and forcefulness than those who composed the same bodies under the old convention system. And undeniably there is a large degree of truth in this. The direct primary has been in existence in one degree or another for some 10 or 15 years, and during that same 10 or 15 years the strength of the personnel of the house and senate has decreased. These two phenomena having occurred at the same time, it Is. rather up to the advocates of the direct primary to show that there is not the relation of cause and effect between them. However, all unqualified assertions are subject to scrutiny. It is undoubtedly true that the average personnel of the house and senate is somewhat lower than it was a decade or two ago. This difference in the average caliber is not so great, however, as It seems. The difference between the senate and house of today,

and the senate and house of 15 years !

ago is to a considerable extent due to another factor which is even more surely the result of the direct primary. Aces Lack Power In the senate and house of today there are some aces and a large number of nine-spots; and in the senate and house of 15 years ago there were similarly some aces and a large num

ber of nine-spots. . The difference Is that 15 years ago the nine-spots were under the thumbs of the aces; while today the aces have no such power over the rank and file. In the old days the men who were the leaders of the house and senate were also the heads of the party organization. If anybody in the rank and file failed to keep step, failed to help in carrying out the party will, he was disciplined by being denied future party nomination in his home district. Loyalty to the organization was the price of continuance In office. Fear of the party leaders was the motive for submission to party discipline. All this is the chief thing that has been charged by the direct primary. Men now get their renominatlons not so much -through the will of the party organization as through their direct personal appeal to the voters of their party in their local districts. That is the principal thing that accounts for the inability of the party leaders to live up to their party platforms, such as Mr. Harding complains of. Chief Defect. The chief defect in the direct primary when it is applied universally is that it is not equally well adapted to all states and all communities. The direct primary Is probably best adapted to communities like the state in which it started, namely Oregon. Oregon is in population a relatively , small state with a markedly high av-

eny one candidate to-- make, himself . One of the conspicuous difficulties

Degree of Strength Another condition which differs with differing states and communities is the degree of strength of one party or the other. In the southern states practically the only party is the Democratic one. The man who gets the Democratic nomination gets the election. In such states as these, if

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