Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1900 — About a Primary Election Law. [ARTICLE]

About a Primary Election Law.

The proposition to pass a compulsory primary election law, at the coming session of the Legislature, has been widely discussed, and the Indianapolis Press has been interviewing members of the state committees in reference thereto. About all of them seem to be opposed on the grounds, mainly, that it would give cities and large towns undue power in controling the nominations, in comparison with'county districts. The views of T, J. McCoy, of Rensselaer, chairman of the Tenth district are thus stated by the Press: Thomas McCoy, Tenth District committee: “I am opposed to a primary election law. I think it would be the biggest kind of a fraud. Any man that will stop to consider the matter must reach the same conclusion. The result would be that the towns would hog everything in the shape of nominations, and the country districts would get nothing. In the county, the county seat, which is usually the town of chief importance in the county, practically would name the county ticket. I don’t see that Indiana has any great need of primary reform. Indiana is now a Republican state and wedon’t want to run any risk of throwing it out of the Republican column.”