Show an open letter 0 on the primary law george 11 harrison editor i roosevelt roos elt standard dear sir in your roosevelt standard issue of the 17 instant I 1 note you editorial on the front page do de bouncing noun cing the political bosses of the state for attempting to defeat the prin primary iary election law the democratic county conven tion at duchesne Duches nc on the instant passed a revolution reo lution denouncing the so called primary election law and declared for its repeal I 1 hope that the republican party will will no the same thing 1 I have seen this law work in ot other her states and to my best judgment it is a failure they seem to want to repeal it but as clarence darrow has st baid ciol bad laws as a rule are never repealed they become obsolete we are told that this law will cause 1 at least a hundred thousand shousan d dollars extra expense to the state and a man at ogden claims it wilt wil cost that nuch much extra expense to salt lake city alone it is not a direct primary law but an in indirect primary law A direct primary ary law was a town meeting IBA as practiced in the colonies before the revolution As the population grew we had to have a representative tati e government the system 0 ol 01 nominating conventions was not fixed by any statute it came naturally and is a natural law in de democracy our primary law is unnatural it is cumbersome it is expensive it is inconvenient ir ir rational and irritating in its multiplicity city of vexations vexatious and expensive ploce procedure dure it compels pec people ale to waste their time at three elections instead of one it is claimed by those who seem to know that its costs to candidates for obtaining nominations is so expensive that it prohibits a poor man from making a race for an office because after paying the expense provided for by the statute besides his three campaigns it cuts his salary be low a living wage S low intelligence besides all of this there other objection IS i s a 1 that k is 1 me the th so called colossal t is a ia law that in effect pr lingary lawin the running of calls 3 f 10 or the gow 6 1 upon a basia l 0 of L the ene lowest lo 10 age aee intelligence ins instead war of jofs the r highest average intelli intelligence the nominations a are re made ecret the hi WS opposing within candida the me same party make light fight as between the their secret the in election ering is all in whispering to at secrecy any chance to fully meet ll 11 the then it IL causes a e op enmity between the berso personal dilates for the nomination ca they will carry into the eloctio regard regardless les of the principles one party against the other as wh should be the governing ahl in the issues within the eja cepul natural system on the other hand the coni tion system 1 is s a natural C ast grew up natu naturally raily it is in open the candidates meet at county conven conventions alons and anadia ill the issues and the candidates representative men in the coun and when delegates delegate 3 meet at state convention they all n nie and see 1 I the candidates and discussions are open free vigorous they rub shoulders i wi independent minds this is meeting of the highest avei ave intelligence of the country is fundamental for a republic they survive at a all 11 m must 3 sur u on the highest a average cr aust 1 gence in instead stead of the lowest av a age intelligence so far as I 1 concerned and the demon convention coven tion seemed to be of same mind I 1 am positively 0 nosed dosed to the so called p prin law and I 1 am of the opinion tb the people of the state are not n favor of it 1 I 1 L A HOLLENBE hollenbeck Cl |