Show TIlE THE DIRECT I There are signs of returning com common common common mon sense sonso In the tho matter of tho the direct primary A few fow fa r years ago a craze for forI I overturning the old order of or things was WM started and before It had run runts US its ts course several states fell toU under the spell Now the thu country Is II tacking in inho inthe inthe the ho other direction Where It has boon been tried to tho the fullest full fullest est extent tho direct primary plan has proved a colossal failure Any amount of or evidence could bo be produced to back up this statement from men who are conversant with Its workings M H DeYoung D owner ot of 0 the tho San Sari Francisco Chronicle and a man of keen kean perception as well wall as wide in information Information Information formation has this to say of the direct di direct direct primary as tried out In n the tho coast town The direct primary Is 15 the biggest farce faroe In politics I 1 all along be believed belIeved this thU to be so 80 but I 1 was convinced of It In the tho last city election A capable and honest honen man docs does not want to enter the field flold for political office when It will cost him many times more to be elected than the thing Is h worth It worth the effort or the honor Tho The people clam clamored clamored clamored ored for a direct primary law Now they have It but they will willInd find Ind out that It Is Impractical and that Instead of helping them as nil they thought It would It will wIn do thorn thom more harm barm than good goo the Under the direct primary rima a man running far f r office office orIce has to to make two campaigns He has all the worry and expense of getting the nomination and thou then has hal to go so soup up tip against a political opponent In the election No man fit to tc hold an office will enter such uch a s contest conte t Oregon has a direct primary law buttressed with statements for can candidates candidates candidates for the legislature to sign The result was Wa tho the election of or a Democrat Democratic ic senator by a Republican legisla legislature tore ture the minority controlling tho the ma majority majority majority Owing to tho the California primary prImar law Senator So Flint a man of ot ability but in n moderato moderate circumstances hat has announced that he will not bo be a candidate can candidate for reelection because ho can cannot cannot cannot not boar bear tho the individually and will not accept contributions and anel place himself under obligations Tho The primary plan Is 18 responsible ro also for tor the appearance appearance of that blath blatherskite Jeff Jet Davis in the tho United Unite States Senate But the turning point has beer reached re and a moro more sensible view h b being taken by hose who have boor inclined to shout for tor every now proposition that comes up In addition the newspapers are arc not noi keeping silent upon tho the subject ant and aro are exposing the tho fallacies of or the doc doctrine doctrine doctrine trine of or Bryan Bran and LaFollette The Washington Post is outspoken in Its denunciation of or the primary say saying sayIng sayIng ing among other things Putting aside the constitutional prin principle principle principle ciple Involved and that is Im Immense Immense mense we get down to the con concrete concrete concrete crete fact that the primary Is the tho rich mans opportunity and the poor mans despair Ours is la isa Isa laa a mixed and dual government The establishment at Washing ton Is s a union of numerous republics re republics republics publics and Is b partly national and partly federal The fathers adjusted the balance between the two Ideals of federation and na OB nationalism nationalism with rare exactitude and the plan Is III vindicated by the marvelous suttees success S of more than thana a century But Bat another evangel Is preached Thorn Thoro Is nothing now new in It IL It was as old when the tho demagogue Itt HI preached It In decadent Rome old when the agitator Cleon employed em loyod it at Athens It ItIn ItIs In Is simple very simple and con consists consists slats of or this Flatter the people and aad thus reap applause and place That Is all aU It Is lB a bla blatant blatant blatant tant demagogy But ono one really groat man in tho thu country advocates tho the direct primary and that that man is Governor Hughes of New York lately appointed Justice of o othe the tho United States Supreme court Yet with with all his influence and hold upon the tho affections of tho the people of or the Empire state Governor Hughes has been boen unable to got a direct primary bill through the legislature Tho The direct primary craze has had Its day No new states will be bo drawn into Inlo tho the whirlpool and those already in will got out If they can |