Show PRESS PARAGRAPHS The papers discuss the election of senators sen senators sen- sen by hy popular vote M B Chicago Ocean Inter The IThe proposal for forthe forthe the direct election ejection of senators Is the fruit of those centralizing ideas In government which Mr Bryan put forward and of which Mr Roosevelt has become tho champion The Tho inevitable result of their adoption must be not only the loss of that nice balance between popular aspiration tion and deliberate action which the founders of the republic established but also the destruction of equality between the states Philadelphia Press The drift is so stron strong toward the election of senators by bythe the Ufe people that it is not that the senate will much longer resist the cur cur- rent Senator Rayner predicts that this senate will pass It Senators elected by the old way naturally prefer the old way They became senators by it and they are not sure that they would have been so successful in a popular election Richmond Times Dispatch Direct popular representation in the senate would make one inhabitant of or Nevada outweigh ore m more than three forty Virginians Virginians Vir Vir- and that would be a direct vio 10 violation lation of the spirit of the constitution If If the senate is not to Represent the states as such but the people of the states as individuals there re is no reason reason rea rea- son why the senate should longer exist i New York World Americans are a patient people but their patience with senators of privilege Is 15 well nl nigh h ex ex- hausted It would require only the election election elec elec- tion of ota a Tammany senator In New York the election of James Smith In New Jersey Jer Jer- sey the election of a corporation senator in Ohio and the election re-election of Henry Cabot Cabot Ca Ca- bot Lodge in Massachusetts to create an Irresistible demand for the election of fu future future fu- fu ture United States senators by the people peo peo- pIa themselves B P P H. H H M B Chicago News The states are arc gradually gradually ally adopting plans to insure th selection selection tion by their legislature of the dates for senator who are the choice of th the people as slown b by advisory notes But it far farb if direct election pr plan 1 we were e given format l by the constitution iM a Memphis Commercial Commercial Appeal The Tight rr ht t to sl sEI ct their senators should be left to tile the people to o b be settled at the polls Then we may expect that th the senate will cease c ase to to be the millionaires millionaires' million aires aires' club and ind will be more directly In touch with wito the voters themselves Cleveland Leader The Leader rhe country cannot afford In turning its hand to tHe Uie punishment punish punish- ment of evil to turn its back to the possibilities pos pos- of even greater harm It will be well weIl for tho nation if the question goes to final Settlement without partis parti's partisan parti- parti I s 's san tags or political clamor It ife is a matter matter mat mat- ter of th the gravest importance It should hould be e dealt with withIn In all sanity and without pr prejudice judice t f Galveston News The change hange will no not be bc a radical one A pretty effectual way I of evading the constitutional provision I which requires senators senator to be elected by legislatures rather than by the people has been devised and been adopted b by a large number of the states if not most of them Dispatch Stil SUI it i will wi be well wel not to bo too op optimistic about Its is passage through the senate Alread the senatorIal sena- sena sena senatorial opponents of popular election electon arc reported at work worl preparing to defeat it once Olce more |