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Show H TAFT'S BOSTON SPEECH. H President Taft, in his Boston speech, said the preferential H primary is acceptable if H i "We say that the popular primary needs no qualifying ifs. It H i is vastly better than the old method and could not be worse were H there no safeguards.' - H Taft went on to limit the usefulness of the popular primaries. H 'Any one familiar with the man's mental process could discern the H political craft with which the President was attempting to evade H tho charge that he opposed the preferential primaries though at H j the same time he was discouraging the use of the open primary by H seeking to pick flaws in. that method of naming delegates. |