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Show WOULD ABOLISH DIRECTPRIMARY Harvard Professor Claims Primaries Pri-maries Just One Dose Too Much for Voter. Washington, Jan. 6. Abolition of direct di-rect primaries and substitution of the preferential ballot system was advocated advo-cated by Professor lewis J. Johnson ol Harvard in an addn-ss today before National Popular Government league. lea-gue. . 'i iinaries," he said, "are just one more dose of politics than the voter without an axe to grind cares to put up with. By using the Bucklcn system sys-tem of preferential voting the usual regular election can be made to do 'w ptw ' it . tho work of both the primarv and the regular election combined and to do It bettor. We can dispense root and branch with the priiuarv and the turmoil, tur-moil, expense and danger which it involves." in-volves." Charles E. Russell, writer and editor, edit-or, explained how the Farmers' Nonpartisan Non-partisan Political league had been organized or-ganized in North and South Dakota to combat legislation inimical to farmers' interests and had succeeded in electing more stale officers that Doth parties whom it endorsed. oo |