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Show BLAME PRIMARY FOR ALL EVILS Politicians Say It's Responsible Respon-sible for Breakdown jj. Of Discipline B K Hij.Ki T. SM VI. I- , special Corrcjshoudent "i The Standi , N arcl-I&xamini r '' (Copyright. i '--. i'.v Tho Standard- Ifixaminer) S' "WASHINGTON July S. As prevl- v. ' ouslv i r - J i t'-.J sti ih-.. .i.M..toh.-. V"J .i I reel prin i .lamed today -or all the -.:s popular gowrn- V mcnt. "Nvn.v There Is delaj In the senate in pass- 7rT '-nn the int. if hill Tho primary system sys-tem is responsible. There la lack of cohesion in the son-ate. son-ate. The primary is to blame. The senate will not carry out the administration's program for legisla-ilon legisla-ilon at this session. The primary is oiei responsible. ( IlUBBB splits The aenirte is splitting itself Into groups or blocs, "Why? Tho primary. Old-time wheel horses, or Repub-I Means, are being swept out of office j and independent progressives or radl- als are in Hug to tako their place. The primary. President Harding declares there are too many sopranos in public life, Why the sopranos? Tho primary. Wherever one turns In Washington today In search of tho whys and wherefores, the result is always the same, the primary. Like the New England Eng-land inkoeper, the primary has been B i i ussed and discussed of late it has hardly a leg to stand on Tho president has said that he wished wish-ed al who wear the tag of Republicans Republi-cans In public life reallj had the in-terect in-terect of the party at hear) P.ut he knows they haven't and therein lies unquestionably, in iny difficulties of '. he national government today. Whether or not the dlreot primary Is bringing go eminent closer and loser to the people of the people and for the people, remains to be s en, but there is no doubt that the primary Is responsible for th breakdown of old-time old-time party discipline. The reason tor this In nerfectlv ntaXn. NOMINATION MEANS OFT "in; A man runs for the Republican nomination nom-ination for the United States senate, and a state that is nornlly Republican Republi-can by somothirrr ike four to one. He knows nomination la equivalent to 1 . election. In his fight for tho nomination, nomi-nation, he does not have, or at lejst. Is not supposed to have, tho support of the Republican organization The primary being a fight within the party i 1- supposedly a go as vou please contest, with good luck to all. and the devil take the hindmost Theoretically, Theoretical-ly, therefore, the eventual nominee is not supposed to have had tho support of tho organization" and consequently consequent-ly he Is under no obligation to the organization. or-ganization. The fact that later he is elected to office makes no impression because he knows that any Republican nominated at the primary would have had tho same easy victory at the eloc-1 eloc-1 tlon polls. Taking his place In the auevist upper up-per chamber of congress at Washington, Washing-ton, the senator chosen under these clrcumstanCBS has tho rlgh' to feel that his reai lctory was a personal victory', the success at the primaries Therefore ho feels no particular fealty to the chairman of the Republican state committee at homo nor does he feel under particular obligations to the national committee which did nothing at nil to help him win tho fight to run as a Republican. WANTS OLD SI STEM President Harding believes In tne old system of nomination and that old system of party loyalty. There are m.-iny thoughtful observers who Ogres with him absolutely Thev feel that 'orderly government cannot exist without with-out that party loyalty which leads to concerted partv action The American Amer-ican government has grown up and prospered under party control, they point out, and not under group domination dom-ination a domination which the president presi-dent deeply deplores. The Independent Republicans brought to the fore by the primary system are coming more and more Into national political prominence, however, and party leaders feel their grin Slipping Just at a most crucial moment In the new administration The primary Is to "blame"' hut It will take a long time to do away with ft. |