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Show and seeks it hard. The whole objoct ' in proposing this new system is to obtain an ideal system. This new system is a revival of the old New England town meeting, which la a nearly ideal form of government. But how can we got a town meeting in New York city? "Could we get Elihu Root or .loo Choate to enter a contest where they would have to go up and down tho East Side, Into tho West Side, through the center of the city, into every barroom bar-room and tenement, ishoutlng, 'I'm the man to he your judge. I'll sec to it that no man is turned out of his house because he is poor." "Wo have had this system for more than 100 years. We have never had a bad president, but wo have had a number of great ones; New York has never had ft bad governor, and she has had many great one3." DEPEW DOES NOT FAVOR HUGHES' PRIMARY PLAN New York, March 10. Stenator Chauncey M. Depew is not in favor of Governor Hughes' direct primary plan. In an addreus laut night before tbe Columbia University Politics club, Senator Depew declared that a system such as Governor Hughes advocated would result in the election of inferior infer-ior men and the degeneration of government. gov-ernment. He said in part: v "Under the old system the otllce reeks the man. but under the proposed propos-ed system the -man seeks the oUice |