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Show DIRECT PRIMARIES. Utah should have the direct primaries pri-maries law which othor states have written 4nto their statutes to the satisfaction satis-faction of tho people. "Tho hit boss fluttors," sajs an editorial edi-torial observer of Governor Hughes' fight for the popular or primary system sys-tem of nomination in New York. Under Un-der tho old system of caucus and convention, con-vention, according to Its critics, it takes nothing short of a moral revolu tlon to "beat the machine." The working work-ing of this "travesty of representation" representa-tion" is thus pithily described by the New York Press: "Either the state boss, if there is one. or the local boss, orders the nomination of a certain man. and he is nominated by the dummy dum-my ' delegates;" or. else "occasionally there Is a free-for-all ln which the man with the biggest barreVmduces the delegates to listen to his'claim." Sajs the governor himself, in a recent speech before the Hughes Alliance: "Experience shows that under the present system the voters of the party, except there is some mighty upheaval, have very little to say, and when one or more get into control of the machinery ma-chinery they control the nominations and virtually appoint those who will stand as the party representatives. This is not representative government" govern-ment" -In answer to:an argument that had been maJe much of by bis opponents, that the c-llmlnatlcn of the nominating convention was a step toward overthrowing over-throwing representative government, he said: "Representative government Is government gov-ernment through . representatives. We choose officers to do for us what we can not do, or do not think it wise to undertake ourselves. Now If we elect a governor by direct voto of the people peo-ple how is It a subversion of representative repre-sentative government for the enrolled voters of a party to choose their candidate can-didate for governor by-direct voto? If we elect an assemblyman ln an assem bly district by direct vote of the voters ln that district, why should not the members of the party in that district decide directly sho should be their representative as a candidate for the assembly? Is the one any the less representative government than the other?" |