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Show , GIVE US BETTER PRIMARIES. The Standard urges upon the newly-elected legislators of this state the importance of removing from Utah the stain of being one of the most unprogressive commonwealths in the nation in primary legislation. Wherever there are wideawake, intelligent, thinking citizens, the movement for better primary laws is well under way, but here in Utah there is an apathy and the indifference is so pronounced pro-nounced as seemingly to come from a central source. Let us wake up and take a position with those most advanced states of the union where men and women are earnestly laboring to better their political conditions. Here we are, dragging along like Weary Willies, content with anything presented as a medium for public expression in politics, and willing to allow machine politics to supplant popular government. Will we never shake off this lethargy and assort ourselves? San Francisco, afflicted as that city is with bosses, when called cm to vote for charter amendments broadening the scope of the primaries, pri-maries, proved equal to the occasion and on yesterday declared for a long step forward. All over the country this progress is in evidence. What have we of Utah to say for ourselves? Shall we go forward, for-ward, or shall we slip just a little farther backward by failing at this session of the legislature to do anything for primaries more responsive re-sponsive to the will of the people? |