Show I Y POPULAR ELECTION CrION 01 OF W PRESIDENTS SOMETHING SO G can be said in behalf behalf be be- half halt of ot direct election of Presidents says the National Republican The mere abolition of the electoral college college col lege and the substitution of ot a election within each state on the basis of present re representation inthe In Inthe th the electoral college would accomplish accomplish accomplish except to further confuse confuse confuse con con- fuse a national political situation already al already already al- al ready badly muddled by all sorts of ol governmental intervention In the affairs affairs af at fairs of political parties The effect eff ct would be to tG multiply the number of ot presidential candidates each supported supported sup sup- ported by a II few states and to make of national elections local and sectional sectional sec sec- rather than national affairs Popular election of Presidents would require the voting of every citizen on a basis baals of absolute equal equal- ity This would Involve the necessity of ot the t e revision of registration and election laws in states slates which have disfranchised large proportions of I their voters The Constitution tinkers I dodge this proposition because it ItI I would Involve merely rely the doing of I justice to suppressed portions of the I American electorate without an any visible vise vis ible able advantage In Increased popularity popular fly ity It for those compelling democracy to function in fa certain states where It Its ItS It'S ItIs S Is s no longer operative If It we are to have popular election i of Presidents there must be a standardizing standardizing stand stand- of ot registration and election laws aud and federal enforcement of lion lion- hon I est eat elections That idea does not ap I ap-I I p peal 1 to some of those conspicuous in to the outcry against corrupt practices' practices and who utter no word word of ot protest against the disfranchisement of ot more than two-thirds two of ot the the he voters Including including IncludIng ing more white men and women omen than black in the eleven states of the Solid South South indeed indeed are willing to violate their oaths in office in a refusal refusal re re- re- re to apply the constitutional penalty penalty pen pen- alty for wholesale disfranchisement |