Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-06-18 | Page 16 | Same Old Argument

i 1 SAME OLD ARGUMENT ARGUMENTI 1 I I COR FOR OR th the purpose of enacting a n direct primary law II I 1 Governor Go Sulzer of New K ew York Y orl has bas called the Legislature Leg Leg- Legislature into into special session The Tits campaign to in influence influence flu flu- ence public sentiment or lobbying as President 1 Wilson probably would call it has been pr proceeding for fort some weeks The usual arguments in its favor Ol haca have hac a 1 t been made mad and the tIle customary intolerant view vic taken I I Q o all who Decline ine to a admit mit that the direct primary I is one of flue precursors of a. a political millennium I 1 I Those supporting the direct primary idea are hailed as the salt of the earth and und those who oppose it are I condemned as reactionaries or by the u use e of whatever er other terms may any be employed without hazarding an 1 I application of the law Jaw against slander If any disI disputant dis dis- 1 argues that bistor history shows the popular primary 1 1 to be less discriminating an and efficient in the selection of public officials Sulzer Stelzer and his colleagues pretend I I to believe c that such an one is afraid to trust the thc i people cople n I II I That of course settles the matter since the maI majority majority ma ma- I is always right even e when it l lynches an innocent inno inno- 1 cent man in modern times or when it invoked in the auta da auto fe da-fe ein in is days gone by to prove pro to the victim the 1 beauties of the Christian religion loving Io kindl kindness kind kind- l 1 n ness nee s of tho those e who applied the thc torch larch tI 1 I 1 It is sn safe c to assume that Ice Kin King IS not resumed control of the he Hudson River N Navigation 1 1 company soled solely for far his health I 4 t