We sincerely hope Mr. Sausser, for decades Findlay's most prominent Democrat, had a happy birthday anyway. It's sad for everybody, including Republicans, that there are no Democratic races in next week's election.
Primary elections are more than a way to decide each party's candidates.
They present a valuable opportunity for voters to take a good look at candidates, listen to and read their positions on issues, and really get to know who they are and where they stand. Her opponent, now-Judge Vern Preston, had a definite advantage in having a competitor in the primary, she felt. It allowed him to get his name out in public far more effectively than the advertising campaign Mrs. Candler mounted instead. It also gave his campaign workers the extra excitement of feeling that they were backing a winner. Primaries unquestionably inject vitality into the political process.