The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-11-14
JOINT COMMITTEE
WILL MEET TO-DAY
TO AGREE ON PRIMARY ELEC.
TON LAW FOE PEOPLE
or ILLINOIS.
SENATE MUST GIVE IN
To Preserve Main Features Of ogles-
by Rill--Local C2tion Law to
&c Tested II the Supreme
Court.

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Special to The Bulletin
/ Springfield. III, Nov ~ The isn't
lccmnlittec en- conference on the pri
Imary election hil Which macts on
Thursday OF this week Will probably
lGul that there IL but one basis on
(which an agreement en-, he reached
land that Is The aocalleil 0gleshy bill,
Iwith aIl the important senate amend
imeni5 eliminated with the exception
4 az these striking out the provisions
for The selection uf national conyen
I lion delegates and presidential cleo
tars 1T lie parity primaries There
now seems 10 be q pretty general
agreement tlat the best plan II a.
lleavc national delegates and presl@
ldential electors to be chosen IN the
tuId Way by state and congressional
conventions. a primary ballot that
contains the names Of candidates TOR
all state, congressional legislative,
county. municipal and other offices
lWll give the average voter about an
| he wants to do on primary day, with
fent asking him to pick out national
Ecpnycntion delegates and presidential
electors from lists Of possibly three
III fem hundred candidates u y
realized that serious plumbers might
be made unless the convention sys
tom e retained for the naming OF
electors and national delegates Re-
IssEcs there neyar has been q popular
1 icmand for so radical an extension
ol the primary election system
But to any one who analyses the
situation carefully, il is pretty clear
lthat ii will De impossible TO pass 2
urinary bin that does not provide for
Ithe nomination Of candidates for pub
lie office By direct plurality prt
nary vote. Whether or not that y
1.-The best system All things considered
il not the question. The important
fact is that a large majority Of the
house will not support any other kind
lof bill. No percentage" nominal
tions-no mixture Of convention and
PRIMARY nominations snort
ae direct plurality bill--Wili com.
ana the support ..eeessary to laas
il. In the first place the Democrats
tnve nladc a caucus agreement 70
stand Tor a plurality bill. There are
slough Republicans who will vote
vith icm to thwart any attempt TO
mt through any other kind oil q
ncasure.
rno chances are. too, that the sen
afcrs SIN have to recede from their
e,eadrfps eliminating party commit
faenl 81 flai the bill Speaker Shurt-
tlen Is well understood to be vlgors
ously opposed to this amendment
ccncurrencc By the house is out OF
! thr ton Gov Deneen also has
tnkcn stand against H. Poth the
goYer1,r and the speaker favor the
selection OF party committeeman at
the primaries. aud It Is said that
lsome of tae senators who voted FOR
thc amenment leaving committeeman
out cf The bin upcn further consider
la.Ion. nave changed their minds. and
are ready now TO restore the original
provision for a primary vcta on corr
nitteemcn
The conference COMMITTEES may lef
eide to frame new measure as q
S, bstiiulc for the 0glcshy bin, bai
the nov bill cauBui get Gar awa'
FROM the main provisions 81 tho mauS
ar, alfeady raesed nv ibc housr. rhr
So called radicals" arc IN tue ma
| il uit and ne bill that follows the
gourral provisions ~ the old primary
law. Tor cxamplc viii 80 through.
The reccnt elections under the l".
cal option law Indicate that i''a
ralocn question viii figure prominent
Is in next Years campaign. ri'
lionor dealers. IL Is announced. are
going 70 test the law in the c9uds
and may succeed in kncckin% = Int
hut ii the law Is iuvaiidaiad. u VII ~
sucroedcd Dry another Ons. 10 IT,
law stands-and in any cyeat q pr5h
ably WIN not be passed upon bclorc
the spring eicctions-it viii meaa a
sd.hct fight a. almost every city
and hamlet in the state urinr iis
next 'f-NIa AihhH1fN- VI l-AafN ~ 49,
b. put cut 81 br sincss. SDne f n
evils predicted by The orgpnen's d
township option"-eyils ike -
'road house and tho Illicit .hl's ,-ior
msv In time cause rr1r'ion hat
as load O." tbc amendment # ne l1a
but The dsy oi The isslcs eliscn
Keeper fwhc has brought the law
sbidinr saiuun man into disfsput
sIonr aith himseifi is nearing as EN-
The liquor business viii have tore
torn 81 perish. IN the larger cities
urr4frediv fsfe from Temperance n
faslon The saloon mcn are alarmed
fne result ~ The operation % the
8N probably via De 70 diminish the
ota Of the Prohibition rartF ter the
ccsl opiiou Law takes the sa'oon
question -oui of politics ia th'
partisan sense. lt is made a rurels
local question and IS settled in eacf
acniits sittCut regard to panr lines
D Moan DAVIS.
NEW tFpTOVN rrAa COMPANY