Putnam patriot., 1908-07-24
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| small iowH ike Mansfield ahere the expense of The undertaking will te slight. bui q doubtful plEa for large center of population ike New Haven CT Hartfofd.-Se. Hagea Journal Courier.
 To this the Hartford coufant res ponds.
 Oar observing and refofmatofy neighbors do mol seem 10 have sefsed the situation in Hartford. They talk of the primary x only de.lfabie for small towns. But they sho9id call ai- tention 10 the fsct tllst thl- city, which has id9. .oo0 people of moi i- to employ ihe direct primary method of uoni- naifng it. Republican cahaidates for state -enalors this fall This n our 1 opinion, will proHe Of very large im- p3rtance in The history of thi- new and attractive system. Ii throws each vo- Ter back on his own resources lie can no longer stay at home from the eaucus and declare that everything Is set up in advance.
 The votes cast at the primary ~ili oeiermine the selection of Senators. If | If turn out that small towns can do il without injury, and that big towns, like Hartford can do II, too, then IL looks as fl the objections had pretty we'll been dissipated. There may Dc 4 1 successful delay Of the diree, primary Ksz .t...z -fafa Et.f af.pt ing k as sure Il. sunrise--and consider. able sunshine will come with it. Some crotehety folk in this State op- posed the introduction of the Austra- Han ballot when first proposed as All Improvement on the old method of voting. Now the same class Of persons are opposing the use of voting ma chimes. although their ad aHtaRes over the present ballot system have been testified to wherever introduced in this l State.
 Things and methods employed in electlug candidates and governing mus i nieipaiilies half t century ago. quite satisfactorily. would be utter failures to prevent wrong doing and misgoeern. menl al this day witbstanding fHe various changes That have been nude f9 meet every failure ih securing m honest expression q the people 7 1 wishes In getting representatives and fa securing ihe just administration of municipal afiaifs. theie is an urgent demand al rfeseni Ter improvement n both tbrse directions.
 fof the pHrre=e of getting n safer more = peditious and cheaper method of recording and counting votes, the voting machine has proved successful wherever tested.
 Al the south and West, III order te avoid the abuses thai seemed tu be in' eHitable in the s.d system, lhe Mayor and Common Council were abolished and commission aas substituted each member having assigned 10 him a special department 10 care for. If hi- management did mol prove satisfactory he would be turned out without fofma. lily and another man put in his place This has proved successful in every city where Il has been adopted, and the idea is spreading rapidly, because the Western people afe not so conservative. Y hide. bound as We afe at the f.ast and do mol refuse to adopt good thing because II k new.
 The direct primary k so simple and M easily tested that II eummends itself us a step in the direction of upward progress, to every thinking person. Il k eeming, a~ the Soufant saN~, "a- sgfe as ,untise
 Perhaps some of our readers may ne yer have taken The 1ouhie to learn what the "direct primary means, and some of these same people will not ee Ia q caucus u nominate candidates, be. cause, They say, everything k cui and dried hN small class uf irresponsible persons The direct primary k just the thing such persons ought lo be glad to see adopted They would mol have It waste tune gatng tp Il caucus. To illustrate, take the ea>e of ouf munich nal officers, a> at pFe,ea, constituted CT bN commission when adopted At an appointed daA after dae notice, vetef- will he asked to N lite down HKr name>, saA fof Mayor -sn the order ef prefer. eaee, the ilts} ou tt4t list being the first choice, aud the other touf in order ei eAelee rhese NH l.e deposited as or, dtnars ballots, ,n tue care of a selected committee, and counted ty them, and the name having the largest numhef ot votes will k declared the candidate. l II for political office, each party Will select their party candidates in the same way.
 Ne oniy give the outline ot the plan, the details to make everything work safe, are simple enough. freeeding such direct primary, the claims ot those whom any one wishes Ia be selected may be publicly presented of privately discussed, which will prevent too wide scattering ol choice.
 The Coutant says that tn Hartford | candidates for senators are 10 bc selec- ted by the primary method. Putnam should select st least one candidate this fall, for some special office. The 1 voters oi Putnam, or any other town, may thus have the operation of the direct primary demonstrated, to learn