The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-23
STATE vs. COMMITTEE

It seems that the Republican party is not chartered organization It is voluntary association of free ct zens When it's tell the people of elect delegates by districts state legislature step in and order that all be elected by the whole state?
 The definition is by the esteemed Hartford Courant, the leading organ of the Republican party in Connecticut The question is by the same eminent authority.
 The question is answered by the same newspaper, which says We do not believe any legislature has pow CT to do that
 That is to say, esteemed contemporary asserts that legislatures of sovereign states within the scope the powers in which they sovereign, may not make laws.
 This is thoughtess raised to it's tenth power, and thought that will not to government is Tn Connecticut and in every other state in the Union.
 Had the Courant said that the exigencies of fed era system such that state cannot impose its laws upon voluntary associations of free citizens, who choose to meet some other state would have written plain enough fact.
 Connecticut, as California; has full power to make laws controlling elections The power ndisputable It exists, and is exercised
 Therefore the Couran is wrong in asserting that no legislature has power to do that"
 It is true that voluntary associations may go outside the sovereignty and defy the state law.
 Not in elections alone does this happen Divorces denied in one sovereignty may be obtained in another Railroads submit to the law in state but beat 1t in another.
 The states for certain purposes foreign to each other and wrongs may be accomplished in of them, which are punished every other just federal law may be evaded by seeking country across seas where the forbidden thing is permitted.
 Is it for legislature to compel political party to vote it's convention by states?
 Again, the question is by our contemporary.
 state cannot compel national party to vote by states but state prescribe how it's people shall choose delegates and voluntary association of free
  of that state their rights may do so at it's peril
 Brave and brazen may be the Republican national committee which is the voluntary association of free ct referred to- Chicago when it refuses to seat the legally elected Caforans for other reason tal that the sovereign people California have made rules in fict with the rules of the national committed but when the Cafornas go back their state it is for the state to say whether the voluntary association shall override the law.
 The test of questions like these is in the power that abides in things
 California can do as it pleases California need not abide by the choice of the voluntary association of free cit zens-a euphemism for we'll collared bosses-and prob ably will not.
 The moral of all this s that it is nconcevable that voluntary associations should be permitted to override the laws of states. Yet the law stands, they may do
 The need is clear for federal law governing prefer ential presidential primaries.
 Never again should there be in the United States the spectacle of voluntary association of free citizens kick delegates out of convention because they chOs according to the law of the state that sent themG
 That way leads to anarchy. Approve such a system and straghtaway shall have voluntary associations of free citizens to abolish marriage promote theft age gambling and tout all those things which the laws of states have discouraged for the advantage of all the free citizens
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