The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-06-02
THE DIRECT PRIMARY PLAN.


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The effect OF direct primaries been, the coun-
try has learned to its acute distress, introduce in
the spring Of this presidential year such fierce pol-
cal rivalry between aspirants for nominations as We
have had only the actual November election
between the political parties. 1t is promised
that the political sparring match between two citizens
who have held the highest office in the republic has
practically ended with the primary election in New
Jersey this relief the nation is graceful Such
strenuous speechmaking tours President Taft and
ex- President Roosevelt have Joined in were pract-
cally unknown until direct primaries made it neoes
sary candidates FOR the nomination to take the
stump in April and continue until practically the
end of May
Is this result desirable thing for country? Every
where there is evidence of disgust and pain the
order of things. Colonel Roosevelt has forced the
magistrate of the country to down into the
of debate and there refute species of attack
on former friend and political ally of character
that could not have been conceived of as possible in
advance of the event. The exhibition is recognized
have been an unseemly one but could not have been
escaped under the conditions which the former pres
dent has created. His attacks became so demagogic
and unfair that the president, had he remained aoof
would have been past all with charges that
would nave been generally accepted a. face value
Nothing in the William H. Taft has given him a
1.-THE pain has suffered in this encounter
with the expresdent which he has just been through
1t has involved the dscredt our highest office but
the blame for this belongs upon the nrestrained am
bton of the who hungers for third term at any
price. 1t would be bold citizen would say that
the resort primary elections has improved or ele-
waited politics in the United States
Nor is this the worst. Another result is painfully
ma scandal of he in
the election of 1895 has been duplicated not in an
election, but in the choice Of delegates TO a national
Everybody with any knowiedgs Of cur
rent political affairs knows that the expenditures IN
behalf of the Roosevelt campaign. mscaled progress
sive and uplifting, have been prodgious The cause
of the people" has been financed by great money in
erests bent upon furnishing the president of the United
States for his persistence the trust prosecutions
The livery of heaven has oeen donhed In the service
of organized privilege and selfshness host of good
people, who accepted fine words representing
honest democracy, have aided and abetted campaign
more reprehensibe liz many of it's methods and
ces than has witnessed in the United
States Good people have been at serious cross pur7
poses the while Colonel Roosevelts ambition has beer
moving forward amid the wreck of past friendships and
the reputation of everybody who declined to bow he
knee.
| All these things have created turmoil throughout
nation which actual elections in the past have
not been marker. Now to have the nationa
conventions, both of which promise great excitement
and turbulence. After that we shall have The
election whereat great expenditure of money may b
expected All this political turmoil confusion, waste O
nervous and scandalous expenditure of has
without adequate 1t has been precpitatet
by one man who demands that which the wise fathers
to ron,
stitute to democratic government