The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-01-05
vEY AND THE CONSTITUTION

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Dr friend, Colonel George Harvey.
(erly editor of Harper's Weekly.
now of the North American Re
8 is ono of the friends and dcfcud-
pf the constitution, and shuddcrs
4 any n attempts to violate. oY-
q. or slbvcrt it. And he is afraid
President Wilson is undertaking
that thing.
&c colonel has the distinction of
3 the original Wilson man. Long
Ire any or the rest of MS Thought
!, and long before the present pres
Z VAS considered available timber
ssthc g~oNernorShip of New Jersey,
tcolotel proposed him for prcSi-
3 of the United States. And the
tIcl continued to be an enthusi-
: Wilson mar until some time in
summer of 1al2. Tie Harper
ications were popularity supposed
e controlled by the Morgan iuter-
and the Weekly was a decidedly
Eservative affair. H. caule to Col
J~IarVey'S ears that Mr.. Wilson
ed that under the circumstances
hcartiness of tho support which
!: being given him by the magazine
not really doing his candidacy any
gu. Ito put the question suuarely
|jVilson, and asked him it he, Will
!. believed that the support of IIar-
his Weekly was injurins his candi-
y. MIR. Wilson, being a; truthful
b.. answered that he did believe SO.
20 then the colonel has continued
Re friendly to Wilson. but with be-
hing restraint. Ills friendship is;
Ire reposeful than it was.
Just now he is publishing Il series
PARTICLES on President Wilson and
acts and aims in which the Mega
> side OF this friendship is perhaps
title more strongly accentuated than
positive. In the last article he
+cussed among, among other things.
D. presidents suggestion for Il law
for presidential primaries.
! Is panied to observe that his friend
lson should have said such a thing.
/. points out, with perfect accuracy,
ut the constitution makes no pro-
lion for anything of the sort, hence
that the thing be done
nothing short of s%ubvcrsion of the
or il will be that IL one
ing goes through.
colonel is perhaps unnecessarily
We are doing several things
at are not provided for in the con-
tuition. and we have been doing
EN- so long and sc regularly that
my people believe that they are
provided for in the constitu-
m. We are governing this country
NEAR Of political parties. a thing
thought of by the trainers of that
lnirable document . We have legal
I'd parties in IL way or another.
d the constitution does not say that
may. We are electing presidents
the popular vote OF each state for
ndidates for that office. a thing
lirh would have made the fathers
udder had it been suggested to
We admit that this last state
emit is not literally correct, but it is
sDlutely accurate in substance. We
through the form of electing a
.nlber of electors who arc supposed
use their judgment in selecting II
esident. but in actual practice we
tie for the candidates who have been
and we neither know nor
re who the candidates for presiden-
Il elector are. We vote for the AN
date to whom they arc committed,
d the elector who should actually
as the founders Of the constitution
them to do, and exercised his
judgment, voting for Il
ndidate other than the man whom
was elected to vote for, would stand
good chance of being lynched il he
uo1eu SAio" up III IlS ioIHc Sttte.
The constitution makes no provision
r presidential primaries. We are
It sure that the presidential primary
IN is wise or expedient at this time.
it is. We are willing to be
But, if it is shown to the sat
tftcion of most Of the people to he
and exp.dient, inasmuch as the
i%nterposcs no prohibit
'ns, a way will be found to put into
actice, and we will still have a. pref
good constitution left. The col
lel's fears appear to be groundless.