The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-16
GIBSON QUESTIONS
REPUBLICAN MOTIVE
Says Leaders of Party in Vermont
Do Not Want Direct Primary
Rear Guard Fight, He Says.
Editor of The Reformer =

EuliOE Ol Inc heIOItIief
Last March the voters of the state
spoke emphatically in favor of the selec-
ton of candidates for public office by a
direct vote. During the last session of the
legislature the Republican leaders in con
troll of the party machinery tried to force
a preferential primary law upon the peo-
pie. This proposition was drafted by an
astute politician and corporation attorney |
1t was drawn with the object in view of |
accomplishing just what Murphy and
Barnes sought to accomplish through the |
New York legislature by primary bills |
passed at their bidding. The people turned |
it down.
Now the Republican leaders come back
with the same old preferential scheme
The object in view this time is to put 1T
into successful operation and be in a po-
sition to say to the next legislature
See, we have Just the thing needed for a
primary law, Now let us put it on the
statute books" These leaders have been
SO successful in the past in putting over
things they apparently think they can al
ways do so. \ recent editorial statement
| is indicative of the object in view 1t is
as follows This scheme of a soap box
primary has been carefully worked out by
the subcommittee so carefully that with
a few changes, it would serve as an ex-
celent ground work for a direct primary
law"
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