The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-12-15
true democrat is he who recognizes the right of
zen to have a voice in government -LandOr
CHOOSING THE PRESIDENT

III group of socalled progressive Senators have an
need their intention of fixing up this little matter
9eie'ting President of the United States.
II 1t is ridiculous system but it to naturally.
do not vote for President We vote for neghbors
hO candidates for what called the electoral college,
U who elected to this electoral college go Washing
4 and elect the President That the scheme adopted
en- we became United States. We had telegraph wires
81 no telephones and the stage coach or the horse rider
the fastest mail we had. 1t impossible for newspa
fs to tell very much about what going the
d g. We thought in terms of counties in those days Even
the states too big territory for Presidential
ddae to compass candidate for the Presidency could
H. get the country He could himself known
WIS heard The newspapers had way of getting ade-
ofte information The just couldn't get enough
nation to cast an intelligent vote But they would know
~ vt they would their community and so
they voted for these fellows and these fellows the
national capital and there decided whom thew would elect to
ibe President
The engine and the telegraph wire made it
possible for all information about Presidential candidate to
be read everywhere in the nation the day of event
1.-THE Presidential candidate himself his campaign
, speeches into every state in the Union
But still for the electoral college though have
forgotten that do We talk in terms electoral
college candidates did hundred years ago. We talk
of the candidate himself
This progressive group the
obsolete system going to ask for the election by popular
vote but the election by states rather than states electoral
group. Each state will record its vote by mail instead of
endng its electors Washington That about all the
change which the "progressives' propose.
4 Now William Jennings Bryan who has long been
interested in Presidential races who says that the new
scheme is not quite right that what really ought to have
Is one vote for every Congressional district
VI 1t has been held that of thing would hurt the
South it would break up its solidarity.
1t would break up its solidarity than it would
break up the solidarity of Maine Vermont Pennsylvania
If the people themselves to select Presidents why not
let them select them? There is just why Repub
jean vote should be lost because Republican lives in
Democratic There is just why Demo-
traits should be lost because he lives in Republican
btae If believe in democracy, if honest in
declarations of democracy why be afraid to practice it? II
is right United States Senator by the vote of the
people why is wrong to elect President that way?
Bryan says it would encourage ballot box stuffing No
than the election of any other high official There is
pny thing that will discourage the ballot thief who the
greatest traitor because he robs the people of their right to
e and that electorate that enough interested in
her country, enough for it, hOnors it enough to
ect it, If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the
viii Of the people, you love your country enough to protect
IT, democracy should triumph and democracy should be
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