The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-06-20
THE DIRECT
PRIMARY

Some unknown correspondent II
San Francisco condemns our edi
torials against the direct primary
and sends US the warning of Rep.
resentative Frear of Wisconsin tt
show the dreadful conspiracy of the
big interests and the money power
to take away the dear peoples lib.
critics by wiping this law off the
statute books, and mildly insinuat-
ing that another good man had
gone wrong, and was aligned with
these unholy attempts to place the
shackles upon American liberty
Nay, nay! For more than twenty
five years when this socialistic n.y.
bridization was first grated upon
the tree of American liberties and
institutions, the writer opposed il
and pointed out the very evils that
have come to pass through its en-
actment as law. As for the frothy
warnings of Representative Frear,
his arguments are far fetched, and
as he halls from the same State
as Victor Berger, who was twice
elected to Congress and twice ex-
PEELED from that body for disloyal-
ty to his adopted country, we are
inclined to believe that Frear's full
mination is mostly meant for home
consumption to aid him in again
warming his congressional seat.
We challenge the advocates to
show one reform or one iota OF
good that the direct primary has
accomplished. On the other hand
almost every evil with which the
country is suffering today is direct
ly traceable to this socialistic n.y.
drid-the direct primary. North
Dakota, one Of the most prosperous
commonwealth in the union, today
lies bankrupt and her people stag
gering under billions Of dollars of
Indebtedness because Towley and
his infamous gang of free-booters
and disloyalists under the guise of
the Non-Partisan League, through
the primary was enabled to cap
ture both party organizations, boost
themselves into office and later
loot the public treasures and the
Industries people on a par with the
cut-throat and numbering bolshe-
viks of Russia. The direct primary
is responsible for the Newberry
scandal in Michigan. In California
time after time through the pri-
mary a prohibition nut" was sent
to Congress from a district, where
as an organization, the Prohibition
lists could not have mustered cor
porals guard. Through the pri-
mary this State a few years ago
suffered from /. w. W.ism which
finally landed the federal troops in
Goldfeld and the most of this
NANCY, yelping hydrophobia bunch
was driven from the State. It has
made the cost of the selection of
candidates from three to four dol
lars vote which the taxpayer must
pay and adds to the cost of gov
eminent. It has practically pro-
hibited the business man from seek
ing or accepting office for he can
not afford the sacrifice of six
months of his time from his BUSH
ness affairs necessary to make the
campaign. In fact, the evils wrought
through the primary are SO numer-
GUS that space is not sufficient to
enumerate.
For the professional office-seeker,
the faddist, the wild-eyed theorist,
the Non-Partisan Lacquer who
seeks party recognition under false
pretenses, the Sunday Blue Law
advocates and other cranks who
would force us to live according to
their dictates, the primary is con-
venient vehicle, but it is hell on the
taxpayers who furnish the gasoline.
Western Nevada Miner.