The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-07-09
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CaE7QLUEikl 7 ~ - = - .
"a TfiH8s and EIe1tS
~ ~ Great ana SmdH
Concern.
-rr PRIMARY is one of the sacred
InL the fake progressives would
eOes the DeOple to leave untouched
~ ,.'v,imnroved. They say to the vOt-
4" sSTbns far and no further shalt
as en-, 90" Scratch fake progress
~ ~ and YOU find conservative. And
N5 coIId he more conservative that
we. tbat such institutions as the
o:rv y 30 cannot be improved or
ll-IJ ll- not be changed. / wonder
- ~ our 50 called prOgFessives, who
sAa' ~ uant a change in the Direct
ol-arv ~ ~, think of how their darling
In .a-, worked out in Pennsylvania.
5..losures s,i to hand show that the
-os three million dollars was spent
g' W.. i an effort to round up votes
l.' u f.rorpd candidates. If any new
y 2.lo1ce we're required that the pres
Y. ,rimarv system was fundament-
g N. r;cious and demOFaliZing and Op-
"a ~ n the interest Of the man who
"a not the money bags of the mil
E...ires E.- at his back; if any fresh
-.,of that the system was a natural
dor Of corruption was needed, the
J.r.lonments in Pennsylvania have
.1nnlied the lack. Il was demon
80 there that the Primary af-
i.,ie5 predatory interests their best
,.,nortunity to corrupt the electorate.
s0vF OF the big papers in this
,,te took advantage Of the Primary
s.ardal in Pennsylvania TO advocate
NJ return 70 the old convention sys-
tsr as the remedy for the present
rBsFng situation. These papers are
4 unreasonable as the fake pro-
ressiyes who want the primary law
n remain as il is. You can no
more turn back the hands of the
dock and return to the old cOnvGdl-
don system than you can go back to
he davs Of the wide open saloon,
The Primary can be improved but
should not be abolished. Several
states have improved the system to
make it conform to modern princi-
Dies. The State Of Idaho has a very
good Primary Law. There the peO,
ple select their COUNTY OFFICERS
through a law somewhat similar tx
What We have now in force in Mon
tna. But they do not select STATE
or national candidates at the Pri
mary. Instead the people select del
egates to a state convention. The.
select these delegates through tn
primary system thereby eliminating
The drawbacks Of the old party eau
uses. These delegates in turn at
lend a state convention and seleC
their state ticket and bind their can
tidates to their party platform.
IN MONTANA every Tom, Die
and Harry who has joined hal
dozen fraternal organizations turn
himself loose on an electorate VIII,
perhaps, never heard of him befOr
The result is that we are gettin
low grade state and National off
Gers for some time. We are gettin
men who have no party responsible
iy and who can disregard the goo
banks Of their party platforms
helr own sweet will. And we al
getting over representation in son
paris Of the state. such as Flathea
which boasts of four state officer
and no representation in sectiOl
slch as Northeastern Montana. SUI
hngs could not happen in a CO
'eliOn composed of delegates eleC
Cd by the people through their cOU
y primaries. Conventions so co
atuted would endeavOr to sele
men who would be- best qualified f
ae offices as well as to take in
account their geographical lOcatiC
Aen Of all parties who have the j
lsrest of the state at heart will so
recognize the inequities Of the prt
g' primary system and work for
mango which viii result in a me
Scientific method of selecting ca
gldates who viii ultimately becOl
.ne custOdians Of our taxes and
'lers Of Montana.
HILBERT PEET, the genial a
,reinsatile state editor of the CIR,
gells Tribune, while in PlentywC
Is week asked Mr.. Franklin
T5 TSe was any democrat in to,
ae old time RedstOne resid
SSia'ched his head for a while 4;
@ -e1 replied: "There is no such a
-a,' they arc all Farmer-LabOri
y. As here" The answer v
IIsalllcant. It shows that we
II-'hs normal political conditi
S..t,.-A time will come in the Uni
,S tI'es when such a state of aft;
,.... u. pc the rule instead of the
s,55 p5on. Here we have the enlig
6e progressive people lined uI
go. =, l..a.Fmer-LabOr party and the {
n..''!e IN the Republican pa
nI. Is no more necessity for
IS F,a Old party than there is use