The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-04-22

where the vote over the other contes.
tants within the party has been inn
pressive.
As an illustration, in a district
where the Republican candidate piled
up heavy vote in the primary and
! the other parties cast a small vote,
the Republican nominee frequently
regards it as "walk-away." A Re.
publican party commander saaid this
week that in recent years this over
confidence had in some cases ben dis
astrous at the elections. In a dis
trict regarded as safely Democratic
because of recent election, the other
party often springs a surprise by up
setting the dope based on light
turnout at the primaries.
If you will look around in your
own neighborhood, you will probably
note the development of factions
within a party during the primary
season. In some states, it has been
found that these anomosities do not
fade away and the opposition party
gains at the elections. For this rea-
son, it has been found that all party
leaders do not approve the primary
as developer of political party harm
ony.
In the old days, organization was
such that the nominee selected at a
party convention was accepted, but
nowadays the man who is denied the
nomination usually discards the party
label and runs as an Independent,
drawing his strength from the dis
contents within both parties.
Bills to repal the direct primary
low have been offered to various state
legislatures, particularly in the east,
but somehow never got beyond the
talking stage.
The struggle for control of the
United States Senate is growing in
Importance. In unseatitng Senator
Brookhart of Iowa, the Democrats
gained one seat. 1t is said that a
gain of seven more seats in the Sem
ate will place the Democratic Party
in control Observers say that there
will be strong contests in nineteen
states, so that the Republican organ
ization is justly disturbed over the
situation. 1t would be embarrassing
to the Administration to have the
Senate under Democratic control. It
was only a short time ago during the
last days of the Wilson Administra
ton that a similar situation was pre-
sented, with the Republicans holding
a whip hand in the Upper Chamber.
Whether or not the World Court is
sue figured prominently in the de-
feat of Senator Mckinley in Illinois
is a debatable question. 1t has, how
ever, elevated the World Court pro-
position as a political issue. The small
group of Senate irreconcilables who
have fought the League of Nations
and the World Court expect to cap
italize upon the Illinois situation in
the Forthcoming primaries in other
states.
There is evidence of another clash
on Administration policies developing
in the western states. The Republi-
can senators who are at odds with
Secretary of the Interior Work are
making the subject of reclamation an
important campaign issue, especially
in view of the intense local interest.
Both the department and the senators
are engaging in mimeographed de-
bate through the issuance of publicity
statements.
The extension of Governmental &C
tivities has reached a point where the
reaction shows that the public's pa
thence is about exhausted. Various
branches of the Federal Government
are going into the fields usually re-
served for private enterprise. Now
comes the United States Children's
Bureau promulgating its ideas on the
,upbringing of youngsters. They have
even gone to the extreme of criticiz-
ing the methods of parents in bring
ing up their families. For instance,
the latest stunt is to tell millions of
experienced mothers how to make tire
children behave, Despite the effec-
t:veness of old fashioned methods, TIE
Federal Children's Bureau says
Threats of action by policemen,
bogy men and doctors are a most I'M
fortunate method to use in obtaining
obedience. The taxpayers maintain
these expensive bureaus in order ito
provide bureaucrats with positions
and an opportunity to set forth their
ideas as Governmental recommends
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