TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. rOKTLAD, 3fAY 9, 1920
rDEMDCRATS ACCLAIM
PR MARIES NO MOfS
E
Portv Cirot Innnroc Then Rp-
pudiates Plank.
ONE-TERM IDEA DIES TOO
1912 Textbook or Bourbons del
icately Avoided in 1916 When
Wilson Is Renominated.
OTIKGOXIAN NEWS BTTREATJ. Wash
ington, May S. Little probably will
t heard rrom now on of the once
loua and persistent agitation for
presidential primaries. Obviously both
major political parties feel some dis
appointment over tUo workings of
the system.
The presidential primary has been
Ignored and then repudiated by the
democratic party, which- was the only
one of the major parties to recognize
it In a national platform. In 1912
the democratic national convention
at Baltimore, which nominated Gov
ernor Woodrow 'Wilson of New Jer
sey for president, wrote into the na
tional party platform this plank:
The movement towards niore
popular government should be pro
moted through legislation In each
elate which will permit the expres
sion of the preference of the electors
for national candidates at the pres
idential primaries.
Republicans Remain Silent.'
"We direct that the national com
mittee incorporate In the call for the
next nominating convention a re
quirement that all expressions of
preference for presidential candidates
shall be given and the selection of
delegates am) alternates be made
through a primary election conducted
by the party organization in each
Mate where such expression and elec
tion are not provided by state law.
Committeemen who are hereafter to
constitute, the membership of- the
democratic national commuite ana
whoso election Is not provided for
by law shall be chosen In each state
at such primary elections, "and the
service and authority of committee
men however chosen shall begin
immediately upon the receipt of their
credentials, respectively."
The republican national platform
ion, although many of the states in
which republicans were in control al
ready had adopted presidential pri
mary laws.
In 1916 both parties in national
eonvention ignored the question Just
as it appears the states controlled by
tho respective parties had done in
the intervening four years. Sine that
primary plank was adopted by the
democrats at Baltimore in 1912 there
has been practically no widening of
the presidential primary system.
One state. Minnesota, has repealed
a presidential primary law and an
other state, Indiana, has adopted sucn
a law. When the- democrats met in
St. Louis to renominate Woodrow
"Wilson in 1916, two or three issues
raised by the 1912 platform had be
come exceedingly delicate, which
probably accounts for no reaffirma
tion of the primary declaration of
ur years before.
One-Term Plank Rrnadlated.
In the first place the party was in
grasp of the national auminlstra
. which was seeking the renom-
lon of its chief after a campaign
ted mainly to avoiding any con-
in the states, either primary or
wise. Furtnermore there was
embarrassment in referring to
page of the derr.ocratic campaign
oxtbook of 1912 on which was writ-
n the plan declaring for primaries.
On the same page also appeared this
declaration made by the same con
vention:
"We favor a single, presidential
term, !hd to that end we urge the
adoption of an amendment to the con
stitution making- the president of the
United tates intligible for re-elec
tion and we pledge the candidate of
this convention to this principle."
It is" history that "the candidate of
this convention" did not stand hitched
to the single-term principle, just as
he throw down free tolls for the Pan
ama canal and has been ready ever
since to forget presidential primaries
in campaign year.
In the present campaign the re
publican party has availed itself of
all the primary machinery available
in the -states for nominating presi
dential candidates, although it might
bo said, perhaps truthfully, that re
publicans are not any "crazier" about
the system than its original "advo
cates of record," the democrats.
The democrats, however, have gone
further in this campaign and through
such personages as William- Gibbs
MoAdoo, son-in-law of tho president
and himself a presidential candidate,
have passed out the mandate to the
party in several primary states to
ignore candidates and elect only un
instructcd delegates. This is repudi
ating tho now celebrated, primary
plank of 1912 with a vengeance, be
cause it carries with it the recogni
tion of the old plan of delegate
manipulation as it was never recog
nized before. If Senator Penrose had
issued such an edict there is no doubt
that the welkin would have been in
an uproar with protests against "boss
rule."
Scheme Held Not Successful.
There is considerable of a ten
dency, however, among former pri
mary advocates in both parties to
agree that the popular voting method
of choosing candidates has not been
a success. It is a noteworthy fact
that up to this time no primary
choice has ever been indorsed by a
national convention.
In 1812 tho same democratic con
vention which adopted the presiden
tial primary plank repudiated rfh
popular choice, Champ Clark of Mis
souri, and chose Woodrow Wilson of
New Jersey. It is a delicate matter
to mention even to this day, but
Theodore Koosevelt appears to have
had more of the delegates chosen by
primary to the first Chicago conven
tion of 1912, but the convention did
not see fit to nominate him.
In 1916 Mr. Wilson pole-vaulted the
primary and the republican conven
tion, after a campaign in which the
primary had figured to only a small
degree, chose Charles E. Hughes of
few Tork, who had the primary in
dorsement of only one state, Oregon,
witn ten votes in a convention seat
ing almost 1000 delegates.
In the coming national conventions
it is therefore a certainty that neither
party will go on recprd with reference
to the primary.
sened when Mr. Bryan said, "God
bless you" to the president in re
signing the office of the secretary
of state, and the president said, "The
same to you" both with their
tongues in their cheeks and their
fingers crossed. It is recalled that
President Wilson once expressed the
sincere wish that "Bryan could be
knocked into a cocked hat." The wish
was full-hearted and expressed with
that literary effectiveness for which
the president is noted.
Others Echo Thin Wins.
Just now the democratic organiza
tion and the adherents of many candi
dates for the office which President
Wilson holds are echoing the wish.
With the hearty co-operation of Gov
ernor Edwards these democrats are
seeking to have the wish accom
plished and a valuable prize would be
given to the person who can furnish
the formula for accomplishing it.
The result of this "mass desire" is to
make Mr. Bryan the outstanding
figure in the coming democratic convention.
1'rom persons close to Mr. Bryan It
is possible to tell just what the
Nebras-kan is aiming to do.
In the first place, Mr. Bryan wants
to be president of the United States.
He admits that his faith in democracy
is based on the willingness of a ma
jority of the voters to agree with
him. yet he avows his insistent raltn
in democracy which, errs to this ex
tent but which he believes is bound
finally to be corrected. Mr. Bryan,
n good health, looks forward, to a
ripe old age.
"Boirbonhm'' Means Drink.
Accordingly, he optimistically be
lieves the time may have come when
the voters will awaken to the fact
that they have committed errors
equal to the number of times they
have rejected him and that right ana
wisdom are bound to triumph. If
the voters of- the country are still
wandering in error and decline to ac
cept Mr. Bryan as their leader, the
Peerless One proposes to do trie next
best thing, he wants to write the
party platform; to save the demo
cratic party from what he regards as
its present tendency to conservatism
and "Bourbonlsm." "Bourbon" to Mr.
Bryan, is the name of a drink.
In addition to writing the piatiorm.
if he cannot be a candidate, he will
seek to name the candidate. In doing
so he may not be able to select his
own choice, but hopes to exert the
veto power as he did at Baltimore
when he foiled the ambition of Champ
Clark. -
He will .be aaralnst any possible
third term for President Wilson and
he will be especially opposed to any
one whom the conservatives or the
wet" elements favor.
Bryan Still Haa Kick..
When Mr. Bryan emerged from the
retirement which his resignation from
the cabinet entailed he showed that
he still possessed a kick and those
who confidently believed ne had Deen
knocked into the proverbial "cocked
hat'' were wakened with a jar. Ac
cordingly, the "cocked hat;' process
Is aarain in course of application, ac
companied by the realization that if
it is not brought about Mr. Bryan
may do to the . democratic party this
year what Mr. Wilson so feelingly
wished might be done to Mr. Bryan.
The resulting spectacle is the com
bination of such sturdy representa
tives of democracy as Homer Cum
mlngs of Connecticut. Gavin McNabb
of California. Tom Taggart of Indiana,
Leader Murphy of Tammany, Gov
ernor Edwards of New Jersey and
others, collaborating in the light
opera entitled "Knocking Bryan Into
Kingdom Come," or something similar.
Commoner Isn't orrylng-.
While this is In progress Mr. Bryan
Is going his own way, seemingly un
disturbed by the furore hxs is creat
ing. He is weH aware that the or
ganization is against him. He made
that clear at the Jackson day dinner
when he intimated that he was ready
to appeal to the rank and file, and
has been doing it ever since. Having
been elected a delegate to the San
Francisco convention, he will be in
his element on. the floor and may be
expected to look into the various can-.
didacics, opening them up to see what
makes them go.
The democratic organization -has
its work cut out for it in' sidetrack
ing Mr. Bryan. The leaders know
it and they are worried.
Phegley & Calender
COR. FOURTH AND ALDER STS.
Kirschbatim Suits
In New Spri
5 to 60
A COMPARISON of Portland's dis
play windows will prove how mod
erate are these prices. Yet in materials,
in style, in workmanship, the clothes are
of the finest standards. They are the
work of the famous Kirschhaum shops.
SMART STYLE GOOD QUALITY BIG VALUE
Olympia; W. A. Perkins, E. D. Hen
derson, Rochester; Wilson Howe, Te
nino; Dr. E. N. Nugent, Tenino; Ed
ward XJrury, South Union.
GRANGE FAVORS MILLAGE
Orchardists and Ranchers Unan
imous for Higher liduoation.
HOOD RIVER. Or, May 8. (Spe
cial.) The Pine Grove grange, com
posed of East Side orchardists and
ranchers, will vote solidly for the
higher educational millage bill, hav-
ng unanimously adopted a resolution
favoring the measure.
vvhile we have taken no official
action on the 2-mill elementary edu
cational bill," says J. M. Taylor, an
officer of the grange, "I have heard
my fellow members express them
selves in favor of the measure."
Two Sent to Reformatory.
PASCO, Wash, May 8. (Special)
Robert D. Cameron and Thomas Gray
were sentenced Thursday to in
determinate terms in the state re
formatory at Monroe. Cameron was
charged with stealing four pairs of
shoes from the Northern Pacific
freight house, where he had been
working, and Gray was charged with
breaking into a room at the Olympia
lodging house. Both men pleaded
guilty.
Thurston Elects Delegates.
OLYMPIA, Wash., May 8. (Spe
clal.) Fifteen democrats attended
the county convention - today and
elected 20 delegates to the state con
vention at Spokane, who are unin-
structed and authorized to name their
own alternates. The delegates are:
r. M. Troy, George F. Yantis, E. T.
Steel, Mrs. Julia Waldrip, Mrs. C. A.
Rose, C. A. Rose, Mrs. H. L. Parr,
11. L. Torr, J. M. Tad lock, A. W. John
son. R. M. Fuller. L. P. Louotte, Fred
Oanady, J. )T. Brenner. Robert MrNair,
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BRYAN IS PARTY PROBLEM
(Continued Vrom F1r?t Pajre.)
case of the nomination of Alton. B.
Parker.
Mr. Bryan's uosition wilt " fiirnl.h
ono of tho most dramatic situation
in Jhe convention and recalls the
long-time feud that has existed be
tween the president and the Nc
braskan. and which wa not le-
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Inspectors TCaiso Hopes of Aspir
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Applications for appointment as
postmaster of Portland are being in
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spectors have been conducting their
inquiry very quietly and have about
completed tHelr work. There are 22
sonal interview with the inspectors,
applicants for the $(f0OO a year job,
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At a Sensational Price Concession We Secured More Than
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Because of the wealth of de
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