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THE STATE REVIEW 



giving to one the governor and to each of 

 the others a senator, the chances of any 

 rural candidate for either of these offices 

 would lie slim indeed. It is quite as prob- 

 able that out in the country, next to the 

 heart of nature, or that in some of the less 

 pretentious cities, villages or hamlets, there 

 may quietly exist some "Inglorious Milton," 

 some Webster, Clay or Cass, who would 

 make splendid senatorial timber, as that 

 such statesmen should only be found in the 

 conglomerate population of the great cities. 

 If such an one should aspire to the sena- 

 torial office, or his neighbors should be 

 found pushing him toward it, what, think 

 you, would be his chances as against some 

 self-heralded, self-advertised, well-to-do can- 

 didate from a populous center ? Suppose the 

 modest man from the rural district had his 

 entire congressional district enthusiastically 

 at his heels, would it make much differ- 

 ence? Cities are clannish. They demand 

 that every citizen shall stick by the home 

 candidate or suffer the rain of ostracism 

 and even social excommunication. It is 

 upon the same principle that a piece of 

 furniture made in Grand Rapids, and bear- 

 ing the trade-mark, is better than any other 

 piece of furniture of the same class made 

 anywhere else in the world. Cities can be 

 counted upon to use every device, every 

 noisy accessory the hewgag, the timbrel 

 and the big bass drum to herald their can- 

 didate to the world. 



Influence Or Corrupt Primaries 



It might even happen that the great city 

 was supporting some man made popular 

 through purely local causes, who is but little 

 qualified for the senatorial office, but who 

 has done small things in a noisy way, do 

 you think, with the direct participation of 

 the masses in the selection cf a senator 

 those from Southern Europe and unsettled 

 Russia and all the outside man would 

 have an even and fair chance against, him? 

 In this connection the history of the pri- 

 maries in the great cities should be studied; 

 the fraud that has been witnessed in them, 

 the temptations they offer to unscrupulous 

 men of opposing political parties to partici- 

 pate in the boosting of a local favorite, or 

 in the nomination of some unfit man simply 

 that he may be defeated, or to weaken and 

 scatter demoralization in the ranks of the 

 party in power. Recent direct nominations 

 and elections in municipal campaigns, with- 

 out specifying instances, give a foretaste of 

 what can be accomplished in this direction. 

 Exactly the same evils will be manifest if 

 the popular election of United States Sena- 

 tors is to prevail. 



It is painful to think what the chances 

 of some great modest unknown from Mont- 

 calm, Grand Traverse, Arenac or Alpena 

 might be in such a contest. 



With the popular election of senators the 

 successful candidates will come from the 

 great centers of population. The statesmen 

 from the back counties may as well hang 

 their aspirations with their harps upon the 

 willows. 



But you tell mo the great cities have pow- 

 erful influence, owing to numbers, in the 



legislature itself. In answer to this the fact 

 is cited that the other districts are not with- 

 out representation there. The claims of 

 their men cnn at least be presented and 

 advocated in the open; other sections of the 

 state, similarly situated, ran be appealed to; 

 the legislators will te derelict if they do 

 not weigh and consider the merits of all the 

 candidates presented to them; certainly no 

 democratic members will pack republican 

 caucuses. With direct nomination and elsc- 

 tion the whole transaction is under the hat, 

 is quietly in the dark, with little chance for 

 the candidate of modes'y and moderate 



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