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...Robert Luce '82, representative from Somerville in the Massachusetts Legislature, and author of the "Luce Caucus Reform Bill" spoke last evening in Room 6 of the Union before the Political Club on "Caucus Reform." Mr. Luce has advocated the adoption of direct nomination of party candidates at the primaries as a substitute for the present method of nomination by conventions...
...remedy for this state of affairs, the system of direct nomination by the caucus has been introduced. By this system, the nominating convention is done away with and each voter is given a direct and immediate share in naming the party candidates; the primary becomes in fact a primary election. The plan has already been adopted in several states, and has given almost universal satisfaction. It has aroused an interest among the voters to secure good nominees, and has materially lessened the power of the party "bosses...
...vitally weakens the salient feature of American government--the local control of local matters; and, secondly, it undermines one essential of every good government-- control in particular matters by those people who posses most information about them. A national feeling prompting interference is based on indirect information, not on direct knowledge--local interests arise from direct knowledge. The people of a section know the facts when an act of violence is committed by an individual and not by a body against whom states as such could not move. They know when that individual criminal is arrested and brought to justice...
Arrangements have been made with the Elevated Railway to run a large numbers of special street cars direct to the South Station to connect with the trains to New Haven tomorrow morning. The cars will begin leaving the Square at 7 o'clock, and will go by the shortest route to the station...
Reports of the Yale-Princeton game will be received at Soldiers Field by direct telegraphic communication this afternoon, and will be bulletined on the score board during the progress of the Dartmouth game...