Primary Election To Determine Choice Of People

PRIMARY ELECTION TO DETERMINE CHOICE OF PEOPLE.

Mississippi proposes to invoke her primary election law to determine the wishes of the people as to who shall represent them in the United States senate for the coming six years in place of Senator Money, whose term will next expire.

Senator Money and Governor Langino are the candidates at the present time, but there may be more later. These two candidates are making an active canvass of the state and the people will be pretty well acquainted with them and their views on the issues before the canvass closes. At a primary election the people will say whether they desire one of these men to represent them in the senate or whether some other. The legislature will no doubt elect the man the people declare for at the primaries, it would scarcely dare do otherwise. This is as near an approach to electing U. S. senators by the people as can be secured without an amendment to the constitution. Is this not a much better method than through purchasing the legislature, as is too frequently done under the ordinary method of electing these officials? The Colby bill which was turned down by our legislature proposed such a plan of determining the wishes of the people on United States senator.