Abstract
important body of opinion (represented at an early day by the so-called Hughes plan) which has accepted the notion that normally the natural leadership of a party must prevail and which has accordingly advocated the direct primary as a corrective rather than as a source of constant popular initiative. On the other hand, it must be said that from the standpoint of the main body of agitation on behalf of the direct primary, and from the standpoint both of the spirit and of the letter of most direct primary laws, any element of pre-arrangement which tends to reduce to a mere formality the vote of the rank and file of the party members constitutes a fatal compromise. Preprimary conventions, more perhaps than any other tangible feature in the machinery of nominations, afford an opportunity for such pre-arrangement. The law and the practice regarding them are crucial factors in the operation of the direct primary.
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