The Colorado Collegian Oct1896-June 1899 . To Tbii?e Owij Self be PRIZE DEBATE OF APOLLONIANCLUB. Resolved, That a constitutional amendmentshould be secured by which United States Senatorsshall be elected by direct vote of the people. John Royal Thompson, Arthur —Philip L. Gillett, Dwight S. Bayley. AffirmativeHolt. explanation I wish to say that those who areopposed to the popular election of senatorswhile often admitting that there are certainevils resulting from the present system, at thesame time insist that these are necessary evilsto be borne with, because the substituti
The Colorado Collegian Oct1896-June 1899 . To Tbii?e Owij Self be PRIZE DEBATE OF APOLLONIANCLUB. Resolved, That a constitutional amendmentshould be secured by which United States Senatorsshall be elected by direct vote of the people. John Royal Thompson, Arthur —Philip L. Gillett, Dwight S. Bayley. AffirmativeHolt. explanation I wish to say that those who areopposed to the popular election of senatorswhile often admitting that there are certainevils resulting from the present system, at thesame time insist that these are necessary evilsto be borne with, because the substitution ofpopular election would do violence to theoriginal design and prevent usefulness of the. P. L. GILLETT. D. S. BAYLEY. J. E. THOMPSON. A. E. HOLT. Decision to the affirmative. MR. J. R. THOMPSON. (First Affirmative.) Mr. Chairman, Honorable Judges, Ladies and Qen-tlemen : In opening this debate, I desire to state the general division of argument on the affirmative side of this question. By way of senate. It will be my purpose to show toyou the utter uselessness of the presentdouble method of election, in carrying outthe purpose for which the senate was estab-lished and for which the senate exists having shown to you that no real reasonexists in support of the present system, en-tirely aside from the abuses which have crept 6 THE COLORADO COLLEGIAN. into it, my colleague will in a positive man-ner point out the nature and extent of theseabuses. Let us inquire then into the originalpurpose of the senate and see if a change inthe method of election would subvert in anyway the design of the fathers in its estab-lishment. In the first place, the creation of thesenate
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