EDITORIALS
Election of National Delegates and the Nomination of President by Direct Vote TO WISCONSIN BELONGS THE HONOR of enacting the first primary law for the election of delegates to a national convention...
...But few of those opposed will dare to invite the business and other persecutions to which they would subject themselves by a vote of "NO...
...This the Carter Machine well understands...
...When the People have Experts IN CHICAGO the rates of the Telephone Company are subject to the control of the City Council...
...LET THE PEOPLE ORGANIZE AND DEMAND OF EVERY LEGISLATURE THE ENACTMENT OF A PRIMARY LAW FOR THE ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTIONS BY DIRECT VOTE, EMBRACING A PROVISION THAT SHALL GIVE TO EACH VOTER THE RIGHT TO EXPRESS UPON HIS PRIMARY BALLOT HIS PREFERENCE FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT...
...Their contest in the Chicago convention fixed the attention of the country and forced the candidate nominated for President to broaden the platform by declarations in his speech of acceptance in favor of several of the important Wisconsin propositions which the convention had impatiently rejected...
...They secured the services of Mr...
...To save the day, Aldrich appealed to President Taft...
...Read the article by Mr...
...Under the Initiative, the people of that state voted for and adopted a law at the late election in November, providing not only for the election of delegates to National Conventions, but also providing that each voter shall at the april primary in 1912 have the opportunity of expressing his choice for President and Vice President...
...that the income of the Company is sufficient to pay more than eight per cent., even on its book value as claimed by the Company, and, as that value is excessive, the rates of the Company should be reduced rather than increased...
...The Wisconsin delegates to the Republican National Convention of 1908 were elected under that law...
...For some time the Company has been beseeching the authorities for permission to increase its rates...
...Look after your Legislator The legislator who knows that his farmer friends are look-ing after him and his record is apt to be a pretty faithful public servant...
...Note particularly that the slip is numbered...
...In a pinch, Wisconsin can furnish not only the idea, but the talent to demonstrate its application...
...And every state should take another advance step...
...Sign your name here...
...He has always opposed the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people...
...Republican County Central Committee Bozeman, Montana In compliance with the Republican County Platform, the Republican County Central Committee of Gallitan County requests each Republican Voter in the County to answer the following question, and to return the card properly filled out to the office of the Secretary of the Central Committee at Bozeman, Montana, prior to the 30th day of December, 1910...
...Then the idea occurred to the committee to get an expert of its own...
...Carter Wants a Straw Vote THE friends of Senator Carter of Montana now seem desirous of obtaining an expression of the opinion of the voters of that state upon the question of his reelection to the Senate...
...He would never favor a real primary vote on United States Senator...
...Answer "Yes" or "No...
...At that time, La Fol-lette's said: "One fact stands out high and plain above all else in the situation...
...Hearing of the success of the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin in the regulation of public utilities, they sent to Madison and appealed for help...
...Under such a system the people of the state could register their preference on United States Senator secure in the protection of a secret ballot...
...This "corporation tax" has been in operation more than a year...
...Enclose this slip in accompanying envelope and return at once...
...They stood in that convention, a little band of fearless men fighting to the last ditch for platform pledges vital to the public interest...
...The Company presented its case in the form of a report by experts whom it had employed for the purpose...
...Republican Voter in...
...Such a primary law will beat the Wall Street game and nominate and elect a President for all the people of these United States...
...Such a verdict would be a real expression of the will of the people, and should be binding upon the legislature...
...There is just time to defeat the Wall Street plan...
...Election of National Delegates and the Nomination of President by Direct Vote TO WISCONSIN BELONGS THE HONOR of enacting the first primary law for the election of delegates to a national convention by direct vote of the people...
...The number on the slip corresponds to a number on the mailing list opposite the name of the voter to whom that particular slip was mailed...
...The replies to the circular of the Republican County Committee of Bozeman can have no binding force, are entitled to no consideration by the legislaturte or public and can only serve to aid a corrupt machine in a campaign of intimidation and persecution...
...Dated at ......................, December......., 1910...
...Carter has always opposed the adoption of the direct primary in Montana...
...William J. Hagenah, the head of the Commission's force of experts in charge of its public utility investigations...
...This message came to Congress at a most opportune time to serve the fixed determination of Senator Aldrich to defeat the income tax, and to aid him in passing the tariff bill with its excessively high duties just as he wanted it...
...that 51 per cent...
...The trouble too often is that we reverse the situation and permit the legislator to do all the looking, and it not infrequently happens that under these conditions he serves the interests of himself rather than of the people.—Farm, Stack & Home...
...Among other things it shows that the value of the Company's property is $2,400,000 less than claimed by the Company...
...With such a law in each state, the delegates will be chosen by the voters instead of by machine managers, and the national platforms of both political parties will represent the interests of the people rather than the interests of the System...
...Every state in the Union should adopt a primary law providing for the election of delegates to the National Conventions of 1912 by direct vote of the people...
...Wall Street has already selected the Presidential candidates of both political parties...
...The lesson is obvious...
...Oregon has just pointed the way...
...Last week, the people's expert submitted his report...
...The hold the Carter Machine has upon business within the state, through its close affiliations with the Amalgamated Copper, Standard Oil, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and other big interests places it easily within its power to injure those who would be bold enough to register their oppositon to its will...
...Thomas has not heretofore manifested much interest in the opinion of the people upon any subject...
...Thus, the Wisconsin idea of the regulation of public service charges upon the true basis of the value of the property used for the public convenience is being extended in its public usefulness...
...A Failure WHEN the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was under consideration in the Senate, it developed that Aldrich could not muster enough votes to prevent the adoption of an income tax amendment to the bill...
...The Council committee having the matter in charge were impelled at first to regard the Company's report seriously, not to say helplessly...
...The Carterites know there can be but one result of this method of determining Senator Tom's popularity...
...of the Company's stock is owned by the Telegraph and Telephone trust to which combine the Chicago Company makes an annual present of $200,000 of its profits in extravagant payments for the rent of telephone appliances...
...The President sent a hurriedly prepared message to Congress urging the adoption of a "corporation tax...
...Carter's friends will vote "Yes...
...The Company claimed that the value of its property upon which it was entitled to a return was $28,400,060, and that under its present rates its operating revenues would not equal the amount necessary to pay operating expenses and return on its investment by $900,000 per annum...
...The voter is asked to fill out the blank slip, sign his name and return the same to the Committee...
...It shows ably and convincingly why, and in what respects, it has failed...
...Tom wants a "straw" vote—in which he can manipulate the straws...
...It is now possible to judge of its accomplishments...
...The slips read as follows: Office of No...
...It is a sad failure...
...But Republican voters of Bozeman Ccunty have lately received slips upon which to register their preference...
...Do You Favor the Re-election of Senator Carter to the U. S. Senate...
...Willis on another page of this magazine...
...All of Mr...
...However, should he fail so to do, Senator Carter's organization can, by checking up the replies, obtain a list of his supporters and of the voters in opposition who may be courageous enough to brave the wrath of the Carter Machine...
...Precinct...
Vol. 3 • January 1911 • No. 1
