The herald., 1894-05-16
THE HAZARD PLAN IS ADOPTED
The Committee Of one Hundred
Is Committed.
Yesterday Meeting Brought Out
Vast Quantities of Talk.
The Sab Cemmiftae Presents "a Majority
and Minority Report and tho
Authors Champion Their
Respective Plans.

Thirty-one members OF the committee
of 100 primary purifiers met at the
cnember OF commerce rooms Yesterday
afternoon, and, after rather tenpestu.
Gus session, adopted the majority report
OF the subcom mittee, which is, in sub
stance, the Hszard plan. The plan has
already been published in full in the
HERALD.
0. I. Johnpon acted as chairman Of
the nesting and G.. j. Griffith 40 secre-
tary. The subcommittee reported that
after due elaboration of the several
plans presented for it's consideration a
majority of its mem bers favored the
Hazard plan, while the minority report
favored the Humphreys plan, which en-
braces the selection of candidates for Of
flee by means OF the postoffice, doing
away with primaries and caucuses.
After the report of the subcommittee
Mr.. j. l.. Murphy spoke at considerable
length in favor OF the Hazard plan He
said that W bile it NAV oe true that the
caucus is the root OF all evil in politics,
he was not prepared TO accept the fact
while trading in the cAucuses WAS per-
mitted.
II have SEEM" he said, las good and
honest men as ever got together in a
convention trade themselves off body
and soul in conventions and not stop to
consider the wrong.
The bosses rule the conventions.
The candidates go to them and not to
the individual delegates for their sup.
port. The delegate who has an AK to
grind will trade all his influence in
other directions for one vote for his
own proposition.
"Our plan will compel candidates to
go around and ask the people individu-
ally for their support, and If they must
buy votes they must buy them at frat
hand and not in blocks. The ward
heelers and bosses will have no occupa-
ton under the workings of our system.
Every voter will know that hls vote
counts"
Speaking in regard to the assertion
that the central committees of the dif-
ferent parties would never accept the
OF the Hazard plan and that
the committee OF 100 could never influ-
ence them to accept it, Mr.. Murphy said
that the committee could only spread
the feast; the central committees could
not be compelled to partske, but that
such influence could be brought 10 hear
that they could hardly dare to refuse
the conditions of the plan when backed
by the approval OF the citizens repre-
sented on the committee.
Mr.. Murphy further stated that when
he first contemplated the Hazard plan
he considered it work of art; a grand
IS it were, but too cum bersome
for practical purposes. However, when
be went deeper into it, and gathered the
ideas presented, and weighed them care
fully, he underwent a change of heart,
and finally came to regard it as EN- body
ing the only practical plan of purifying
elections.
At the close of his remarks Mr.. Muir
ply moved thai the majority report of
the subcommittee be adopted by the
whole committee, leaving a way, how
aver, for some slight notifications in the
Hazard plan.
Before the motion could be seconded
sven. Mr.. John f. Humphreys had the
1oor in favor OF the minority report,
which is, in fact, the Humphreys plan,
and Mr.. Humphreys himself constitutes
The minority OF the subcommittee.
Mr.. Humphreys began his argument
Dy stating that he could favor no plan
which required 90 DAYS in its operation.
His plan, he said contained the remedy
desired in two simple propositions. One,
The doing away with the caucuses and
,he other the doing away with O direct
vote for candidates for office.
IF you make a law that the man sell
ng his vote shall be shot" said he, 81
IAN go out in Los Angeles afterwards and
Buy 1000 votes"
He dwelt at some length on the desir-
ability OF his plan of having the officers
nominated by ballots direct from the
voters through the postotfice. He be-
ieved that this would be the only plan
" hich would draw out full ana honest
expression OF the votes of the people.
Several times during his remarks Mr.,
was interrupted by others
wished to state their ideas, but he
held the floor until he had detailed the
ull import OF his plan, and then Mr..
Hazard, By request, spoke in favor of
MS own.
In reply to the question If it we're not
hOio III VIC tihO Va pulO POlihiCe w AhNO
The delegates in q convention trade votes
rather than to have the voters sell them,
Mr.. Hazard said that he would consider
/ thousand times better to sell the
votes than for the delegate to
convention to sell the trust reposed In
him by his constituents, and wac cheered
or the sentiment.
Mr.. Slsuson, one of the members of
The subcommittee, spoke in regard to
.he difficulties encountered by the sub
committee in it's effort to get at the BEN
sfits to be derived ffom either plan. 1t
was not question OF theory, but one of
that confronted it. Some
that the conditions should be
met with radical measures, and others
that the measures should not be radical.
Speaking of voting by the postoffiee
plan, he pointed out the fact that 100
neatly printed mad been sent
out for this meeting by mali, and that
81 had been answered, and he thought
ibis augured against the idea that voters
would answer letters any better than
hey would attend primaries. Mr..
5lauson loved the old primaries, the old
;aucuses, the old conventions. but
ledged about with all the purity and
honesty We can get.
Communications were read by the
from the Peoples party com
Awarded RICHEST e.
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