Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-13
THE PEOPLE ARE IN EARNEST.

The passage of the primary election
bill ia sincerely hoped for by the general
public, especially tbs farmers, trades
men and other non-professional poiitl-
clans, who entertain laudable desire
to experiment in the publication OF
politics by having an opportunity af-
forded them TO express their wishes
directly for the public officers they want
instead of being obliged to delegate their
power of choice to an aggregation of
professional politicians and heelers who
have had a programme PREPARED months
before by which trey force their non.ina-
tions and foist themselves upon the
ticket and the people for election. The
proper place for the people to begin to
select their candidates is at their first
meeting for that purpose, and this first
meeting is called the Primary one
and right here is where the people de-
sire, under the proposed law, to begin to
vote for their candidates, and not, as
now, begin to make gift Of their power
and political rights TO others to use for
them. This political power when it
once departs from the voter in the eau
Gus, as it now exists, is gone beyond his
power to reclaim, and after that the
voter is at the mercy of those to whom
he has made this precious gift, and he
can do nothing but yield obedience TO
whatever may follow, whether 1t be
right or whether it be an unhc device
to steal his confidence and suffrage.
The whole gist Of the primary election
law consists in atfording the people an
opportunity to cast vote directly for
the candidate they want, and not cast it
for another to throw away or give it to
some unworthy person they do not want.
No matter what all the other provisions
of the primary election law may contain
the people demand that they have law
to vote directly for their candidates.
Grant them this one privilege in the
law, and they viii not criticise it's aux
iliary sections Dodgeyille Chronicle.
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In one Of its late pronunciamentos,
with that dictatorial sgotism of the
neophyte and those assuming power and
functions in new and UNEMPLOYED field
of labor, the new manager OF the Mil
waukee Sentinel castigates people who
believe in keeping party pledges, or are
in favor of equal and inst taxation, as
pppulists, revoIutionists. anarchists,
cranks and freaks and plainly inform
all such that they must leave the repub- |
lcan party or they viii be Inundated |
and kicked out by the astute gentlemen |
who have recently been imported to
Wisconsin TO tell the people through |
the Sentinel, how they may think and
act. In its TRADE the Sentinel SANDERS
the memory of man whom the people
hold dear, when il intimates that the
late General Rusk. were lie alive, would
preach disregard of public sentiment and
of sacred party pledges BY no act or
word of his long and honorable career
as man and public servant did General
Rusk ever repudiste personal or politi- !
cal obligation, or counsel others to such |
REASONABLE sentiment The imported |
Sentinel gentIe.nen ami these for whom |
they speak, should learn that the repub- |
hcanism in Wisconsin means more than /
trifiing with honest purposes, the use of
opprobrius epithets and the making of |
threats.