Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-05-16

efclse other
OF candidates for office 1t is of primary Importance that the
public official should hold himself accountable to the Citizen
This he will do only when he his nomination directly to
the citizen If between the citizen and the official there is
complicated system of aud conventions by the easy
manipulation of which the selection of candidates controlled
b SOME other agency Power hei The oeial VIII render
he services have the approval of agency power
The overwhelming demand of the people of this whom you
represent that such intervening power and authority the
complicated system which susains it. shall be torn down and
cast aside This it your duty and high privilege as well to
accomplish in the session before you This is we'll under
Stood cannot be accomplished by any emporzng
socaled caucus reform The defects of the caucus
ton and delegate system fatal because organic cannot
be amended reconstructed reoganzed and its perpeuaon
secured Its end decreed by the enlightened sen-
men of the entire country resist the de eop
men which sweeping aside than could the adoption of the
Australian ballot be successfully opposed short
1t may rihng delays by temporary expedien It's ad
vocaes may insist making fetch and being sacrificed
with it. But It's kne has been sounded in Wisconsin, where
1t already defeated, and decade will leave scarcely
of its complicated machinery in existence in any in the
Union The demand of the voter today is clear and explicit
He asks that there be restored him the citizens right
directly for the party nominee of his choice He that
denial of this right doubt of his ability it.
impeachment of the principle which national
government is based"
Before the introduction of the primary election bin an at
tempt made distru concerning it. and thor
oughy dcred the in advance Upon presentation
to the legsatreso framed to comply with the pledge
made to the people of the saa systematic campaign of mis-
representation of the bill and its supporters ndusrouy
prosecuted The general purpose of the measure the plain
meaning of its provisions the certain effect law opera
ton the necessary and reasonable expense each and all fur
nshed theme for persistent Justification and malicious assault
An array of federal holders joining with certain corpora
ton agents and the representatives of the machine in the regular
legislative lobby moved upon the capitol took possession of its
corridors ntruded into the legislative halls followed members
to their hotels tempted many with aurng forms of vice. and
in instances brought them to the capitol in of in
toxcaton against the bill This sets forth in part the
character the opposition but omts to take account of of
the used and attempted be used prevent the passage
of the
With the defeat of the original bill the friends of primary
elections offered pass the subject approval by the
people This the opposition refused further concession
then offered applying the primary election TO municipal
county, and legislative Offices This the opposition refused
last effort was then made submit the limited bill a
of the people This the opposition rejected And after hay
ing refused pass the bill promised and having refused to let
the people pass upon it, moekery of platform pledges and jul
dcou legislation alike is offered in the form of this bill which
j an unable to approve for the following
dvest myself of the binding character Of my official
obgaonno any partisan SENSE but to all the
people of the saewhch orbds my sharing in the respon
sibtv of giving them law which violates that obligation and
manifety framed to bring reproach the principle
even if 1t were at all possible to interpret or enforce IT.
Did the general view which have here expressed
withhold my approval from the BILL there other
wcghty which Of themselves in my judgment would
be bar to its becoming law hsbi defective and faulty
frame 1t attempts supply important and
vital provisions nowhere contained its context by reference
and incorporation into its body of portions of the general
laws of the 1t would be only impor
but absolutely necessary order to determine the result
that the under this bill should be duly eanvassed by both
the county and boards Of The provisions Of
the bill require county be made by the county board
the the result OF general cleo
ton canyassed There time fixed for the
duty imposed upon the county board to make it, and Prov
sion by which it can be compelled to act. :
Section 81 of 1898 fixes the time for making the
county the succeeding general election held
November while the primary election is to be held in Septem
ber Thus the Offices would be filed by election before the
question as who were be candidates had been lawfully de-
termined
The provisions in regard the still
indefinite There law that requires the
fixes the time Of their meeting and nothing
that enforces them the duty act They could not be
compelled the vote if all until after the general
The object of the election in the spring that the law
into effect the general election thereafter and
necessarily be wholly imperative at that election
because the result Of the primary election not required be
determined until after the general election has been held 1t
the be cangsed Or that the
il necessary that the duty be imposed upon
them that obedience il be enforced by the
Any law pertaining to an election which leaves It IN