New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1902-04-19
THE THREAT OF SENATOR DEPEW

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adorn the United States Senate is
Mr.. Chauncey M. Depew, who is
very often spoken of as the Sena-
tor from the Family of Wander
bilt. This gentleman made speech
in the Senate yesterday in OPPOSE
ton to the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for the cleo
ton of Senators by popular vote,
and he took occasion to utter a note
of warning to the Southern States,
which have limited their suffrage,
that if the resolution adopted by
the House and now before the Sen
ator was enacted, a demand would
be made on them to accord all their
citizens the right to vote or suffer
loss Of representatives in Con
gress and the ELECTORAL college.
Strange to say, this threat did
not paralyze the Southern Senators
with fear, but, on the contrary,
Senator Tillman was so undisturbed
by it that he actually offered an
amendment to the postofiice appro-
priation bill the moment Senator
Depew sat down. The truth s,'the
Southern States have pointed out
the way to elect United States Sen
ators without any tinkering what
ever, with the Federal constitution.
A short time ago the States called
attention TO the fact that MiSsis-
sippi had adoped law provld-
ing for the nomination Of United
States Senators, members of Con
gress, State and local officers and
legislators by primary election.
In this way, the people are given
an opportunity to select the men
they desire to represent their State
in the Senate. The primary cleo
ton plan in. no. way conflicts with
the provision of the Federal consti-
tuition for the reason that the can
didates nominated at the primary
are elected by the Legislature.
The States that now nominate
United States Senators at primary
elections are Mississippi, Arkan-
sas, Georgia, and South Carolina,
but it is merely a question of time
when the plan will be adopted by
all the States of the Union, be-
cause the demand of the people
that they shall enjoy the privilege
Of voting directly for the men who
serve them in the United States
is growing irresistible. The peo-
pie in the end will have their way,
no matter how often the corpora
ton men in the Senate may defeat
the resolution providing for the
amendment to the constitution, and
they will gain it in their respective
States through primary election
plan. When the other States fall
in line with Arkansas, Georgia,
Mississippi and South Carolina,
there will be a number of distin
guished statesmen thrown out of
job and among them none will be
more luminous than Chauncey M.
Depew, who now occupies seat in
the United States Senate, not by
the grace Of the people Of the En-
pire State, but the influence Of the
New York Central Railroad in the
Legislature. Mr.. Depew does not
desire to submit his claims to the
Senatorship to the voters of the
State and this fact explains his op-
position to any change in the me-
thod of electing Senators.
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