Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-07-11
HAS OREGON ENTERED UPON A
pEvoi IJTIoNARY PERIOD.


aast THE ONLY REFORMS UNDER
TAKEN IN THIS STATE FOR FIVE
YEARS PAST ARE UNREPUBLl
CAN AND REVOLUTIONARY.
While the Republicans have enacted
minor reforms and improvements, the
great changes in the governmental
policies, and the only constitutions
changes have come from PoPU
AIsTic, socIALlsTlc AND PRoHI
BTTIoN SOURCES.
-rne initiative and referendum wa'
the pet hobby Of the Popullst party
gorced upon TRUCKING PoLlTIc
FANS KNEELlNo AT THE DEATH
BED OF PoPULIsM.
The only state In the union to adopt
THE cENTERPIEcE or THE PoPu
LIST cRAZYoUlLT, Oregon has al
ready resped the harvest in two freak
neasures-Local Option and Direct
Primaries.
AZ the first shake of the political
s5fce!box Oregon threw skies In draw
BSg out OF the Pandoras box OF Direct
8legislation these TWO MlscoN.
GEIVEp lLL-DIeEsTED, TROUBLE.
PRODUCING MEASURES, 81.
we ESCAPED WOMAN SUFFER.
AGE BY A HAIRS BREADTH. Mrs.
DunBlway's mounted female suffrage
eayAlry. riding straddlewlse. came
within a few hundred Of having
enough petitioners to have that ques-
tloa submitted to a popular vote.
WHO CAN DOUBT THE RESULT
UNDER THE PRESENT sYsTEM7
Anyone who can obtain petitioners
enough under direct legislation can
submit the most surprising and revo
stationary propositions.
THE INITIATIVE AND REFEREN.
DUN LAW provides that the bill to
be voted on eau go out with cam.
paign argument in favor OF Il.
The voter reads the stump speech
that heads the bill. II seems plausible
and He CUTS READING THE REST
AND VOTES FOR lT.
Colora 10 Is the fartherest advanced
OF any western state In the develop
ment Of revolutionary policies and
crazy experimentation,
OREGON rs FAST FOLLOWING IN
THAT DIRECTION. II Oregon had
the woman suffrage law and the eight.
hour law we would be fully abreast of
Colorado with experiments and limo.
vations and ready for the first move.
ment that came along to throw the
commonwealth out OF balance aud de,
stroy lts stability
II the Initiative and Referendum
Is 10 be tested by the two first meas.
ures that have been forced upon the
statute books In Oregon IT is PREo,
NANr WITH EVIL.
Two preachers without pulplts.
Ministers without families. and PER.
SONS WITHOUT PERMANENT
RESIDENCE ANYWHERE. come into
the state, on salaries from somewhere
and by few months agitation force
Local Option upon Oregon. aud ore.
goh taxpayers ana producers will have
20 pay the hill
Another local politician. with no
reputation BUT AS MANAGER OF A
HANDFUL or PoPuLIsTs IN Al
SENATORIAL HoLpuP GAME, con. |
iures up a direct nomination law that
abollshes an political conventions aud
makes Independent candidates. an
impossibilities ANo THE PEOPLE
ADOPT THAT TOO.
THAT BiLL rs A MoNsrRocITY.
AN AssuRolrV. AND WILL BE
SHOT FULL or HOLES IN THE su.
PREME COURT.
The cunningly,wordel and plausible
slumpspeech sent ont to each voter
with the bill dld the business. NOT
ONE OUT or TsN EVER READ |,
THE elLL HE VOTED FOR. ne
VOTED ON SENTIMENT AND EMO |,
TON. l.
THIS DIRECT PRIMARY LAW |
CARRIES TIE ESSENCE OF REvo.
lurioNARN PowER--aboishing
the tisht OF political public assem-,
elase. and contralislns aud monopol,
hing political power on a list of vot.
ors Who are TO publicly declare their
slavery 20 party In advance. Ii
DIRECT NOMINATION ~ LOCAL |,
irltS gMANATiNe FROM the |,
PeoPlE AN ADDITIONAL RIoAr
TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES. sur
AsRo0ATiNo NONE or THEIR ,
PRESENT RIGHTS OR PRIVILEGES
ls A SOUND PRINCIPLE. IT CAN Il
Be SAFELY APPLIED TO CITIES.
THAT CUSTOM rs ESTABLISHED :
in IOWA OHIO, AND SOME OTHER !
STATES GUT NOWHERE sur IN
OREGON HAS N BEEN soLEMNLVl In
-NAcrsn INTO LAW THAT oouN.
~ DISTRICT AND STATE CON. 4,
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