The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-04-07

lire thousand and you only invested
$500 when ii came to determining
Die policy ~ managing the business
sou would hardly contend that you
shonld have ten times as much voice
as ! merely because you had ss.50o
that you might have invested in the
business If you had seen git 70 do so
You would at once admit thar
should haze two votes to your one
because / gave twice as much sup
port to the business as you did, and
/ that is the way it should be in man
aging the affairs OF the democratic
party, and that is the present law
and also the omitted section which
The 10S members know they i'm
piedly promised 90 re-enact ii Gov
ernor I.anham would call them back
II gives each county strength in nam
ing the ticket in proportion to the
support it gave the last ticket nam
ed and that IL fair II would be
| just as reasonable for you 10 ask
that YOU have voting strength in
managing a business for your capi-
tai not put in to the support of the
business as 1t is for county TO ask
for voting strength in naming dem
ocratic ticket for people who never
go to the polls to support the ticket
after it is named No, this fight is
not for the people, as this paper
pretends, but is in the interest of
| few large counties in district af
fairs and in the interest of the corpo-
rations in state affairs. "
"Why, how could it be in the in
terest of the corporations in state af-
fairs?"
"Wen, you see, it's this way: The
corporations, such as railroads and
breweries, are the only people who
| have special interests to guard, and
| by pooling issues and campaign
funds, under the blanket primary
system, they can, by going in body
in all close counties, centre on one
man and elect him
How could they do that better
than under the present primary sys
Item?"
This way: At present most O
: their Influence, if not all If it,
| centred in the large cities or !
lcounties in which large cities are Il
icated These counties will go II
way the corporations wish them
go without the corporations spen
ling aAdollar. and since the couH
as can OILY vote a certain number
votes eih a democratic convent
III there is no temptation to the c
di Iporation to spend money in a den
fe cratic primary, whereas under {
e Iboasted blanket primary, where ca
1f vote cast counts as much as eve
y Iother vote regardless of where 1t
+ east. the corporate slush fund wi
! bring to the polls all the slum
the city and by so doing will swell
: the power of competing influences II
manning the ticket And, again
there is. of course, certain pur'
chaseabIe vote in each of the country
counties. At present they present
no temptation to those handling the
slush fund because they are not IN
sufficient number to carry their
county. but under the blanket pri-
mary. where each vote counts as
much as any other vote, the slush
fund agent will soon find them out,
and since all the agents will work
under one head ALI the purchaseable
votes of the state in city and country
can be centered on one certain candl-
date and of course in close contests
will have the balance of power and
name the candidate. Yes, I think
when the corporations, through their
good generals suddenly discover a
consuming affection for the people
and offer as "a peace offering big
wooden horse as luck piece. that
before taking the old horse inside
our city. we had best take him
Iapart and see something about his
contents"
zone thing wish YOU would eX-
lplain You say the cities usually go
with the corporations. Do you think
the people Ina the cities are less hon
esl than those In the country
NO. certainly not But the cor
poratlous can help or ujure the
growth of city so materially that il
/ is natural fof them ro have "a great
Influence iu Jhe oity not felt Ia the
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