The Havre herald. [volume] (Havre, Mont.) 1904-1908, 1906-10-05
HAvRE, MONTANA, FRIDAY, OCT. s.
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not found wanting. 1t is today being
criticised no more severely by those who
/ have always opposed free expression Of
the public's will than it was criticised
at the time of its adoption by those who
believed in and stood for an expression
of popular will in the nomination Of po-
litical candidates for office. 1t is, I'M
fortunately, with few faults, mainly
Of the making of those who do not be-
lieve that the popular voice should be
wrothy of consideration when the 5o5-
SEES think differently; but it's faults are
more few and of lesser import than We're
| those of the other great voting reform
| inaugurated with the adoption Of the
| Australian ballot.
Despite the Vaccinations OF the ring
politicians to emasculate the virtues Of
the original plan and the announcements
of the hired organs of machine politicians
the new Montana law has proved far
from failure in Chouteau county, or III
any other county in which it has
been tested The main fight which WAS
to give the popular voice expression
within and through all parties has been
won: it only remains to elect a legis-
lature that believes in giving the people
a voice in elections. a Legislature of that
calibre will speedily bring about the few
changes made necessary in the law by
the trickery Of the old time gang which
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dious and which is today scrccching it.
self hoarse at all hours of the day and
night in condemning the faulty provisions
Incorporated in the law by its own
Machialevian hand.
Facts indicate that the primary law
needs fixing and needs it badly, not only
in Montana, but elsewhere, as the vote
in Minneapolis, MINI, where only 400
democratic voters were recorded shows.
But it needs its fixing, like all other ma
chinery, by those who believe in it and
understand it-not b. those who had no
use for it in the first place. But for
clumsy hands and treachcrous brains it
would already be working to the salts
| ldcliOil VI tEtlyDouy. ne ann OF tAc
fair citizen, now as ever, is to secure q
fair expression of the peoples will
and, indeed of the partisans' will. 1t is
desired to give republicans, democrats.
populists, socialists, prohibitionists, anti
trusters, or-the-trusters, Bolva Lock
woodites, Carrie Nationites, what-nots
and any otter political organization that
has or that may crop up square
deal" that will allow them to vote for
| the individual of their choice up to the
pinnacle Of nomination, where the whole
| of the electorate may, as Dickens Would
say, take q chance of ''shying" at him
or her.
The primary law and those who believe
in it so on the principle that the man
| bound to party by his vote at TIE pr-
mary is morally bound to his party at
election date. 1t has been proved that
this is not altogether a wise assumption,
but, nevertheless, it , il certain that
there is a remedy for this. as there is
| for all evil, political or otherwise, ard
the men who really believe that bigoted
dark-lantern, monopolistic, coercive and
corrhpting methods such as always ex-
| listed under the old caucus system, men
who believe in the freedom Of the bal
| lot, men WHO believe in the secrecy Of
the ballot. men who believe in both a
square deal and proper cut, men who
believe in a full and protected express
sion of choice by both partisans and nom
partisans-these are the men to whom
| the rectification OF errors and the per-
| fcctions OF honest aims in elections
should be left.
The primary law will be made all right
yet: Never fear
With all the splendid things that the
for Montana, it may be, nevertheless,
we'll to have a lookout" News adj
vices from Great Falls are that 90
negroes have been brought from Ar
kansas to work on the construction Of
the Billings and Northern railway. With
them came a traipload Of mules-one
negro to one mule, The negro, in
each case, is the seller of the mule, and
he has signed contract to remain in
the employ of the contractor for at
least one year at the wages stipulated.
Down in Missouri Il similar arrangement
was discovered a short time ago and