Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-27
Senator Crossley Pays His Re-
spects to the Oily Sage of
the Sioux
DEFENDS THE PRIMARY SYSTEM
Declares if Perkins Desires TO be
Governor of the State He Should
Have Confidence in the People If He
Expects the People to Have Conf
dence in Him.

Des Moines, Jam 27-In his speech
on the primary election bill Senator
Crossley of Winterset, criticised George
ID. Perkins, candidate for governor, at
meeting of the Polk County Republi-
can Club last evening. Senator Cross
ley's subject was Government by the
People," an address advocating the
primary election bill that he has intro
duced in the general assembly.
After explaining that the primary
election brought the nomination and
election of the officials of the state and
country down to the people, he said:
The slippery, oily sage of the Sioux
says that the people should not have a
primary election system. If he desires
to be governor of the great state of
Iowa he should have confidence in the
people of the state. He must have
confidence in the people if he expects
the people to have confidence in him.
And, here, gentlemen, will say that
others, the railroad attorneys, come to
right and that they are glad we have
it up and hope that it will be passed
Why? Because they, too, are thinking
OF that other measure, the measure that
will do away with their great influence
when the votes of the people and not
the delegates are counted. Passes will
be of little use then, for with the voice
of the people heard the railroads could
give away 10000 passes day. but they
would not control the affairs of the
state and country.
During the past years, on one side
or another, we have been hauled hither
and thither by those professional poll
teal bosses, but they must soon see
the hand writing on the wall.
Some declare that the primary law,
if adopted, would be placing Iowa with
Mississippi and other states of the
south. This has been placed in resolu
tions before a republican convention,
but it is not true. Iowa would not be
a pioneer among the northern states
should she adopt this measure; it is
already in operation in such northern
states as Massachusetts, Illinois, New
Jersey, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 1t is
not the southern system that Iowa is
asked to adopt.
1.-The people have become educated
so that the individual citizen has a
right to say who his candidate shall be.
I believe that if the people were given
an opportunity to say, they would de-
clare for the primary system.
'It is not a fractional measure, as
some are trying to make out.
Il have been, for reasons of my own
that l shall not try to explain here,
'standpatter' The primary bill is not
a measure of the other side but it
will do more to rid us of political COR
ruption than anything else"
Senator Crossley closed by saying:
1.-The republican party must look out
for the interests of the people-n we
do not some other party will.
"The people will stand certain things
lust about so long and no longer. Due
and timely warning is given to profess
sional political bosses that they must
get out of the way or be run over.
FINALLY, let us have government
not only for the people and of the peo-
pie, but by the people, in it's true sense
I want to say right here now that this
fight for government by the people has
only begun and there will be no let up
until it has been secured by state
wide primary election system, whereby
the vote of every man cast for the del
egates and candidates of his choice
will he counted"