Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-02-02
NEIL BAILEY WOULD PLEDGE All. LEGISLATORS TO VOTE FOR
 PEOPLES CHOICE
APPLYING TO .. s. SENATOR'S
SAID NOW THAT MAJORITY LAW IN LOCAL OPTION MAY
 MEET DEFEAT

primary bill comes up for debate in
 troduce an amendment to incorporate il
 the bill clause embodying the Oregon
 Idea of direct election of United State.
 senators by the people. In Oregon thi.
 law IS known as Statement No. and
 Statement No. 2, and its effect is to
 piedge the nominees of the legislature
 to abide by tho will of majority of
 the people expressed at direct primary
 for United States senator, irrespec tive
 of party. It was this law which lately
 forced the republican legislature of Or.
 egon to elect Ex- Governor Chamberlain.
 democrat, to the senate. Ii will be
 readily seen that the Oregon law simply
 brings the government directly into tbe
 hands or the people. In large meas
 ure placing qualification and fitness
 above party and giving the people the oportunlty to express their opinion on
 both. In Oregon, according to press dis
 patches, tremendous effort was made
 to defeat the people s will but the moral
 force Of the new order was too great
 to be set aside, and it is now conceded
 that the new condition is established
 for all time in the Webfoot state. 'The amendment is merely intended
 to perfect what I had in mind when
 the original bill was drafted" said
 MT. Bailey. "The trend of the times
 IS to give the government right back
 into the hands of the people. My sym.
 pathles are thoroughly in sympathy
 with that trend. The seat of all hu- man ills, an eminent physician declares. IS the stomach, and in my judgment the fountain of all political corruption is in the ballot. The way to purify the ballot is to make it absolute in the hands of the people.
 Before the session closes,'' Bailey continued, "I shall probably introduce new ballot reform bill, or offer an amendment to what I have been in formed is an excellent bill prepared and soon to be introduced by Mr. De Sousa. The amendment will provide for doing away with vignettes at the head of each party column on the ballot and l to print all candidate's s names in A 1 single column. This will do away with 1 straight ticket voting in large meas | ure. The amendment will provide for shifting the names in different sets of | ballots. For instance, if six men were nominated for delegate to congress. the | republican would appear at the head in one set, the democrat in another, and So on. This would make impossible such transactions as were practiced in | the last general election in Tucson. and also at the city elections. am cred. itably informed. At those elections the ignorant Mexican voters were given sample ballots with crosses cut out op- posite the names of the men for whom they were to vote. Before entering the booth they were fully instructed as to just how to lay the sample ballot over the real ballot, and mark their tickets just where the crosses were ex. aetly cut out
 My plan would do away with the possibility of any such fraud. It would make it practically impossible for the ignorant to vote, and 1 firmly believe in intelligence ruling in this country. 7
 Assemblyman Woolf of Maricopa county, was today handed a bill by John T. Spangler, cashier of the Mesa City bank, and chairman of the execu. tive council of the Arizona Bankers association, which, if passed, will be known as the Bulk State Law. n This bill IS designed to protect creditors from dishonest merchants who plan to sell out and deeamp for the purpose of fraud. This bill provides that any mer- chant contemplating sale of his goods as q whole, must record such intention lt least ten days before accepting any money for the same. The bill is intend ed to meet the requirements of resolu- ion passed by the Bankers association 1t their recent annual meeting in Bis bee. While rot opposed to the bill as it stands, Assemblyman Woolf is of the opinion that it could be made much nore effective by requiring publication ,f intention in daily paper, as likely o meet the eyes of the public to be | Mir. Woolf will probably , uggest such an amendment before in I reducing the bill.
 Councilman Weedin of Pinal, has { ome out flat footed in opposition to he passage of the Pace majority vote oca1 option bill. His stand is taken , m the old plea of infringement of per { onal liberty. A large delegation of | iquor men from all over the territory { E on the ground, and if rumors are true, he delegation will be largely augment I d before the time when the Pace bill . 5 likely to come up for debate. c
 While the bill at this writing seems { ertain of passage, such a result may e in doubt before the bill goes to votet or final passage The wall against the