Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-23

is now trying to break down the iui
tiative and referendum in the United
States supreme court"
Opposed to McCamant.
"I want to talk about Wallace Nc
Camant," continued Judge McGinn
''If you put that man on the SUI
preme bench of this state, you will
live to regret 1t. It will be the
greatest misfortune you ever had be.
fall you-if you put him on the
bench to nullify the initiative and
the referendum.
And there never was a man who
more devotedly believed that man
was born to be ruled than George II.
Burnett, who is an assembly nomi-
nee for the supreme court. And the
ruler, he believes, should be corpor-
ate money and greed Judge Nc
CHM pleaded for the nomination of
Justices King and Slater, and the
consequent removal of the supreme
court from politics.
Senator Malarkey followed Judge
McGinn. He said that in the first
place the government of the United
States had been a government of the
people, for the people and by the
people. Then another change had
come to the voters of Oregon when
the initiative and referendum
amendment was enacted. This gave
the direct primary law.
Old Bosses Lose Power.
Mr.. Malarkey said it was harder
to control 100 men than 10. There
fore it was still harder to control the
whole people and the old leaders did
not like the primary law.
1.-THE so-called assemblies held in
Portland we're really conventions, :"
said Mr.. Malarkey. There was the
same stage, the same setting, the
same scenery, the same actors and
the same objects to gain. A rose by
any other name would smell as
sweet and a convention by any 9TH
er name would smell as strong.
"The difference between the old
system and the new is that the old
system will not come out into the
open, the new will.
rs not the new system better?
Does it weaken the party to have its
run its business?"
Mr.. Malarkey paid his respects to
John II. Gibson, saying that he had
betrayed the trust reposed in him as
a committeeman when he advocated
the assembly ticket. He was just
as much the committeeman of Dim
ick and Brownell as he was of him
self, an assembly nominee.
Contest Within Party.
"The time for organization is at
ter the primary and after the people
have selected their ticket" Mr.. Ma
larkey contended. "The primary
contest is a contest within the par
-y
81 will tell you who wants organ
ization," said the speaker. They
are the men who are afraid to come
Dut in the open and say what they
stand.for and what they will do"
Mr.. Malarkey touched upon the
platform of the assembly, and par
that section which pleged
that useless commissions would be
done away with.
"The first direct primary legisla
.ure gave the people the railroad
in 1907" said Mr.. Ma-
arkey. "That is the commission the
assembly wants to abolish. The
main thing that brought the assem-
bly, together was opposition to the
lirect primary and Statement No. /.
Bugaboo Is Laid.
Mr.. Malarkey also went into the
Democratic registration bugaboo
and picked to pieces the assembly
argument that Cake was nominated
by Democrats so that he could be
)eaten by Chamberlain.
Fulton was defeated because he
was not in favor of Statement No.
," said Malarkey. "If he had been
courageous enough to have said just