Arizona republican., 1910-09-06

organic law It is much easier and de cidedly more satisfactory to prevent the contraction of a troublesome dis ease than 1t is to rid the system of it after its introduction.
 Since what Is called in many quar- ters the oregon plan has been exten- sively tried at home and its practical workings demonstrated in results, let me enlarge briefly in a discussion of the details of that system as we have found it The system includes the ini- tiative and referendum, the direct primary law, a corrupt practices act, a law providing for the recall of a pub lie official upon an adverse vote. proposition for proportional represen- tation in the legislature for what is to be known as the oregon Official Ga zette,' to be edited by a board of 'peo- ple's inspectors the publication to be issued once a month and sent to ey- cry registered voter in the state, for commission consisting in the main of the governor, who shall appoint all the sheriffs and district attorneys in the state. also the secretary of state, the attorney general, state printer, state treasurer, labor commissioner, superin- tendent of public instruction and an O.. ar official who is to be known as tn states business manager and an en, ss string of similar rot fit only to emu nate from the imbecile ward of an asylum for the insane.
 THE ILL EFFECT.
 And this is only part of the dose which constitutes the Oregon plan,' the net result of which has been the cleo ton of a democratic United States senator for a full term of six years, man born and raised in Mississippi. and a so- called republican for another term who is now in full fellowship with the democratic senator in a polite al comination which seeks to re-elect them both at the end of their present terms Indeed, the so-called republi- can senator, whose term will expire two years from now. recently an nounced publicly that, though he lives by the direct primary law and pro fesses to carry a copy of it next to his heart all the time he will not support at the November election any republi- can candidate who may have been nominated at the primary election In September If the candidacy of that man has not appealed favorably to him before the choice of the republican voters has been manifested in the prl- mary election. Naturally, all the re- publicans in the state who care any thing at all for the republican party and who want a strong, effective or ganizatiOn, are opposed to the re-elec- ton of this sort of an alleged member of their party, and have placed ticket to be voted on ct the primaries in the field whose membership is pledged against any further monkeying along these lines. If the republicans at the primary election shall prefer these men to the disOrganizers and shall say so at the primaries, this United States senator says he will not accept the verdict of his party but will support the democratic nominees. Here is eX- actly what he publicly said two weeks ago. I quote from the leading demo- cratic paper of the state, the Journal, published in Portland. Senator Bourne said:
 "I will go further than this and state that if I am here at the time of the general election and any assembly
  are no anti-assembly republican can didates opposing them, I will vote for the democratic candidate, provided he is opposed to the assembly and IS a competent man.
 4 WARNING.
 q refer to this instance thus in de- tail in order that the republicans of Arizona may be warned against a condition which will follow any incor- poration of this initiative rot in their constitution, for it is but one child of a full litter which will come into eX- istence as surely as the birth of the first is permitted. Of course. in this address I am talking to men who, protesting to be republicans. want to see the republican party of Arizona