Williams news., 1910-09-03
J. F. DAGGS WRITES
 ON CAMPAIGN ISSUES
Editor of the William m News:

You can buy the peoples repre- sentatives but you can't buy the people," Presuming that in your last issue you intended to remind us that to look before we leap on the question of the referendum, initiative and recall. From long experience and contact with loose system of territorial government the people of this country are past graduates, having been to very great extent governed and controlled by the governmental appointee who is responsible to no authority nor amenable for errone- ous decisions. That the statute of caviat emptor don't apply in this case for the people in this case of drafting a constitution are none 1 the less wise on account of having been tied up under territorial mis- rule.
 I As a very ordinary business proposition a man who parts with his property in a business transac ton without receiving in liue there for the equivalent in security or it's value is considered beat from the outset. The identical result fol- lows when a voter elects to office a subject to serve in any capacity without reserving the right to sub !! ject the servant to recall. We are not surprised that every govern mental appointee in the territory, lespecially the judicial system are larrayed against the adoption of the iniative, referendum and recall They would perpetuate the slack lsystem under which they have been acting for all these years.
 It makes them chafe when the time approaches to answer to their superiors A sane system of super vision by the people is foreign t" any desires entertained by them, claiming, as they do, to be repub licans the majority are fungus upon the party living upon the crumbs of office, having no interest in common with the industria l class, the difficulties of the strug gling masses they know not nor care less of He lives, though the necessity of it is not at all times apparent.
 Then, why should the home builder and the industrial man feel under obligation to him. We need neither his brains nor his advice. The real man with the best inter. est of the country at heart will appear on record time when the call is made-that class of men will not question the virtue of the Oregon system of government. No man is such necessity to his employer or his constituents that l his place cannot be filled by another just as good-to subject our judiciary to the iniative, refer endum and recall insures judicial square dealing.
 Under our present system and practice judge has been known
 to order a special venire of jurors picked by sheriff for a special purpose in the interest of graft, do you suppose this gang will sup
 port the Oregon system of iniatiye, referendum and recall? Most en- phatically no.
 Is it any wonder that cooks rep resenting monied interests are ur in arms against the system "You , can buy the peoples representa-. tives; you can't buy the people"
 It is not necessary for man to call himself a republican or dem ocrat to believe that he has com.
 mon horse and good sense enough to govern himself when he arrives at a place in his own affairs when he can discriminate between gov. erning himself or hiring some pro- fessional political demagogue to dc
 it. He is entitled to a ground t floor position with the balance oi l civilized man, be he white or black 1 u