Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-19

interests and special privileges,
nor should consideration for sec
tional interests blind him to the
general welfare, but he should
take a broad and comprehensive
view of national issues, insisting
at the same time on the needs OF
his constituents, not as a matter OF
compromise or bargain, but as a
matter of right and Justice.
He should be impressed with the
belief that the great issue and line
of division in our national, state
and municipal governments is not
so much q difference between the
principles of different political par
ties as a contest between the rep
resentatives of special selfish in
terests on the one hand and the
people on the other; and he should
be prepared to cooperate with
senators Of his own and other par
ties to resist and destroy the con-
troll at present and for a long time
exercised in congress by the we'll
known servants of the oligarchy.
He should declare it to be his
intention to support and cooperate
with those senators and representa-
tives In congress known as pro
gressives," sometimes called in
surgents," and to resist the re-
dictionary leadership typitied by
Aldrich and Cannon.
Fair to All
He should at all times endeavor
to be fair TO all interests, personal
or corporate. He should recognize
that probably the most potent in
fluence initiating against popular
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ruption and maladministration,
threatening, in fact, the very life
of the republic, is the influence of
large corporate interests, of which
we have a most notorious example
in California in the political bureau
OF the Southern Pacific railroad,
which for a generation has domi-
mated the government of this state
for it's own selfish purposes, prin-
cipally through it's control of nomt-
mating machinery and public pat
ronage: and he should therefore
be willing to say to the voters OF
his constituency that in making
recommendation to public office he
will not recognize any man who
has been actively identified with
the Southern Pacific political
bureau or any other corporations
political machine, nor Will he con-
suit with the attorneys, officers, en-
ployes or political bosses of the
railroad organization as to such
appointments, or any other matter
concerning party or political or
ganization or patronage, but viii
be guided i'm making such recon-
mendations solely by fitness, recon-
mending always the best man, all
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duced to accept.
He should be an ardent sup
porter of the Roosevelt policies,
especially the policy of conservation
as originated by Clifford Pinchot
and enunciated by Theodore Roose-
welt; and in the carrying out of
those policies and similar legisla-
ton intended for the protection of
the property of all of the people
from spoliation, he should not be a
strict constructionist, hewing to the
letter of the law and ignoring its
spirit, but should resolve every
doubt in favor of the conservation
of the peoples wealth.
For Tariff Revision
He should be in favor of a pro-
tective tariff, practically no greater
than the difference in the cost or
production at home and abroad, to
be determined by permanent,
non-partisan. expert tariff COM
mission, instead of by the tariff
tinkering which has notoriously be-
come a matter of log rolling and
barter.
He should be in favor of an
amendment to the constitution of
the United States providing for a
direct vote of the people of each
state for United States senator,
instead of their election by the
legislatures, as at present, and un-.
til such constitutional amendment
has become effective he should be
in favor of direct statewide ad-
visory vote on United States sem
ator
Generally. he should support such