The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-24

of the party of which he is n member
| there was also laid upon him the re-
| sponsibility of attending to this i'm
portant duty. Responsibility be-
gets study and thought so that MOTH
ing could better bring about that
which we all most sincerely desire.
viZ:-the active cooperation of all
our citizens in the conduct of gov
ernmentthan this direct nominating
system. No voter may now saw that
his vote is of no consequence, be-
cause he has the right and power, and
If you will, the duty to make the
Impress of his hand upon any public
question and his desires as to candi-
dates directly felt by the potential
influence of his own individual vote.
Great questions are to be solved
today and every lover of his country
hopes that at all times important
questions will be before the country
to be solved because no government
can long exist unless its people are
demanding that its policies and atti-
tude upon governmental problems be
OF the advancing and progressive
type. A stagnant or Indifferent cleo
torate which gives no concern to its
governments stand upon great moral
political or social questions. leaves
the opportunity for men, either weak
or wilfully corrupt-and one is almost
as Dad as the other-to divert the true
purpose of government and exercise
their office for the interest of a few
instead of the welfare of the whole.
Our government is not of the pa-
ternal kind in which citizens may sit
quietly by like small children i'm the
home and feel that the master i'm the
sulse of father king or emperor. is
at the helm and all will be well. and
that at any rate they have no power
TO correct if they would. This is n
government in which the citizen in
dlvidually and directly, should be so
aroused to the Importance of his re- |
sponsibility in matters political that |
he should realize that the success of
our Republic depends upon the way
he feels and acts concerningsit. II
Is supremacy important under. this
FORM OF government that Irrespective
vi usage or long continued custom
no servant of the people exercises his
othclal power or influence i'm an ar
bltrary fashion to the detriment of
public interests and contrary To the
letter and spirit of our Republican in
sttutions. / refer directly and une-
IN M
the National House of Representa-
yves. The persons who constitute
fraternal society would keenlv re-
sent any attempt on the part of their
presiding officer to dominate or arbi-
trarily administer the affairs of
their organization. The office Of
Speaker of the National House should
In my judgment be what parliament
tary rules and custom from time I'M
memorial contemplates IL should he
mat OF mere presiding officer al
ways, OF course, with the power and
luty to preserve order and under the
rules 10 regulate the proceedings of
mat body but never to exercise the
bower incident to the office to i'm
'ede the progress of legislation or ar
'itrarily preclude discussion of pub
lie measures by discrimination or per-
'onal favor. The office of Speaker f.,
should not have the Importance which
low seems to be attached to il. The ,
authority of the Speaker should be
TO circumscribed that he perform only
hose duties which to the common
mind usually attends the parliament
Try privileges extended to a presiding
'ffcer
Political parties now constitute ono u
II our important institutions. Moth a
ng has been devised as yet to take I
ne place of these parties. our form a
u government demands such or +
The Republican partv h
as been the choice of the great mass r
II our people, the selected instru- n
mentality by which the wonderful n
rogress of this nation has been made n
'osslbie. Every careful, thoughtful G.
chscientious member of that party. o
ecause OF its splendid power for a
ood' wishes to see those men Gle s,