The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-04-08
OLD TIME POLITICIANS SAY
ACTION is REVOLUTIONARY


/ delegates? No. certainly not!
Did the people select the state de !
gates? No, certainly notA
! The people did not select the gcl
ernor They only elected the cholA
Of a corrupt machi1e. 1t is enoul
to make patriot weep who und@
stands It thoroughly.
The referendum provides that Wild
the legislature passes an act not n
ceptable to the people OF the state Z
petition within ninety days after ~
passage OF the act, signed by
cent of the voters, will operate to 81
pend the law until the next regul
election. at which the people will Va
upon the law whether IL shall beco
a statute or whether 1t shall not.
With the initiative in force c, !
rupt practices act and a pure bal
can be secured.
Oregon has the best corrupt D.. q
tees act in the United States. The
candidate for the senate Is Limit
to an expense OF 10 per cent, of O
years salary as the maximum 3.
pense Of making his campaign, q
80 with other state officials. Eve
dollar Of expenditure must be
forth under oath, to include every +
son who directly or indirectly expen,
any money in the interest of su
candidate.
No solicitation or bringing OF
ers to the polls is allowed on electio
day. The election is as peaceful
as honest as a Sunday school.
Under the initiative and referend
the Oregon legislature tries to IN
the will of the people. They are
subject to temptation by every
ruption or ambition, II they fail
pass the laws the people want
people to pass their own laws
the initiative
II they pass a law the people
want the people veto 1t through
use Of the referendum. This sy,
Of government is called the peo
rule.
In the last few years IT has
adopted by Oregon, South Dakota
Maine, by Oklahoma, Montana
Missouri and is being actively
I'd In a large number of other
md will be adopted Throughout
United States in very few year
The agency by which it isnF-sx
'lished is called The Questions
Candidates This is most CONVEX
y done by the organization Of
Stature committee representing
.roups Of voters. For instance
National Grange, the American
ration OF Labor, the inltiatlqe
leagues.
Each organization appoints its
ian Of a legislative committee a
he ehairmen sign a common
ddressed to each candidate
arties, demanding a plain ansf
given number of days of the
lon: "Will you. If elected. us
III influence to establish the
We and referendum" If he Fl
nswer IN two weeks his failure
ertised as opposition and gene
ertisement given of his positio
] Of those fayoring the initlau
'ferendum vote and work 10
ich candidate.
n initiative and Referendum
ie ought to be established in
'eeinet, in every county. in
ate OF the union.
When the initiative and refei
Iall have been established f
zen door to the passage of
e people have the intelligen
Itriotlsm to devise. The sv
e state will no longer be
lnds Of the arrogant despot
ercialism that is now shak
undation Of this country and
spectacle OF itself in Phua
We will then be able to pss
od laws and have those laws
which are now almost null
mmercialism operating thro
ical agencies.
We can then control monog
sh prices. and we can ab
lis of unrestralned greed.
life out Of women and chi
eatshops, and we can estab
ry precautions, which shall
greater degree the charne
tuberculosis. known as lov
rk City.
We are indeed In league vi
It we spend a thousand mi
Increase In expenditure
rposes and rely on Natha
abate the killing Of babies
ted milk In New York?