Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-08-18
Anolner nenlx 10 Jndge MANN.


| Editor Morning Journal:
pear SRA few Of those VINO
doubt the ability of the people 70
cavern themselves and VINO
- themselves the power to make laws
| for the common people are ploho9a
ing grave fears lest the repunll1""
marty be disrupted over inc lhitiut.sN
and referendum and the uiIecl
arv have been a republican lot -
araooa many years, long before J
S old enough to vote ana as u
st,tdent of republican literature
49, searched in vain to tlnd a ue-
- ration any where declaring the re-
,,ubiican party as apposeu l" -
ine me people full control OF tneis
| affairs. In fact 1t rs n Always "a
been a party opposed to bosses anu
oss mic and a firm belief IN
~ RIGHT OF the people TO RUE. !
.nv - iltustrious founder who SAID u
roy.rnment OF the people, Tor tne
neople and by the people aho II -
for such a government thal tne re
nublicans must now STAND II me ie
nnhlican party is to continue 10 eSiat
~, where have / been able TO INA Il
~" rotton of the republican party
,sotnet The initiative and referendum
IA The direct primary. My Irlehu
Iuaga Mann is trying to do a niue
aa5vinkin himself when he tries
- force his views on the peopie an"
0cclore them as the views OF the re-
lnnblican party. From Maine on Wy ~
Atlnntic to oregon on the IdvilnO
these principles have iouhu cNptS
stnu in the plutform declarations o. ~
n,hidsans. In fact the practical APP
rettrotions of these ideas nave beeh
nrnnde almost entirely by repuDllcahs'
and II is to republicans that the peu-
m. NOW as ever look Tor redftss luis
tbese lines. Who is the repuplicau
nartve Who makes the pIihNip,s
that the republican party slalus lui
! surely not one or two nut the si,"'
,"ss al voters that composes IN.
Ink and file of this great party
5 -, convinced that the people wan
~ rnnortuuitv TO initiate laws anu
siso nm opportunity TO pass upon
I'm when initiated 10y their repre-
ssntntives jf they are not al that wv
. law ought 10 ne ~ ,ho wrot,
IN INITIATIVE and referendum II
Ntordev mornings paper says ti'
- naonte always have h flsht %
. In Tn whom shall they peti
,t,no 10 their own servants w.
ssi1ct "a servant and then petlNv
y rim TO do your bidding Why np1t
e tain that power2 II ne uoss VI.mpii
uitb Nour ideas of what ne sh"uu
VIZ" md GOOD and If he does no
1 nn We'll anu ANhA - ..i
IN. v4I NOS he able to ush At ~
r t,r having given all your power aW"
M, same can be said OF the pow
81 :, rsneal the laws your Servants p"9'
When the ueople awake anu 80.
mis- power they will nave puolll n,
ftciaTs who are servants on Wy ~,
anS moi dietators of the pupt'V' NJ
Is ~ mn. tp awake and reserve l
,rselves the right which Is ours =
n-~tt.r.s and which cannot u
-, AWAY without our consent
4, uunois the people have TINS pow
80 ~ p|atifion hut no power No ehiut'
their petition. They nave peV'is
several times and as ihahs sN -,
ii tn,fr netitions been ighoito' So
- Initiative and referendum law W.
s,sked bv the people by q vote % -
- 4oa a00 To- ST.0VO. a local lhltlatl
~, "A vote OF $4,000 TO SOW
meet election Of L ; senators
'e- sslo9O To 5000; primary eieS1SS,-
m loaoeo to 5000. local veto hN 9o'
an 00o 10 $4,000. local taxation t.o,V
tic !, , an 600 and the Representatives
eS ~. f.~fer,tu~e have ~ContiuuhlN lAue
-s- "a ,EFlr Wishes even after eight Yea
.esl -. elapsed Does this right OF pc
/, tinv 81 much boosted nflhs fesu4'
al surely not. or the wishes OF u.s. ~
onl ole would have been ~ 49,
Ies F-xfacntiv this second hanu NhvuA
tn 49, ~otten I'm its work and d serVa
FL f7rtatiuv 10 his master What
shonld do and what he should not
For my part IN take my thing az n
in hand / am not afraid OF tnS peoi
ia much rather risk the has.
We D.Dnis tb1n the premeditated ST
cf those who distrust the people.
II we must moose between a 60
ms bination OF Hanna-Massie anu
combination Of Catron-f ali, iet
Die LOOK ~ the fruit borne IN the p
hat 1re@ r,,5r9s 49, full Of the fruit
the one combination. DO We want m
ich of Itq 81 lar as I know no lesislat
.eld passed hv the other has been repea
an hy a republican congresS hN y
az works ye are known.
is nof logic becoming % our
ami -riruifshed citizen % SAY that heca
mas France was carried AWAY hy pr
ta and Holland went crazy over "
rdly and even Massachusetts, once TEL