The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-18
C0TTER|[[ OUT FOR
SENATE
First Democrat to Announce
Candidacy Comes Out
at Seattle.
APPRAISE INSURGENT
Quotes Roosevelt's Speech
in London-Proves Teddy
is a Real Democrat.

| Seattle, July 18.-"Today it is in
the United States senate that mon
opoly is most strongly intrenched,
special privileges most shamelessly
subserved, the rights of humanity
pressed beneath an increasing bur-
den of satiate greed for gain, and a
heartless, constituencies commercial
ism," says George F. Cotterill, of Sc
attic, in a statement given out fol-
lowing his filing of his candidacy for
the senate on the democratic ticket.
I'm the name of the people, that
senate citadel must be stormed at
the ballot box and vested wrongs
compelled to give way before human
| rights.
Should Have Direct Vote.
I'VE ought to have direct, popu-
lar election of United States senators
but the commercialized republican
oligarchy has denied that right. Only
states is there anything resembling
| it. In our own state we have no vOt-
| ing opportunity to ascertain the
popular choice for senator, despite
the constant and misleading use of
that expression. Our primary law
does not afford that opportunity and
was not intended to. 1t was specific
ally denied by the republican ma
jority in our state legislature, when
| and others sought to give our peo-
pie that direct opportunity for
popular choice for senator, as they
have in Oregon.
Explains Primary System.
There is so much popular mis-
conception of the peculiar provisions
of our primary law, such confusion
of the purposes and effect of the Sep
TENDER primary in it's relation to the
November election, such failure to
appreciate in advance the applica-
ton of the arbitrary restrictions
which are imposed, that l feel it my
duty to make certain points very
clear in relation to the election of
United States senator, for they are
on the basis and justification of my
own declaration Of candidacy.
II have today filed, not for United
States senator, but for the democrat
lie nomination for senator. Messrs.
Poindexter, Burke, Wilson, Humph-.
ries and Ashton, have filed, or will
file, for the republican nomination.
Under our primary law, neither /
nor any other democrat who may
file is permitted to run against these
republican candidates, or any of
them. There will not be at the Sep
TENDER primary nor at the Novem-
Der election any opportunity what
soever whereby voters regardless of
their partisanship will ever have an
opportunity by secret ballot to de-
eide the senatorship. This Is exactly
what the law requires and what must
happen at the September primary.
The names of Poindexter, Burke,
! Wilson, ct al. will be printed upon
an official ballot, headed republican.
Similar Ballot for Democrats.
my name and those of others who
may file for democratic nominations,
will be printed upon a similar, but
separate, official ballot, headed demo-
cratic. Every voter who participates
in the September primary election
must openly declare his party af-
filiation by asking for either a re-
publican or a democratic ballot. He
can not have both; he must choose
and be subject to challenge and oath,
with perjury penalties, if he seeks
the ballot of the opposite party. Ac-
cording to which ever ballot he has
thus chosen his name will be re-
corded by the election clerk in either
the republican or the democratic pre-
cinct polling books, which are re-
turned to the county auditor and be-
come public records of the declara-
ton of party af1iliation thus made
by the voters who participate in pri-
mary elections. No republican can
vote for my nomination without thus
declaring and placing himself on
public record as a democrat. No
democrat can vote for Mr.. Poindex-
ter or any of his fellow republican
candidates without similarly placing
himself on the public records as a re-
publican.
Chas. D. Brown and wife, arrived
IN M from CbicapO Mr. BROWN