The Churchill county standard. (Fallon, Nev.) 1908-1920, 1910-09-01
A BIT OF JUGGLFRY EXPOSED
Vaccinations Of Machine Poll
ticians For Naught Des-
pite Incongruities.

fact, and the Appeal thinks it should
be known, that there was a lot of un-
derhand jugglery in the Senate of the
last legislative session over the Pri-
mary Election.
In the first place some political pi
rates in the Upper House, some Demo-
crat and some Republican, plotted to
do politics in the interest of the Repub-
lican party.
1t was originally proposed to enact
the California Direct Primary Law
word for word, and the bill as originally
drawn carried out this idea.
Then the rlctters, who, il ;s said,
were working in the interest of Repub-
licanism made compact to eliminate
the entire clauses which provided for
the election of United States Sena-
tor by the direct vote of the people.
They secured enough votes in the
Senate, both Democrat and Republ-
can, to carry out this job and then
began to sound the House.
Here the conspirators struck the
first snag. They were unable to find
corporals guard who would stand
for such an outrageous program
Republicans as we'll as Democrats
reftsed to stand for 1t and the job
was denounced in such plain terms
that the Senators who were ready to
sell out the people became alarmed
and retreated as gracefully as they
were able and stood pat with the bill.
The jobbery by which the people
were to be robbed of the right to
vote for United States Senator was
carried out IN secret caucus and it
did not leak out at the time and the
public was kept in the dark concern
ing it.
But the same influences managed
to eliminate the clause by which the
voters was allowed the privilege of
writing in mans name which was
not on the printed ballot.
They slipped in two jokers to ac-
complish the work. One was by
leaving out the clause entirely and
the other was in the form for the
sample ballot.
When it was discovered at the State
Printing Office that The section relating
to the voter writing in his choice had
been omitted, the proof reader went
over and called the attention of the
committee to the omission and was in
formed that the proof was 'sall right
as it was" and the omission was
authorized.
Members who voted Tor the bill ON
the representation of Senators that
it was IAN exact copy of the Califor-
MIA law" knew nothing of this omis-
sion which took from the voter the
right to cast his ballot for anyone he
desired. To further insure that no
name could be written on a printed
ballot the form prescribed as a
sample for the printer, to be found
on page 283 of the laws of the last
session. contains no space wherein
name could be written. This was in
tended to absolutely shut the voter
out of the right to designate his own
choice.
Section Z provides for the blank
spaces after each group of names
but Section nullifies Section of
the bill by providing form for the
printer to follow and the form has
no blank spaces after the names of
candidates.
The legislature supposed it was
voting for the right of electors to
vote absolutely for whom they chose
but the bill as prepared was intend
ed by the plotters to deprive the vot-
er of that right.
The whole thing only goes to show
that no man who holds seat in the
Legislature should take any mans
word that a bill lis all right" but
read it carefully and think and act