Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-12

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Abolish the Senate -
Many and varied the arguments being advanced
these days favor Of the election of United States Sen
tors by direct vote of the people. The New York World
Democratic has discovered that the senatorsp is to
be disposed Of by the Boss of Tamany Hall and that
he people Of New York considered by nobody it is
admitted that although the people Of Massachusetts, dol
not wish to be represented by Henry Cabot Lodge but
machine is with him. the protected industries are with him.
all the power of special privilege is back OF him. are better
than anybody elses; James MARITIME who appears to
lead by pocketbook and half in the Senatorial race in
New jersey described by the Richmond Evening our
nal (Democratic) "a Democrat in name only, being III
reality Republican and standpatter at that; IN west
Virginia Clarence Watson, who has built mansion on the
blood and bones of the coal miners he has murdered isl
planning to succeed Scott while William b. Chiffon the
putrid politician through whom Watson worked his WILL
is to succeed Eins, West Virginia Democratic papers
being the a1thorty) Illinois the legislature is between
the devil and the deep of unseatng Senator Lorimer
who bribed them and facing their constituents; no
statistics dry and the list is endless The remedy adj
vocated the direct election of United States Senators by
There is nothing startlingy novel in thssuggestion;
it as old as graft 1t has been tried And when at first
it did not succeed it has been tried, tried again
We elect city councils by direct vote and the city
council is bbed into giving away our public rights to pr1
vate corporations elect county commissioners by
direct vote and the county steal the pubc
money! elect congressman by direct vote and our
congressman spend their time doing what the paid party
whip tells them to do elect state Legislature by
direct vote and legislature elects the United States
Senators who swell to high heaven And, by the same
direct vote elect judges who do not punish these mis-
d0ings!
No direct vote will not puncture the pimpe This is
not bad pimpe for the United States Senate about
useful pmpe As matter Of fact to the real people
of the country the people who do the work OF the country
the Senate is about useful boil carbuncle.
There this difference though that there end to the
United States Senate And anOther that through the
son for superating tumOr be given lived
skilled in words deceivng to give reason for Sec
ond Legislative Body that would be satisfying to- the in
FAINT mind Of a chattering chimpanzee
Let get rid Of our William Lorimers by abollshlng
the United States Senate, let get rid of Robert
Hazetts by aboishng the State Senate Net get rid of
Charles H. Watkins by aboshing the First Branch OF
Council
Revolutionary? So was the United States. Once!
$50 always was and every will be anything that worth
dam. Sociaistc? Certainly, certainly certainly Every
step the world ever took to bring life to the living
was SociaGstic.
What good on the earth under the earth above the
earth can be foud Upper Legislative Body? Laws
made branch must be remade in the other black
smith who made horseshoe anvil and then remade
it another for the only that when he took the
shop there two anvs there would be restrained as
irresponsible.
The people send body of representatives to capitol
to make laws and send alongside misrepresentation to
unmake the law the first batch make. A flower has
more sense than that-if you don't believe it. ask gar
dener if flower sends out two kinds of pollen, one
neutralze the other This is true also of cocoanu
speaking not in the way OF American sang but OF the
tropical fruit.
The Upper Legislative Branch has been called fifth
wheel to wagon but it is not that it is
brake, chain upon all the wheels 1t is not something
that we the slow march of the years toward real demo-
cracy have attained to- is something that have sub
mitted to- No people speaking Of the mass wanted
Upper House, the Upper Glass held to that bulwark
when they forced to give the people Lower House
sOf course they talked gby then Lormer and Hazle
and Charles H Watkins will pirate today about the neces
sity Of legislative check check upon what or whom
Upon the corporations? Every street urchn in every city
in the land knows that the Upper House be it national
state municipal never checked corporation It is
check upon YOU brothers. you people who have no more
hers Inner House harder to GET at it makes You