Evening journal., 1911-08-17
SEN. CLAPP
RAPS BOSSES
Says Time Is Near When
People viii Select Their
Rulers by Direct Vote
EXPLAINS PRINCIPALS
OF THE REFERENDUM

Senator Moses E. Clapp, OF MINI.
addressed a large audience on THE
History of the Referendum and Re
call" at Tenth and King streets last
night
Senator Clapp was introduced by w.
w Knowles who told Of the strong
fight put up in behalf OF the refer
endum and recall by Senator Clapp.
Several hundred persons we're in the
audience
Sydney Anderson Of the First Con-
gressional district of Minnesota. pre-
ceded Senator clapp with an address
in advocacy of the initiative and re-
ferendum.
At the beginning Of his address
Senator Clapp related the poor effort
Of the jokist when he said The pro-
gressive followers, once started do
not know when to stop, while the re-
dictionary faction once stopped, do not
know at what point to start"
Il am glad to be termed a progress
sive The Chinese nation stopped
many hundred years ago, and as yet
have not started; the Anglo-Saxons
started many years ago also and they
are still going Both factions have
collisions The collisions Of the re-
dictionary people are rear-end colli-
sions, while the collisions Of the pro-
gressives are head-on."
Senator Clapp explained the prin-
ciple of the initiative, referendum and
recall, and scored machine politics,
bosses and lobbyists.
Never" said Senator Clapp, did
the Senate make such an effort to be-
muddle the American public. as II has
during the last two years" He spoke
OF benefits derived from the eight
years in which the Roosevelt policies
dominated The passage Of the pure
food act, the attacking Of the great
combinations, the campaign against
the protective tariff, he cited as strong
points of the Taft administration
Following each exposure" said the
senator, "the commercial world cried
for peace When the pure food laws
were passed the corporations said
You have done a great work. now let
us have peace. The minor trusts at
tackled, the sugar trust said Let us
have peace, your work has been a
good one The protective tariff cried
for a let up. The sweat shop proprie-
tors asked that they be unmolested
Then following these cries for peace
came the proposed Payne-Aldrich bill
"a bill which vested the power of the
binding Of states in a few men,
Sees Direct Vote.
Il will make a prophecy" said the
senator Il predict that in the course
Of a very few years the people will
vote directly, not only for a senator
and the president. but they will nomi
nate the president by a direct vote.
The sands which obstruct the flow
OF government should be dug out al
are the sands in the river in order tina
the flow of free government may pas
| onward said Senator Clapp
81 do not believe that a man who 3
the president of an express compan
should stand up in the senate and vot
on a cheapened rate of POSTAGE
The speaker remarked that it hal
been said that the recall would inter
fere with the harmony of official lif
and added II say Il ought to-" Tn
men in whom the people place thei
trust when he is unknown at the tim
/
quaver when the people in a popula
vote are to be the judges Of his eff
cheney.
Divorce Scandal.
Free government is for a mors
people, and American womanhood
the greatest moral element"
At this juncture Senator Clapp ar
nonneed that he would welcome tn
day when women could vote
II He spoke OF the recent divorce la
that was railroaded through in Penn
sylvania. The law takes away II
right OF jury trial In divorce and d.
, prives q woman who has been
vorced an appeal to the Suprem
Court for a re-trial. Thus" sal
the Senator, ARE the sacred vows
the altar torn asunder by the weali
of a man who pays a fabulous sum
a clever lawyer The fair good nan
of the woman who has been assaile
Is blackened without a chance for h
TO prove her right Of an appeal" II
speaker held that had the initiati'
! been the law Of Pennsylvania. the a.
would not have passed.
I'VE have been so bueily engag,
in the building Of New Yorks ar
Pittsburghs and watching the divor,
( scandals Of the so-called 400, that Y
have neglected our government" Sci
ator Clapp explained.
! Speaking of the disapproval of q
! part Of the recall which allows q
recall OF a Judge, by President Tai
who holds that should the right Of al
solute power be taken from the judgl
they would lose their independent,
and fearlessness, Senator Clapp sait
Il should hate to believe that til
is so. ! agree that a judge shoul
be fearless and independent at a
times. but this fairness should n,
be lost because the people who cleo
ed him have the right to recall hir
It has been said that a Judge wi
swerve at the time Of his re-electic
which is just the same as at the tin
of a proposed recall II Is an insu
to a Judge to intimate this.
The initiative. referendum and r
J. call will remove the sand bars in n
I waters Of that government and allo