Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-15
THE PEOPLE HAVING THEIR WAY.

@A~ LSSb.S eAAS NstNl AAt-AANA " A1ho ohelr own way. This invincible re- solve of the people to work out their own salvation by methods chosen l by themselves is the fact which in cludes all other civic facts of the time. It is the universal key which unlocks the door of every situation. It is the plummet which every polit- ical pilot must use. who honestly 1. wishes to fathom the minds of his fellow men. and guide the ship ot party sright It is the magnetic needle which must be pivoted be- meath the compass-glass of every political organization that wants to know which way is north, says Nor man F. Mack, in the National Monthly
 It is a truth whose forms of ex- precision are many because its scope is wide as a nation of ninety million people. Direct primaries. direct elee- ton of senators. the safeguarding of elections by publicity. limitation of campaign exPenses, with it's elim- ination of unfair advantages of the wealthy candidate, or the candidate backed by rich and powerful inter ests, over the poor candidate. are an conspicuous examples of the de termination of the people to assert the sovereignty reposed in them by the consultation.
 Tae central nrincinie underlying all these phases of a universal movement, is transfer of government and of the party organization which is the material out of which govern lnent is made, from the hands of the 'ev to the hands of the many. It ss a reclamation. @ reaffirmaticn, recovery and a putting in practice of the democracy on which ali Amer.- can institutions are founded. Its object is to enable the people to act for themselves in all matters wherein immediate action by them is possible, and where it is not, to secure genuine representation of the people instead of the oligarchy of machines.
 The favorite plea of those who are hostile to the people reserving for themselves the rights inherent in them. is that such popular control means disruption of party organiza- ton. On the contrary. it means a stronger party organization, because being composed of the people, de nial of the organization would be re- pudiation of its members by them seIvea-a thing impossible. Take  for example the direct primary. J ss no more a novelty-it has loDg been an established institution T many states. Tn all tho history o the direct primary. never has partI cohesion or discipline been disrupt cd by it. Whatever discomfiture j has caused, was discontinue of per sonal ambition-of the greed of in aividuals for power. Party regular ity and party consistency have beei maintained and strengthened. Pars effectiveness has been uniformly in creased by transference Of tn means of party direction to the ped pie. So lo1g as parties exist, ther must be leadership and disciplin' Rule of the party by the people the only source from which genuin leadership can be evolved self-dis eipline is the only discipline to whie @ self-respect'ng party vii submi
 The peoples control of party ta' ties. is tho corner stone of publi confidence in party methods. ne md measures. We are rapidly ge' fling past the stage, when, if part 
 committee meets. if party conver uon assemblies. 1t will be assume n the popular mind that such con uittse or convention is gcing 10