The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1911-04-21
PEOPLE Of ARIZONA
HAVE SOME R|GH1S
SENATOR SAYS
THEY SHOULD DECIDE
OWN GOVERNMENT.
Declares in Favor of the Recall, fni-
tiatiye and Referendum as EN-
pressed in Arizona's
Constitution.
Associated Press Special.


Washington, April 21.-Arizona's
right to statehood under the consti- |
tuition which it has presented found |
a strong advocate on the floor of the |
United States senate Yesterday in the |
person of Senator Works, Califor- |
MAS new member of the upper house |
of congress In defending the Arizo- |
ma constitution he took occasion to |
warn the republican party that unless |
it should heed the demand made up
on it for an endorsement of the initi-
ative, referendum and recall, ear
nesty demanded by an overwhelm-
/ ing majority of our people of an po-
llitical parties" the party would go
down Ito defeat and final destrue-
ton and oblivion
The real objection TO the constitu
ton, he declared, was 'one phase OF
the struggle that has been going on
n this country between the common
people and the privileged, selt~aeek-
| ing interests, affecting the right to
| govern the nation, the state and the
! municipalities. The initiative ref
erendum and recall, provided for in
the Arizona constitution and already
in force in some states of the union,
was one method the people were TAX
/ ing. he asserted, of trying to blot out
/ corruption in politics. With the ex-
ception of recall of judges, he said
he was heartily in favor of this way
of getting rid of incompetent or cor
rl,nt DuhHC servants
The senator touched on the Lori
liner case in connection with his plea
for honest politics. Senator Works
was named in the resolution intro
duced at the present session by Sen
ator LaFollette calling for another
investigation of the Lorimer case, as
chairman of the committee of inves
, tigation.
This widespread uprising agains
: the corruption that if persisted in
, must eventually overthrow our rep
resentative form of government - h
said, lis founded upon the most con
e vincing evidence that corruption
r eating at the very vitals of the re
70 public and threatening the perpetuit
- of our free institutions. We need no
I 90 outside Of this chamber to fin
| evidence of this fact. The pages o
the Congressional Record of the pas
r few months will disclose a condition
! that has brought the whole nation I
e shame. 1t was charged that the cleo
e ton of a member of this body wa
e procured BY corrupt practices and tn
bribery of votes in the legislature.
need not enter upon a discussion @
b the evidence in that case. 1t
- enough to say that it was clearly an
b sufficiently shown that corrupt praC
h tees had been resorted to in tn
r. election and that some votes ha
been purchased.
II have cited the case" the aeha
= tor continued, ito show why the pee
= pie OF this country may justly CLAN
larger share in the election c
' their officers and the control OF leg
islatiou 1t is one out of hundreds D
cases where corrupt and Illegal in
fluences have been brought "a bea
q TO control elections and the enact
a ment of legislation detrimental
. TIE public at large
+ is there no way" he asked, b
which such evil influences may b
# met and overcome? Some senator
4 here seem to think not When th
people attempt to limit the powe
of their representatives and assum
r some of that power themselves by ie
o noring the unfaithful representative
b and acting directly at the polls, or b
Re recalling him and substituting a
q honest and faithful representative j.
] his place, the cry is raised that thi
q effort to control their own represen
- tatives and their own government
q violation Of the constitution OF TN