The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-06-30


Tie big BITS III tse legislative pro
gram os Governor Wilson. as set forth
by one close ID that executive In
cluaa
A corrupt practices act.
Public utilities bin.
Employers liability bin.
The commission form OF govern
iment i'd cities desiring 1t BY d 80 per
cent majority vote. including the in.
tiafive, referendum and recall
An election reform bin providing for
+ personal registration and an denti.
ficatiaa system in addition to the
nonparfisan blanket ballot OF the
Massachusetts type.
4 Civil service tor election Of officers
/ A primary bin providing Tor direct
nomination and election of all officials,
I including delegates 70 the national
convention ANA United States sena.
tors~a more drastic measure than
the Oregon plan
4 A law placing New Jersey on record
ias ready to ald in building q ship
canal that viii serve as q connecting
/ link between the two most populous
\ districts OF the American continent
a law that Will protect the New
Jersey public from the abuses OF the
lcold storage companies
4 A set Of laws that VIII reorganize
the schools Of the state along econom-
4 ic ard progressive lines.
When Democratic legislators jump
ed the party traces and refused TO
stand for any OF these bills, both
Governor WilsoI 9pd Governor Har.
lmon disregardel party Nles and went
lover to the Repahical. stde and got
sufficient votes to have them enact.
/ ed
4 4. mis- message TO the Chic general
assembly demandlDg she enactment
/ Of pending measures. Governor Iiaf.
mon, til addition ID the bills fiji his
Legislative program. enumerated ablya.
advocated the abolition of the party
emblem in purely municipal elections;
smaller city councils, With a large part
of whom elected at large the nomina-
ton by state wide primary elections
Of an who age In any way to act for
or represent the state officially or POI
I lltieally and the nOn.partisan no ina.
4 ton Of Judges The general assem-.
I bly,, however, disregarded Governor
4 Harmonls suggestion with respect to
the last four bills
A Record Of progressIveness.
4 Judson Harmon has Been called q
4 conservative and this Is true II con.
sergatlsm means Que Who does not
suddenly rip up governmental ma.
chlnery without first constructing d
new and better driving power to sue.
ceed the old II progressive Demuc,
raey means constructive Democracy
then Mr Harmon Il d progressive. IN
Ohio the people are claiming that the
reform measures Jndson Harmon put
4 through the OHIO general assembly
are as progressive as any legislative
program of any executive N the
United States Air Harmon il 4
strong, sober, sensible well balanced
aud weli-equlpped man. of the real
Jackson and Jeifersonian school the
constructive Democracy lii dlscharE
ms his duties. he selects his course
With great care and then proceeds
w.th constitutional exaetness. Iii ane
hand he has held the support and
i confidence of the man who works. aud
lin the other he has maintained the
4 approval of what are generally term.
4 sd the business interests
A non bipartisan judiciary bill which
i will place ALI iudges beyond the do
main ot politics. working mems
| compensation act and a public utilL
ties bin arc among the big measures
on the Harmon legislative program
that 0hieans claim ara far ia advance
og any such legislation iii the United
i States.
After the Chic general assembly al
ionrned Lieutenant Governor Nichols
issued 4 statement IN which he said
''lf Is an undeniable fact thar tue
present general assembly has Il legis
laeive record 10 its credit of d beAa
iicent nature uneaualed by any lNgss
lature that has# convened since the
adoption o. our present constitution