The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-15

i'oS '.N. @l'-s.. CD. Address. ing the Massachusetts Legislature today Theodore Roosevelt urged the adoption of preferential primary leg. isla'i-n, explaining and amphasizing his new project for the limited re call of his judicial decisions. and struck boldly at those who have criticized lis plan. He said:
 "AIr. Speaker: Gentlemen. it is a great honor. which l deeply apprec. ia e. 10 be permitted 10 address this legislative body. composed of the representatives of that great his. toric comm nwealth, which has ever stood foremos, H the intending battle for liberty and right secured within the law. and l know that you ex pect me to speak to you today. tell. ing you just what | think and be Heye
 We of today, if We ale worthy of endsay ring 10 lead the people arght must be doing our part to secure social and industrial justice through some genuine popular rule. and our object was set forth by the great Italian radical leader, Mazzini, vixen he wrote. N war of classes, no hostility to existing wealth, no wantou or unjust viola ton of the rights of property, but a constant disposition to ameli ration of the classes least favored by for tune.
 That should be our aim, gentle men, to help better, not merely pol, itically, but industrially, the condi- ton of those laast fayared by for tune, and to endeayor to make and keep the goyernmen. of this country genuinely a government of, by and for the people
 And because l believe in genuine popular rule l favor direct nomina- ti-ns, direct primaries, including direct preferential presidential prim- aries, not only for local but for state delegates.
 T believe in the adoption of wise ly chosen devices under which the initiative and referendum can be used, not as a substitute for a rep resentatiVe government but to make reprs sentative government genuinely repres ntatiye, to see it corrected if it bee mes misrepresentative."
 In the last resort the people, after due deliberation, are to be and must be the masters, and their represent atives their servants. There is noth- ing ignoble in any man fit to be a public servant avowing that he is such'
 In explanation of his advocacy of method for securing proper in depreciation of the constitution the Colonel said:
 T am not advocating the recall of judges; l am advocating meas ure which, if adopted, will prevent the necessity of the recall of judges.
 T am not advocating the recall of the judges. l am advocating the recall of legalism to justice. And I would like to ask you whose mem ories extend back eighteen months to remember what was said eighteen months ago by the gentlemen who criticised my criticism of the de- cision of Judge Baldwin as regards the workingmen's compensation law
 The same people that are most violent in denouncing the proposal I have made are those who at that time were most violent in denounc- ing my criticism of Judge Baldwin, and who hailed with delight the proposal that Judge Baldwin should sue me for libel But since that time the Supreme Court of the United States took the same view that l did and so the libel suit would have to include the Supreme Court as we'll as myself.
 And 1 think most of my critics of that period have new caught up