Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-22
CARROLL'S PRIMARY VETO.
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| Coming to the rescue OF his friend.
Lafayette Young. Governor Carroll
: Saturday gave out an indignant denial
that he had vetoed a presidential pri-
| mary bill. The governor stopped short
On his denial. He offered no explana-
| ton OF what kind of a bill he did veto
AS matter OF fact. the bill ne vetoed
| was one providing FOR the election of
! United States senators by direct vote
Of the people.
| This bill was repassed by the legis-
| lature, but lacked ten OF the required
| two thirds to pass ii over his veto.
| What was the use of sending pres
| would not even permit primary ex
preston On the United States senator
ship?
He vetoed the senatorial primary on
constitutional grounds. He is 10 more
of lawyer than Lafayette Young, but
since both are constitutionally opposed
to primary elections OF all kinds they
could employ the constitution like
brothers, and they did. The veto ar
gued that senators must be elected by
| the legislature and that the people
! had no right to direct the legislature
| how it should act. Inferentially. that
| must be left to the interests and the
lobbyists they surround the legislature
with at every senatorial election.
Under the constitution presidents
must be chosen by electors" and the
Carroll Young argument that iegisla-
tors must not be directed by the people
applies exactly in the case OF electors.
AS one reasons along this line, the
| wonder grows why the governor en-
tered his denial. 1t but impresses the
| fact OF his hostility to primary cleo
tons and his subservience at that time
to Senator Young, whose record is also
one OF hostility to primaries.
The governors veto was an argu-
! nlent FOR continuance Of the old method
of choosing senator's and presidents
| by the old interest dominated caucus
es. In such argument he was a typical
standpatter trying to put over" an
other typical standpatter.
| 1t would seem as if the governor
was not very smart in denying his
veto at this time. How can such denial
help Colonel Young. the "optimist ?"
SHOULD MRS. AsTOR REMARRY
| Dubuque Telegraph HERALD
| By the terms Of his will, il the widow
Of John Jacob Astor shall rennarry, she
will lose the income from $1,000 900
and the family mansion on Fifth
! Avenue. Both are hers so long as she
remains a widow.
Mrs. Aston is a little more than a
slip OF a girl-just twenty. Perhaps
| two-thirds of her life is ahead Of her.
A normal being she has the hopes and
| desires natural to normal nature She
was put upon this earth to be the
mother OF children, to contribute as a
mother to the welfare OF the race, to
have an estate Of happiness.
Her late husband puts her under
durees to take no man as her husband
except him: to renounce the impulses
Of her nature; to empty her soul Of
sex love; TO repudiate her obligations
to the race; to bear his name and
cling to the shadow Of him for the
rest OF her natural days.
! The husband who did this vowed
his love for the woman concerned. OF
| course he did not love her with that
generosity which IL the hallmark Of
true love. His conditions upon the be-
quests to her prove him to have been
, selfish. as seeking to control her with
a dead hand.
I
the dead man no means OF controlling
the life and the destinies Of the living.
In His supremacy wise plan death
ends all, cutting OF al communication
between those who have gone and
those who survive. Not all the wealth
in the world can change this divine
ordination, nor all the sophistry Of the
most plausibly sophistical. 1t ID i'm
mutually written. The mother, dead
cannot by word or deed Of her own
restrain the steps Of the daughter:
father counsel son, or brother help
brother. Power ends with the grave.
But Universal Law and statute law
are two very different things. What
the one does not admit, the imper-
fections OF men cause the other to per-
NIT. Thus Mr.. Aston apparently was
within his legal rights in seeking to
control the acts Of his widow by
threat Of loss Of inheritance. He
sought to make her live in the past
4 to look hack. in opposition to- all the
laws Of life, which cry -E'orwsfd!
i Time and again the courts have
iheld that provisions penalizing the