The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-15


made a part OF the general state
primary bill
.1rhe-et hAteA+e=ffeasttf
lor the nomination OF all the state
and county officers by the primary
Method and is souptU=tiuger-bUw
Urinary proposition.
Rep. Flower wanted justices OF the
,Ipreme court and regents OF the uni
yersity exempted from primaryisri
but the house wouldn't stand for IT,
The convention system is not inter,
Tered with except that IL can't nom
mate anybody. The convention can
simply radiate eloquence and hot air
fuelize the fires of party enthusiasm
and build platforms for the candi-
dates to stand. run on or forget.
The Copley appendix provides
nenalty of not TO exceed one year in
prison or a fine OF not 10 exceed ST.
900 for any representative OF a cor
poration who contributes money 10
assist in the nomination or election
Of any candidate for any Office.
The much-talked about and much
Economically opposed 10 per cent
clause in the general primary law
sas amended and made a more
palatable 10 per cent clause. IL Is
now provided that a candidate must
only have 10 per cent of the votes
cast by his party for secretary OF
state at the last preceding election
la order to be candidate. And this
action was somewhat more manly
and statesmanlike than an attempt to
use the 10 per cent clause club as a
means of forcing certain Democratic
senators 10 vote for a certain PROPOSE
ton The change looks like a good
one
The published talk about using the
Is per cent clause as means OF coer-
cion and as trading stock was dis.
grace to the state OF Michigan. III
that is per cent clause was unjust TO
the Democrats or any one else II
should have been eliminated or modi-
fed. Any other pending legislation
was not an issue in the matter and
had nothing to do with the merits OF
the section.
The bill is now up TO the senate.
The ladies who have been labor
ously and longingly and lingeriEgly
lobbying for the cause of double sui
frage can go home now. They might
wait little longer though, for there Is
a possible chance that if the resolu-
,, ton is taken from the table it Will
receive the necessary % votes.
Possible" was the word used, mind
you.
Possible is a good word, too, when
il is considered that Senator Miller
and Senator Lee voted in favor of
submitting the woman suffrage
amendment
Senator Lee, though, said yes"
with the stops all in and pressure or
the soft pedal.
Ii may have been co-her-sion.
There will probably be a genuine
feminine BUSINESS for the next some
hours in the attempt TO get four more
OF the gallant, but tardy. 10 vote for d
referendum on the double suffrage
question.
The vote on the equal suffrage res
olution or bill was Is TO II and the
lineup was as follows:
Progressives Bsrnaby Conley,
Fowle, James. Kingman, Lee. Mapes,
Miller, Putney F.. ID. Scott, Smell,
Taylor, Vaughan, Walter, Ward, Wat
kins, Weter and Virgins.
Standpatters Bradley, Cartier,
Collins, Foster, Leidlein. Moriarty,
Murtha, Newton, G.. G. Scott, Wander
werp and White
The second and last vote on the
proposition to give the so-called Bait
presidential primary bill immediate
effect was without particular incident.
The factions just quietly locked horns
for few minutes and it was all over.
The vote defeating it was the same
as before, except that Senator Kline
was absent.
Senator Mapes then made a motion
10 reconsider the resolution to al.
journ Friday noon and made speech
that had in 1t the ring OF common
sense and fidelity He said, in sub