The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-11-21
TIE PRINCETON UNION. THURsDAY, NOVEMBER IL 1912
Vice President Elect a Scion
OF Notable Virginia Family

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a resolution for the popular election Of
United States senators. corrupt prac-
tce and campaign contribution publici-
ty statute, an employers liability law
on liberal lines, abolishing workmen's
waiver and the fellow servant rule, a
bill authorizing railroad commissions
to fix rates, child labor laws, cold
storage limitations. Standardization of
weights and measures, sanitary inspec-
ton Of schoolhouses, industrial inspec-
ton for safety of factories, mines and
railroad. a law making block signals
obligatory on all steam and electric
railways and a bill for making uniform
the accounting of all public offices in
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In the course of many speeches Mar
shall has made clear his attitude on
most of the great questions of the day
The general progressive views, how
ever. do not carry him to the point of
favoring the recall Of Judges or judicial
| decisions. Speaking before the con-
vention which Endorsed him for presi-
dent last March, he said:
Lincoln held it to be the inalienable
right of an unsuccessful litigant to go
down to the tavern and cuss the court.
| 1t is the theory of Roosevelt that it is
the right of the unsuccessful litigant
to go down to the tavern and overrule
the court Bitterness of spirit and in
d1gnation at what deem to be judicial
injustice seize me. Even now l am
chatting under what I conceive to be
the unwarranted interference of courts
with my prerogatives. But my sober
judgment, looking to the permanent
! good Of the people. compels me to in
s1st that the courts must, remain free
and untrammeled; that we must seek
relief through the remedy we now have
and patiently abide the reversal of ju-
d1cal injustice. Until the provisions Of
our present constitution with reference
to officials are tried and until graver
evils arise than have thus far arisen
there is but slight demand for the in
1tiative. referendum and recall"
As to Bosses and Machines.
More recently, at Fort Wayne, in a
speech before the Indiana Editorial as
ISOLATION on "How May Constitutional
Government Endure?' he stated his DO
sition with great clearness on the gen.
eral proposition Of representative gov
eminent.
Notwithstanding our boast, our gov
eminent is not Of and by and for the
people, said he, ''yet l make bold to
say that it is still representative
democracy. Public speakers and the
public press have been giving voice for
twenty years to the fact that this is not
peoples government, with laws to
preserve the equality of mankind and
to give each citizen his opportunity for
honest success. 1t has been heralded
and shouted that the bosses are in con-
troll from ocean to ocean; that their
machines have taken over the politics
and legislation of this country; that
the bosses and their machines have
prevented the people from crystallizing
our great ideals into laws that could
be enforced. ~. ~E
ITO be sure, we have had bosses
and we have had machine politics in
America. We have had legislation
which. by. enactment and construction,
has not tended to promote the ideal of
equality and the opportunity for honest
success. But it is equally true that the
people. If they could only get chance
to express themselves, would declare
In unmistakable terms their belief that
this system was vicious-that they
would smash the machines, Danish the
bosses and select officials who would
always stand, four square with the
theories of the fathers
Some Of His Official Acts.
One of the acts that brought Cover
nor Marshall into the public eye was
his honoring California's requis1tion for
John j. Mcnamara. At the moment
there was deal Of honest doubt of
McNamara's guilt. and it required no
small degree Of courage to surrender
the man into the hands Of the Califor-
mia authorities. Those who criticised
Governor Marshall for that act at the
time had good cause to revise their
Judgment later. when the dynamiter
confessed.
Sunday baseball was another cues
ton with which he had to wrestle as
governor A bill legaliztng Sunday
games passed both houses and went
to him for approval Marshall was
opposed to Sunday ball, but he took
the stand that his personal views in
the matter should not overweight the
view of a large majority of the legis-
lators elected to make the laws. He
vetoed the first bill, however, because
1t did not repeal a law already on the
books which made Sunday baseball il
legal. Whereupon the legislature re-
drew the bill and submitted it again.
This time he signed it, Notwithstanding
the strong protest Of the strict church
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