The Detroit times., 1912-02-26
PRIMARY law OUR
GREAT NEED,.OSBORN
TELLS LEGISLATURE
Proposition Is In Interest OF All
People, He Says in Spe-
), cial Message
URGES DIRECT VOTE ON
PRESIDENTIAL QUESTION
Also Recommends Early Pas
sage of Workmen's Com
pensation Law
(From a stan Corre.pondcno.

LANSING, Mich, Feb. 26.-"This
proposition is in the interest OF all the
people and gives equal rights to all
parties and all factions OF parties,
said Gov. Osborn in his special mes
sage in which he urges the enactment
OF a presidential primary law and
which was read TO special session oil
the Michigan legislature this after
noon.
Gov. Osborn added that the plan
was for the purpose OF extending the
rights OF all the people and giving
I, greater assurance that the majority
shall rule In the nomination OF a
presidential candidate, rather than
that majority by power, influence or
other unusual intrenchment shall over
ride and overrule.
The governor quotes Abraham Lin
coins words, The life OF this nation
Is greater than any constitution, aid
says there are ,multitudes who right
fully demand fuller opportunity 20
participate in affairs of government
without being watched by bosses.
Gov. Osborn calls the attention or
| the legislature to the report submit
ted by the Employers Liability and
| Workmen's Compensation commission
and urges that a workmen's COM
pensation law be enacted.
The message follows:
To the Forty-sixth Legislatnre OF
Michigan:
Acting under the authority OF Sec
zion Z, Article 6, of the Constitution
OF the state of Michigan, /, chase ,.
| Osborn. governor in and over the state
OF Michigan. have called the Forty
sixth Legislature in extraordinary ses-
sion, for the purpose OF giving 1t OPP
portunity and authority to consider
and enact n presidential preference
primary law.
This proposition Is in the interest OF
all the people and gives equal rlShts
to all parties and all factions OF par
. ties. IL Is for the purpose or extend,
Ing the rights OF all the people anu
giving greater insurance o anat tnn tme
Of presidential candidate. rather tnan
tnat a minority by power, innuence,
peculiar strength or other nnusual IN
rule.
III IL is right and advisable to enact
presidential preference primary law
| ft Is proper 10 gire-H immediate eHeet-
The constitution OF the state OF Micht-
gan empowers the Legislature TO give
effect at once to acts making appro-
priation or TO acts Immediately neces-
sary tor the preservation OF the public
neace. health or safety assume
that the LEGISLATURE is the final Judge
! Of these conditions. At its regular
| session this legislature gave immedi-
ate effect TO seventy acts. One-half
| these seventy acts were not appropria-
ton bills In the ordinary meaning or
the term, and twenty-one OF them car
| ried no appropriation provision what
| ever some OF the acts given immedi-
ate effect were so trivial as 10 make
absurd any cortention that such an
important law as the presidential
primary measure cannot be given inn
| mediate effect. The constitution was
| lust as sacred last year this year
| Any presidential preference primary
| law which the legislature may pass
| can with perfect justice and propriety
| contain n provision fer making an ap-
| prorriation 10 pay the expenses OF
law OF the state OF Oregon, l am in
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