The Alaska socialist., 1913-11-01

NO~~N lative right and power. No English king nor court though monarchica1 dares to hold an act of the English parliament unconstitutional Our presidents, gov ernors aud courts, with utter abandon, are vetoing and nullifying intelligent, conscientious public opinion, crystallized i'll their regular and orderly forms of law.
 Seventh. Too much regard for rule, too little for reason. Too much jugglery of the technical p1eader, too little justice for the client.
 Who is responsible for this? The judge, the court, chiefly the courts of last resort, whose decisions and judg- ments must be followed by the inferior courts else the judgments below will be forthwith reversed and another trial again had
 Now, what do the people propose to do? Simply propose to change the jury for removal from the legislature to the people themselves. Why, that is where we get all our juries from anyhow, from the plain people. They propose to say to the legislature---you have not been faith ful i'll the exercise of the right to remove judges, you have absolutely ignored your duty i'll that respect, you have absolutely failed to use it or try to use 1t. We now propose to try the experiment of using it ourselves.
 Anything new about withdrawing this delegated power? Let Us see. Do not shrink or shudder at this proposition!
 Have we ever changed juries before ill determination of portant federal affairs? Let us examine the history of the selection of president. The fathers said i'll the constitution, if you were a citizen thirty-fve years old, you were qualified to be elected president, but you were not qualified to vote directly for president That should be done by spec ial jury, called the electoral college The members ofthe college, voted for directly by the people, were given the special and important task of electing a presi- dent. They were distinguished and most important dignitaries ill the early days of the republic, but today they are no more serviceab1e than the wart on a dogs tail
 Though the written law is the same as when the college was first organized, the urwritten law has placed in the hands of the people the right to choose their pres ident and that choice has been uniformly expressed and ratified by the members of the college even i'll the hot Hayes-Tilden contest of 1876.
 They used to have a congressional eau GUS to nominate party candidates for pres ident. This was supplanted i'll Jackson's day by the delegate party convention in order to get nearer the peoples choice Tn order to eliminate the political boss and business boss i'll manipulation of party conventions, let me predict that i'll four years more the people will nominate by direct primary their own candidates for president
 This withdrawal of delegated power as to the selection of president is just as noticeable in the election of United States senators. For years the people of the republic have been demanding the right to vote directly for the United States senators.
 Constitutional amendments have been urged for years withdrawing this dele gated power from the general assembly and returning it to the people.
 But for the opposition of the United States senate, controlled by big business