Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-03-11

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The New Jersey Senate, by q vote
Of IA to 4, passed on February "A the
resolution for constitutional amend.
ment granting suffrage to women. It'll
has already passed the House. It
must now pass the next legislature
and then be submitted to the people.
A proposition to grant twenty
year franchise to the private water
company at Denver was overwhelm-
ingly defeated at the polls on Febru-
airy II. A very bitter campaign pre-
coded the election. The franchise
was opposed by advocates of mum.
cipal ownership.
The interruption of telephone and
telegraph communication with Lis
bon, which gave rise to the report IT
another revolution in Portugal on the
9th, was due to acts of violence in
cident to Revolutionary railway"
strike. The strikers have been Or
dered back to work, and tranquility
is looked for throughout the country.
One Of the last acts of the Philip-
pine assembly before adjourning on
the 2Sth was to deny the charge of
Dean c.. Worcester that slavery ex.
listed in the islands. The franchise
given the Marconi Company to erect
forty wireless stations in the islands,
which allowed the American govern
ment to take over the wireless svs-
tenn in case of war, was amended so
as to give the right to the Philippine
government.
Charges of professional and private
misconduct were filed on February 20
against federal Judge Daniel Thew
Wright Of the District Of Columbia
Supreme court. Wright is the Judge
who held Samuel Gompers and other
labor leaders guilty of contempt, but
the charges have no connection with
that matter. They were brought by
Wade A. Cooper, Washington bank
er, and allege that certain corpora
lions have been unfairly favored by
Wright. Other charges of improper
conduct of a more private nature are
also made.
Women participated in the primar.
les at Chicago on February "a to the
number Of 47,424, being slightly less
than thirty per cent of the registra-
ton. The number of male voters was
about the same proportionately, but
in actual numbers nearly three times
as much. The law debars those par
ticipating in the primary of a party
from voting in the primary of an
other party for at least two years.
For this reason some prominent suff-
ragists advised the women to stay
away from the primaries. This un.
doubtedly did much to reduce the
vote. According to parties the WON.
ans vote was as follows: Democrats,
33,381; Republican, 10,189; Progress.
sive, 1927; Socialist, 557. Two WON
en- received Progressive party nomin'
| atoms for alderman, and five Social
| list party nominations. Among these
is Marion Drake, who will be the Pro
gressive candidate opposed to the
| Democratic nominee, "Bathhouse'
John Coughlin. Two Democratic
woman candidates were defeated.
Announcing himself as an indepen
dent candidate for Governor of Ore
gon, w. S. U'Ren has issued the fol
lowing address to the voters:
have decided to be an independent
candidate for Governor, though fol
many years have been Republican
and voted for the party candidates
when they were even moderately pro
gressive. But for the following rea
sons shall not seek the party nomi
| nation:
Q) The measures necessary tc
complete what is called the Oregon
System are essentially peoples meas
ures rather than the property of any
political party, many of them opposed
to the Republican party. These meas
ures provide for conduct of the gov
eminent by officials who are directly
responsible to all the people, instead
of to a party organization for their
first allegiance.
(2) All the standpatters and re-
dictionaries are as bitterly opposed &c
me now as they were in 1910 to the
actual use of the initiative and refer
endum, to the corrupt practices act
to the recall, and to all the peoples
power measures, at which they still
theory of government.
60 l would rather have those gen
tlemen fighting me from the front as
open enemies because of the meas
ures stand for, than knitting me from
| my own ranks, as they have done TO,
many years past with all Republi
can candidates who were known to
be progressive.
AS his platform Mr.. U'Ren an
nounces good roads proposition, the
expenses to come from a graduated
Inheritance tax. In building these
roads employment to be given to all
citizens Of Oregon applying therefor
| He further advocates the short bal
lot, abolition of unnecessary offices
free school books and exemption to
the extent of $1,000 of personal prop
erty and improvements of each tax
payer.
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