The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-02

Crawford stood firmly for this bill and
was finally invited "to little dinner
at the Dennison."
Taggart is Host.
There he found his host was T.
| Taggart, who skilfully led the con-
| versation to the subject of direct pri-
maries. He finally declared that pri-
maries were alright for townships and
counties, but would never do for the
state.
! In nominating state tickets the old
fashioned conventions must be con-
tinued. The boy attend these conven-
tions and go home full of party enthus-
iasm," said Taggart. 1t was his
smooth diplomatic manner of issuing
an edict calling for the death of the
Jones primary bill, but Crawford ignor-
ed the orders of the boss.
/ Il favor direct primaries" said
Crawford and the dinner was over
Then came the primary bill champ.
ioned by the Taggart machine and it
was referred to the "graveyard" com
mittee to be reported out favorably at
once. Crawford's committee then
voted to favorably report the Jones
bill, and it is of peculiar significance
that every Democrat on that commit
tee, save one, who voted for such
action was denied denomination this
year.
Crawford soon realized his bill was
doomed for defeat and when the ad
illustrations measure came up fol
second reading he sought to amend il
to include the vital provisions of the
Jones bill. He was told by Speaker
, Cook that he had entered into g
private agreement" not to permi,
| <o ho Id
second reading.
: How 1t Was Done.
, Now right here, l want to tell you
folks that under the constitution OF
this state you are entitled to repre-
sentation in the assembly, and under
5 the rules Of the house all bills shall
be subject to amendment on second
reading" shouted Crawford, but
was denied the right to represent yol
when | attempted to exercise my priv
ilege to present amendments to the
| joke primary bill on it's second read
, , ing. Cook finally told me he would
= permit the offering of amendments or
third reading, which can not be done
without unanimous consent, and tina
was the best l could get out Of him
or course you know what happened tt
, my amendment on third reading. DE-
you think such procedure strange
!. Well, nothing was strange in tina
r house! Why they even passed reso
luton to suspend the constitution
which was offered by a member will
two or three drinks ahead"
Crawford then Informed his audi
, ence that Speaker Cook in private
life had conducted teachers em
r ployment bureau and maintained clos
t relations with many of the count.
l superintendents of school, so Crawford
2 was not greatly surprised when Cool
3 had a bill introduced extending tn
) term of office as superintendent tw'
years, with the request that it b.
passed as "a special favor to him. l
!, was passed.
Wants a Chance.
"Now Governor RalstOn wants SOM
scurilous hound to present some spe
y y cific evidence against this man Cool
:, this pet of his said Crawford.
:, u, "All right, l can offer it to him.
told him once l would present it il
q the presence of Cook, when he aske'
r me and some other members if W.
l. would do so, but so far the governo
J. mas never given me or the other mem
e oers an opportunity to do this.
d LAS speaker of the last house o
z representatives charge Mr.. Cook wit
d violating the constitution of the stat
S in denying it's people the right to fre
t representation. 1 charge him wit
disfranchising the people of this stat
v in having passed bill extending tn
q terms of certain class of public o1
IT flcers without permitting the peopl
e to exercise their constitutional right
S at the ballot box; l charge him wit
y being instrumental in violating on
q of the principal pledges of the Demo
t. cratic party to the people, direc
y primary law, pledge which Governo
q Ralston said had to be fulfilled if tn
2.
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