The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-18
RICHARDS ADHERENT SAYS
COERCION WAS USED TO
PASS NEW PRIMARY BILL

~" $3.50 - g. - ~
their threats and succeeded, only ar
ter INDUCING IN such malicious pra-
tees, IN circumvcnting the copstitu-
ton and the rights of the people. by
lacking Oh the emergency clause 20
prevent the question frem being sub
mitted to a vote of tho people. 1t
was this emergency clause which
was most s~trenuQusly fought by the
defenders of the peoples rights. They
emphatically oojected t. having the
referendum privilege denied. cspce-
tally IS il affected a law enacted by
the people. It was clearly shown
that 20 c.nersency existed. as by the
very terms OF the bill which they
sought 10 enact. the law could not
so into operation before Jan. Isl,
1916, while ii the bill passed with
out the emergency clause, it would
automatically become Il law on July
LIST, 1915; but most of the members
OF the legislature We're defiant. They
We're benz on carrying out the orders
OF. the machine an ITO Hell with the
Constitution" We're the words they
used.
Senator Mclean. of Day county
showed me a letter which he had re
ceived from the Attorney General in
which he, The Attorney General,
VouchsafeG the right OF the legisla-
ture to commit this crime upon the
people. Thus, The deed was done
aid the question is asked once more,
What IRE You going to do about it
A Constitutional power which the
people reserved to themselves has
been wantonly stamped under foot
and political chicanery prevails in
stead. The initiative and referendum
is rendered absolutely worthless and
the politicians and spoilsmen have
enacted a law under which they can
manipulate things their own way. In
matters of party government we have
retrograded about 10 years and are
at the mercy Of the state machine
with their spoils, unless you do some
thing about if.
There are two ways by which YOU
can rebuke these lawless servants:
LIST, by restoring the primary law in
an amended fern. which you can dc
al the next general election by vot-
ing yes. md, by defeating for of
flee any man who had a hand in the
hra@en act of usurping your constitu-
tional rights, il he is again a candi-
date.
Below will be found the roll cal
and you can determine for yourself
who were true and faithful servants
of the people: In the Senate, the fol
loving arc those Who voted against
the n]eonles rjgbts and for the re
neal
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nose WHO No'eu 10 "ptolu wy
CONSTITUTION aho AGAINST 'Ae iNpea
were;
Theodore Berndt, j. l.. Browne
Robert Daley, w. II. Frost. O. 5
Hagen, w. H. M~cClintock. John {
Stoner. Mark Shcafe, Jr., c. p. Stu
tenroth.
Tbos absent and MOI voting were
!. d.. Hale. u l.. printup. +. e
Walker.
In the Horse tbe following ar,
those who voted against the p]eople';
rights ana for Inc renoa1.
n. w Andersen ]. s. Anderson
IN \. Baldwiu. A ". Bartels G. O
Berdabl. W,n. C. Ressler. Lewis Rem
son II. A Bielski. /. II. Birch. chas
Boreson. w. ID. Buckholz. C. A. Burl
hart. Il. l.. Cole. w. III. Cox. r. j
Courtney. GUY M. Crawford. II. c
lSolem. j. G. Stein. c a. Cbristopher
SON O. A wanso Holm Widlon. G
IG. Tidland. II. d. Thomson y r.
lThomnson. O. s Alber
Dahl Frank Cib1v i II Croca 6
IGreen Peter GudahI p G HAN n
!. Harrison. u. HARDY. !. NJ. uamu
Fred pteglin. Jacob JJouc,x I I
.lHowe e. G. Johnson. NJ. d.. John
son. ". q. KNIGHT. G. n. kennard