The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1915-11-10
State Senator Replies to Governors s
Letter Stating that He Favors
Issuing Call at an
Early Date
MANY MEASURES
NEED ATTENTION
Twine Plant and Mining at Prison
Proposed; Revise Election and
Road Laws; Strongly Op-
posed to Usury

senator 1nOmaS j. O'Nell or CHICK
asha, has written Governor Williams
in response TO the letter of inquiry
copies OF which the governor is send
ing out to all members of the house
and senate OF the legislature, that he
favors calling the legislative body to
gether in extraordinary session at ar
early date. In answering the Cover
nor that he favors the calling OF the
legislative bodies together, Senator
O'Neil, in his letter, conveyed the rea
sons why he favors the assembling OF
the legislature.
In an interview with the Express
this morning Senator O'Neil said that
he favored the call because he real
ized that we had upon our statute
books sections which should be re
pealed and other sections which
should be amended with as little delay
as possible.
The senator said that he believed
the men composing the personnel OF
the present house and senate were in
the main good and true and patriotic
citizens OF the state and that, being
such. none OF them would advocate
measures which would cause delay
and burden the state with unneces-
pary expense. "The present legisla'
ture." Senator O'Neil stated. has as
It's members men in both the house
and the senate who are in hearty ac-
cord with the administration; they
have had experience as legislators and
can and will modify all unsatisfactory
laws in the shortest possible time with
little inconvenience to themselves and
the minimum OF expense to the tax
payers"
In speaking OF measures which he
favored Senator O'Neil said that he
was in favor OF twine manufacturing
plant to be owned by the state and
operated by the convicts OF the states
penal institutions. He was also, he
said in favor OF any other industries
which might be operated by the wards
Of the state so long as none Of these
called for the class Of labor which
would in any manner interfere with
or become a competitor with the free
or Square" labor winning the bread
of life by honest toll. Along this line,
he said that he favored the develop
ment OF the coal lands belonging to
the state. Such coal he averred could
be mined with convict labor and used
for fuel and for manufacturing pur-
poses by the state. thereby saving
material sum to the taxpayers as well
as finding employment for those who
are doing terms OF penal servitude.
'T also favor" said the senator,
material changes in our election
laws I believe we should have cleo
ton laws--and should enforce those
laws after we have them-that would
reduce to the minimum all frauds and
taints of dishonesty. I believe the
preferential primary will prove in the
main one Of the solutions of the cleo
tions In this state. The present pri-
mary system does not admit of the
choice of the people being the man,
in most instances, selected to serve
the general constituency. With the
nresent system the fellow who can
gather together theA biggest bunch
walks into the nomination, not as
majority candidate, but as the plural
itv fellow. And often-far too often
in fact-the least desirable is the man
chosen. The preferential primary
would amend this situation OF AFFAIRS
and would eliminate first one and then
the other until the men who are the
choice of the true majority of the
voters. are chosen
When asked IL he favored drawing
party lines at primary elections, the
senator stated in the most unequiv'
ocal terms that he did. He said that
those of any party had no moral, nor
any other right to interfere with the
workings or to cast their votes in the
urinary of an opposition party.