Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
REFERENDUM ON
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Assemblyman Nolan Wants PEG.
pie to Pass on Proposition.
URGES VOTE IN APRIL, 1920
Measure Aimed to Keep Members of
Each Political Party Within Its
Own Primaries Offered
in House.

Madison. - ASSemDlymal Nolan,
GAINESVILLE, would have the people of
the state pass on the equal suffrage
proposition at the general election in
November, 1920 He has offered
In the upper house Senator Roy p.
Wilcox. Eau Claire, has offered ref
erendum bill on the same subject, but
asks for a vote of the people at the
April election in 1919. Both measures
will be given an immediate hearing
A bill aimed at keeping the members
of each political party within its own
primaries has been offered in the
house by Assemblyman Thomas Bar
tingale. Under the present law. if the
candidates Of any party for an office
fail TO poll 10 per cent of the vote of
the party for governor at the last cleo
ton the names cannot be placed on the
ballot under party designation. The
Bartingale bill seeks to raise the per-
centage to p per cent. The measure
is also designated to compel the politi-
cal parties of the state to turn out a
larger primary vote when the candi-
dates for office on each ticket are nom
mated.
In the last general election in Wis
consin the Democratic party fell to
third place, primarily because its can
didates at the primary had failed to
poll 10 per cent So much interest was
taken in the Republican primary that
many of the Democrats did not stay in
their own primary. To force larger
attendance at the primaries. and to inn
press party managers with the neces-
sity of polling a larger vote, Assembly
man Bartingale has offered his bill.
date for any office receives less than
% per cent of the vote he must run as
an independent" and not as a regular
party candidate.
Both marketing bills will be offered
in the legislature this week. Senator
Skogmo will offer the measure drafted
by the special committee which inves-
tigated the subject. The Equity sOci-
ety expects to have its measure ready
before the end of the week. Extensive
public hearings will be held by the
committee in state affairs in each
house.
Senator Timothy Burke of Green
Bay is planning to re-Offer his meas
ure for a dedication of the new $7,200,-
600 capitol building at Madison now
that the war is over. The date of the
dedication of the new state capitol
building, impressive details of which
had just been planned when the Uni
ted States entered the war, will prob
ably be postponed pending the return
of Wisconsin's gallant soldiers, accord
ing to G. d. Mack, state engineer.
The most fitting memorial that can
be erected to the soldiers of Wisconsin
who participated in the world war
would be the erection of armOries for
them"
This was a statement of Adjt Gen.
Orlando HOlway. For a quarter Of a
century Adjutant General HOlway has
been connected with the Wisconsin Ma
tiOnal Guard. At the last session of
legislature he urged a bill for the erec-
ton of armOries in different cities of
the state. He points out that in many
cities the Wisconsin National Guard
which fought so ,bravely in France, had
rented armories, and some of these
were of Il ramShackle character. Those
who want to do something for the boys
should give something to help toward
the erection of armOries.