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FEBRUARY B, 198ft'
The Commoner.
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Governor Garvin's Speech.
! Following Is the addreEs of Gov
ernor Garvin of Rhode Idland, deliv
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3S YEARS A STANDARD PIANO."
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democratic club. January 11:
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democratic; whilst Vermont, Massa
chusetts and Rhode Island were in
he whig column, Maine, New Hamp
shire and Connecticut inclined to Jef-
ersonian democracy. At that time
he population was more rural and
ore native conditions which one
jyould naturally expect to have fav-
red whig supremacy.
Notwithstanding the increase of
rban and manufacturing and foreign
rn population, all of which changes
ould count for democratic gains,
w England today is solidly republi-
. How can such an apparent ano
v be explained? Wholly, I believe,
the "increased nowei of money in
'ctions, accompanied, as it. has been,
by the drift of nearly all. men oi
Wfelfch into the republican party.
The influence of money In deter-
ning the result of an election Is al-
t unbounded. In tne first place
daily ifewspapers of our large
es are great business en crprises,
owned by wealthy men or cor-
ations, and find their largest prof-
in the advertising patronage or
men and corporations engaged
ther lines of business. Very nat-
Jy nearly all of these papers in
. England are republican In their
ics, or, if nominally independent
democratic, they are but half-
Ttedly so, having a bias, uncon-
us very likely, towards the views
their customers and associates, of
wealthy class.
e press is an influence at work
the year round to mould public
iment; and most persons who de
1 unon one daily newspaper for
r knowledge of public events, in-
bly are influenced by the views
lculcates.
t money has another far more
t, and no less potent, influence
the result of an election. I refer
its power of purchasing a strong
organization, "The cohesive
sr of public plunder is spoken of,
It is trifling as compared with the
ion whiqh is effected by an abun-
supply of funds placed at the ab-
pjte disposal of a shrewd party
ager. The many ways of using
paign funds I need not specify
frngth. Clubs are sustained, work-
rare hired to qualify voters and
i get them to the polls, lavish ad-
sing and .spectacular public meet-
It are paid for, teams for getting
the vote acd a multitude of ether
timate expenses" are provided.
pubt In a large majority of New
,nd towns the result of an elec
ta determined beforehand by the
edge tnat the republican local
Ization is well supplied with
and that the democrats are
tute.
any doubt exists in the minds of
managers of the dominant party
o tne resun oi uu uiucuon u an
lattve district, then without hesif
n illegitimate methods are calleds
use. to-wit: direct bribery. and,
r . . ' .- . - -
at Is more effective in populous Io-
ities, the corruption of election offl-
ls and of active members of the
ocratic organization.
s it strange under these circum-
nces that the rich republican party
permanent control of every. New
gland state? Only sporadically, at
ng intervals, by a fluke, as it were
fluke, by the way, which has not
ppened in any New England state
r many yearc can an opposition
rty ever get control of the state's
lovcrnment.
Nevertheless, and .notwithstanding
ts perpetual minority, the people of
ew England at heart are democratic.
very -state, every dtyl nearly if not
uite every town, and certainly every
riy, contains a majority of voters
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who believe in democratic, principles.
A very large majority of tho repub-,
licans of New England are in senti-4
ment democrats. They are opposed to,
the policy carried out by their stato
governments, and regard the most
important acts of legislation to bo
wrong, They rejoice in every veto of
a party measure and wish they were
more numerous.
The truth is that the mou:ed men
who supply the campaign funds, and
they are very few when compared with
he whole number of republicans, also
lietate the nolicv of tne nartv lney
e to it that legislation is In their
omi interest and not in tna of tne
lank and file of their party.
It would senm strange that, even
with the unlimited use of money, a
party organization hostile to the .peo
ple in almost Its every act, can re
tain permanently the suppo;t of a
plurality of the voters. Anf yet it
does so succeed, aided no doubt by
race prejudice, partly spirit, and d
machinery of elections which invites
and makes effective corrupt oractices.
Whilst it is true that the domo-i
cratic party need not expect perma
nent control of any New England
state under present conditions, yet as
believers in government by the people,
we need not despair. John Stuart
Mill -held that man's wi.ll is free only
to the extent that he can change his
environment. However that may 'be,
I am convinced that the one way in
which New England democracy can
acquire liberty is through an altera
tion of its constitutional environ
ment. Although we cannot under
present conditions carry elections, we
can change our state constitutions.
In order to do so, however, in surh
a way as effectually to change the en-
vironment, we must agre"e upon a sin
gle amendment sufficiently fundamen
tal to destroy the dominance of money
in elections and to substitute there
for the real will of the majority.
An amendment which will accom
plish this result and which, because
being "in the air," is easy of at
tainment, is what we call in Rhode
Island the, constitutional initiar've.
By that term we mean a constitu
tional provision which will enable a
reasonable minority of tho legal vot
ers, say 5 per cent of the total quali
fied electors of the state, tc propose
amendments to the state constitution.
At present, as you are fully aware, all
propositions of amendment must
come through the state legielaturcs,
which is another way of saying must
meet the approval of the monopolists
who furnish the campaign funds of
the dominant parly. But pub'ic senti
ment even now is a mighty power,
and can force any legislature to do
some one thing upon which ithaa de
termined. The trouble has been that
public opinion has almost Invariably
concentrated about some minor and
unimportant reform, -which, when ac
complished, left things very much as
they were before.
At present, however, there seems to
be a wide-spread wish, which ought
to be stimulated, In favor of-direct
legislation by the people, or, a& it
is called .in Switzerland, the initia
tive an'd referendum. For constitu
tional amendments we already have
the referendum it only remains,
therefore, for us to amend our state
constitutions eo as to grant the pop
ular 'initiative.
The power 3f money in elections is
not peculiar to- New England. With
scarcely an exception the monied
party Is In1 control of every state.
What has long been true of many of
the states is more and more becoming
true of all, and now Is fast becoming
true, of the nation as a whole. It Is
a gerlous question, and one pregnant
with grave foreboding, whether un
der existing conditions the democracy
of the nation will ever again have a
real representative in the presidential
chair. In my opinion it is very
doubtful.
The wealth of the .country, almost
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