THE fJECHASSA INDEPENDENT
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Stanton secretary. Upon motion the
call was approved.
Upon motion it was carried that
Messrs. Fero, Stanton and Johnston
be and they are hereby appointed a
committee to selectand procure dele
gates and alternates to attend th na
tional convention to he held at Spring
field. 111., on Julv 4. 1904.
- Upon motion it was further carried
that the aforesaid committee haved
power to make all arrangements nec
essary as to transportation, etc., and
to see that this state is fully repre
sented at that convention.
No further business appearing the
meeting adjourned. ,
D. M. S. FERO, Chairman.
F. W. STANTON, Secretary.
New York, N. Y., April 20, 1904.-
Michigarr Election Law Ng: n
(Mr. McBride's letter came shortly
before the St Louis meeting, at a
time when the senior editor was ab
sent in New York and the associate
had his hands full of Old Guard en
rollment work. It was crowded out,
unfortunately, in the mass of work
on hand; but, aside from one para
graph, is timely yet.
Mr. McBride's criticism of. the
straw ballot is only partially just.
The ballot expressly stated that it
was in no way official. A jusj, ballot
for official use must either be abso
lutely blank or have the names ap
pearing on it secured through some
method of nominating. It is true that
the preponderance of Nebraska votes
gave Allen a greater lead than he
otherwise might Jiave had; but the
general sentiment - for Watson was
neither local nor "forced." Associate
Editor.)
Editor Independent: , You have re
quested communications regarding the
election laws of. .states. .Here in MichH
. lgan we have an excellent system for
' elections based on the Australian plan
' (or Belgian Associate Editor). Ail
'party tickets are printed on one offi
' cial ballot, precedence being given ac
cording to party vote at last preced
ing general . election. Each party
; adopts a "vignette" which is printtd
at the head of its ticket on the official
ballot. A square appears under the
party name and vignette, and befoie
the name of each nominee. A cross
marked by the voter in the caption
square denotes that he votes for all
nominees on that ticket, except such
as he opposes by placing ; the cross
also in the square in front of the
name of an opposing nominee on some
other ticket . . .
: It is not necessary to, strike out the
name on his ticket of one he opposes,
provided he votes for an opposing
candidate; " but if he votes for more
than one his vote for that office is lost
Any voter may refrain lrom:desIgnat-
ing his party as above, and then will
be credited ,with a vote only for each
nominee 'for whom he designates his
"choice by cross 4n-the square before
his name, provided -he-votes for but
one candidate for each office. ; , . .
We have no definite general system
of nomination. The party caucus' and
convention system prevails and is to
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far recognized by law as to have leg
islation surrounding it intended for
Its protection against corrupting in
fluences. Since .1898 the republican
party has been pledged by its several
state conventions to favor primary
reform, or the direct nomination of
candidates for elective office by vote of
the people in the primaries; but this
pledge has been brazenly violated at
two legislative sessions under the op
position of leading politicians.
In 1901, however, the city of Grand
Rapids secured a charter provision
whieh gave to us the direct nominat
ing system, which has been applied
at three municipal campaigns and has
proven far more satisfactory than the
old caucus and convention system,
which It abolished. In 1903 a similar
system . was enacted for Detroit and
Wayne county, for Muskegon City,
and for the whole -of Kent county, of
which Grand Rapids Is the county
seat County nominations will . be
made next fall, for this county under
the new system, for tne first time.
The sentiment in favor of primary
reform has steadily gained the. sup
port of the people throughout the
state until now it" is' generally con
ceded thejteform will be adopted at
the legislative session of 1905 for the
whole state providing for the direct
nomination of all elective officers, in
cluding governor and members of
congress, with probably a provision
for party choice at the ballot box of
candidates for United States senator,
to be elected by the legislature.
Under our charter provision any
one desiring to become a candidate
for party ' nomination will, a certain
time prior to the primary election, le
with the city clerjc his declaration,
stating the party - whose suffrage he
seeks, and pay the clerk a candidate
feeof $15 for general city office, and
$5 " for ward office, or-supervisor at
large, whereupon 'his name wJH be
printed by the club upon the party
ticket in the order of his declaration,
under the title of the office to which
he aspires. A separate ticket will te
made up for each party, so that no
voter -can- vote for candidates named
on ,more..than one ticket . r n -'. ,.'
The primary election is held twenty
days prior to the general charter
election, and conducted practically ac
cording ,to the general election law.
The successful candidate of each par
ty for each office, so nominated, Is
named on the general official ballet,
under the proper title of office. And
the election is had according' to the
general , law above outlined.
The politician has not been rele
gated to the rear by this system, al
though the people seem to think that
he has. He flocks together in his
clique - between election -times and
plans for the future. The clique in
each party chooses its favorites for
each candidature, and using the par
ty papers, always under clique influ
ence, boosts its candidates In proper
shape without disclosing the motive
power to the people. The masses of
the party have been so long accus
tomed to hare nominations made for
them that they wait yet, and the
clique managers to create a rivalry
between two or three of its own for
each office, and to bo Interest the vot
ers just before the primary election,
In the skam contest that they align
themselves with one or another of
thwe contestants, and ignore the
claims of the "Innocents" who seek
office without the aid of the ellqu. In
this way the Influence of the politic
ian remains paramount even under
our reform system because the aver
age voter la a follower of tha leader
LDd never an Independent thinker and
actor.
When a general Utnte shall have
Wn enacted In Michigan In 13ft. for
dlrtit nomination, we will li sure
to pe th hand of the poll Ur lan In It.
The mauMfp demand a general primary
lm eltrt kgUUtorg MedRfHl to It,
ptttl tlieri tave the work of fnrmnUt
Inr the measure to the legislature.
Thle rr!v, eg pitch, never formulate
n lmiorUnt ptaiute. That work U
done hr rJHIranf. and the smilhr
politicians that make up the lexUla
tlve bol--thp rotiittv piipervlnorg pro
moted to .the Irghlatlfe hll itrept
the work of the rrarthnl politMan,
ant) lepiltie It, Th poor people mutt
ran
Hello! Mr. Stallion Barer! "Oet next to lame." He baa his competitors and buyers on tb
run. TneJr are headed for laga's Baras. His "Swell Black Boya" please all horsemen. lama
Stallions are sure "Peackas and Creaan." lams hypnotizes bis mXtty buyers with "SewaatkMsal"
Stallioas at "llva and let Uva prlcap." Owing to' bad craps in France, lams bought bis horsea at
ratoawalp low prices for Spot Cask. ' -
- - If yoo will visit lame and pay- eash or rive a bankable note, yon will sura bay a Stallion, ac
fans Mils theaa, and all mnat positively be sold. lams Stallions won the Swoepstakes and first
prizes in their classes at Nebraska 1903 State Fair. ( Had a walk-away). Then laaas kept oat or
the skow rtmg his targost and choicest two, three and iour-year-olds. Showed none f bis Special
Trala of 100 Stallions received August 23rd, 1U03. They are all in the pink of condition. He baa
Gold JKedal winners from France, Belgium and Germany at 50 cents on the dollar. They are al
HERD HEADERS
Viaitorg and buyers throng his barn and say: Hello, I'm from Illinois. I'm Ely from Mis
souri. 6sy, lama has tke best horse show I ever saw. Yes; see those lour 2,000-lb. two-year-olds
lam la a hot advertiser, but be has bones better than he advertises. Hello, Mr, I'm from Iowa.
I'm Zeke lrom Ohio. Say, this is the boat string; of 5talllons I ever saw; they are sore pcachaa
and cream. See those six 2,200-lb. three-year-olds all alike too. Zeke, they are sure "the wlde-as-a-wag-on"
sort nattier, look, this is lama great shew of horsea. His horses are all' black
and big ton fellows. He always has the best. Samanthy, here Is lams' show herd. Everybody
wants to aoa hie horsea. We came from California to see lams' s,ioo-lb. pair of stallions. That's
them; bettor than the pictures. They are sure the greatest pair in the U. A Yes, and worth
f-olng 3,000 miles to aee. Hello, Louie, here Is lams' 3,400-lb. Sweepstakes Porcheroa dtallloa
over alL He is a "Hummer!" Say, "Doc." I don't wonder at hi i competitors wanting this horaa
barred out of show rings. He is a sare winaer aavwhere lams always has good ones and in
sbapeV Hello, Bob; see those Illinois men buying that 2,200-lb. three-year-old, a "topnotcber" at
$1,200 much better than twenty of my neighbors gave 1,000'lor. Kitty, see those Mnecoachercof
IamsV Qeorgle, dear, they era lovely ; they can look into the second-story window. They step
high, lire whirlwinds.'' Yes, Kitty; rams has mora registered dralt and coach Stallions than
any man la the U. 5., and all good one. Georgia dear, buy your nert Stallion of lams. His
horses are much better than the one you paid those Ohio uteri $4,000 for, and lams only asks $1,0W
and lljOO tor "toppers." laces has reseryed lor spring trade, ;
117 IM PErclien;as,;Gjlgins ad talrcrs 117
9Q per cent blacks; 50 per cent ton horses lams speaks the languages, buys direct from breeders.
pa no ouyer, salesmen or interpreter. Has no tnre to ton men as partners to snare profits
wih. His tweaty-two years successful baaiaesa makes him a safe man to do business with,
lama guarantees to sell you a better stallion at St.ooo and ti.oo than are belnir sold to stock .
companies tor 92,500 to 91,000 by slick salesmen, or pay yonx fare and $23 per day for trouble to
see tb m, you the judge -lams pays horses' freight and buyers' tare, gives 60 per cent breeding
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have years of patience to sfecure a
satisfactory primary election: law, or,
growing weary in the effort, allow
the politiciari to secure a return to the
caucus and convention, system, for
under our present plan of party gov
ernment and procedure, the masses
have little, if anything, to do in party
nominations or legislation. "
The people's party must destroy
clique . influence and domination by
resorting to the Cincinnati plan. "We
must have but one more nominating
convention," and that convention must
formulate a working system of party
government and procedure based on
the Cincinnati plan, and sustained by
direct-contribution, or we wfll do
nothing to enable the masses to es
cape clique influence.
We have no such working system
now. The Cincinnati plan is at best
but a fundamental law or constitution
recognized only by one faction, and
never adopted by the other.- To make
it operative the whole party in na
tional convention must adopt it r and
not only this, but must formulate a
system of rules under It for the par
ticular method of organization - and
procedure in each political division
from the voting precinct up to tne national-organization,
under which the
action-of the party in every part will
emanate from the voter In his home
precinct In this way we will compel
members, and not of cliques, party
workers. '
We must ! carefully guard agambl
official suggestion, which often carries
with it a dominating influence that
results in harm. That was the chief
complaint of the mld-roaderg against
Mr. Butler. He always suggested re
sults when he called upon the national
committee for a vote on propositions,
and this led "his friends into support
ing the suggested result. This com
plaint was frequently laid before him,
butiie never abandoned the practice.
Mr. De France has unwittingly fallen
into the same fault. While doing a
wonderfully excellent work in enroll
ment of the Old Guard, he hag been
urged to consider the referendum plan
of direct nominations, and to test its
efficiency. Mr, Streeter does not think
that Mr. De Prance to taking the
right coarse In making this test with
out completing hi "division by ev
ens" system, which has never been
adopted by the larger winp; of the
party. My complaint about this test
vote is that Mr. D France suggest
the possible nominee, while he ought
to have sent out the ballot blank and
with no tnugestlon.
This 1 Mr. Hiitler s falling, and ti e
failing we complain of under our irl
mory reform t barter. Hhould the Old
Utiartl generally vote the teat ballot,
punifoue naiued thereon will rct-rlve
the highest vote, and !tm a for
tnkdatti ramiidate before the oatioaal
ronvvntlon. This was Just the result
of the Cincinnati ronferenrp of mid
roader held September 5-, ISM anJ
which m controlled ty frlrnda of
IUrUr and Ponae-ilr, Though nearly
half of that smalt gathering oppottrd
Tho Hold IV niton
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The best and most convenient low priced
house In the eity. Rates 1 per day and up.
making even a tentative nomination
of candidates for president and vice
president, and protested against such
action, such nomination of Barker and
Donnelly had the force practically of a
permanent nomination in' the regular
national convention held at Cincinnati
nearly two years later. It centered the
minds of mid-roaders on these nomi
nees as leaders, and rendered hopeless
all other candidates and their sup
porters. " " .1 t
How much more would such action
influence the members of the part
under a direct vote system!
We must have a national conven
tion to settle our differences, unite
the factions harmoniously, adopt a
wise platform of principles that will
appeal to the good sense, of all re
formers, nominate men , of unques
tioned ability and integrity ( for presi
dent and vice president, perfect a
thorough national organisation ' and
open the way for a complete organiza
tion m every state, and at the same
time take stens to the formulation of
a system of party government ! and
procedure, based on 'the Cincinnati
plan, for the future. ;
I suggest, therefore, that no hastv
action of a national committee may
be taken in these matters of organi
zation and platform; that at the na
tional committee meeting two com
mittees be appointed and Instructed as
follows: .
1. A committee on platform and
resolutions to formulate and present
to the national convention a direful
declaration of principle.,
2. A committee on nnrnntzatinn to
formulate and present to such con
vention a practical working system.
In harmony with the Cincinnati olan
and based on It, for direct party gov
ernment and action.
3. That the work of both rnmmit.
tees be printed and published at least
thirty Uai before the national con
vention.
Tb thl ind. and to enahle nnrmltntn
tn state havlne a sen era I sUta elec
tion next fall to nominate candidate
at the same time when they chooso
delegate to the national convention,
1 suggest that the national convention
be held the week of June 13. and all
kilt b state conveutlona not mora than
twenty days prior to that date, when
the published platform and plan of
organliatlon may be fully dlscusied.
and Instruction theron given.
jam Li is, Mi isiiinn.
J, If Mathewn, nipley county. Mar
"Kindly enroll my name a one of
the Old fiuard. Find enclosed &a
to hlp pay wear end tear,"