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Newspaper Page TextBILL FOR SECOND CHOICE FAVORED Supporters Declare Measure Is in Interest cf Popular Candidates. BAD MEN LOSE ADVANTAGE Bole by Keal Majority I Object Sought Mature .Consideration' (ilFn la Preparation Bow rrroan Xbt Indorser. That Speaker Rusk't bill, prorldlna tor the oainlna- of a second choice at a primary election, la a meritorious mm cr which should bo atcned by OoT nor Wet. Is stronjrly uriced by Btate Senator Slnnott. of The Ialles. author of the bill, and by Representative Gill, one of the prime movers In the passage of the measure. A atron denial la also made that State Senator Bower man fathered tha bill, or even sup ported It. That the sole object desired by the framers of the measure Is the crystal lisation of party sentiment are facts which have been reiterated during the past few days, or rather since It has been Intimated that Governor West mlaht exercise his prerogative of veto to kill tha bllL A alitor Explain BUI. Interviewed yesterday at bis home In The IaJle by a representative of The Orea-on. Senator Slnnott. author of the Ru.lt bill, said: "My object In helplnc to form and pass the second-choice blil was to afford a means whereby. In the party primary, tha prevalltn ptrty sentiment could concentrate Itself effectively and to pre vent It from belne; uselessly divided in eopport of several candidates. "A concrete Illustration of the object! and purposes of the bill may be taken from the last primary nomination, where in Mr. Bowerman was nominated for Governor. It aiimlts of no controversy that In the Inst primary the prevailing aentlment In the party was strongly anti-assembly. Hut the opposition to tha assembly candidate weakened be cause Its strength waa scattered In the support of the various . anti-assembly candidates. Had wa then a second choice ballot. Mr. Dlmlck would probably have been nominated and elected aa Governor on the Republican ticket. Another cod reason for tha second-choice ballot '.s that It In a measure tends to deprive the larce centers of population of the ad vantage which they now have, under the plurality nominating system Second Cliolce Often Wisest. -further. I think It la safe to say that ene's second choice Is often bis wisest, for the reason that hie first choice may be dictated solely by local, personal or selfish motive. Ona often vote hla first choice for tha reason that the can didate la a local man. or be Is friendly to the candidate, or be expecta favors. On the contrary, when looking about for a se.-ond choice, tha voter Is more apt to select a candidate whom be thinks la most fitted for the office, uninfluenced by any personal or local prejudice. "This bill waa not framed In the in terest or to the Injury of any aspirant to office. No one's personality waa made an lasuo ona way or the other. I per sonally felt In tha bumble part which I had In drawing and passing the bill that the bill would Inure to the bene fit of what mla-ht be termed, for want cf a better definition, the progressiva element In tha Kepubllcan party In Ore gon. "Tha so-called machine element in the party always see to It that only ona raxHiinaie iprrimii' vl i" .iv...t.w i Is flared upon tha primary ballot, and the whole strength or tna macr.ine ele ment la concentrated upon that one can 1Me. On the contrary, on account of lack of coheeton and organisation, the opposition to tha machine usually de velops two or mora candidate who di vide the opposition and prevent concen tration against the machine. Machine Will Lose Strength. "Now I think tha second choice bill will In a great measure bring about a concentration of tha opposition to the machine element, because If the machine cannot command the majority of the votea for Us candidate, the combined Orel and second choice votes will Invar iably defeat tha machine. W. 8. L'Ren told me at Salem that iterator Bourne bad written to one of the Representatives urging the pnsaire cf a second-choice Mil. but Mr. U'Ren thought the compulsory feature of the bill unconstitutional. Without this com pulsory feature the bill would be a faroe and a deception and permit of all kinds of Jugglery." Colonel K. Hofer, of Salem, antl-aasem-bly candidate for tha Republican nomi nation for Ciorrnor at the September. Jl. primaries, who was Interested In the passage of the aecond-cholce bill be cause he believes It will have a tendency to keep the Republican party mora n- tsct. declarea jresierny iu i no uin gonlao correspondent at Salem: "Rusk's bill providing for aorond choice at primary nominating elections waa not fathered or actively supported by Senator Bowerman. It did not even receive Bowerman's favorable comment It sit fostered. developed anc" put through both bouses by antl-aserobiy Republican a. Bill Carefully Considered. "This bill was prepared by Speaker Rusk. Senator Slnnott of Hood River and Wasco. Representative GUI of Was co and Hood River, and Representative Brownhlll of Yamhill. On the Sunday afternoon before adjournment these men held a conference to decide on tha drafting of a aecond choice bl'.U The bUI was originally drafted by ex Justlca Slater, of the Supreme Court, at the request of Senator Slnnott. Sla ter worked for more than two weeks on the draft and It proved satisfactory to Slnnott. with the exception of one section. This prescribed the recording of first and second choice votes on the tally sheets. The tally sheets must be so constructed that where there Is a clear majority cf first choice votes tha second choice votes are not to be counted. When no candidate has a majority of first choice votes, then the second choice votes ar added to tha first choice to secure a majority. This apparent discrepancy In relation to the tally sheets proved to b the only rea son why Slnnott had not Introduced tha bllL As a result of tha conference men tioned that objection was overcome. Gill had another bill In mind, but ha was so busy with road legislation that he found no time to perfect It and con seonently he Joined In the conference and the good features of the Slnnott bill were Joined with the good features of the GIU bill and the Rusk bill la the result. Primary Xot Affertr. The measure does not seek to amend the primary law. In fact it Is In no manner connected wltn tb primary law. The GUI bill was copied from tha Idaho plan and the Slnnott bill was largely after the Washington Idea and the Ideas of both of these states have proved eminently satisfactory where they have been used. The conference met to adapt these ldcaa to the Oregon system and they have successfully done so In the finished product. "The four men Interested at this con ference are all champlona of the direct primary, of Statement No. 1. and of progressive policies generally. In ad dition they are all anti-assembly men and in the past, at least, they have all supported Jonathan Bourne. "It Is Just aa preposterous to suppose that tha bill, as charged by the Oregon Journal, was fathered by Jay Fower man. In fact. Mr. Fowerman did not favor the bllL I discussed the ques tion with him and he told me frankly that he would be in favor of some amendment to the primary law which would result In a majority being re quired to elect, but he did not favor the second choice, nor as far aa I know, ever has, Bowerman Would Have Iiost. "In fact it Is plain, to- anyone ac quainted with the workings of practical politics, that it would be manifestly the position for Bowerman to take to be opposed to such a bill. During- the last campaign. If there had been such a law in force, either Grant B. Dlmlck or myself would have been the Repub lican nominee. Mr. Bowerman did not have a majority of the first choice votes and as he was the only assembly candidate in the field, all of those who voted for Mr. Dlmlck or myself would have placed their second choice, with an anti-assembly candidate. Conse quently Mr. Bowerman would have met defeat at the primaries." K. M. GUI. Representative or asco and Hood River in the lower house at Salem, who waa one of the prime mov ers in the passage of the second choice bill, resents the inslnuaUon that It waa rushed through the Senate and lower house. He wrote a letter yesterday to The Oregonlan. In which he expressed himself strongly to the effect that the new law will result In tha giving of nomlnationa to the best candidates. The full text of Mr. GUI'! letter fol lows: "I notice that a part of the pres la calling the Rusk second-choice bill an Iniquitous measure. On the contrary, the bill Is a people'a power measure. Representative Mariner is entirely right when he Bays that Senator Slnnott and myself did most of the work of drafting the bill. We were ably assisted by Speaker Rue and E. Hofer. of the Salem Capital-Journal. Kvery one of these men ware Insurgent Republicans who have been consistently etandlng for the Initiative and referendum, the direct primary and the people's laws. ' III II Tasscd Openly. "The charge that there waa fraud In the passage of the bill Is not tru?. It parard the Senate with amendments at a lata hour. The House had not adjourned, though there was but a email number present when the House concurred In the amendments. Everything waa done open ly and above board. "In my opinion, the aecond choice bill Is the most important measure In be half of the people that waa adopted by this Legislature. Let me Illustrate Its working by calling attention to the primary election last September. There were four candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Two of these were avowed anti-assembly candidates. Dlmlck and Hofer. Bowerman was the assembly candidate and Abraham stood for a restricted asserablv. I'nder the Rusk bill tha anti-assembly Statement No. 1 people would have voted for Dlmlck and Hofer for both first and second choice, those voting Arst choice for Dlmlck would be likely to vote second choice for Hofer. and those votlnir first choice for Hofer would vote second choice for Dlmlck. But under the provisions of the bill those voting first choice votes for Bowerman and Abraham must cast their second choice votes for someone. Bowerman could get but very few second choice votes any way we look at It. Abra ham would nrobably have drawn a good many second choice votes, but I believe that Dlmlea; would nave got ten Just as many second choice votes from the men voting first choice votes for Bowerman. with the result, in my I opinion, that Dlmlck would have re celved the nomination. THE MORSiyO OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911. " -aaaassaaaaanaasaasaaMsaassssMssasaaaaisMsassssMsatn I rassasaaaaaaaseaaaassBssaaaaBaaaaBaaaaaaa s-aaaaai LABORERS' BILL CHANGED, PUSSES Compensation Act, Shorn of First-Aid, Accepted by Washington House. VOTE ON IT IS 69 TO 24 Effect of Bill Illustrated. "Anyway. It would have been Dlm lck or Hofer who would have received the nomination, because the majority of the members of tha Republican party were opposed to the assembly. "I will give another Illustration. Suppose three good men equally well known and well liked were candidates for Sheriff and that there waa a fourth man who waa a candidate of the lower elementa of the community. Under our present primary the bad man would have a decided advantage over the good men. The good men of a community are nearly always in a largo majority, but by dividing their vote they would allow the bad man to get tha nomina tion on a plurality. Under the second choice law the good citlxena of a com munity would cast no second choice votes for the bad candidate, but would cast these votea for one or'the other of the good men. The aupporters of the bad candidate would be compelled by this law to cast their second choice votea for one of the good men. So one of the good men would be nominated. This shows that the second choice pro vision would give ua better public ser vants. Thla is tha result c'ven to the clti xens of Idaho and Washlafctou. Why not avail ourselves In Oregon of the beneficial results of this lawT "The question of Bourne or anti Bourne should not enter into the dis cussion of this measure. I do not be lieve It will Injure his chancca of suc cess, but be should take his chances mriar tha law lust aa I will have to take my chances under the law If I am a candidate for any office. "The measure ahould be favored, be cause It will give the people mora power to name the kind of man they want for an office. It ahould be favored because It will get better men Into office than our present system puts Into office. It only amends the present law by giving the people an additional power of discrimination in the nomination of their public serv ants. "Some day we will go a step further and hold two elections, the first of which will be a tryout. those receiving a majority of all votea being declared electeL In all cases where no candi date gets a majority, the two high est candldataa will b nominees at a succeeding election." There is a difference of opinion among members of the Multnomah County delegation whether Governor West should sign or veto the aecond choice bill. Representative Fouta and Senator Kellaher favor a veto. Fouta on the ground that the bill la unconstitutional In that It provide that a primary elec tion ballot on which both first and sec ond choice is not Indicated may not be counted. Others Interviewed were Representa tive Cole. Senator Nottingham, Repre sentative Clyde and Representative Cottel. The tlrst three were unanimous in f-e belief that the Rusk bill should receive the Governor's sanction. "The bill came up on the last day of the session and I told the man sitting next to me that I would vote for it. be lieving that Governor West would veto It If It were, not right." said Represen tatlce CotteL "I have a good deal of eonfldenee In Weet. He Is alert and I knew that he would knife the bill If there waa anything wrong with it- One feature I do not like la the clause dis crediting the ballot of a man who falls to mark both first and aecond choice." Belay In Consideration of Measure Is Fought, bnt Advocates Rush It to Third Keadins One Against Kate Provided. OTVTMPTA. Wash.. Feb. 13. (Special.) The House minority on the working men's compensation bill endeavored to force delay on the fl.ial vote when tha measure was taken up this afternoon and for two houra the proposed law waa under discussion. The bill, aa amended Tuesday, was passed with 6 St yeas and U nays. When the bill appeared on tha cal endar for the third reading Represen tative Qroff of King moved that it be. made a special order for next Tuesday afternoon. He said there were two other compensation measures before the Legislature and that an open hearing should be had on all. He also urged that It would be necessary to come to some agreement with the Senate to Insure the passage of the Teats bill. He questioned the sincerity of the au thor In hurrying vote on the bill when It was so probable that the measure would be defeated were consideration not given the Senate bills also. Representative Beach, of Mason, who had opposed the first-aid clause, said the House had totslly Ignored the Sen ate bills. He held that it was not fair that the Teats measure should be forced through without an open dis cussion of all bills Introduced on tha subject. Delay la Opposed. "It seems to me that this effort Is simply a move to delay and la made against the Teata bill." said French of Clark. "The gentleman from Mason County, who Is a member of the committee which haa this bill under considera tion, has Intimated that we have held some closed meetings." said Teats. "He Is not fair. He would try to Impugn our motlvea when he knows that we have held no closed meeting. Thla is a motion simply to delay in the hope of defeating the measure, disguised to give the Metcalf Senate meaaure a hearing. The Senate bill Is nothing mora than a measure In the Interest of cas ualty companies to heap more injus tice upon all concerned." Rates Fought as High. -There seems to be a persistent ef fort to keep this bill from going to vote." said Mc.N'eeley of Plorce. "I hate to aay It. but It looks like there Is something back of the opposition that has not been explained. The only thing to do Is to pass the bill and send It over to the Senate." Representative Faulkner said that he was compelled to vote against the bill, although he had but one objection to it. He said that the rate of in surance for work on Irrigation ditches and canals was entirely too high. McArdle of Jefferson read the plat form adopted by the last Republican state convention favoring employers' limited liability law. He said that he was a good party man dui am ooi think the Teata bill waa up to the measure desired In the platform. Tonight an open meeting waa held In the Senate chamber when the three compensation bills were discussed, many employers being present from all parta of the state. Rent a Wheel Chair for the Invalid-Take Them Out These Sunny Pays-SB a Month BIG TIMBER DEAL PENDING Oregon Lumber Company Would Buj Near Goldendale. OOLBESPA1.E. Wash.. Feb. 23. (Special.) A $900,000 timber deal near Ooldendale la likely to be consum mated In the near future. Mr. Echoes, representing the Oregon Lumber Com pany, one of the largest lumber con cerns on the Paclflo Coast, is In Gold endale looking over the timber Inter ests of the White Pine Lumber Com pany. Timber cruisers are known to have been in the field for two months. The White Pine Interests here con sist of 66.000 acres of land which haa been offered at $15 per acre. Alex Stuart owna tOOO axres In the heart of thla large tract and has offered his land at llf.SO per acre which would make a total of 6000 acres and a cost of over 1900.000. It will take 26 miles of logging roads to get tha timber Into mills at Goldendale. Two years ago Sam Hill tried to swing this deal and would have, had Mr. Stuart been will ing to sell his Interests. Mr. Hill of fered $1,375 per thousand for tha atumpage. i HUNTERS NOT KILLING DEER Deputy Game Warden Makes Inquiry In Ijnva Bed Country. KLAMATH FALLS.. Or. Feb. 23. (Mpevlal.) Deputy Uame (Warden I a i . T l - la koma from a trln Into the Lava Bed country, on the Cali fornia-Oregon line, is mues soum i i - v. - went to Investigate tha UViSi - liv.. " - " - - rumor that hunters were slaying deer without regara o we u - ..... thmt unless it Is In very rare Instances there have been no deer lain In that country mat ne coma as- - -.rtaintv. but that there ..n4 nf them there. .1 . v- These deer are driven into tne ia Beds during severe storms from the mountalna for miles around and make thla low-lying lava region lofir issu ing grounds. Mr. Lewis statea that tha snow Is tha deepest there this Winter that It has bean for yeara and while the deer will live by browsing on the brush they are becoming very thin from lack of being able to reach grass. Wealthy Rancher Meets Death. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. Feb. 2J. Hlppolyte Davln. a wealthy sheepman according to word received today, waa found dead on his Snake River, ranch near Starbuck yesterday, with a bul let wound in his head, supposedly from the accidental discharge of a rifle while hunting the day prevloue. When he did not return to the ranch house the same night, a search waa made for him. This was kept up until yesterday when a sheepherder. named Blanchard. stum bled on the body, covered with snow. 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