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ASTORIA, OREGON, TlirKSlUY, SEPTEMBER 8, l!HH.
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REFORMERS' MONSTROUS PROPOSAL.
Perhaps because. II. W. Scott's name vas used
bv the direct primary "league," the Oregonian must
needs undertake defense of the legislative abortion
recently brought into existence by the misguided
voters of the unfortunate state of Oregon. But even
the astute Oregonian, professing superior knowledge
of matters political, admits that the new law is full
of defects, and implores that it be given "fair trial"
before being pronounced to be what it is the great
est legislative farce ever concocted by would-be re
formers. he attitude of the direct primary reformers to
ward the independent voter is quite plainly brought
out in the Oregonian 's belabored reply to The As
torian's criticism of the new bill. THE INDE
PENDENT VOTER, the Oregonian assures us, HAS
NO PRE-ELECTION RIGHTS. HE SHALL BE
EITHER REPUBLICAN. OR DEMOCRAT, OR
ELSE HE SHALL NOT VOTE FOR CANDI
DATES FOR NOMINATION. He is read out of a
constitutional voice in the selection of candidates by
our present-day reformers, despite the acknowledged
.fact that THE INDEPENDENT VOTER IS THE
SAFETY-VALVE OF OUR "WHOLE POLITICAL
SYSTEM.
By what act of God or man, by what precept of
Americanism, was the right delegated to such men
as the editor of the Oregonian to say that any man
shall be denied the right to cast a secret ballot? By
what authority has it been decreed that the inde
pendent voter shall have no voice in the selection of
candidates for seme of whom he must vote or stay
away from the polls? Did the men who fought.
bled and died for our country contemplate legisla
tion that would require a voter to subscribe himself
to either the democratic or republican party in order
that he might exercise his right of suffrage? Is
fidelity to party organization essential to enjoyment
of the privileges guaranteed by the constitution ?
Long before the state election was held The Asto
rian pronounced and denounced the direct primary
bill as un-American. Let the honest voter consider
the questions propounded above, and he will agree
with us that the direct primary bill has no place upon
the statute books of an American state.
The Oregonian sets up the anarchistic contention
that "an independent voter has no more right to
vote in a republican primary than a stockholder of
the Northern Pacific railway has to vote in an elec
tion of directors in the Southern Pacific." What
sickening rot! The independent voter has the God,
given right to go to republican or democratic primar
ies and express his choice of candidate. It would be
just as reasonable to deny hiiii this right as to deny
him the right to vote for 'republican or democratic
candidates after they were nominated. The Ore
gonian and the fanciful reformers with which it has
identified itself would name candidates for the in
dependent voter to choose between and would take
from him his American prerogative of expressing his
choice for nominees at primary elections. "We have
failed utterly to find one reasonable innovation in
Oregon's direct primary law, and are not surprised
therefore that the Oregonian has refrained from re
sorting to reason in its discussion of the outrageous
measure.
Very flippantly our Portland contemporary asks
whether or not The Astorian ever heard of a primary
election under the old system in which a man did
not have to make known his party affiliation before
he could vote. The Astorian never heard of a pri
'mary election under the old system at which a man
was required to publicly or privately. convey any in
timation of his political faith. If he happened to
vote the republican primary ticket, it was taken for
granted that he was desirous of voting for republi
can delegates to the convention. He might have been
a republican, or he might have ben a democrat. His
political faith was his own business, and the con
stitution of the United States rind every principle of
common decency intended that it should always re
main so. Voters, just ponder for a moment upon
this "argument" for that feature' of the direct pri
mary law which requires a voter to publicly announce
his political faith :
"Every man who goes to a republican primary to
voe for delegates to a republican convention thereby
announces himself as a republican., Otherwise he
would have no business participating in that primary.
The only change made by the new law is to require
the voter to make his public announcement of his
party affiliation some time in advance, so that his
Hllow-nun may have a chance to know in what
primary election he intends to vote. No man who
went to a primary election under the old law could
conceal his party affiliation, a,ml the only dilTeivuee
under the new system is that, if he undertakes de
ception, his trickery will be known in advance,"
The man. ihen. who undergoes change of political
faith is a trickster! He is practicing a "deception !"
According to this doctrine, the democrat must never
change his politics; the republican must always re
main republican. No more preposterous idea was
ever advanced in the annals of our republic, and I he
argument stamps its author a numskull. lxt us sup
pose Governor Chamberlain is renominated. Some
of the 7000 or more republicans who elected him will
want to vote again for him. Shall they be required
tc publicly renounce allegiance to the republican
party because they favor George Chamberlain for
governor? Has not the voter the constitutional right
to vote for the candidate of his choice at the primary
election? The people of Clatsop county want C. W.
Fulton returned to the United States senate. "When
the voters of this county are called upon to choost
members of the legislature that will elect Mr. Fill
ton s successor, must democrats renounce aliegianci
to their party because they favor the selection of re
publican candidates best fitted to bring about ,tlu
re-election of Senator Fulton! People of anarchistic
tendencies perhaps will answer in the affirmative
but all men of ordinary reason and intelligence will
reply, emphatically, "No."
"Party organization" demands this, howls the
Oregonian, putting party above constitution. If th
Oregonian feels that a man shall not forsake one
party and go to another, why did it so industriously
support Y. J. Furnish, the last republican candidate
for governor? Mr. Furnish used to be a good dem
ocrat, yet the Oregonian made no protest when he
broke into the republican party. What is good
logic now ought to have been equally as good then
Only the veriest dreamer would for a moment seek
to contend for the terms of the direct primary bill.
It is a disgrace to the state, utterly impracticable
and without the lease semblance of reason.
The provision requiring voters to state their polit
ical faith before the primaries merely has the effect
of putting the bulk of the voters under the thumbs
of the men for whom they work, and of increasing
rascality. The manufacturer will be in position t
require his men to vote at primary elections. If he
happens to be a democrat, his employes must register
as democrats, and those of them who may be repub
lieans will thereby lose their right to express their
choice at the republican primaries. The registration
books stand as a check upon the political conduct of
every workman and place him absolutely under the
control of his employer.
The Astorian begs to assure the Oregonian that it
understands thoroughly every scftion of the direct
primary bill, and that it is and always has been
aware of the fact that the provisions of the measure
are confined to parties casting 25 per cent of the
vote for congressional candidates. In this respect,
also, the law is un-American, as it excludes the
smaller parties, the members of which are guaranteed
by onr constitution quite as much political freedom
as was original y guaranteed to those who seek to
deprive them of it.
In a local article appearing in The Astorian the
predicament of Clatsop county democrats was stated
backwards. Correction was later made in this col
umn. Hundreds of democrats in this county have
voted a citizen ticket for years. Many of those
voters are foreign-born. As only about one-tenth of
the voters are capable of following the schemes of
political tricksters, many who have voted the citi
zen ticket in the past will register, unknowingly, as
citizens. They will find no citizen ticket to vote, and
therefore will have no vote. They are in precisely
the same fix as the independents legislated out of
their great American right to vote as they see fit,
and to vote secretly.
No condemnation is too severe for the men respon
sible for the Oregon direct primary law.
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OCEAN TRAVEL.
So great is the multitude of visitors to Europe
who are now returning to this country that the first
cabin rooms of some of the first class steamships have
been overcrowded. One large vessel found the ac
commodations so taxed that the management decided
to transport no steerage passengers on the western
voyage. That appears to have beenan almost Un
precedented decision.
Trans-Atlantic travel year after year swells' to
amazing proportions. Within a decade important
additions of monsters of the deep have been made to
the ocean fleet, but other leviathans will be launched
within a comparatively early period, while still
others, larger than any now afloat, have been do
signed. The speed of the future champions of the
was driven by turbines will doubtless surpass also
the most striking feats on record.
The czar has made his son a colonel and now hope
Kuropatkin will be encouraged to advance fearlessly
upon the breastworks.
Russia' Answer to United States Con
cerning Contraband.
Ia)Ih1oii. Sept. ".The preliminary
lvpit'jtentatloiia miido liy ('emit t'Hiu k
rndorfT, Hie Russian tiiiitnisNiiiltir to tlir
furelKil ottVe. liulleiilea that Ituxxi.i I
on thi point of making suhstantliil io,i
cessions to the I'nltod SUtfS and Ureal
liritalii rt'KurdltiK the uui'stlon of ion-
li alia ml of war, as a result of the sub
mission by FotvlKn Minloter I.am
dorf of th report of the (tcnoral eum
mission to KiniH'ror Nlt-holus to. lay, to
gether with the Information transmit
ted by Ambassador IlenokiMiilorff show
ing the views of the Itrltlsh govern
ment.
The Russian foreign minister Is ex
pected to present to the Itrltlsh gov
ernment, through Sir Churles HarlnKe
the Itrltlsh ambassador to Hussla. to
morrow, the formal reply of the Rus
sian government. It Is understood In
official circles here that Russia, while
not acknowledging herself at fault for
the capture made by her ships In the
past, will more speclliciilly describe the
condition under which certain goods,
such as foodstuffs mid cotton, become
In her view contraband.
The ItrKlsh foreign office Is satisfied
from the representations made to It
that such substnntlitl ccncesslons will
be made by Russia it, will tend to an
easy settlement of the vexatious huh.
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