Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, March, 1906Various
General
Watson's Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 1, March, 1906
Various
United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
Third.—Granting to the people the right to enact, by direct
majority, needed laws which their Legislature fails or refuses
to enact.
Regarding candidates it is announced that—
It is the intention of the Referendum Party to nominate for the
election of November 6, 1906, a complete state ticket including
candidates for the Legislature (Senators and Representatives)
but the State Executive Committee suggest that, unless
exceptionally strong, aggressive, independent candidates for
either branch of the Legislature can be nominated, it would
be advisable for local committees to indorse (by filing
nomination papers) candidates of some other party who would
pledge their support to the principles of the Referendum Party
as stated above.
After the election the Referendum Party will be entitled to a
regular place on official ballots in every district where it
polled two per centum of the largest vote cast. For this reason
it is most desirable that it nominate a candidate in every
Legislative district within the State. The forming of local
organizations in the Referendum Party should therefore begin at
once.
* * * * *
The People’s Party State Central Committee of Kansas met at Topeka,
February 2, and directed Chairman Babb and Secretary Fowler to call a
State convention some time in July. Chairman Babb and some other members
of the committee favored the organization of a voters’ league to question
and secure pledges from candidates on the old party tickets, making
no third party nominations—something on the plan devised by George H.
Shibley, editor of the _Referendum News_, Washington, D. C. The committee
was not, however, a unit on this point, several of the members insisting
upon making straight People’s Party nominations. This, it seems likely,
will be done.
* * * * *
“Union for the Common Good” is the name of a new organization just
starting in Kansas. Rev. O. H. Truman, La Crosse, is one of the moving
spirits. In the manifesto sent out by this new aspirant for political
honors the committee say:
_Whereas_, undisputed proofs of corporate greed, unscrupulous
and law-defying, have recently multiplied; and certainties
that “Boss” domination has largely prevailed in city and state
politics, frequently dictating to the people from low resorts,
encouraging graft and other corruptions to fester and flourish;
and also the great exchanges for disposing of stocks and bonds
and grain have long displaced the law of supply and demand
by their gambling methods, resulting in frequent failures,
suicides, and loss to all but the unscrupulous few; and
_Whereas_, the people, at last aroused and indignant, are now
demanding redress and prevention of further wrong;
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