The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 10, 1919, Page 17

Minnesota to Repeal Primary | Fear People May Take Old Parties Away From Gang in | 1920—Wilcox Defeated HE Minnesota legislature, controlled by the Burn- quist state administra- tion and composed of a majority in both houses hostile to the Nonparti- san league and organized labor, is preparing to destroy the democratic election procedure of the state, in an attempt to head off the expected vic- tory of the farmer-labor forces-in 1920. The Republican politicians had a narrow escape in the recent Minne- sota primaries, when the Republican candidate for governor indorsed by the farmer-labor forces nearly de- feated Governor Burnquist. It has, therefore, been determined to change the primary law before the next elec- tion, in order to prevent a farmer- labor indorsed Republican from get- ting the nomination in 1920. A bill has already passed the house by a vote of 78 to-51 which abolishes the direct primary law of the state, so far as party nominations for gover- nor and state officers are concerned. The bill is scheduled to pass the senate. A For many years Minnesota has had direct primaries. The rank and file of party memberships in the state have chosen the party candidates by direct vote. - This procedure is swept away by the proposed new law, which pro- vides for a return to the old party convention system, the scandal of American politics for several decades. This move, it is hoped, will enable party bosses to control the nomina- tions for state offices, thus preventing the rank and file- of party organiza- tions from nominating men indorsed by the farmer-labor or other progres- sive combines. It is expected by the legislative bosses that this will force the farmer-labor forces to come out as a third party, thus preventing them from using their strength as a balance of power in the old parties. OBJECT LESSON TO PEOPLE This attack on the direct primary for the purpose of entrenching gang rule in Minnesota will on the whole - have a good effect. It has_fully demonstrated the rule-or-ruin tactics of the present state gang. Very naturally, after a many years’ fight to obtain direct primaries, the people of Minnesota do not relish having this democratic election system taken away from them simply to give the reigning politicians a supposed advantage over the progressive forces of the state. Two other oppressive measures aimed at the Nonpartisans and labor unionists have passed the house and, * - together with the bill destroying the direct primary, are now before the senate. One is the motor corps bill, a disguised state constabulary. It makes permanent an emergency home guard created during the war. Farmer and labor organizations protested vigorously against the passage of this bill by the house, and some 6,000 workers of the Twin Cities on two different occasions waited in a body on the legislature while the bill was pend- ing in the house. " The same fight on it will be made in the senate. The bill places under the command of the governor an armed motor car force. Nobody can belong to this military unit unless he owns an automobile, and as a consequence the entire unit consists of employes and officers of big corporations and industrial con- cerns. There is not a farmer or labor unionist in the entire organization. The plea for its passage in the house was that this force was needed to pre- serve order and do relief work in the case of calamities or disasters, like the recent northern Minnesota forest fires. “which would have confined the activi- The falsity of this argument was prov- ed when the farmer-labor forces of- fered “an amendment in the house ties of the motor corps to relief work. The amendment was defeated. The senate also hgs before it a bill passed by the house which has been proclaimed as an anti-red flag bill. In its original form, the bill in a brief clause prohibited the red flag, but in a much longer paragraph prohibited the display of any banner, flag, button or other insignia of farmer or labor organizations. A third paragraph of the bill prohibited the display in meet- ings, parades or popular demonstra- tions of banners criticizing the state or national government. In order to get the prohibition against farmer and _labor organization emblems and in- signia stricken out, the farmer-labor minority in the house had to agree to vote for the bill on final passage. As it passed the house, the bill still con- tains the provision prohibiting ecriti- cism of the state and national govern- ments by siglxs or banners. WILCOX LOSES IN UNFAIR ELECTION The plot of the senate to unseat Senator W. W. Wilcox of Washington' county, Leaguer, has succeeded. Fail- ing to secure a majority in the senate to oust Wilcox and seat his opponent, Sullivan, a compromise was reached under which: the seat was .denied to both Wilcox and Sullivan, and a spe- cial election called in Washington county to fill the vacancy. Wilcox won the election last Novem- ber by a vote of 1,800 to 1,750 and a court recount had confirmed Wilcox’s majority. Nevertheless, the senate called a new election and Sullivan was re-elected by a majority of 200. The vote was: Sullivan, 2,400; Wilcox, 2,200. : Wilcox increased his vote since last November in Washington county by 400, but this was insufficient to re-elect him. Wilcox went before the people on the defensive, as he had been charged by the senate with violation “of the corrupt practices act, because some of his pamphlets had been found in a polling booth. Only a week was allowed for campaigning, and Wilcox was unable to overcome the initial handicap placed upon him by the senate charges, as was expected. The city of Stillwater elected Sullivan. The vote in that city was 1,000 to 400 in his favor. Wilcox, however, car- ried the balance of the county by an overwhelming vote. The farmers were unanimously for him. Sullivan is attorney for the Twin City ,Rapid Transit company and is attorney and agent for about 40 'or 50 foreign corporations in the stage. 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