Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-06-01

Ex-G0yERSoa sEynovE o. THE
srArE or pAnrlEs-En-(;overnor
seymour, 81 View Yorh. - sled Is
large . spers Cor many years in he
public ere. aud lis consefsnsire opins
ions are y ven knows. that ans thing
he may have 70 say On public affairs
il cure 10 bs read with INTEREST Re-
moved Is be has been By age and his
own inclination from the active sphere
Of politics, he has continued 70 be :
close observer Of the drift Of thinas
and Of the condition AZ parties, and
i isasa philOsOphir critic sindying The
current Of public thought and quality
Of the l:s1itieal machinery il action Il
this time in 50 Ear as it may affect the
future Of the country that he must bs
regarded. On Wednesday last : cor
respondent Of the New York World
had an interview with Governor Sey-
mOur a his hons nsar Utica, which
Is thus summarized
DTEs touched ca many al TIE topics
q the day. but more particularly on
the existing stats Of affairs and The
changes they indicated. Coming
down to this later day. DO said. Il
feel assured that tie democratic par
y has il IN it, power to regain its SUI
pFemacy in the State and in the
country. IL may Be said that It's or
ganization il bad, and 20 it il. But
the republican party is in q much
worse state. and that party IL with
out the power to rehabilitate itself.
It can take no step backward. It is
impelled forward BY its own weight
to dissolution. rs tendencies. IN
happily, are ell towards centraliza-
ton. and the machinery Of our gov
ernment has grown 50 enormous and
complex in is hands that II has got
beyond control. The constant shift
ing Of Senators and Congressman on
both sides he holds to be one Of the
serious features Of the times. They
are not left long enough in Congress
to enable them. in his opinion, to leg
islate thoughtfuIly and wisely. "They
cannot keep pace with the present, =
he said, ''much less study the past
and learn experience from It. There
have been six or seven thousand bills
introduced at Washington during this
session, and it isimpossibIe Tor thsmen
who are called upon to vote upon the
bills to know anything practically
about them. Their legislation must
necessarily be at haphazard.' The
result is that both legislators and Of
iicials, being in Office only temporary
~, are brought under the influence Of
the lobby. Il is these men who know
all about the bills before Congress,
and practically do the work. 1.-THE
lobby, said Gov. Seymour, els the
great evil Of the day ct Washington.
II may not be wholly the fault of the
republican party-as men they are
probably not better or worse than
other men-but it is inseparably con-
nected with their system Of polity.-
1t has grown with their growth and
they cannot shake it off. Their ten
dency has been to centralize power at
the general capital and to swell the
bulk Of legislation transacted there,
until it has not only gone beyond
their control but beyond the compre-
hension Of anybody but the life
members Of the lobby. The conse-
quence Of this state Of affairs can only
be disastrous, asst has already proved,
and it now threatens the republican
party with dissolution. That organ
ization has no remedy within its reach.
II has found it impossible to return
10 constitutional methods. Il has
sought to centralize everything, and
il is overwhelmed by the gigantic su-
perstructure Of corruption il has
reared"
The only remedy for these evils
Governor Seymour Ends in . return
TO the wise and conservative ways Of
the constitution, which left 70 the
control Of the local authorities ell
questions that directly affect them as
communities, and sought. in ell It's
provisions. to keep political pow
er from concentrating at one point
Even now he holds that can honest
construction Of its language and spir-
1t would correct the abuses which
have grown to such threatening pro-
portions within the last twenty years. >