The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1886-08-11
,,ap Stones Position Analysed

'0u J, oyer hall century tiIS uciiIO-
Mt osrty, by its illustrIous leaders
er amortal nestors have denounced ,
.ooonents for their centrallza-
y ,,odencies-cOncentratlng un-
q .,oted power IN the general
= lrment--inch by inch, so that
end the estates and the peo-
adj 10 whom all undelegated right
ard reserved by the constitution,
ore "A be shorn OF power, and our
I,bGc Of free states would degen-
Ok INTO a centralized despotlsm.
M extent of the old Wing IN
:, lions may be guagued by the
oual bank and Cumberland road,
r as they went, and even Henry
" ruut his road bill on the groun d
public, national necessity, tor
:, better facility IN moving troops
munitions, which at that day
ey plausible. and was resisted
;Idemocrats as An entering wedge
IsInore dangerous enterprises.
tofhe republican party, as the
trapparent" to the Wing estate,
lifted somewhat by the disastrous
their predecessors) outcome of
pskU. S. bank question, and they
ndoued that field, but sought to
se this a Nation with a big n,
'e snlarging the powers OF the eed-
t. and curtaillng those OF the state
ns, and also grasping for more
more congressional and ex ecu
b power, through the president,
all the strong protests by the de-
uacy held them i'll check, some
nd (at, for thew were only in favor OF
n ta constitutional power wher
nd y could use 1t, and since the
al kciion of 1854 we hear no more OF
tvk Nation with big n. We haye
bore US the official fact thatin 1899
MI ben they were out OF p over, they
M pc strong for state rights, even tc
oy sndefiance of the federal judiciary,
!; 20 by force OF arms, which the,
ID against tie authority of tn,
isral government.
But with all their tendencies t.
N nirallzation-when in power-i
% y ever advocated or attempted t.
o, power by the general govern
d knt to cover private business of tn
q ntry, by manufacturing, or a
umon carrier, or otherwise,
sr came to our knowledge.
I'VE know Of no party-no indi
il Dual except a few cranky leader
n the z. b. party-no one high /
u bic lite that serious ly proposes
m this government into a machin
bop, brass foundry or any oth'
|, ! hsrprise OF individual commerc
y business, within the range
II lyate means. None but cranl
e I'd agrarian Jewelers. have clamore
a GRANDPA government-no OF
! urge that the governm ent snail
.bbuying or making railr Dads, tel
nlmphs, etc., for all this Involv
; EIaaking locomotives, getting out Il
ron, telling and saving the lumbe
4 onstructing cars, mining coal al
doing a thousand other things
much IN competition with labor Al
Individual enterprise as convict lab
-only ten thousand fold more {
snsive.
But shall we say it?-yea, it
n {nlstory now, and must be read, Il
illour 'Cyclone Orator" of the 1;
, 1dntrict has done what no promin
democrat-and no Capitalization I
publican ever did do-yes, \
pI IStone says IL go farther" than so
e Extremes he mentions, and takes
Z ne plus ultra OF GRANDPA COVER
ment, tor he goes for "destroyin
all the present railway and telegra
1ystems-peaceablv, OF course-t
n Is. buy them, water and all.
ouiid others,and the logical seque'
6 must follow, to add all the can
The telephones, the electric Ii
plants, gas factories. water wo
n and why NOT all the fo,,,S tLa