The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-03-18
HILL In THE SOUTH.

President HARRISON, one of the Republi-
can aspirants for the presidential nomina-
ton of 1892, has had his swing round the
circle; Senator DAVID B. HILL. Demo
cratic aspirant for nomination to the same
| Office, is now taking his. We question the
propriety of either of these gentlemen
being SO personally active in seeking the
nomination, SO long as they hole such high
offices in the nation. That it is positively
unbecoming in the President of the United
States to engage in a scramble for renomi.
nation is fast crystallizing into definite
public opinion, and an amendment to the
constitution with a view to making such
conduct impossible is even nos suggested
by Senator STEWART, of Nevada.
But while we may question the propriety
of Senator Hubs conduct, no one can helm
but concede that he is teaching the very
best of stalwart Democracy, and admins
tering blows to the Republican party that
may be heard not only at the pos
tern gates of their stronghold. but
/ throughout this broad land Moreover, it
may be relied on that among people de-
voted to the men they accept as leaders
as the people of the south are-Mr. HILL.
will win golden opinions for himself and
draw to him their support
One of the most fortunate remarks in
his speech before the Mississippi iegisla-
ture was his Characterization of our gov
eminent as ''an indssoluble union of in
destructible states" We know of no terse
expression which better describes our gov
ernment tnan this. The constitution Gre
ated general government, giving to it spe-
chic powers, and made it sovereign in the
sphere assigned it. 1t recognized the ex-
lstence Of state governments and their SOW
ereignty in the local sphere assigned to
them.
The general government so created-the
Union-was to be indissoluble, the states
indistructible To preserve the right bal
arce of the powers vested in the general
government and in the state governments
is the self-assigned task of the Democratic
Tarty Hence, that party has ever favor ed
strict construction of the constitution.
demanding that both the general and state
governments must remain within the
limits prescribed in the constitution. This
they have insisted upon as the only DOS
may remain IAN indissoluble union of in
desructible states" For if the general
government be permitted 10 encroach upon
! the rights of the states, the ultimate result
ould be the destruction of the states and
the erection of an empire on their ruin
one OF the things above all others to be
avoided; While II the states were PERM ted
TO encroach upon the rights of the general
governments most unlikely thing, and
one much less liable to happen than the en-
croachment OF the general government
upon the rights OF the sales.--future would
be destruction of tae Union. Strict ad
herence to limits set down in the constitu-
ton Is the preventative that Democrats
prescribe for the prevention of these evils
and the perpeGuation of our government.
and they hold constitutional immortality to
be the one thing above all others that is to
be avoided.
Another most happy expression of Sen
ator HILL on the same occasion was in his
reference to the efforts of the last Con-
gress to pass the Force bill. The late
Republican Congress-" said he. e.tried
TO put manacles on southern limbs. The
Democratlc party answered: Shall north
ern llmes then wear the same for we are
all freemen nowP Never beneath this
canopy OF our surviving constitution of an
lndlssoluble union OF indestructble states.
constitution color blind, and equal laws
VIII the Democracy of the great north and
the greater west confound and confuse
your present social problem with the past
and gone political problems.n
Never will the Democracy confound and
confuse your present social problem with
the past and gone political problems, is
good! Decidedly good! We believe there
is sound philosophy in it; and as we read
It, and remembered how unjust and i'm
politic 1t would be to confound and confuse
Inc present social problem in the south
win past and gone political problems, we