The Baptist headlight., 1893-12-01
WATPRBURT'S BOOK.
He Writes a History or the
Populist Rebellion Against
the State Constitution
Last Winter.

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at Emporia, Kansas. and clerk q e4ec-
ton committee Of the popullst house
has written pamphlet published under
the wing of the peoples party and en-
titled The Legislative Conspiracy Ii
Kansas-Court Against Constitution
Who are the Anarchists:
All who can borrow this pamphlet
sbonl5 read il carefully. Don't BUY II.
because il is a flim-tiam thing made for
two purposes-to deceive voters and TO
oet money. Don't buy il. but II your
fool neighbor has squandered cash Oh II
borrow and read it. Il Is a birding of
a book. 1t chirps ike hungry little
hawk. II quotes Job and jeremiah and
G. C. Clemens. 1t has pictures and
il is rich.
Begin for example with page seven
Waterbury saws: In the forms OF state
Government which have been handed
down to us. our fathers have sought to
preserve the independence Of the people
bv preserving the three departments ct
the government. executive, legislative ana
judicial. independent Of each other
Then on page II Waterbury says:
..The legislature consists Of three parts,
the house. the senate and the governor.
Each of these component parts l. bound
tn find the other two and cooperate with
them Who compose these three parts
must be decided before any Legislature
exists and before any legislative Dusl-
ness can be transacted.
To begin with the three depart
ments Of government, Legislative, e1-
ecutive and judicial. are independent of
! each other as Waterbury and the constl-
tuition say. but by no means ID one
sense wholly independent. They are
independent and dependent according
To the fundamental law under which
/ they all exist. Every man OF sense
! knows for instance that the Legislature
! is dependent on the Judiciary 10 tins ex-
tent: that when the Judiciary says an
/ act of the legislature Is unlawful, uncon-
/ stitutional. that act Is no longer In force.
Or again the legislature is dependent on
/ the executive TO the extent that The
| latter NAV veto an act and Kill II unless
if is repassed by certain vote. None
but a william or man Of feeble mind Will
deny that the Judiciary, Of two sets OF
laws brought before II. has the right to
say which set Is legal and which Illegal;
which was passed by a legal body and
which by an illegal body. This l. all
our supreme court did. Tt passed Cd
al act OF a body of men and III doing so
was forced 10 INQUIRE into the parent
age Of the act-who passed il. In this
wav it declared which body was organ
lied as the house Of representatives ac-
cording to law. Every great lawyer II
the country. from Thomas NJ Cooley.
Justice Brewer. Joseph II. Choate and
Chief Justice Fuller down 70 men o'
lesser note. has said that our supreme
court decided rightly. Shall these men
be believed or shall We rely on LID Wat
erburv? Shame on Kansas that such q
question should be necessary
Now let us look al Waterburv's talk
about the legislature being composed q
the house. the senate and the governor
The constitution Of the state artl-
Gle =. section l saws that The leg
islative power of this state shall II
vested in honse Of representatives and
a senate. What the constitution says
ought 10 be pretty fair authority e
pecially when il is backed up bT I'd
Waterbury himself when he SAYS, a III
have seen on page seven q his pamphlet
that the departments Of our government
! are Legislative. executive and Judicial
each independent Of the others IL tht
constitution saws the legislature Is com
posed Of the house and senate and Wat-
erburv saws that the departments q
government ara each independent q
the others how in the name M the gees
that tiv can even Waterbury with I'll
Ma agnifcent cheek claim that tie legis
lature Is composed of TIE honse tie q
ste and the governor. This : . harg
question. but probably any Popalls
leader can answer i as be answers III
other questions without half irving"