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Senate or issue their mandamus to the hold
oyer members who are standing out, nor to
the Executive, to compel him to sign bills
which the Legislature, as now composed,
send him for his approval. And unless the
Executive does exercise his functions and
proceed h~armoniously to aid in legislation,
government of theSpeople, by the people and
for the people, will perish.
"But, thank God, not for ever. The peo-
pie will await their time. They can endure
till their time arrives. This they have shown.
Fifty years ago a partisan Congress stamped
its foot Upon the broad seal of New Jersey,
and denied their seats to men who brought
credentials which bore it, certifying hem as
members-elect. The contest over this wrong
shook the Union. In 1910 it anne before the
people, and the people not only throughout
this State, but throughout the Union, by a
majority ~unequaled at that time, set their
seal to the condemnation OF this wrong.
The mills of the Gods grind slowly, but they
grind SMALL
Government of the people, by the peo-
pie, and for the people, shall not
perish forever. The immortal Lincoln
said it. The armies of the Union enforced
it. They who obstruct the will of the people
shall perish. But government by the people
shall stand.'
Ex-coNGREssMAN INTRODUCED.
Mr.. Parker sat Town amid great cheering
and applause. When this had ceased Mr..
Rogers introduced ex-Congressman James
Buchanan of Trenton, who made a humor-
Gus and interesting address. He showed
how the American of today was the COM
posite result of the best of all the races of
the Old World. Then he spoke of the great
ness and grandure of this country and said:
Gentlemen of the Legislature of New Jer-
sey, | have but one message for you. Trust
the people. Tear away the last vestige OF
enactment which stands between them and
the rights the fathers gave them. If boards
and commissions are needed for executive
purposes, make them elective and make them
responsible to their electors for the manner
in which they discharge their duties; or if
these boards remain appointive, take all
legislative power from them. The people have
Alright to say who shall make their laws for
them. An appointed, not elective body,
clothed with legislative power is an anomaly
in a government of the people. | care not
what party discovered or created it, it is a
monstrosity in a free government. Our
fathers divided tine Government into three
distinct departments; the Legislative, the
Judicial, the Executive, one TO make the
laws, one to construe them, and the other to
execute them. They wisely defined and
separated the function, and the power to
each. These modern boards combine The
legislative with the executive function, and
instances are not wanting where they have
attempted to exercise the judicial also.
THE PEOPLE CAN BE TRUSTED.
"Do you say the people annot be trustedf
The people have trusted you. Are you
afraid to reciprocatea Despairfng ones nave
uttered this cry before. l know that some
times the people seem slow. Sometimes the
scoundrel weaves his wei SO securely that
all seems bound forever. Rascality uns
riot and immortality, and vice seems securely
liked in power. Men are busy at their
traffic and notice not. Faith grows weak,
Ia .+,o,-r ,,o I,1r, II, cila0+ c1anoa Rf1t
always the awakening comes. The people
arouse and hurl themselves in mighty and
invincible column against their despoilers.
Washington trusted the people, Jefferson
trusted them, Lincoln trusted them; are you
wiser than theys
eyes, trust the people. --Show that trust by
restoring to them their rights. Stop not to
inquire whether one party or the other will
secure a petty office or SO. Restore local
self-governnent without stopping to inquire
whether the locality votes your way or not.
The people are entitled to their rights what
ever their views upon party questions. Act
upon principle. Do right, remembering
that he serves his party best who serves his
country best
some word more. Restore to the people
not only their political and municipal rights,
but their moral rights as well. Pass the
sponge of repeal over every blot on our
statue book. Make that book clean and
pure-a source of pride and not of shame to
Jerseymen everywhere. Do not hesitate be-
cause trouble may exist elsewhere. Do your
duty. If others fail, the responsibility is
theirs, not yours, and the people will fix that
responsibility and have a settlement with
the delinquents. So. and so only, can you
discharge the duty the people of the State of
New Jersey have laid upon you. And SO
only can you bring our beloved State back
into harmony with the principles for which
our fathers fought, for which jefferson,
pleaded, and for which Lincoln gave his
1ife.n
A vote of thanks to the speakers brought
the meeting to a close.
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