The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03

ernment by changeable maiorities for the constitu
tIona government established by the founders OF th
republic in which the rights of individuals and OF NIL
ror1tles were protected On June "a, 177S, Alexan
der Hamilton, representing the ideas OF the Fedora
Conservative party that afterward became the IN
heritance OF the Wings and anticipating the pre-
dominant features of the national constitution as sub
sequently framed and adopted identified Stats
| autonomy and freedom in, the following language
The States lose their power till the whole
people of America robbed of their liberties He
arguing for the Federal Senate, it was framed
and has always existed the ground that it would
preserve the individuality of the States members
of the Union While the system of biennial elections
of Representatives by direct vote in Congressional
districts insured the constant impression OF popular
opinions upon Congress, it was believed that the
longer terms OF Senators and their direct relation 60
the States effective guarantees against eentraiza
ton the hand and rash legislation the other
That change in the mode OF eectng Federal Sena
tors by the transfer OF the power OF choosing them
from the Legislatures to the people in progress is
an nconestable fact. For years it has been alleged
to some extent unjusty, that the upper house OF
Congress has become pluocratic club 1t is certain
that seats in that body have been purchased as even
Boss Buckley acknowledges The spectacles in Cali
orna Pennsylvania and other States during the pres
ent year. and in which both parties implicated,
have added strong impetus to the movement Such
offensive exhibitions of corruption have accumulated
for generation until their stencil became intoerabe,
and relief necessity.
But the Difference to popular sovereignty implied III
its direct exercise by the people in the selection of
Senators does not necessarily involve any revolution in
the constitutional functions of the Senate of the
United States. On the contrary it is expected to
store that illustrous body to its ancient foundation.
1t is the mode and the result of election that is to
be altered When the Federal constitution has been
amended, in all our previous history Senators will
represent their respective States well as the Union
The question applies to means and not to ends.
The transformations and the exchanges OF parties
among the curious episodes OF modern times. 1t
has been seen that prior to the formal estab-
lishment of the Government the leader OF the con-
ervative political element in the country, accused
indeed of aristocrac proclivities firmly believed in
the preservation OF State autonomy Thomas Jetter-
son. the actual founder of the Democratic party,
red this fundamental proposition to its furthest pos
sble limits. There was one great conception, there
FORE upon which both parties practically united.
State rights the slogan of the Democrats, and
out OF an extreme development OF this doctrine the
cession faith originated.
The Chicago platform and the fusion platforms of
last year abandoned every principle that had made
Democracy respectable and down to 1861, with brief
Interruptions had retained for it the control of the
Government The socalistic theories that have been
substituted for the Democracy of Jefferson, strongly
indorsed on the point here more Immediately con-
sidered by Hamilton and to which Mr. Watterson
sagaciousy desired his party to return, obliterae in
effect not only State lines, but county and municipal
divisions and propose to weld the entire population
Of the United States into huge and unwiedy mass
of human beings, provided for by paternasm If
d11a1
ism would be lost and humanity reduced to the level
of an automatic machine.
The fusion Democracy has yielded UP the ghost OF
Jeffersonan Democracy. It's vitality is gone What
ever elements the Democratic party ever possessed
that harmonized with political system and guarded
life liberty and property have been appropriated by
the Republican party which stands for State rights
subject to the integrity of the Union and to the main
enance and fulhment of every constitutional oblga
ton. Former political attitudes have been reversed
The doctrines of corrupt offensive and injurious cap
italization, distinguished from the just of the
legal power of combination and accumulation are in
their essence the substance OF fusion Democracy.
The fusionists in sorry plight. The Exam
ner with its national and internal policies, nconsst
ent in themselves and contadiced in practice is their
appropriate organ But noise and roth and constant
reputation OF Americanism their only capital
They are fussy but harmless. When Zechariah OBJ
served the horses red, specked and white he asked
visiting angel: What these?' and replied:
These they whom the Lord has sent to walk to
and fro through the earth" And then the men who
rode the horses added: eve have walked to and fro
through the earth and behold all the earth sitteth still
and is at rest"
The fusion Democrats belong to the age of Zecha-
riah and not to the nineteenth century
WASHINGTON statesmen bepinonp tO disturb