Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-09-13

r@ess~ haS 'Oho PhVACooiOho VI Bihiloui-
raj purity in this respect he has lately
been touring the country as an avowed
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
tion in 1904.
The first thing which he seems to
have tried to impress upon the people
of the South, during his recent tour
In that quarter has been that from
now on the negro element is to be
eliminated from Republican profes-
sions, as 1t long has been from Repub
lican practice. and that he and his
party fully acquiesce in the open de
fiance Of all the war amendments to
the constitution for which they have
long denounced the Democracy in
Northern conventions. and which they
will continue to denounce when claim
ing the continued vote of Northern
blacks.
Here then we have the interesting
sight Of the man charged above all
others with the official duty of seeing
that the spirit and letter Of civil
service law are observed, and with
the moral duty of enforcing its pre-
cepts by his personal example OF obe-
dience to it, himself on the stump, and
he the man who won his political
prestige as the apostle of the same
doctrine which he now thus contemns.
AS u part of the spectacle this man
invokes the Godlike history of his
party to maintain him in Office and
turns his back upon the greatest work
his party ever did.
Standing for an administration which
Is paying tribute to the Sultan of Sulu
and guaranteeing him in keeping up
his slave barracoon and harem of
plural wives, and at the same time
proclaimlng his willingness to become
partner in the disfranchisement of
race for no crime other than the
accident of color. he has so far re.
Nersed the facts of history that he and
his party have become the champions
of the twin relics of barbarism''
(which the first convention of that
party in 1856 pledged itself to extir-
pate.
SO much for Republican fidelity to
the ancient faith of its party.
The other subject upon which the
President has said great deal while
on the stump is that of trusts, His
proposed remedy for the evil Is n con-
stitutlonal amendment. Just what the
amendment shall be- as practical and
specific matter, he deals with only In
the vaguest generaltes. But in sub
stance he would have the States yield
their right to govern the corporations
of their own creation to the general
government, and let Congress pass tho
laws necessary TO control and regulate
them. How Congress is likely to dc
this better than the State I.egisla
lures is not clear from what he says
but he has assured his hearers, Owe
and again, that II such an amend
ment can be adopted, and Congress cal
be induced TO pass the right kind o
laws, he viii see them faithfully ex
ecuted. so far as he personally is con
cerned.
1t is safe promise to make. If h,
can have a Congress obedient to hi
desire, and so command the two-third
vote requisite to propose such ai
amendment, and If the Legislatures o
three-fourths of the States are fount
subservient enough to ratify tn,
measure at their earliest lawful time,
of assembling, and the next succeeding
Congress shall pass the laws he ask
for, It will he Inter than March 4th, 1909
before the executive can, according 4
Mr.. Roosevelt's plan, do anything ef
fectual to repress the trust mischief
This Is 80 because In his speeches III
insists that the first laws to be passet
after his amendment shall have beer
grated ON the constitution are to b.
preliminary and inquisitorlal only. HI
says: "When we have the powc
the first thing to do would b.
to find out the facts" And again h,
says: what we first need is power
Having gotten the power, rcmembe
that the work won't be ended-it will
be only fairly begun" "To find on
the facts" he would employ fedora
agents under his first law, or law o
visitation. And that he regards sucl
q law as preliminary only is mad
evident by what he further says 4
the same speech. to the effect tina
when this inquisitorial power is one
exercised. 1T win give us an INTEL