Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-12

BOSTON, October 11.-One Of the fea-
lures of the present State camapign was
the dinner which the Democratic CLUB,
of Massachusetts, tonight rendered to
Colonel William A. Castor, the party
candidate for Governor. Over $50 party
followers listened to speeches by Richard
Olney, former Secretary of State; Charles
S. Hamlin, Josiah Quincy, John r.
Thayer, Congressman from the Third dis
trict: Henry II. Hollis. Democratic can
didate for Governor Of New Hampshire,
and Colonel CASTOR.
Undoubtedly the speech of the evening
was that delivered by Mr. Olney. who
was cheered for some minutes when he
arose. Many greeted him as' the next
President
Mr. olney spoke in part as follows:
Republican LawIessness.
'"The signs of the time are that under
the regime of the Republican party,
and through the national governments
forty years of partnership with the pro-
tected industries, we have come to
pass where public officials as well as
private citizens deem themselves above
the law.
..Witness the Jealous haste with which
the Treasury rushes to the relief of Wall
street spectators, by a novel and forced
construction of the banking law. Wit
ness the astonishing proceedings of the
same department in it's instructions to
subordinate officers respecting the duties
to be collected on coal. But the generally
lawless atmosphere in which the pro-
tected Republican reign has enveloped US
is even more strikingly illustrated by
the recent Presidential demonstration
upon the coal strike. There are those
who say that as the President dis
N1o{S ton, To
the matter he should not have interfered.
There is something to De said for that
view Though his office is charged with
great functions and invested with great
powers, the President is a constitutional
officer. whose sphere of action is strictly
limited by law.
Presidents Mistake.
within that sphere he Is well-nigll
absolute-without, he is legally impotent.
When, therefore, he goes without 1t the
danger is that he may fail and be defled,
and that his great office may lose prestige
and power, and thus be less capable of
performing its legitimate duties.
1.-The President. for example, is our
representative with foreign powers. Will
it strengthen his hands that some half
a dozen private citizens are found snap
ping their fingers in his face? The
Presidents overture to the coal oper-
ators was prompted by the best motives,
and should have been treated with re-
spectful consideration. It should have
been declined courteously, even If firmly.
Snub of the President.
But the opportunity to administer a
snub to the President was too tempting.
Accordingly, he was not only treated as
rash intermeddler: he was also lee
tured upon the law and facts of the case,
and to crown all. was notified that the
cause Of the trouble was lawlessness,
which he was sarcastically invited to
suppress
For sheer audacity, this. attitude of the
coal opera tors could hardly be matched,
and nothing could more strongly empha-
size the disrepute into which the law Of
the land has been brought by long-con-
tiuued Republican domination.
lIine-Ovners Law Breakers.
yet who are they who were SO insist
ent upon the suppression of lawnessness?
Why, the most Inblushing and persistent
OF law-breakers. For years they have de-
fed the law of Pennsylvania, which for
bids common carriers engaging in the
business of mining. For years they have