The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-22
CetterS tc the Gdftor
Watson's Jefferson.

man to view. He has planted a new ligh, upon the majestic peak that already stood high above the towering mountains upor the horizon of American history.
 There Is no purpose here to say muct about the book. There is a strange fea ture of It and if the many who read 1t intending to cultivate the science of thS Amerlcan idea, may give due attention 70 the apparent collision of the author With his hero upon high ground, enougl VIII have been done in this place
 MT. watson Is an enthusiast in the which. he virtually avows was badly taught by philosopher. Thomas Jetfer-
 We find an astute attempt to qualify sna moderate the readers inevitable com tusion or expectation in the one or more chapters describing m ost graph cally the processes Seo1 through which the Convention york in a Constitution for the United states. In mention of these wonderful things: the author says:
 constituStionsane SE sne Sounssst msmbers of the there the with ready.made Const tutions in e@ He p sad TSsSns Soms,,an Randolph the Sta the only two pocket-ready constitutions mentioned, he says of Hami.t 1ns, "it was 90 frankly frankly sristocratic and monarchical, nentix Eoy .et ana soul that it was inconti. tyam Eas is ds, form republican, in spirit far ocTaflo5 Mhy 5mGanarShicalf asasl Why far from dem- shall see. What was the Jefferson idea !? The ultimate Republic of Republics. MT. nos,t;sa Watson incnlcates positive faith in the ponucal pnllosophy of Jefferson while he Taenounces with emphasis trenehlng upon merceness the principles of American or- eanizatton. the practiced methods of Amer,can tameht government, which Jefferson
 It is not quite necessary to put on a page to itself that two young men car- ried In their pockets ready-made anti-re- eaniSs RsDliean constitutions to Philadelphia. se enese two only did carry such preparation along with them and that anti-republi. san can s., sentiment was thus paced demon- straply In the ascendant.
 Why not name the third young man and his pocketful? Randolph from Vir. eSa Sew ynrs, was Sssyears n of age Ham lton from South Carolina was g years of age. On On Tuesday, May %. the Convention having peen organized and declared ready for DuSiness, DuS MT: Randolph offered his plan isred ,his plan. On June 16. Rand olph s plan having been discussed and rejected nip Mp; Fatterson of New Jersey offered his Unlon under the then existing Articles of the discovered defects. That was @ essen essen italy Jefferson's preference.
 Pinekney's plan, no where mentioned Dy Mr. Watson, nor the man even named was, Tn It's vital points. Jeffers Jnian.
 On June IS Hamilton spoke at great he presented his plan" saying he did not no, mean to offer the paper he had tsketched as proposition to the Commit rect xiss, ds meant s m to give only a more cor
 Thus. we see the anti-Jefferson theory 1 maS auEanced by Randolph and Hamil- eohtsTha6 roh %hlie t the Jeffsrs9nian theory was son, each within specific limits. If is necessary to understand the scope of the onnIperatiSns onIu ds @ Of the Convention. To speak UUhIy or the plans of Randolph and Ham llton as presenting a scheme of govern ment is literary lapse.
 | Reduced to the last analysis of the have adopted one of three I distinct ct scheme of government, if any, d) the i'm lted monarchy; @ national government & or the numerical majority; G) federal government, that Is to say a Republic | MT. Jefferson believed the Federal sys- epes siS9e oq SSspsSe of the prn | ration Of Independence. Mir. Watson diff fers from his hero in that view. We are t6 tGid & that when MT; Jefferson heard for Ventlons had done, The was not certain that the good articles preponderated over the osd. (p. SoS). So he advised that only I 5ne government into operation. The four states remaining outside could then die tate amendments as the terms of their accession to the Union and these amend | ments should be kind of Bill of Rights such as the first ten actually constitute MT; watson argues that the theory of a | escape the genuine D Dsmocratic principles, national government by the numerical majority. Washington. the President of that he lived in chagrin that the law paid a common soldier any wages at all; that the law limited his authority to lay lashes Der of one hundred, whereas five hun dred would not be excessive limit He says the Federal theory is equivalent to says :'men whose determination is to create centralized government in which the form of Democracy is preserved, stances, have framed an instrument bet ter ter suited to the purpe Sc than the Consti satS atdch en Ss the Unite tinted states Already he llsh Democracy, a government of the not go about it in that way"
 But what were all the circumstances" at Philadelphia! George ILL, once pro- prietor, had declared his thigteen colo nies independent States. one by one. each Spain. France, Prussia. Holland were to him Independent Sta es. These Ameri- can states Tn convention decided they would not be nation, governed either after Hamilton's plan of elective mon archy; or Randolph's' plan of national
 Eleven per cent of the population of the United States now owns 54 per cent of the assets. It wont do to say that demon stration of the power of privileged class es' is the log cal result of election of Senators by State Legislatures. election of a President by State @ ectoral colleges or the creation of Supreme Court by the President and the Senate.
 The practical test of the contention of MT Watson is in the State governments created by the people and in the Federal House of Representatlves created by the people of the States There Is a more startling radica ism in the direct majority vote than in the moderated vote of the Senate upon every question related to privileged classes. Did not the House of Representatives vote three times the Spanish war tax that the Senate accept ed? Has not the House been threatened with bill to reduce Southern Represen- tation whi'e the Senate has no such menace? Did not the House in the most critical tuncture the country ever en- dured present the President for impeach- ment while the Senate saved him and There has hardly been case decided by the Supreme Court the last thirty-five years. favorable to good government in the South, that the House of Represen- tatlves at Washington would nave de- cided in the same way. J. w. D. Why Not Use o'l and Sand Gravel
 for Streets.