Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1904-09-05
MoNARcHY rs. REPueLlc

strong central government IS ALSO
lutely essential 70 the existence Of q
monarchy. To a Republic, it is {
menace; il is the first stepping ston,
from Republic to a Monarchy-no
the only one. but the first. Alexandel
Hamilton and the old Federal party
were the strenuous advocates Of q
strong central government. Thomas
Jefferson and the Democratic party
vigorously opposed il. The Demo.
cratic idea prevailed. The federal
party was defeated and died. The
Republican party Of today is its lineal
descendant and inherited some of il
errors il not all its virtues. Among
these inherited ideas and principles
was that Of a strong central govern
ment, even 10 the extent of violating
constitutional limitations when they
interfered with this strengthening
process This has been strikingly in
evidenced in it's practices If not in its
precepts since its organization. 1t is
the KEY to much in the course Of that
party which would be otherwise mex
plicable. Ii violated the constitution
in it's effort to perpetuate the Union,
BY executive usurpation of power,
the Democratic party insisting that
this could be done in strict obedience
TO that instrument. When General
Grant wanted to be President for the
third term and thus set aside the I'M
written law and practice since the
time of Washington, paper called
The Imperialist with very large
minority of the party strongly favored
il. Had they succeeded there would
have been established Dictatorship or
something very close TO it. The Re
publican convention said no. 1t knew
the people would not submit to such
an innovation, but the minority OBJ
stinately adhered TO him and refused
Hayes n unanimous nomination.
When HAYS was counted in there was
a palpable violation of the constitution.
Many more instances to the same
effect could be given, but enough has
been cited.
Let rs take up what seems to be the
idea and purpose of this
administration. 1t is in every way
possible TO make us, according to his
view, great first-olass power, but
we were that, almost from the moment
we became nation. We were that
when we resisted the right of search
by Great Britain and almost swept
her navy from the seas with our Hulls
and our Constitutions and conquered
her armies on the land We were
that when we led off in refusing to
recognize the tariff of the Barbary
States and made them fear and respect
us. when we said "Millions for de-
Tense, not one cent for tribute" We
were that when we announced the
Monroe doctrine and have mp TO this
time firmly maintained it. So that in
the whole western hemisphere therein
not trace Oh 4lOuaICulChi SpNeIuHicht
save the mild and nominal suzerainty
of Great Britain over the northern
part of the continent and the equally
mild one of the powers in Guiana.
We were that, too, when the grand
old General Taylor, with small
army, almost entirely volunteers,
routed Santa Ana and his army of
four times his number, and when the
hero Scott with little more than ten
thousand men marched through the
heart of Mexico and planted the Stars
and Stripes over the Halls of the
Montezumas. . We were that, too,
when we notified Louis Napoleon, then
Emperor of France, who had estab-
lished an empire in Mexico. that he
must vacate, which he did very
speedily and left poor Macmillan to
his fate. Most of this was achieved
when we had but small Army and
Navy.