The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-26
REPUBLICAN
 DEGENERACY
PRINCIPLES NOT PERSONAL PREF-
 ERENCEs INVOLVED NOW.
MT. James c. Carter, the Leader or she New York Bar, Admires Hoose- welt, but Arraisns Him for Rowing to Protected Tn"
 terests and Abuses or
 Consultation.

Constitution.
 
 New York Times.
 An autograph letter of James C car ter. president of the recently formeo Parker Constitutional Club. and gen orally recognized as the leader or the New York Bar. In which MT. carter makes known his views on the issuss of the pending campaign, was maae public last night by Frank M. Passes- son, secretary of the College Mems Club. to whom it was addressed. Tn giving out the letter, which pears the date of July 25, MT. Patterson said that he had purposely delayed making lt the College Mems Club. The club IS new actively engaged in the campaign, having rented rooms in the FiatiFoh building. v
 The Parker Constitutional Club" which elected MT. Carter president, en- braces within its membership twenty five or thirty of the most eminent law yers practicing in New York. Ills letter to MT. Patterson Is as follows:
 My Dear Mr. Patterson: have your letter of the 22d inst. communicating to me a plan which you say is in con, temptation of organizing a pohticai club which shall be distinctivefy col legiate in It's character for the purpose of aiding the candidacy of Judge Alton B. Parker for President of the United States
 The emphasis given to the name of Judge Parker suggests the possibility that the object in view Is in some, II not large. measure the personal one or securing his election in preference to the Republican candidate. attaching a secondary importance only to the prin" ciples really involved in the campaign.
 If this be the purpose, l have little sympathy wit hit; for much as l esteem Judge Parker. have a high personal R " nd think 1t important or wise to expend great efforts in political campaigns turning upon personal preferences. But if the object be to bring together the educated young men, who are inclined toward Democratic principles and en- courage them to individual and united action in support of those principles. l am heartily in favor of 1t.
 The time is suspicious for such an | effort. An episode in American poli- | tics has been brought to a close. piece of vicious legislation designed by Republican influences to secure Repub- | lican supremacy by enlisting in its | support the powerful silver mining tn- | terests had brought the government and the country nearly to bankruptcy, a result which was only escaped by the courage and resolution of a Democratic | President, but the vicious system had l nourished a dangerous 'heresy among | the masses of the people which gained | control of the Democratic organization | and forced a multitude of Democrats in two successive Presidential campaigns to abandon their party as the only method by which they could avert an | overwhelming peril.
 Today the aspect Is changed. The party reverts to the principles and policy which called 1t into life, and 1 summons to lead 1t a man who 1t Is known will be true to them. There is nothing more important than that l young men just entering upon a parti- cipation in the occupations and pur- derstanding of the various political policies and tendencies. and espouse those which point to the true glory and welfare of their country.
 Tt Is difficult to see how any man not living upon or profiting in some form from public bounty can hesitate in the coming contest upon which side to throw the weight of his political 1 influence. A mere glance at the res- pective attitudes of the parties would seem sufficient to guide the decision. | The Republican party stands as vast and organized combination of pecunia- | ry interests, whose only bond of union l Is the receipt of prodigious sums of | direct, or the hope to receive them. If any public measure good for other pur- poses favors these combined interests it will be supported. Otherwise 1t | will be opposed If there be any measure pernicious in its general eff feet. but favorable to this combination. it will be likely to be supported This may seem a harsh Judgment, but the history of the last thirty years will fully confirm 1t.
 Roosevelt Weakened on Tariff.
 This combined interest requires two things of its Presidential candidates, first, an unhesitating submission to the demand that the bounty enforced by 1t shall not be reduced; second. that he shall possess popular quantities call culated to aid in bringing success. Mir. Roosevelt was by no means a favorite l with them. and there is the best evil | dence for believing that the policy of high protection-plunder 1t should be called-was never acceptable to him. | He could not have been nominated un- less he had submitted.
 The completeness of his acquiescence is manifest when 1t is arcounced in platform and by his trusted confidant that no change shall be made in the public burdens imposed by the tariff, except by those who have imposed the burdens and who enjoyed their bene- fits, and not by them until in their own good time they think fit to make a change. This time, of course will never arrive until the ominous prospect of a sweeping political defeat looms up before them. It must be humiliating to an independent man to condescend | to this subserviency, but 1t Is the abso- lute condition upon which the honors of the Republican party are bestowed The one great lesson which young men from the universities should car ry with them into life and make the rule of their political action is that the only just function of government and. indeed, the only just function of all law, is to secure to each individual the largest measure of natural liberty which he can enjoy without encroach- other. This fundamental truth seems to be forgotten, or the delusion to have been embraced that the great laws of human society are but empty formulas which may be violated with impunity.
 "A day of bitter reckoning awaits that erroneous departure from the just theory of government displayed by this policy of exacting tributes from the many to distribute to the few, nay, il has already come
 Abuses of the Constitution.
 We see 1t in the unrepublican schemes to conquer and hold in per manent subjection foreign peoples. in the abuses of executive power setting at naught the International policy of prudent hesitation In the recognition of revolutionary States. in the appropria- tion by mere executive order of mill lions of money which should have been held subject to Congressional disposi- | tion-measures none of which would | have been taken except for their sup posed bearing upon a Presidential elec- | tion.
 How. indeed. can 1t be supposed to I14 Ht-A l., ~N,a,r Na