The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-27

legally and morally. If fortune favored
them they would go In and build the canal,
In pursuance Of the action OF President
Roosevelt, with no load on their souls,
with consciences void OF offenoe-except
that OF having libelled and slandered their
OUR ANCIENT NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., JEF-
PERSON, LINCOLN.
This Constitution of ours must possess
a marvellous vitality to have survived
all the attempts to save it. They began
in the time of Washington. He was
tyrant, too, in his day. The Constitution
was constantly in danger Of violation at
his hands. Next jefferson was accused
of the same crime: in fact, he rather sus-
pected himself at the time Of the Louisiana
Purchase-but the people forgave and
applauded, and that act is now the brightest
jewel in his coronal OF fame. But the
most dangerous enemy Of the Constitu-
ton, the one whose supposed violations
Of that sacred instrument excited the most
frenzied cries Of rage and terror, was Abra-
ham Lincoln, that nisi prius lawyer, that
old Clay Wing who worshipped the Con-
stitution scarcely less than his Maker.
Even the Democrats have now grown
come fashionable for them to praise and
to quote him. That eminent constitutional
iurist Senator Tillman, the other day Joined
the ranks Of his admirers and reproached
the Republican party for having forsaken
his teachings. In the evolution Of Lin
coins fame we have seen some strange
happenings; but we were not prepared to
see him defended with a pitchfork.
Patriotism was once petulanty called
the last refuge Of scoundrel. The Con-
stitution, which we ought all to cherish
and revere as something sacred, is coming
to be considered as missile to be thrown
at the head of our opponents whenever we
fall short of other ammunition. The simple
fact is that no President has ever violated
the Constitution, and risk nothing ~ say
ing that no President will violate 1t In the
next four years.
THE SACRED CONSTITUTION IN THE SOUTH.
The Republicans can avow their adj
herence to the Constitution without by
pocrisy and without the labored emphasis
of rernorse. The first great work OF the
party was performed in 1851, when with
toll and struggle such as we pray may @ never
ton from the assaults of the predecessors
of the men who now claim exclusive charge
of it, and who even to-day not only ac-
,uiesce in its violation in certain States
of the Union, but shamelessly profit by 1t.
If all the citizens of the Southern States
were allowed their constitutional rights,
the Democratic party, as at present or
ganized, would cease to exist and the poll
tics Of the country. no longer chained to
dead issues Of the past, could arrange them
serves on lines Oh ulsptSSlOHdte diSSuooioh
and patriotic development
DEMOCRATS WILL BE GLAD WHEN ROOSEVELT
IS ELECTED.
This extraordinary campaign is drawing
to a close. On the sth of November the
pickering. and confusion OF tongues VIII
cease. The people who have been, filing
the air with Islander Of the man who has
so we'll and so nobly served the country
will recognize with gratitude his excellent
work and will be glad they are still to enjoy
the benefits Of 1t. Without referring to
what might be the results of a Democratic
success. we shall see as plain, as day what
we have gained by Republican victory;
no new or untried courses. but continu
ance of the policies which have proved so
fruitful in advantage for the last fifty years:
The Constitution, our great charter OF
public and private rights, will be found
forth by Washington and Hamilton, am
plifed and perfected by the experience OF
a century OF trial, will still be available
to fill our Treasury and to foster our manu-
features.
The gold standard of currency and our
established them and who do not have TO
protest the sincerity Of their adherence
to them will keep our finances firm as the
hills. The principle of nationality, de-
rived from our Revolutionary, fathers and
consecrated by the blood and toll of the
civil war, will guard this indissoluble union
OF indestruc ibe States against all attack
from within or without. The Atlantic
and Pacific oceans will still be equally the
field of our trade and commerce. Our
with firmness and liberality. with an ever
increasing measure Of freedom, as they
develop the faculty Of self-control. We
shall continue to treat our sister republics
Of this hemisphere as friends and equals,
not coveting their goods or their soil
hpi frian6-
ship. Our relations with the rest OF the
world will remain as they have been in
recent years-those of frank and honorable
amity with all and .entangling alliances
desire of our hearts. to which the labor of
our hands will be devoted, prosperity
and peace.
II auickens the pulses ( think what splen-
did progress we are to make on every line
OF national welfare in the next four years
with Theodore Roosevelt at the helm. In
the strength Of his young manhood,
with lofty hopes and purposes, with large
experience of life with the country his only
care and God his guide, he will All his high
Office with reverence for the law and the
Constitution as ever in his great Task
masters eye." His just fame in history
will add new splendor to the glory of his
native State.
Men Of New York; will you allow it TO be
said that, while the rest Of the country
gtOOQ Dy DIN you leH away! NUtIl
dent Roosevelt ascends the steps of the
Capitol next March shall 1t be said that his
mother State has no part in his triumph?
II that shall be so, yours will be the loss,
not his,
Lieut. Gov. Higgins spoke as follows
The Higgins Rainbows.
In handling the vast sum of money ap-
propriated by the State II is hopeless to
expect from poor human nature no de-
Walton from the right path among the
many who are necessarily entrusted with
responsibility. The Executive should AT
all times be alert to detect malfeasance
and to punish the wrongdoer speedily and
without Tear or favor, when detected.
Extravagance and waste are no. measured
by the sum total OF appropriations, but by
the results obi aimed from money expended.
Every dollar unneces sarily spent if waist ed,
and every dollar for which dollars worth
OF service or material ia not exacted is
extravagantly. spent.
Should / hold the office Of Governor for
tho next two years ii will be my earnest
endeavor and my highest ambition, with
modesty and humility to give the people
OF the 81 ate a clean business admipistral ion,
free from any stain Of fraud or corruption
in the eyes OF the men, and to that end
shall be influenced by no other obligation
than the constitutional oath faithfully
10 discharge the duties Of the Office to the