Bisbee daily review., 1904-08-26

treasurer Of the New ioFh SldtS hc publican Committee; William C. Choat. a brother of Joseph II. Chcatc, Am bassador to England: willi sn Morton Grinnen, Assistant SeceeIay of tbe state under Harrison, and Albert B. Boardman are looked uppa here as a sign of the drift of Republican though | toward constitutionaiis-n as opposed to imperialism.
 These assertions of such men, who are the acknowledged leaders, cojr led with the work of tAe Consntdtio n Club organized this week, wall have , far-reaching effect upon ,ne rank anu file who. anxious to vote 'lght, are III doubt.
 The Constitution Club numbers among it's members tha brightest lgnts in the legal fraternity. All of its O1- 6cers are members of the par, deep seen students of constitutional laN ana history. who see grave elements CT danger in President Roosevelt5 coG:se in public questions.
 James C. Carter is the President ct the club. Wheeler H. Peckaam, Jofn E. Parsons, Joseph Laroque and JCLn G. Carlisle are the vice-presidents; William Church Osborn is the secre- tary, and the treasurer is William k. Curtis. On the Executive Committee are William B. Hornblower, Francis L. Statson. John G. Milburn, Howard Taylor and James W. Gerard. Jr.
 In it's campaign of education the club intends to go fully, thorougly. and imparU.ally into the record Of President Roosevelt. It promises 10 deal not in generalities, but in facts. and these will be presented hetpce the voters in such clear and ccmore- hensive way as to show the radical departure President Roosevelt has made in a number of executive aetcns and the extreme danger, as the club considers it, of intrustlng power to an executive of this temperament.
 How real this danger is thought 10 be is explained by Howard Taylor, a member of the Executive Committee NIT. Taylor is close friend of Judge Parker and has repeatedly discussed the question with the Democratic can didate. But Mir. Tayior's consenting to serve on the Executive Committee springs from his own strong individual convictions, which are the same as those of Judge Parker, and his intense desire to help defeat the candidacy of a President who. he believes, consni- tutes a menace to the welfare Of the country.
 The greatest changes in the fabric of government" said MT. Taylor, "of- ten come impreceptibly. At the out set they seem trifling innovations- nothing more than slight departures from the previous form of government. There seems nothing startling ,T significant in their contemporaneou= or future effect The Government seems to go not as before-a little more pow CT has been taken by the executive but the form of the government as a whole does not seem to be effected.
 But President Roosevelt's aroi. trary usurping of legislative functions has been so clear that it is hard to see how any thinking person can fail 10 be impressed with the change rur Government can undergo over night as it were, with an executive of this character It is undoubtedly trJe that no president so far has gone io the exereme limits in time of pea,e that he has in massing enormous pow CT in his own hands. This is not an impreceptible but a very percept;bie shange, and one does not have to be gifted with prophetic insight to f0resce the whole train of alarming circum- stances that can easily ersue from a persistent course of this nature.
 These evils are not shadowy. They are very real. The Government as swayed by Presiden. Roosevelt has already suffered a distinct alteration. The question now . wh eihsr We a-e going to revert 70 the eharacter Of an executive as con amp,t,ei by cur Constitution, or whether VIZ intend to continue allowing gigantic and ever in creasing powers 10 5e assumed by the President witioa. responsibility. Meth ing tends -J bu.ld up Gesp Dtisia so rapidly and effectively as this same feeling of irrc sPorsIJ ity on the "a | of an execu,.se If he coHsiteIs h.Tn- self above cc1stitutional bodjs. there from going to extremes, the sinister ef- feet of which may be felt for centuries.
 There is really no way of stopping an arbitrary President from going too far except by impeachment. There is no other way, it is true, but it is Aow-operating one, and that is to elect someone else. But to do this it is necessary 10 wait until a general election. Tn the meantime, however, . reckless President can do infinite harm. By far the safer way is to elect a President whose known char acter sufficiently youches for his finn intention to administer the affairs of his ofice within constitutional bounds. } '-~47hc gravity of President Roose- velt's course lies not only Id the pres ent effect but in the pTecedents he has established. The Conss.tILiol def-es clearly the form, powers and duties of our Government, but there are cer- tain powers which are not specified iG the Constitution.
 "As long ago as 1893 the Supreme Court of the United States heli that it had no power to order what the exc should do and should not d3. This