The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11
WHAT PRESIDENT PARKER,
COULD Do

There are some Democrats who are
that Judge Parker even if elected
President could accomplish much in
the way of reforming present evils in
the government and in Kidding the
country of the burdens imposed upon
| it by the Republican party.
These, without a study of the DOW
ers of the President fear that moth
ing can be done against the gianr
evil of the age-the Trusts-and that
the Tariff, bearing unequally upon the
Judge Parker is elected President, and
the Senate remains Republican, as
must in all probability, be the case
for the next four years.
Such questions as are Indicated
above have been addressed to the New
York American, which in discussing
the matter has the following:
1T is not the fact that a Democratic
President could do nothing to the
tariff or to the trusts through the
tariff.
1T is true that the Senate will be
Republican and pro-trust for the neXs
four years.
And it is true that the President
could not influence any legislation
against trusts or a trust tariff if the
Republican Senate stood res0luteiy in
the way.
But there are plenty of things THAI
a Democratic President could say anG
do, once elected-and some of those
things would interest the Republican,
Senate nightly.
HE might get a few Republican,
Senators together quietly and talk to
them like this:
Senators and Eminent Statesmen:
The chief among you-Aldrich
is the father-inlaW of Rookie
feller's son.
1 am aware that he and many
others of you are vitality interest
ed in a great deal of legislation
which you mgeniOusy Slip
through your legislative body.
1 know that your distinguished
membership has vital interest
in every piece of wholesale cor
poration rascality that goes on In
this country.
L am Going after all that ras-
cality, and 1 am going to get at
it.
/ am going to have the right
kind of rneY-General-l'n
keep changing him until | get the
right kind-and he will have the
right sort of assistants.
/ was put here by the people
of the United States-ani | think
more of their will than of Seqa-
torial dignity.
The people want the trusts
curbed and the tariff changed to
do away with trust-breeding.
I propose to see that the people
have what they want.
| advise You polite gentlemen to
be very careful how you use your
places to defeat the peoples Will.
OF course / stay and shall stay
strictly within constitutional linn
it's. But I'll try to show you that
the Constitution contains a few
clauses in favor OF public honesty.
and that it was not designed as
an instrument to defeat the will of
| the majority.
/ think I'll convince you of n
fact recently Noverlooked-that the
! Constitution favors government by
the people-not by the trusts or
by corrupt Senator's.
Ny particular task as EXecu-
tive is enforcement of the laws.
I'll try to interest you in the
way I'll enforce the laws that de-
clare trusts criminal organiZa-
tons.
| advise you to go back to the
Senate and regulate your votes
according to the will of the people
and not according to the interests
Of the generations that send and
| keep you here.
With such a program as this there
would certainly be events of interest
| occurring at the Nations capital.
Standing we'll within all Constitutional
limitation Democratic President,
| could redress many wrongs from
which this country now suffers.
The remedy is with the people. Let