The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16
l, There Now a Political oppOsItlOnc


None Of the disciples OF JEFFERSON,
either in New York OF Chicago, or, 50
far as we know, anywhere else, defined
the line which divides his political prin-
ciples from those OF President RoosE-
vEUr. A great many people were wait
ing TO learn whether or not there was an
organized opposition TO the Roosevelt
Administration, and OF whom and what
il consisted.
Has the Roosevelt Administration
! captured the entire Jefersonian outfit
as II Is now represented by those who
spoke in this city and Chicago? II it
has not, then what remains unappro-
priated2 Do those who are now speak
ing in behalf Of JEFFERSON condemn the
advice given TO ROOSEVELT by his Com
| missioner of Corporations and sent TO
| Congress?
There are now on the Supreme Court
bench only three Justices appointed by
a Democratic President, and ono is a
New Yorker. Do the Jefersonians stand
UP to the recent exposition Of Democratic
! faith and doctrine regarding the inter-
probation Of the Constitution eKpounded
by those justices?
BRYAN solicited a military commission
from MCKINLEY and advocated the
ratification OF the Paris treaty. Was
that JehersonianI
JEFFERSON did not say or do much
regarding a tariff, In his day. Is not
ROOSEVELT following in JEFFERsoN's
| footsteps?
! Probably ROOSEVELT, had he been in
politics a century and a quarter ago,
would have been Hamilton Federalist,
or, what he evidently thinks much the
same, a Madison Federalist: but is he
not now a sound Jefferson Republican,
New York and Chicago we're silent upon
that critical question. BRYAN, DUNE,
PARKER, HERRICK and others were
dumb, but JRFFERsoN's great name and
fame are invoked as a cover for opposite
views Of Government ownership Of
public utilities and everything infected
by public use.
That JEFFERSON did advocate, or
/ could have advocated, ownership by
the Federal Government Of all instru-
ments Of transportation, seems pass
ing strange. Most Of US never dreamed
Of 1t. Perhaps ROOSEVELT has not yet
come to that.
How will such ownership be divided
Which Government will own the State
and which the interstate Instruments
Which shall a city own? And will the
nation, in the end, expel city and State,
and he proprietor Of all? Then who can
pay the bills?
At present, the question uppermost
Is fixing the rates Of railways. On which
side Of that are the JeTersonians2 Do
they stand with ROOSEVELT? In JEF-
PERSONS day there were ferries, turn
pike roads, toll gates and innkeepers.
Who fixed the rates? Did not the own
ers, subject to rectihcation by the courts,
precisely as they do now7 BRYAN said
at Chicago:
No one oAn imagine yuTEEsoN - toIeratnE
the lmpudsn, claim OF the railroad mSEnAtes tina,
they have right 70 determine arbitrarily and with
out appeal the rate TO o. charged for the rAnSporA
ton OF passengers or freight
| VI COubo no Ouo CAus 40 ONO OQ,
and nobody does now, Even the mag
Mates recognize and submit to the
courts. The plutoorats do not desire
national Incorporation of their enter
prises.
ROOSEVELT and BRYAN alike uphold
the Interstate Commerce Commission
In it's demand that II shall have power
to regulate railway rates and all railway
income, which Congressional regulation
will leave the railways, and their direo-
tors, nothing 10 do but 70 supply capital
and sxpend money till the Federal Gov
eminent buys and takes over all instru-
ments Of transportation. What Ia now
wished by 90 many people Is TO know
who do, and who do not, stand with the
President and Mr.. BRYAN in that dsmand.
Ii there political opposition TO III