The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-26
Will Punish Republicans.

l Now as the judge has so well said l the minute that a man becomes Presi- l dent he ceases being the President of a
 party and Is the President of every man,
 woman and child within the confines of the nation. But I permit myself one par ticular bit of personal discrimination. l am just a trife more intent on punishing the republican offender than the demo- crat, because he is my own scoundrel. I feel a certain sense of peculiar respon- sibility for him, and I am going to un- load that responsibility if I can. Of course, as we all know, offenses must come but I have endeavored to carry out the scriptural injunction, and to make 1t 8 matter of woe unto him by whom them come'
 1T am happy to say that we have a reasonable proportion of the offenders in question with stripes on, but not up to the 30 per cent average that I would like and 1 want to go a little further than we have yet gone. Then too, If the law is reasonably speedy and reasonably sure, 1t takes away one great excuse for law lessness. If some horrible crime is com n1itted and the people feel that under the best circumstances there will be an in- definite delay in the punishment of the criminal and that the punishment will be uncertain, even when the time for administering it comes, then a premium is put upcn that kind of law-breaking which mol 2 than any other is a menace to the law We ought to stand against all forms of putting that premium on; the long delays of justice, the abuses of the pardoning power; the sluggishness with which either court or attorney moves; all of those things count in bringing about the condition f affairs against which all of us must protest.
 Do Not Give Criminal an Advantage.
 Now a layman can do but little more than to give utterance to the feeling that so mary laymen have. I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of the United tSates will in all proper ways seek to see to i. that the loose customs-for some of these things of which I complain are merel; customs, and not laws-in- herited from the past, when conditions were totally different, shall not be per- yerted so as to wrong the whole public by giving the criminal an advantage to which he is net entitled, and that some sub stantial improvement shall be made in the direction Of securing greater expedi- ton and greater certainty in the admin istration of justice, and especially In the administration Of criminal justice"
 TabIeaux Is Presented.
 As the President sat down the curtain back of where he was stationed ascend- ed and a taDleaux was preSeIteu WeH- ty-five boys ranging in age from to F years, each attired in sailor suit, formed a group at once attractive and impressive. The spectacle won the Presidents heart and he gave unmistakable signs of his pleasure. He arose and said that he guessed all his auditors knew how he felt about the navy of the United States The navy of the country, he said. was the United States 'big stick" which would never be used against the weak un- less the weak put themselves in posi- ton, like a bad child, when chastisement was necessary He said that the big stick would be kept fin such condition that the necessity for it's use against the strong would never arise.
 Following this Lieut. Gov John P. Lee responded to the toast The State of Arkansas
 He gave the President an idea of the states great resources and closed with an eloquent assurance that the welcome I to the nations chief executive was heart | felt
 | Morris M. Cohn responded to the toast, '"rhe Commercial and Associate Interests | of the City of Little Rock" and in con | cluding he proposed a toast to the Presi- i dent of the United States. which was drunk standing At 3:a0 the presidential party began the trip to the Rock Island station along a route which was lined