Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1906-08-31
PRESIDENT ARRAIGNED FOR EX.
ECUTTVE USURPATTON.

In an interview on Monday last Senator
Rayner declared that the tariff and "Execu-
tive usurpation" were the chief issues of the
pending campaign. He also accused the
President and Speaker Cannon OF deliber-
ately strangling the "anti- vote buying" bill.
He said In part:
81 agree with Senator Whyte that the
tariff is the leading issue, not only in this
campaign, but that 1t will continue TO be 30
In the future until radical changes are made
in the interests Of the American consumer
II do not take much stock in the Massa
chusetts or Iowa idea of lowering duties
upon hides and sole leather and lumber and
permit the rest of the schedules to stand.
We want a revenue tariff for the whole
country and not a tariff for the benefit of
particular section or locality.
"What we want is thorough revision of
friends, because then II will never be re-
Vised, but at the hands of the enemies-that
is, at the hands Of those who believe that
monopoly has been surfeited with q suffl
Gent amount of protection, and that the
friend of the consumer and not the friend OF
the American monopolist is to undertake
the revision. l do not believe in halfway
measures upon this issue. i
81 do not consider" continued Senator
Rsyner, "that the tariff is the only issue,
however. A few weeks before the adjourn
ment OF the Senate 1 was present at csn'
ference with q number Of its members and
with prominent Democrats from different
sections of the country. 1t was the positive
conviction of every one present that 'execu
tive usurpation' should be made one of the
leading issues in our Congressional and
Presidential campaigns.
"Every one will admit the great accom-.
plishments and the marvellous career of
President Roosevelt, and the esteem in
which be Is held by the country. We claim,
however, and the facts are abundant n sup.
port of 1t, that he has trespassed upon Con.
stitutlonal limitations; that he has inter
fered with the functions of the lawmaking
power; thathe has, by the use Of his pat
ronage and influence, dominated both
branches of Congress- that he has made q
compact with the Speaker OF the House and
its committee on rules TO promote or sti1e
legislation as it suited his purpose, and that
he has arrogated to himself functions never
contemplated by the trainers of the Con-
stitution.
"This is great issue, Governmental cen.
tralization' by the executive, and am con.
fident 1t will berung from every Democratic
hastings.
There is another proposition OF supreme
Importance that We must not lose sight OF,
and that is the deliberate strangling Of the
measure TO prevent the purchase of Con.
gressional and Presidential elections. The
President and Speaker OF the House of Rep.
resentatives are responsible for the suppress
sion of this legislation. 1t passed the Sem
ate, as recall it, unanimously. When 1t
came to the House it awaited, as usual, the
order and command of the President.
"The practical defeat Of this measure in
Congress means that the Democratic party
must face an enormous corruption fund in
the future, as it has done in the past, while
its passage would have signified to the coun.
try that the elective franchise can no longer
be polluted except at the peril of law, and
that the ballot is no longer for sale"