The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-15
wATTERs0N sCOLDs AT ACTS
 OF BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES.
Kentucky Editor Defines His Position As PurIah--ScOres Powers Invested
 in President---sees Constf- futf0u Torn

in President--sees Constf-
 tuition Torn.
 Lexington, Ky.-The Bluegrass fair was opened here today with an ad- dress by Henry Watterson, in which he discussed national politics vigor- ously. He paid a glowing tribute to the leaders whose political careers had made glorious the history of the blue grass region. and. saying that he stood "aIone, a suspect among the Democrats and a ne'er do we'll among the Re- publicans." said:
 eve are living in. stirring times, Old things have passed away. new things have arrived upon the sceue If Alexander Hamilton. and Henry Clay, and Thomas Jefferson and An drew Jackson should for a moment re- visit they would rub their ghostly eyes and go to sleep again, concluding the spectacle some fantastic dream. Be- holding the Dingley tariff, Hamilton and Clay could look one upon the other aahast and burst into tears. Seeing warriors in Porto Rico. Alaska and the Philippines-and Teddy Bear in the White House--Jefferson would say to Jackson. It is much too rich for our blood, Andrew. my dear and then both of them would fade back into the yalhaIla cloisters of home rule. free trade and sailors rights.
 Claims Party Organism Rules.
 We pride ourselves upon living under a government of public opinion. Would 1t not be truer to say we live under A government of party organ ism? Is 1t. not also that good party organism makes small account of pub lie opinion where 1t feels itself strong enough to defy it7 The corruption of parties and the revelation of this han raa0haA fha rN- mon knowledge the last few years have confounded the Democrats and brought the Republicans to their knees. The politicians of both par ties are appealing as never before to the people.
 "Mr. Roosevelt vies with MT. Bryan in the proposal of specifics more or less novel and drastic, but each claim ing to be curative. A majority of one in either camp settles 1t: majority of one between the two camps settles 1t. In both camps the more violent and active men ever intriguing for advan- tage draw the more moderate and pas sfve men after them: and although the two sets of moderate men united might constitute majority, they cannot get together because of an artificial line raised in the interest of professional place hunters too often at the expense of tho country.
 'T do not say that party government is a failure, but I do say that party government claiming to be the repre- sentative of public opinion Is hum bug. It is a mischievous humbug.
 'Surely 1t would not Ue myself that was talking to you if I did not edge in a word about the constitution; but when I say Back to the constitution, I address myself equally to the Repub- ncans and the Democrats. I do won der if President Roosevelt ever read President washington's farewell ad- dress?' I wonder If William Jennings Bryan ever read it?"
 MT. Watterson read from the fare we'll address selections against the spirit of innovation" and too great standardization in the government, and continued:
 N Under the hand of a President whose pefsonality Is so attractive that most men are 10th to question anything he s8xs or does. under the rule of Theo- dore Roosevelt, the pendulum of cen tralization has swung much too far to Ieeward and will need to be swung back again if we are to recover the boise and balance to which, in those weiRhty and wise words, Washington refers, and which the fathers and founders of our great republic de- signed for the Federal government and the states.
 Cites Limits of EeOwer.
 'Tn other words, the constitution IS A clearly defined chart of limited and enumerative powers meant to check the encroachment of one department of the overnment upon another and to make the exercise of arbitrary pow CT impossible. Leaving, as Justice Harlan proceeds to impress us, 'unim- paired to the state or the people the nowers not delegated to the national government nor prohibited to the States
 If more power Is needed, eff addi- tional powers ard required. the con- stitution cited by Washington as well as by Justice Harlan specifics how they shall be obtained"