The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-09-28
LEADERS AT OUTS
DIVERGENT POLICIES AOVOCAT.
ED BY REPUBLICANS.
Inconsistencies in Their Deiiverances
Show Clearly That the Party Is
Widely Apart On Most I'M
portant Questions.

of sound reasoning, that those things
are best which are least mixed with
c%ontraries and contradictions; and
consequently that things so mixed are
the worst things possible. According
to this doctrine the policies of the Re
publican party, as manifested by the
recent deliverances of Taft. RoOse-
welt, Foraker and Congressman Nc
Call, fall clearly within the category
Of worst possible things; for there is
q manifest inconsistency in their de-
liverance, an inconsistency which Can-
not be got over. Taft and Mccall;
plead for the constitutional! rights OF
the states and the people. They dep
recate the doctrines ~enunciated BY
Root and Roosevelt. Even Foraker
shows some respect for constitutional
limitations.
Taft has been a Judge. aud he has
been widely heralded as the possible
successor of Chief Justice Fuller Of
the United States Supreme court. He
has not forgotten the recent decision
OF that court in the Case OF Kansas
10. \bIo SiQo III AOdlA NV SAipAo ~
endorse Roosevelt's short cut poll
cy through the constitution to arbi-
trary power in the federal executive
or legislature. 1t may be we'll to re-
call the language OF the court in that
case. The court said:
This amendment, which was seem
ingly adopted with presciencc Of Just
--l T., Or Ah@ -A.Ap lie
closed the widespread fear that the
national government might, under the
pressure of supposed general welfare,
attempt to exercise powers which ila1
not been granted. With equal deter
animation the trainers intended that no
such assumption should eVer tind JUS
tilication III the organic act, and that II
IN the future further powers seemed
necessary they should be granted by
the peopl" in the manner they had
provided for amending that act" The
position of Taft is therefore, in per
feet harmony on this point with that
OF our Federal Supreme court.
Mccall in his speech at Marshteld
August %. quotes and approves the
following words OF Daniel Webster:
THE contest of the ages has been
to rescue liberty from he grasp OF
executive power. On the long list OF
champions of human freedom there
is not one name dfmmed by the re-
| Dro2ch of advocating the extension
OF executive authority"
And in reference to mis- doctrine he
indirectly cxcoriates President ROOse-
velt'S policy Of ~usurpation- In fact.
he covertly describes and denounces
| Mr.. Roosevelt in the following words:
"A president supremely lacking in
the qualities Of Il statesman. one who
is egotistic. impulsive. Of immature
Judgment, u mere glueton Of the lime
light. ready TO barter away prosper
ity and even his country's freedom
for mOmentary applause.
IF he is an autocrat, such as he is,
| such for the time will yOur country he.
Instead of 4 mighty nation, great in
her physical strength and greater in
her moral qualities, YOU may have a
| strutting. confiscatinS, shrieking. med
| ding America. God save us from such
a day!
adhere, then, to the representative
government of the fathers, to the only
kind of government which from the
foundation of the world has cherished
human freedom"
Foraker, in his Columbus speech,
August 30. attacked both Taft and
"a -raa 30 %hA.r y,iNAf
| pies. Admitting ~inferentially the cor
rectness of Taft's position concerning
constitutional limitations in general.
| he imputes to Taft inconsistency In
| reference to the rate law, for he said:
HE makes no answer To the SuggeS-
ton that the three owner of V
ment, the legislative, the executive,
and the judicial. are all conferred on
| the commission. and that this com
mingling of these powers is unprece-
dented, and in. violation of both the
s1irit and letter of the constitution.
His answer to the objection that il
congress has the power to make
rates. it cannot delegate the same,
seems to be mere assertion and spccu-
lation, based on false premises.
NO Legislative power is given by
the constitution of the United States
to anybody except to the congress. 1t
is an elementary proposition that such
power cannot be delegated" On this
point Foraker is undoubtedly right,
and Taft wrong; and since Taft agrees
with Roosevelt, the latter must, there
fore, be wrong.
The president in hts Frovincetown
speech, plainly proclaims his endorse
nent of short cut unconstitutional
method. Because our business meth
dds have changed under the constitu-
ton. and have developed great spec
ial interests which are attempting to
override both our constitution and
our statutes, he breaches the sedi-
tious doctrine of changing the constitu-
ton so as to conform to the unconsti'
tutional demands of special interests,
and of doing so by u~surpation instead
of by amendment. His theory is well
doscrihed in the following cOuplet: