The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-09-03
UOHN SHARP VILLA Ms
BY SAVOYARD.
Copyright, 1897 by E. w. Newman,
BY SAVOYARD.

.-.f remind II OF Davis and
ramar and George Wal
...r, coup the void made
r .,s absence. He will have
IN the body. The United
ate IS tbs great deAbera-
,l council Of the American
E ,r- history IS the cream Of
citizenship, and to it we
ie-. Far sne splendor OF Amer1-
p --,rausuip. Though We have
...-es wnen any JackIeg can
..,.r constitution than that
bu!lced, the work Of the
.r0-oi wonderfully successful,
PEI" 1.-..-ri states senate - LneIf
. -~acuction. 1t is the con-
,.~rent that was formed to
F-... --.rorlry from the ungoyern-
a- If the majority, and that IL
-.1 rression free government
'". .- to the intelligent student
ours is a mixed govern
...raI and Federal, the latter
FL ..r.on and a balance against,
as when the conservatism
.+o saved Andrew Johnson
"- r.dtcausm of the House,, as
q. .auate threw out the Lodge
If 1880. The Senate is the
..pn whose stage tAe small
NAV play as great a part
I.~ua-t. there Delaware and
work are equal. Not only IS the
p ~. Ieral in its membership, u
-.4 Constitution. 1t IS edera IN
u..4zltion-that is, the State leg
made ND of representatives
....aI communities, choose the
If YOU doubt that it has
.lmirably, get the roll Of the
~ a. century and be con-
senator's are chosen by the
Ls,.res. governors by the people.
dare a the governors OF
States are superior to the Sen
from the States. He is a reck-
r.s. who viii say they are equal
senators.
..t that is to be changed at the de-
r4 .f public clamor. The Consti-
H.. If the fathers is already NULL
.r This practice of making Sen
Iv blanket primary. If Jefferson
-. mad lievd and retained the
.r5fd qualities Of his prime, there
ia hive been no blanket primary
NJ .--'--IDlJl IL DI1Il5 -
o Of Article | Of the COnStl-
If the United States. True, the
does not nullify the letter but
destroys the spirit, and IN as Tar
..--fhIp the Senate is made a ma
-sr hody instead Of a Federal. 1t is
(. to put the initiative and
ra.arendum to it, which abolishes
senate makes the government en-
s---l nn1 ti1rr1G n i nNEe r
r. ra the unbridled license of the
s.es Of the big States. l can see
T.. that might he favored by New
*. pennsylvania, Ohio, ana III.
but where would MISSISSIPPI
49, 4? She would surrender her
ar-y in the Senate to have her
4I popular vote swallowed up IN
immense popular vote of Chicago
Philadelphia, where maJorltles arr
b. to order. Better turn back and
r q while longer the ills the fathers
Fa for us rather than fly to fads we
lw not of.
+ live l shall look down from
gallery on the Senate OF the Sixty
y congress something less than
eutv months in the future. / nope
see Theodore Roosevelt sworn IN
q member on that occasion. L would
f. ts see William j. Bryan q SEN
w. Give these gentlemen two years
-vIce and then re-enforce the Senate
:h John Sharp Williams and Ed
lard Ward Carmack. and n lay
h would be greatly improved. In the
aua-e a new member is taken apar'
see what he is made of. If there
q flaw it will be found. His skele-
d is hung Up to every gaze, and Il
les a mighty considerable fellow &c
nj the thing. Billy Mason came
re some years ago, and they salc
would laugh the Senate out of 1T
ITS. He tried it and the Senate
~ him iii his boots. and he never
we'd during the entire years, thougf
had been a bowling II
house. And yet the senate love
laugh. Carmack made it laugh; bu
Senate will not stand for horse
debate on general politics par
pated in by Roosevelt, Bryan, Car
tx. Foraker, Williams, Lodge, Till
II. Bailey, and Beverage, and last
d WeeN. would be worth q joufne,
und the world to see and near
d power of good it would d'
t~eIe cit. And Bryan, too, Woul'
IN a deal he does not know. Mine
lId clash with mind. wit with wit
,Wledge with knowledge. The lis
and crippled would be fright
on this theatre, where none bu
I'd knocks count. l would like t
Roosevelt give Bailey or COrmacl
essen on Constitution by cOnstruc
| would like to hear William
1 BeVeridge or opposing sides of tn
pc and force of the tenth amend
Mt. l would like to be preser
en- TilIman and Foraker clash o
constitutional right Of the Sout
vote the Democratic ticket.
IN that list John Sharp William
second to none in debate. Bale
a greater lawyer, Carmack a mo
liant debater, Lodge a more ST.
JUS scholar, Beveridge a more lndt
gable worker; but as an au-roun
TN in political debate John Shar
the equal of the best of them. ii
a powerful mind, cultured in tn
st schools of both hemispheres; h
CURED knowledge is varied and e1
4s.ve, he is as ready as Carmacl
4 self: like Capt. Culpepper'S bull
g. he V sprang but at IL
rHaC'-W1de the l1CeratGd quiet
Hon. Littauer. who had charge
.p subsidy the last session. Not on.
John Sharp Williams a Dcmocr'
~Irinciple; but he IS the most tho
Democrat in demeanor since o
ID Morrison left here. For this J
as been Asrsh!y criticised; but n
-reer shows that a great man is on
'e greater for q simplicity tn;
axes him lOVable.
Il was in December 1903 that job
la.o Williams was chosen leader
e minority Congress, succeeding
a place formerly held by Richard
~ l.aily, Crisp. Mills, Carlisle, ar
r.~5n. Since the first convocatiC
taa F!fty-third Congress the Den