The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-06-23
At Last the Constitution!

At Last the Constitution!
Doesn't it seem funny to hear Re-
publican invoking the constitution to
help him out of hole? It's more hui
morous than anything by Artemus
Ward, Mark Twain, Bret. Harte "Pri-
vate'' John Allen or any of the rest
OF that school, for from the day when
Seward ruined himself as a presiden-
tiai candidate by enunciating his doc
trine of the higher law down to our
day the constitution has been a thing
for jeers and gibes and fiouts by Re-
publican bigwigs. Every Democrat
that lifted up his voice in defense OF
the constitution has been made the
butt of ridicule by Republican papers
and orators Nevertheless Senator .Je-
seph Benson Foraker OF Ohio. finding
himself worked in short harness hy
the Roosevelt crowd, has lifted up his
voice in favor of the constitution. he
is'now trying to convert it to his own
use in his fight for the Republican
presidential nomination. and, strange
to relate, he selected Memorial day
on which to, announce that the cor
stitution is being put in jeopardy By
his Republican foes. In his Memorial
day speech the senator propounded
these pertinent questions TO his audi
tors and to the universe: HAS our
form of government been changed:
And, If so, when, how and by whom? 2"
He fears for the constitution and says.
"The average American is so busily
occupied with his own affairs that he
does not fully realize how many and
how dangerous are the abuses of pow
err" In the language Of that illustrious
Republican Warwick, E. H. Hartman.
Wow, VOW The senator even in
fringes Marse Henry Watterson's pat
ent by intimating that the government
is In imminent peril of being Mexican
ized
Very much depends on whose OK is
gored. Accordingly Brother Foraker Is
bitterly opposed to any president try.
ing to select his successor. That is the
objectionable sin in his eyes just now
Wonder il he would take it so much to
heart II Colonel Roosevelt were push
ing him for the presidential nomina
ton instead of that other eminent
Buckeye statesman, Mr.. Secretary OF
War William Howard Taft. On this
head he feelingly remarks. ANY mar
whom the American people shall have
placed in power may well trust them
to name his successor. and If he should
not they would find way to impress
upon him that they are sovereign and
that he should be content to trust them
as they have trusted him. which
words are hereby cheerfully commend.
ed to the careful and prayerful consid-
Grafton of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
Just about the time that Senator
Foraker was preparing that speech
Editor William H Brown, a Republic
an editor Of Mandan, n D.. was writ
Ing this:
Why not call a special session of con-
gress and amend the constitution to per-
NIT of an election for president for life?
He is the logical answer to the problem
Of our future. We believe we echo the
real sentiments of our constituency the
greatest In numbers and the safest in po-
ltical moralities the country affords to-
aay-viz. the farmers of the United States.
Roosevelt has been the president of all
the people and ought to be continued in
power for all the good producing years of
his life.
Foraker and Brown represent the ex-
fremes in the Republican party Which
the most Republicans re-
mains to be seen.