Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-11

ways tried to select for this great ofhce
men Of ability and high character? Any
body could follow somebody else. And why,
If senator have no liberty of action
should he be held accountable for the
record he makes: and If there is to be no
difference of opinion. why have any discus
sion-or. in fact, why have any Senate or
House?
have always understood and believed
that the representatives Of the people are
accountable only to the people; that they
are not properly subject to any other infiu-
ence. For that reason I stand ever-ready
to render to my constituents an account oil
my stewardship. 1t is their right to have 1t
it is my duty to give it; and if they are
dissatisfied they have remedy for that dis
satisfaction in their own hands. They can
select another.
Won't Be Called.
But while conceding the right of every
body else to differ from me, / deny the
right of anybody except my constituents to
call me to account. have never held any
Office except by election. l have always
been proud Of the confidence in me so fire.
uuently manifested by the intelligent people
of this great commonwealth. l am always
ready to abide their judgment. l would not
avoid or evade it if could. Therefore it Is
that 1 propose to carry my cause directly
to them whenever issues may arise in which
1 am interested. If they agree with me.
shall be retoiced; If not, shall be satisfied
But while l will thus submit my cause to
the people and abide their judgment, I Will
not submit to the dictation or threats or
menaces of any kind of any boss, big or
little, inside the state or outside of 1t.
Neither will l acauiesce without protest in
what do not approve. no matter by whom
it may be proposed. In all this profess
nothing new. I am simply one of the old
school. who does not think one department
should be allowed to swallow up the other
departments of government. or that the
Constitution should be amended except by
the people, and in the way 1t provides
Our Dual System.
believe in our dual system of govern
ment, one state and the other national; one
to deal with local affairs, the other with
those that are national and International l
believe that as the business of the govern
ment and the duties of the government
multiply it will become more and more
strikingly manifest that our fathers were
wise in providing such a system. and that
instead of talking about the obliteration of
stat. lines. we should now more than ever
be careful to preserve to the states their
proper rights and functions, just as we
have always been Jealous to protect the
federal government in the exercise of all
the powers delegated to it, either expressly
or by implication.
/ believe also that our fathers were wise
when they created three departments of
government and made them separate. inde-
pendent and coordinate. and that the
rights of each should be jealousy protected
against infringement by either of the
others.
The Growing Glory.
In truth, this provision is the crowning
glory of our whole scheme of government
Montesauieu, in writing of this gen
eral idea:
There would be an END oil everything
were the same man, or the same body,
uhe,her of the mobiles or the people, to eX-