The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-15

1 taxing power, of the police power, or the treaty-making power.
 It is true that in recent years some professed disciples of Jefferson have advocated measures of national control which would have led that apostle of 1 the least government possible to regard Hamilton as a strict constructionist; l but these are probably temporary ab- | errations. The same division between the two schools of interpretation of the constitution still exists and in the na- ture of things must continue.
 With these continuing questions and permanently divided schools of opinion the association of the advocates or each opposing view is bound to be re- 1 peated in many successive political campaigns. This association is not oc- casional and fortuitous; 1t IS, to great extent, predetermined and GUS | tomary. The men who entertain posi- tive views upon one side or the other of the great political question become known; they acquire the habit of working together; they rely upon each others cooperation. The asso- citation is practically continues. be- cause the process in which the advo- cates of these differing views are en- gagged is continuous. Our people are so constituted that no sooner is an 1 election over and the result declared than the supporters of the defeated candidates and the advocates of the rejected views immediately begin their 1 efforts to secure a reversal of the re- suit at the next election. The ever present consciousness that in year, or two years, or four years there Will be an opportunity to substitute victory for defeat is a great element in the peaceable and good-natured accept ance of the results of our elections by those who are defeated.
 Sometimes the lines which separate the voters of the country upon one side or the other of new question run across lines of cleavage between the tnew question is such that great bodies of voters dissolve their association with an old party and form a new as- sociation with another party; as, for example, the positions taken by the
 democratic and republican parties on
 the subject of the currency a few | years ago led many gold democrats to go over to the republican party and many free silver republicans to go ov- CT to the democratic party. Occasion ally, the attitude of all existing parties lis so unsatisfactory to the people much interested in a new question that they undertake to form a new party for the furtherance of their views on that particular question. Generally
 these attempts show that the people
 who are interested by particular new tissue overestimates its importance and
 their attempts to form a new party
 fail but we have had one signal ex-
 ample the other way-in the formation
 of the republican party in 1856 by the
 men who were not satisfied with the
 attitude of either the democratic ol
 the whig party in regard to the ex
 tension of slavery. As a rule, however
 each old political party adds to the lis
 of principles and policies which it ad
 vocates a view upon each great new
 question in accordance with the opin
 ions of a majority of It's members, anC
 with some slight changes and realign
 ment of dissatisfied members, old par
 ties go on representing their member