The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-01
BY sAvOYARD.

Bx 6AVOLAlSOs
 The Senate is this mans place. There he will remind of Davis. and Walker. of Lamar and George and walthall He will occupy the void made by Carmaoks absence. He United States Senate is the great delib- erative political council of the American people. Its history is the cream of Ameri- can citizenship, and to it we must look for the sDIendor of American statemanship Though we have fallen on times when any 1acl1ieg can make a better Constitution than that our fathers builded. the work of the fahers proved wonderfully successful. and the United Senate Is their grandest produc- ton. It is the conservative element that was formed to shield the minority from the ungoverned license of the majority, and that is all the expression free government ev- CT meant to be an intelligent student of poli- tics. Ours is a mixed government, national and Federal. the latter check upon, and conservatism of the Senate saved Andrew Johnson from the radicalism of the House; as when the Senate threw out the Lodge force bill of 1890. The Senate is the the- ater upon whose stage the smallest state may play as great part the largest; there Delaware and New York are equal. Not only is the Senate Federal in it's mem- bership, but. under the Constitution. It Is Federal in it's composition-that is, the State legislatures made up of representatives from equal communities, choose the Sena- tors If you doubt that 1t has worked ad- mirably, get the roll of the Senate for a century and be convinced. Senators are chos- en by the Legislatures. governors by the people Who will dare say the governors of the States are superior to the Senators from the States. He is a reckless man who will say they are equal to the Sena- tors.
 But that Is to be changed at the demand of public cIamor The Constitution of the fathers is already nullified in this practice of making Senators by blanket primary. If Jefferson Davis had lived and retained the splendid qualities of his prime, there would --A wx-an aNa tuUfn pi to bring Into contempt section of Arti- cie I of the Constitution of the United States. True. the primary does not nullify the letter, but 1t destroys the spirit, and in as far as possible the Senate Is made national body instead of a Federal. It Is now proposed to put the initiative and the referendum to it. which abolishes the Senate makes the government entirely national and turns all power over the unbridled license of the masses of the big States see how that might be favored by New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio. and Illinois; but where would Mississippi come in? She would sur render her equality in the Senate to have her small popular vote swallowed up in the immense popular vote of Chicago or Phila- delphia, where majorities are made to order Better turn back and bear while longer the ills the fathers made for us rather than fly to fads We know not of.
 If live l shall look down from the gal lery on the Senate of the sixty-first Con greas something less than twenty months in the future. hope to see Theodore Roose- welt sworn in a member on that occasion. I would like to see William J. Bryan Sem ator. Give these gentlemen two years ser vice and then re-enforce the Senate with John sharp Williams and Edward Ward Carmack and the layout would be greatly improved. In the Senate new member Is taken apart to what he is made of. If there is a flaw 1t will be found His skeleton is hung up to every gaze, and 1t takes mighty considerable fellow to stand the thing, Billy Mason came here some years ago, and they said he would laugh the Sen ate out of its boots. He tried 1t and the Senate froze him in his boots. and he never thawed during the entire six years, though he had been a bowling success in the House. And yet the Senate loves to laugh; but the Senate will not stand for horseplay.
 A debate on general politics participated in by Roosevelt Bryan, Carmack. Foraker, Williams. Lodge, Tillman. Bailey, and Bev- eridge, and lasting a week. would be worth 6 journey around the world to see and hear. What a power of good 1t would do Roose- Veltl And Bryan. too. would learn a deal he does not know. Mind would clash with mind, wit with wit. knowledge with knowl- edge. ThO~Iist of killed and crippled would be friKhtful on this theater. where none but hard knocks count would like to sec Roosevelt give Bailey or csrmack lesson