Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-09-28
SENATOR FORAKER AND GREAT
QUESTIONS.


Senator j. b. Foraker is now one
OF the most entertaining and force
ful political orators before the
public. His utterances attract inn
mediate attention and an that nc
says is replete with information and
resplendent with the rhetorical -four
ishes for which he has been always
noted.
We particularly admire him for
the reason that he never leaves
great principles. even when he is
dealing sleige-hammer blows at his
blttercst enemies. he always exc
presses "a willingness 90 abide re-
suits. when honestly expressed by
The people he has been chosen TO
represent a man of his type and
mold is an ideal candidate for
great office. His speech at Hills.
boro. Ohio. September rs. 1907
shows his ola time skin and every
word uttered along studied lines eve
identity "struck home" whom placed
alongside OF the outspoEon declara-
rioas and pronounced 1licies OF
President Roosevelt -
Senator Foraker is quoted as fol-
lows:
"Never before tho civil war nor
since. until within che last two or
turce years. has tho slieatcst c0uute
nance been given by use American
people particularly by anybody Boo
authority, TO amy suggestion from
amy source chat our Constitution
should ever Doe amended. except only
Doh accordance with its own provis-
l1us much less that the judicial de-
partmcnt should prostitute it's great
powers in au EFFORT to change the
Constitution by judicial construction
or That the people or the officials of
government high or low should dis
re-ard its limitations. or iu any man
nor oVcrstco The powers &c confers.
ln the sNehleat degree under amy
preteEt whatever.
This is o. direct reference 90 the
b. uueraaces of President Roosevelt
couuteuancing such a policy and i'm
. dicaunE that the supreme Court OF
the United States would De so
, changed ass 90 reverse itself in many
b. of its most important decisions. This
has been facetiously called the "a-
B mendmeut of the Constitution by jul
dical Interpretation"
, This distinguished Ohioan conun-
, uod:
For more than a century we
have found a way, and without din-
Guilty, OF meeting every exigency that
has arisen, consistently with the
Constitution
Notwithstanding this long and
successful experience. there is now
abroad in the land q widespread and
{ dangerous sense. not only of impa-
uence with the restraints of the
Constitution. but of positive purpose
to disregard, violate. and overthrow
s them III they cannot be otherwise e.
D vaded."
This has been the policy Of the
South for the last forty years and
this Modification of the Constitution
of the Unied States. relative to the
rights of the citizens Of color has
led 10 the curtailing of the rights OF
white citizens notably so in the cases
TOT the railroad corporations Of the
: United States and these same corpo
> lrations are now running to the pro
tecting provisions of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which was enacted pri
Imarily for the benefit OF the Negroes
= whom these same railroad lines hav,
Disseminated against and humili
ated in every way imaginable.
Surely, the top rail is being placed
/, at the bottom. Senator Foraker
+. said further:
ITO say that the Constitution, OF
> any part of II. has become obsolete
II is simply TO deal in a rhetoric which
g violates sentiment as well as contra.
9 idiots facts. No greater calamity
: Icould befall this country than for II
to so change It's Constitution as Ia
4 Iauthorize the Federal government ia
e II deaf with all, or any considerable
part. of the subjects over which the
States reserved control. The many
Ipowers OF the FEDERAL government