The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
Senator Derides Idea Of.
Government Ownership
Of8Rdilroads.
PROPER POLICY OF. VI.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Would Eliminate stereotyped
Features Of Platform and Give
Country Something New in
the Way Of Democratic
DecalogueP Powers
Of Executive.

NEW YORK, April 13--Democratc
societies and clubs in all parts OF
Greater New York tonight celebrated
Jefferson Day Tho Democratic Club
hold It's annual banquet at the Wal
dorf- Astoria; the Womens Democratic
Club OF the city met at the Hoffman
House; tho independence League had
us Its guests William Randolph Hearst
and Attorney General Jackson.
5{ The principal speaker at the Demo-
cratic Clubs banquet was Senator Ray
nor. OF Maryland. IIc responded to the
toast, "What Should Be the Pro per
POLICY OF the Democratic Party. and
What is True Democracy 2 FL Formers
Supreme Court Justice Morgan >.
o'Brien presided. Senator Rayner said
ingpart:
Il do not acccdc to the view that
the parties have coalesced. On the
contrary, ! believe that they are as
widely apart us; they have ever been
The President will not have perma-
mont tenure Of Office. One. prediction
can be safely made and that IS wheni
the Republican party has another car
Gidatc, aud ii 4 Is bound to have one.
ut some day or another, IT Will Gradu-l
i ally drift away from great many
@ OF his plans and purposes and It Will
resume business at Its old stand. Then
IL will be necessary for US to come
back to our old principles. unless. III,
the meantime, we have SO dishgured
tEcm that wc will not be- able to,
recognize them or to find them
Vision and Phantom,
Eve are charged With advocating
b doctrine OF States lights sthat;would
tend to nu!lify the powers of the Fed 4
ern1 government. y his Is Sau, erroneous
hnd unjust view or the situation
THE doctrine OF Suites rights now docs
4 not mean what 1t did half of Il century
ago, for the simple reason tina t since that t
time new amendments have been added to
tlie Constitution OF the United States,
md for tho furt her reason that as the
result Of the Civil War and OF the adju-
Z dications of the Supreme Court, a great
many of the rights that were considered
ms belonging TO the States at that time
have passed into the realm OF Federal
jurisdiction. What we mean now by the
rights of the States, Is that the Federal
government shall not lcgislate upon mat.
ierH purely OF local and domestic concern.
ana by unlawful construction interpolate
II such power. into the provisions OF the
Constitution.
.Tp the next place we nre opposed to
governmental putcrnalisn. predict, WITH
great respect to- others who NAV differ
K with me- that the day will never come
when the government OF the United States
will own and operate the railroads Of tho
country.
I'VE do not want to own them. We
own enough now. We had better sell
some things We have then enla rye s. our
holdings. I have studied the question
OF governmental ownership Of rail-
roads In other countries carefully. ana
my conclusion is that 1t is failure
from a political or commercial stand
4 point wherever It exists. mn
"Of course, / may be mistaken. npd
every ono i. entitled 10 hi. opinion; hut
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m, ''Thcre Is one proposition, however.
tend for in this connections: and that
Il is. 1t must demand a complete obe-
dlence to the existing statute Tho rail-
road presidents and officers OF our
trunk lines must be mnde, once and
forever, to realize that they are the
servants ana not the masters Of the
people.
Governmental ownership will never
come to pass unless they force the is
sue. They nre the real agitators, and
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