Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-09-30
WASHINGTON LETTER
BACK TO The CONSTITUTION, !"
TO Be The WATCHWORD.
ChaS. n. Edwards Discusses Demo-
cratic Possibilities for the preSi-
dcnCy. Candidate Must Clearly
Oppose the Policy of CentraIiza-
ton as FOsfered by Roosevelt.

Especial correspondence to the HERALD ]
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 27.-All the
talk OF the democratic leaders and OF the
independent republicans OF the country,
who place conscience above party, tends
to show that the departure of this adj
ministration from the plain letter OF the
constitution and the constitutional forms
of government, will be one Of the leading
issues in the next campaign. So, it
seems that Marse Henry Watterson's cry
of "back to the constitution" is not 80
funny as some OF the paragraphers OF the
country think it is. This cry of the
Roosevelt administration for greater CEN
tra!ized government, greater power in
the hands OF the executive. a radical
change in our system OF government, is
making sharp issue for the next cam
paiRn and the democrats Of the next
congress have got to force the issue and
make it we'll defined so that he who runs
NAV read, II this is to be Hamiltonian
form OF government as contrsdistin'
euisbed from q Jeffersonian form, then
the issue should come now and the peo'
ple should have chance to decide the
matter at the polls. But. at the same
time, the democrats ought not to put up
a candidate who, in the remotest degree
agrees with Roosevelt or any Of his pet
candidates for the presidency, whether
it be Taft or any other man. If it is to
be Roosevelt himself, then the issue will
be more sharply defined and to it will be
added the other issue of the third term.
He then will be breaking one OF the sa'
cred traditions OF the country as we'll as
clamoring for legislative as we'll as execu'
tive power. This extra power in the
hands Of the general government involves
the very life OF state rights. and any man
inside the democratic party who quibb'es
the least bit about state rights ought not
to be made the candidate.
Our candidate should he man who
can read his title clear on both these
subjects, az they will be bound to come
up in the next race as two of the big
issues of the campaign. These are
among the signs Of the times and the
way the leading democrats who visit the
national capital are talking today, and it
is Just as we'll for the people generally
throughout the country that they know
it and govern themselves accordingly.
Inote from the papers that the friends
of Hon. William J. Bryan have called a
conference for some time early in Octo-
Der. and will have Mr.. Bryan come out
in a statement that he will be candi-
date aga next year for the democratic
nomination for the presidency, provided
the democrats OF the country consider
him the most available candidate. un-
derstand that in this statement he will
outline where stands on what he will
consider the principal issues OF the next
campaign, so that the people can have
an idea OF the kind Of platform he desires
to run on.
This is as it should lie, and believe
the people will favor that kind OF state.
ment from any man who desires to be a
candidate for the nomination. l believe
this statement should comprehend all
the live Issues that will be uppermost in
the next campaign, including tariff re.
vision and reduction, corporate control,
trust control, states rights and the CEN
tralization of power in the federal gov
ernment at Washington. 1t seems that
this decision on the part OF MIR. Bryan's
friends to have him come out thus early
with such statement, was supernduced
by the big boom for Lieutenant-Governor
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of New York,
that seems to be catching the people OF
the South and the Central West.
CuAs. A. EDWARDS.
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