The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-06-22
At Last the Constitution

Doesn't it seem funny to hear a Re-
pnbllcan invoking the constitution to
help him out of hole? It's more hu-
morous than anything by Artcmus
Ward Mark Twain, Bret Harte "Pri-
yate" John Allen or any of the rest
OF that school, for from the day when
Seward ruined himself as presden-
tial candidate by enunciating his doc
trine of the higher law down to our
day the constitution has been Il thing
for jeers and gbcs and flouts by Re-
publican blgwigs. Every Democrat
That lifted up his voice in defense of
the constitution has been made the
bntt of ridicule by Republican papers
md orators. Nevertheless Senator Jo-
seph Benson Foraker of Ohio, finding
himself worked in short harness by
the Roosevelt crowd, has lifted up his
voice in favor of the constitution He
Is now trying TO convert it to his own
use in his fight for the Republican
presidential nomination, and, strange
TO relate, he selected Memorial day
on which to announce that the con-
stitution is being put in jeopardy by
his RA'ublican foes. In his Memorial.
day Speech the senator propounded
these pertinent questions to his audi
tors and to the universe: HAS our
form of government been changed?
And, IL so, when, how and by whom?"
he fears for the constitution and says,
ferhe average American is so busily
occupied with his own affairs that he
does not fully realize how many and
how dangerous are the abuses Of pow
er." I'm the language Of that ilustrious
Republican Warwick, f.. IL. Hartman,
''Wow, wOww The senator even in
fflnges Marse Henry Watterson's nat
ent by intlmating that the government
IS !" imminent peril of being Mexican
izet
ssVery much depends on whose OK Is
lRored, Accordingly Brother Foraker is
bitterly opposed TO any president try
ing TO select his successor. That is the
ampardonable sin in his eyes just now.
Wonder If he would take it so much to
heart If Colonel Roosevelt were push.
ing him for the presidential nomina.
Buckeye statesman, Mr.. Secretary of
War William Howard Taft. On this
head he feelingly remarks, "Any man
whom the American people shall have
placed I'm power may well trust them
TO name his successor, and If he should
not they would find way to impress
upon him that they are sovereign and
that he should be content to trust them
as they have trusted him" which
words are hereby cheerfully commend
ed to the careful and prayerful consid-
Grafton of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
just about the time that Senator
Foraker was preparing that speech
Editor William II. Brown, n Republic.
an editor of Mandan, n. D., was writ.
ing this:
Why not call n special session Of con-
gress and amend the constitution 10 per-
rnit OF an election for a president for life?
He Is the logical answer to the problem
of our future We believe we echo the
real sentiments Of our constituency, the
greatest In numbers and the safest in po-
aitical morallties the country affords to-
day-viz, the farmers OF the United States
Roosevelt has been the president Of all
the people and ought TO be continued in
power for all the good producing years OF
his life.
= Foraker and Brown represent the eX-
tremes in the Republican party. Which
represents the most Republicans re-
mains TO he seen