Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-08-13
Discussed National Politics
Vigorously Paying Respects
10 Dead and Living
Says Country Is Tending Too |
Much to Centfaliza-
ton of Power

E Lexington, XIV, Aug. 1.-THE B1ns
Grass fair was opened here today with
an address by Henri Watterson, OF tlls
Louisville Courier-Journal, in which he
discussed national politics vigorously
He paid a glowing tribute to the lead
ers whose political careers had made
glorious the history OF the Blue Grass
region and saying that he stood alone,
a suspect among the democrats and
ne'er do well among the republicans.
He spoke briefly on national politics
He said:
Eve are living in stirring times
Old things have passed away, new
things have arrived upon the scene
If Alexander Hamilton and Henry
Clay and Thomas Jefferson and An.
drew Jackson should review 1t they
! would rub their ghostly eyes and go
to sleep again, concluding the spec
tacle was some fantastic dream. Be-
! holding the Dingley tariff, Hamilton
and Clay would look one upon the.
other against and burst into fears.;,
Seeing warrior and Porto Rico aaiE
Alaska and the Philippines, and a
Teddy bear in the White House, JEFF
ferson would say to Jackson: It's
much too rich for our blood and then
both of them would fade back into the
valhalla closets of home rule, free
trade and states rights.
Eve pride ourselves upon living uu-
der government of public opinion
Would it not be truer to say we i've
under a government of party organ
ization? Is it not also true that soed
party organization makes smaH ac-
count Of public opinion when it fees
itself strong enough to defy it? The
corporation of parties, the revelations
of these corporations which have be-
come common knowledge the last few
years have confounded the democrats
and brought the republicans to their
knees. The politicians of those par-
sASo- "a g appealing uSNGFE bGl0TG
the people. Mr.. Roosevelt joins with
Mr.. Bryan in the proposal of specifics
more Or less novel and drastic, but
each claiming to be curative. Al ma
jority in one or both of the two camps
settles it. In the camps the more VIC
lent and active men ever intriguing
for advantage, draw the more moder-
ate and passive men after them, and
although the two sets of moderate
men,, united, might constitute ma
jority they cannot get. together because
of an artificial line raised in the in
terest of professional place hunters,
too often at the expense of the conn
try, / do not say that party govern
ment is a failure, but do say that
party government claiming to be rep
resentative of public opinion is a hum,
bug It's a mischieyons humbug.
Surely it would not be myself THAI
was talking to You If I did not edge
in a word about the constitution, but
when | say back to the constitution
II address myself equally to the repu s.
licans and the democrats. do won
der if President Roosevelt ever real
President Washingtonss farewell al
dress; ! wonder of William Jennincs
!. Bryan ever read it, it,
Inder the hand of a president
whose personality is 50 attractive that
/ most men are loath to question any
thing he SAYS or does, the pendulum
Of Capitalization has swung much too
far and viii need to ee swung back
again We are to recover the perpen-
Z dicuiar and balance To which. I'M
= wsightg and wise words. washington.
refers, and which the fathers ana
founders Of oar great republic aes
signed the federal government ana the