West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1907-09-26
Administrations Departure from Con.
StitutiODal Form Of Government
LEADING ISSUE IN NEXT CAMPAIGN
New State Of Oklahoma Carried by
Democrats Is Teddy a Fakir
and Frauds
From or Regular Correspondent.

All the TAX OF the Democratic lead.
ers and of the independent Republi.
cans of the country, who pace con.
science above party, tends TO show
tina: tie departure of this adm.uis-
tratIon from the plain letter OF The
constitution and the constitutional
forms Of COVER iment, will be one of
the leading issues in the next cam.
paign. SO, it seems that Marse
Henry Watterson's cry of black TO
the constitution" is not so funny as
some of the raragraphers- Of the
country think it is. This cry Of the
Roosevelt administration for greater
centralized government, greater pow
er in the hands of the executive, a
radical change in our system OF
government, is making a sharp issue
tor the next campaign and the Demo
Gratis of the next congress have got
TO force the issue and make it well
defined so that he who runs. may
read.
IL this is TO be Hamiltonian form
government as contrad stinguished
from a Jeffersonian form, then the
issue should come now end the peo-
pie 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 Roose
Welt or any of his pet candidates
the Presidency, whether it he Taft
welt himself, then the issue will b..
more sharply defined and TO it will
be added the ether issue Of the third
term. He thea will be breaking one
of the sacred traditions of he cour-
try as we'll as clamoring for legisla-
tive as well as executive power.
This extra power in the hands of the
general government involves the
very life of state nights and any
man inside the Democratic party
who bubbles the least bit ABOUT
state rights ought not to he made
the candidate.
Our candidate should be a man
who can read his title clear on both
these subjects, as 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 aud the way the leading Demo
Gratis who VISIT the national capital
are talking today, and 1t is just as
well tor the-people generally through.
out the country that they know it
and govern themselves accordingly.
Ii looks at this writing that the
Democrats have carried Oklahoma,
winning the entire state ticket, the
legislature, which gives us two more
senator's and about four out of the
five congressional districts. 1t looks
also as if the constitution has been
ratified by the people. II all this is
so, it is well and we should rejoice
with these good people down there
who have been refused the blessings
of statehood too long already. 1t is
now up to the President TO issue the
proclamation to bring the state into
the union, and then one and half
million people will be able to get
their just and equal rights with all
the other self governed peoples of
this country.
II the President refuses to issue
his proclamation, it can be and will
be for no other reason than that the
state is Democratic and that seven
more electoral votes have been
added to The Democratic column. 4
If he should do so partisan 2 thing
as that, it will inject one more issue
into the next campaign and it will
remain for the people Of the country
to say if they will stand for any
such injustice. /, then would be a
Godsend TO the Democratic party if
Teddy himself would take the nomi
nation, because we would lick the
film out Of him.
ie has been worshipped as
fetish all oSer this county, and I
am sorry to say lhst many Demo.
Gratis have wed with the Republicans
IT, that worship. Thank the Lord
the people at las, seem to be getting
their eyes open, aud If all the sisns
that crop ont here IN the nations
nerve and political center amount
10 anything, he IS rapidly losing that
prestige and wonderful popularity |
hat nothing on earth seemed TO be |
able T. move. The people are be |
ginning to doubt his sincerity.
! have been saying for the past |
FIVE years that he is a fraud and a
fakir but / might just as well have |
sung psalms 90 dead mule as 10