The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-07-18

THE MARION
or shippers, The railways are the
property of the people
MUST OBEY LAWS
"Their managers should be made to
obey the law But all laws enacted
in hot blood or for revenge, can in
the end only recoil upon the people.
The further improvement of the labor
laws so more fully to meet the rea-
sonable demands of labor as against
the frequent impositions of capital, and
thus by eliminating just caues of dis
content TO allay agitation and make
progress toward the complete reconcil-
iation of capital and labor.
And" the correspondent inter-
posed. back to the constitution
"Yes," said Mr.. Watterson, back
TO the constitution. DO you think
the constitution assaied from so
many quarters and in so many ways,
fallen so out of the popular mind and
heart that the summons back to the
Iconstitution' will fall on deaf ears?
| He who swears not by the constltu-
tion is no Democrat. Here is the
confession of faith would hold up
before each delegate to the next Ma
itional Democratic Convention, he who
hesitated or quibbled over an item of
, it, him would throw out Of the
window Listen
! II believe in the constitution of the
I United States, strictly construed, as
the ark and covenant of our free in
stitutions
81 believe I'm the coordinate
! branches of the Federal Government
as the sure safeguards against the
iusurpation of power with which his
tory makes us familiar. as the rocks
upon which freedom has been so oft
en- shipwreckcd
81 believe in the maintenance of
the Federal power and the state pow
er, unimpaired i'm their several func-
tions, national and local, the one
sustaining the other, both subservient
to the organic law of the land.
81 believe the system established
lby the convention over which Wash
lington presided and in which Frank.
lin and Hamilton and Jay and Mad.
lison sat as members, an inspiration
from God Almighty, and the Govern.
ment established thereby the best
Government i'm the world
81 believe that it embodies polit.
ical Immortality within the origina
chart of its being which covers al
known dangers and specifies how II
may be amended to meet those dan
gers that were unknown to its authors
land have been incident to human de
velopment and the worlds progress.
81 believe finally, that, If through
the treason of some and the indiffer
ence of others. the foundations of this
sublime edifice could be loosened WI
should repeat I'm the twentieth of tn,
centuries all the errors and horrors O
the eighteenth and the nineteenth
with no other result than that which
like the work of Samson, follow
reckless destruction
"Whom do you think the Repub
licans will nominate? Fairbanks o.
Hughes? Why not Taft?"
81 don't believe the President cal
name his successor General Jackson
Is dead. Great Judges make disap
pointing candidates. Judge Taft ha
been too much of a pet of Mr.. Roose
velt or course he is good man
the best of mon, but he is too oh
vlous. The danger man In the Ma
tional Republican Convention will b.
Ia dark horse Hughes, perhaps, I
Fairbanks, the typical and orthodo,
Republican, the incarnation of mod
ern Republicanism, having plenty o
resources. is not able to make TIN
landing
How about Roosevelt himself?'
''Nonense-the times are not ye
ripe for revolutions, and that woul'
require them 10 be rotten. It is m
opinion that the President was hon
, est i'm his voluntary renunciation thre
years ago, and is honest now; but
! is also my opinion that If he were no
honest. but were playing the VII
part assigned him by his enemies
he could not I'm any event obtain IN
nomination. lne hepuDlcdn party
militant and triumphant orGaniza
Ition. Its dicipline is perfect. 1t
leaders are experienced and sagaciou
/ public men. with an ample field, an
5 a good field to choose from the nom
{ ination of Mr., Roosevelt would ne a
= act of causeless suicide. The mereS
s political tyro ought to see that.
s Teddy himself Is no fool. II
e knows that to go back not only upo
} his word, but upon his friend, an
Y take the nomination himself, woul
t confirm the worst charges of tn
g most inveterate of his traducers; thu
p 1t would put the brand of self-seekin
e and falsehood upon all his antecedent
Q and pretensious that 1t would PR
0 sent him to his cOuntrymen as d.
a testable and selfish dpharisee amin
+ after power and power alone. 1t
inconceivable, short of insanity; thi
\ Mr.. Roosevelt should contemplate
:. If, through the counsels of insanit
y he should he willing to he party to
It. his friends and political associate
v would forbid.
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