The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-04-03
HOT SHOT AT
THE PRESIDENT
sEALL, OF TEXAS. SCORES Mn
ROOSEVELT TO THE DELIGHT
or THE DEMOCRATS.
IS WISDOM and FOLLY IN One
demands to Know Authority For
The Actions Of Chief
Executive.

WASHINGTON, Marcn Zo-Onais
ing that the President had hagran'ly
nsurped the powers given to him oy
tba Constitution and had repeatedly
attempted to influence the judiciary
Mr.. Beall, of Texas, in the House To-
dav severely arraigned the Chief Elk
ecutive. He credited the President
with hs wing appointed three Judges OF
the SUPREME Court of the United
States and a majority Of the United
States Circuit and District Judges
efDrawing their source of authority
from him." he declared, "and holding
their commissions from him, he stands
in a position to weld powerful in
fiuence upon, though they are repre-
sentatives of a distinct department OF
the Government. The President, he
charged, was not content with the
exercise of the same power exercised
by washington, Jefferson, Jackson,
Lincoln; Grant and Mckinley, "but In
his overpowering ambition reaches
out with eager hand and exercises
powers not dreamed of by them"
After ALL said Mr.. Beall, the Presi-
dent was not entirely to blame, be-
cause the Senate and House "sit with
folded hands. Having addicted the
authority given to them, they sit SUI
pinely at his feet" In his opinion "a
more disgusting usurpation Of power
was never witnessed by the people OF
any nation" Congress, he declared,
no longer was a legislative depart
ment. 1T Is simply a machine to
record the will of the man at the other
end of the avenue. And 1t did not de-
serve any more respect from him or
the people than it now received"
Democratic laughter punctured the
summing up of Mr. Beall's opinion OF
the President. "He YIELDS the big
stick with one hand" he charged, "and
a fountain pen in the other, and he
raises havoc with both. He Is a
broncho buster and trust buster, the
only difference being that in busting
the broncho he blindfolds the animal,
and in busting the trust he blindfolds
himself He can draw the finest bead
on a wild cat, but can't get bead on
the Constitution at all He is con-
tradiction. He declaims against race
suicide, but insists on keeping a tarim
on safety pins and baby buggies. He
cultivates the artistic; he whitewash- |
es Paul Morton, and is now frescoing
the reastionaTies with tint Of blue.
"He can see q war cloud before
breakfast, but gets color blind before
lunch time.
"He is generous; given the power OF
the Senate to make treaties, he is will
ing to relieve that body of this oner-
GUS duty and do it all himself.
''He is magician; he can trans
form our Uncle Joe, roaring lion
before us in the House, into purring
kitten at the White House.
"He is the sandow Of the century;
he can hold the Senate in one hand
and the House in the other and keep
both in the air most of the time"
After convulsing the Democratic
aide of the House by declaring that
che can even nominate presidential
candidate" Mr. call said He is the
strangest combination of wisdom and
follow, of honesty and obstinacy, and
OF the patriot and the politician, OF
courage and rashness, and of the spec
tacular and the grotesque, that this
Republic ever saw, and just what
niche he is to occupy in the temple OF
his country's history, God and the flu
ture alone can tell"