The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-08

me polt1cai order that expelled King
James from his throne did so in the
name of liberty, and they WHO sought
TO restore the Stuart dynasty believed
in divine right, preached passive obedi-
ence, and were the party of preroga-
tive But long lease of power made
the Wings the champions of preroga-
tive, while the Tories preached liberty
in even more fervid periods than John
Hampden himself. AS Bolingbroke put
it, Liberty has been the cry of one
set of men, as prerogative was former
ly of another. But it has been no more
than a cry and the cause of liberty has
been as little regarded by those lead
ers who gave it out to their followers
as the cause of st. George or St. Denis
was concerned in the battles of the
English and the French
And to that complexion is American
politics come in the second decade of
the second century of the constitution
of the United States One set loudly
proclaim Jefferson and jackson, though
they have as vague conception of what
the illustrious sage and the heroic SOL
der stood for as a GROWERS quest
lawyer has of Coke on Littleton. The
other set are equally delirious. and al
most as vociferous. in lip service to
Hamilton and Lincoln, who would say,
Get thee behind me. Satan" TO their
disciples" of the present day were
they incarnate.
The terms Democrat and "Repub-
ican,' as they relate to party politics
in 1908, are meaningless. If the leader
Of one party should declare for an es-
tablished church that party would ac-
cept Ii, and if the leader of the other
party should advocate eX post facto
laws and bills of attainder they. too
would go into the platform. Both are
agreed in one thing-that the consti-
tuition is antiquated and worthless
that ours is an empire and no longer d
republic, and that the American con-
gross, like the British parliament, has
power to do whatever the majorities of
the two houses regard as expedient-if
the executive so orders. or will so per-
nit. At Agincourt the English cried
st. George and victory" as they
smote the enemy, while the chivalry of
France cried, st. Denis to the rescue"
as they fell like grain before the sickle
under the deadly arrows of the oppos-
ing bowmen. Not one in a hundred
knew, or cared, anything about either
saint, and the battle of the ballots in
this country will be fought next No
Vember without one in one thousand of
the eombatants knowing. or caring,
what either campaign cry of "Repub-
lican" or Democrat is, or means.
The Republicans will hold their con-
vention first, make a radical platform,
and nominate progressive. Then the
Democrats will hold their convention.
make more radical platform. and
nominate Socialist. There will be a
great throwing about of elOuuence.
From ten thousand stumps ten thou
sand Quintus Curtiuses will hurI them
selves into the yawning gulf, and pity
us they will not be able to do il physi-
cally as well as metaphorically. Gods
patience will be abused by ten times
ten thousand shriekings of MY coun-
try, oh, how she bleedsr' and that TOO
when the corporal condition of the
country was never so healthy, never
so robust, Notwithstanding the regi-
ment of quacks who are pilling it. and
iancing it, and blistering it.
There are all too few doctrinaires in
public life-men who prefer to be right
than to hold office, men like the late
Henry 6. Turner, who refused unani-
nous nomination and election to con-
gress for opinions sake The country
IS in sore need of a crop of statesmen
like L. Q. c. Lamar, who voted his con-
V1ctions in the senate contrary to the
instructions of the legislature of his
state and contrary to the wishes of
more than 80 per cent of the popular
electorate of his state. His reward
came. and speedily He never before
had the respect and confidence of his
people to the degree he commanded
after he took counsel of his conscience
in defiance of popular clamor We
have too many men in authority in
our country swift to release Barabbas
on demand of the mob
Samuel W. Mccall is a scholar. a
thinker, a publicist, and a statesman.
He reflects before he acts and takes
counsel of his convictions He believes
that the constitution of the United
States is the charter under which the
federal establishment is authorized TO
act, and that the powers reserved to
the states are as binding on the nation
as the delegated powers are restric-
tons on the states. Thus he is a states
rights man, though his construction of
the constitution is very different from
the Interpretation put upon that instru-
ment by William L. Yancey or Alexan-
der II. Stephens. Mr.. Mccall is a Re
publican, but a conservative. He is
claSsed as a reactionary by the hot
gospelers, and so are all designated
who keep the commandments of the
earlier paragraphs of Exodus, xiii and
must SACeIlSHt OelIOcfdtiC doctrine II
is, as Democracy was interpreted prior
to 1896.
Pennsylvania gave Blaine to Maine
and Mccall TO Observation-Disclosures of
Scotch-Irish parentage, on the fathers
side, at least. l believe a Mccall COM
manded the Pennsylvania Bucktails of
the army of the Potomac. of which they
were the Tenth Legion. as was proved
on score of bloody fields. l do not
know whether he was a relative of the
congressman, but as he was from the
same state it is quite likely they sprang
from common stock Sam Mccall
was born in 1851. and went with his
parents to Illinois when a youth in his
teens. Later he was educated at New
Hampton academy and at Dartmouth
college, whence he was graduated at