Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-04-24

lcct pcrcvivedS IN TINS perfectly limo.
cent grant cfthe right to establish IL
post road for the purpose of carrying
the mail. ana of postonicc for the
purpose OF receiving and distributing
1t, an opportunity to sweep down Oh
the states and upon their municipal
tiles and deprive them OF their right
OF eminent domain. which is abso.
lutcly essential for their local sovcr.
eighty and existence
ovcrt-ps the Whole.
Having reached this stage OF con-
stitutional construction. We come TO
n proposition nov that overtops the
Whole of them and by one fell stroke.
II 1t can be successfully maintained.
oblitcrates tho frame work OF our
government. We have proposition
boldly announced by our secretary OF
state, n lawyer OF profound intellect
and of pre- eminent ability. that IL
the states do not come to the rescue
of the Federal government whenever
an emergency arises for the exercise
of Federal power, that ways will he
found which will give the Federal
government the right TO exercise the
power that Il proposes. whether 1t
comes within It's delegated functions
or not. | said at the last session of
Congress- in ar address before this
body upon executive usurpation. ana
| repent 1t now that this is the most
startling and Dangerous doctrine over
announced nor ihc American pco-
pie. SV'Yf a.
The trghblc ss.l,pS the President Is,
and a,ways spear of him not only
deferentiaily, b,st with great personal
respect, that he regards himself as
vested with mlknlicd executive pow
crs under the constitution.
III the President should bc nom
mated by the noxt Republican con.
vention. What WIN our spokesman and
orators shy who have become the dis.
ciplos of his creed, and In worshipful
idolatry have worshipped at his
shrine. A distinguished Southern e6I-
tor some time since tried to help us
ont of our difficulty, and solve the
dist essing problem By suggesting that
The Democratic party ought TO an.
licipate the convention OF the Repu6.
lican- party. aR5ssby force tear away
the President from his own party and
nominate him as our candidate. IL
the Democratic party had availed it
Feif of this advice, ana nominated the
President as It's candidate. and the
Republican party had afterward as
sembled In convention and torn him
again away from the Democratic par
~ and also nominated him as It's
candidate, | would have been placed
in the most embarrassing situation
that anyone could possibly occupy. :,
do not know what would have done
under such circumstances. would
have felt like cxclaiming: Tile Repnb.
lican party has given. the Republican
party has taken away; blessed. bless
ed be the name of the Republican par
ty'
Scribes and Mountebanks.
III have always looked upon the
Democratic party as the sentinel of
the constitution. and as a party man
/ protest against it's being tempered
with by scrlbes and mountebanks.
| believe that in the coming contest
we ought To plant our colors upon the
tenth amendment. and make the con-
test clear and clean between the re-
served rights of the states upon the
one hand and Federal Capitalization
on the other. 1t is predicted that II
we adopt this course we will lose
Very well, Mr.. President, so far as
am concerned. | would rather use
and go down to defeat than purchase
victory at the sacrifice of principle
We have been defeated over and over
again. but we have necr yet in all our
history sounded final and ultimate
retreat. To accept these heresies now
is a cowardly surrender at the post oil
duty.
u want il known that we can never
lake this step unless We do 1t volul
tarily. If We become the party OF
the Federal government as against the
rights OF The state. if we arc TO fill
our platform with the creed OF the
proposandist ii this is our new roc
and We are to abjectly abandon every.
thing That We have stood for in the
past. aud venture into this foreign
Held and parool Of this forbidden
fruit. then when history recounts III.
tragic manner of our death as a po-
liiical party, | want pogtcrity also 10
know that in the hour of our bright
EST hopes and most mluring prospect:
determined to end our great historic
career. that Of our own free will and