The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-07-10

TO the sober walks of craftsmanship.
Against the candidate of Mr.. Roose-
welt, the candidate of paternalism. and
executive selection, the candidate or
centralized power and personal abso-
lutism, the candidate of a construction
that would destroy the constitution
and brow the shadow of despotism
over the land, the candidate who as
soon as he is fairly warm in the seat
OF one office itehes for another, we
would pit a candidate nominated by
the people. a man of the people and for
the people, standing for the constitu-
ton, for federal government admin
istered within its limitations, for the /
sovereign powers of the states, for the /
non-interference of the government. /
with matters it ought to let alone !
standing against paternalism and So |
cialism and special privileges of every |
sort against the coalition of govern |
ment and monopoly. standing stand !
ing for a just and discriminating re-
vision of the tariff. for the business |
and industrial as well as for the agri-
cultural and laboring interests-for
the tenets and traditions of the dem
ocratic fathers and the best ideals of
the republic they founded-such a
candidate / ask You 10 name in the il
! lustrious son and governor of Mime
/ sofa.
| The old. undying and imperishable
| truths of the democratic party de-
mand that we do not present a candi-
! date for president allied in the least
degree with paternalism, Socialism,
! Capitalization or interference by the
government with things that do not
concern ii. All the great historic pur
poses and principles. of the party lead
back to the simple and ultimate fact
that the purpose of democratic institu-
tons is the cultivation of men. BY
leaving them free and maintaining
them upon a plane of absolute equali-
ty before the government and the law,
by preserving the government as their
servant and not as their support, de-
mocracy builds up upon the broad
base of liberty and equality men who
are strong, independent. self-reliant.
and self-sustaining-the masters and
not the slaves of their government. the
rulers and not the victims of them
selves. That is democracy. That is
why we insist upon the limitations of
the organic law which we call the con-
stitution. That is why we have al
ways jealousy fought for the auton-
omy of the state governments which are
under our immediate control and by
the control of which the liberties of
the citizens are effectually protected
and his interests best safeguarded
. and subserved. That is why We fight
for the federal or states rights system
of government limited by the funda-
mental laws, as against a consolidated,
centralized, imperial power, unlimited
, by law and committed to the arbitrary
) discretion of personal rule. And. aft,
er all, that is the supreme issue before
the country-the Constitution or abso-
S lutism; the supremacy of the law as
/ the safety of the people-the salus
, populi-or the abrogation of the law
t by a system of Interpretation which is
/ not construction, but deliberate, wan
a ton destruction.
Proclaiming the law of necessity
= the law of Caesar, of Cromwell, OF
e Napoleon; the law of necessity-the
destroyer of free institutions wherever
: they have appeared in the history Of
: the human race: the law of necessity
g the darkest infamy in history, the
l. Republican party through Taft anC
j. Root and Roosevelt assert a construc
S ton of the written law of the lane
r which grasps and seizes every power
S which puts the law beneath the Gov
e eminent and the Government above
S the law and establishes usurpatior
d in which the institutions and energies
n of the people must ultimately be alb
sCrbed.
l., 1t is for the Democratic party il
# this great crisis through this Conven
Il ton as its supreme organ to make /
.r clear and certain to the people of TIL
Al Union that it never was intended tina
y their Government of law and its fun
70 damental charter should be thus Sc
- aside upon the plea of necessity o
"a upon any other improvisation at tn
= discretionary behest of any officer o
80 the Government, high or low.
The ways of absolutism are Away
the same. 1t has its rules of actio
~ like every other iniquity. The metl
i DDS it uses are always fundamental
~ the same. First, the powers of Go,
eminent are so perverted and abuse
at as TO create an intolerable conditio
10 or a dangerous emergency in tn
Vi State. Then the claim is put fort
4 that the Government must be mad
4 stronger, that it's powers must be aul
la mented and multiplied, and tinall
IT, that they must be rendered absolute
te because of the necessity which II
IT. previous wrongs have themselves or
It ated. Then upon this pretense of n
ic cessity the dykes are undermined {
ne beaten down and the tide of absolu
st ism rolls in.
al Such has been the course of event
a in this country. For 40 years the r
IL publican party has misused the poy
i'll ers of the Government in an unlawfr
ur alliance with special interests, bull
tn ing up monopolies whose wealth an
or might stagger the understanding an
90 which have now become more powe
IL full than their creator and ally-tt