The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-12-14
Senator Bacon's Clarion Call
 To Democrats Of The South

This absolutism is not limited to the
 endeavor to control the asa 9nclal ss,as aCsl2n
 ments. but extends in some instances to
 an arrogant assumption of the power
 te dictate who sr si, or ancb snan not os tRe %
 Government. In more than one in-
 stance th ere Is the authentic evidence
 of the dfcfation of who shall De chosen
 of the North; and IT the undenied pub lisfed statements are true, active ana effective measures were taken by the southern Senator in his candidacy for reelection to the Senate.
 Anothe CT fundamental Democratic
 and s sais sSe Oe saes @ each 0 Se maintained in the exercise of their legitimate constitutional powers. and that neither shall be permitted , to other. This principle finds some favor in the faith and practice of the Re- publican party. By this faith and prac- power shall be concentrated in the Federal Government in order that strangers may meddle with and control state. and that the insatiate privileged classes may reach out beyond the bor- ders of their own States and gather to
 o he ntmSst of pf0 the as eoanry If this increasing concentration of power in the hands of the Federal Cow ernment continues at It's present % sc- ing feature of our federated Govern ment will be soon destroyed. and the States will become little more than be largely controlled by legisatton en- acted at Washington by Congress as- senlbled from the country at large When this is completely accomplished our State Legislatures had as we'll be disbandeds while our people await sub- missively their orders from the national capital. E.si
 It win be realized that this is not the utterance of mere sensational alarm. when 1t is recalled that Republican President in carefully prepared writ ten speech. upon the recent historic oc- casion of the dedication Of the new Pennsylvania capitol building at Har- rfsburg announced that there should be secured to the Federal government an increase of power by the action of the three departments Ot the government. His language was.
 i've need thorough. executive action, through legislation, and through judi- cia1 interpretation and construction of law. to increase the power or the Feder- al Rovernment."
 also every citizen of each of the State governments is required to take an oath to support the Gpnstitution of the United States and this demand by the President for increased power in the
 
 these thus sworn to support the Consti- tuition shall violate it by extending to the Federal government powers that it does not possess under the Constitution. If the desired powers already exist un- der the Constitution. no extension of such powers to the Federal government is necessary. If those powers do not
 exist under the Constitution. to thus usurp them for the Federal govern
 mant is to violate the Constitution hy those sworn to support 1t, The same contention thus made by the President for thls undisguised violation of the Constitution has been made ip equally strong terms by one or more members of his cabinet. And yet no word of pro- 1 test or condemnation has come from the Republican Party but only words
 of unqualified commendation and en- dorsement. When such revolutionary action is advocated by the President and l hts cabinet with the approval or the dominant party, it is time for the dan- | ger signals to be set.
 If by the usurpatIon and revoIution-
 ary action of the executive, legislative l and judicial departments of the govern ment, as recommended by the Presi- dent and members of his cabinet, the Constitution can be set aside in one or l more particulars. 1t can be repealed as | a whole in the same way, and be made 1 terance thus quoted is only one of
 many. and the President, in his annual messag sent in two days since to Con- gress inveighs contemptuously against ] the exercise by the States of their Goa | stitutiona1 rights.
 | Another cardinal principle of the
 Democratic Party is that the govern ment shall be economically adminia- tered while there shall be legitimate l expenditure for all legitimate objects, and that only sufiiciency of money for I this purpose shall be collected from the ! neople But the Republican favors and fosters a most extravagant and waste.