The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-31
.bEALL OF TEXAS
Takes His Shot at President
Roosevelt
DENOUHCES HIM ROUalLY
Humorous As Well As Selere In
His OeaWlClatln
W icsds k2ig Stick with One Hand
and fountain Zen with the Other.
Ajiscla1us Against Race Suicide
and Insists al a Iarin on Safety
PiEs and baby Bugs5les

PINS and baby Bugz5les-
Washington, March 2e.-Charging
| that the president had flag aDuy
usurped the powers given to him BY
! the conSu tuition and had repeatedly
attempted TO influence the judiciary,
MIR. Reall, of Texas, in the house, to-
! day severely arralgned the chief ex-
ecutiye. He credited the. president
with having appointed three Judges
of the supreme court Of the United
States and a majority of the United
States circuit and district Judges.
Drawing their source of authority
| from him. he declared, and -h Olding
their commissions from him, he
stands in a position t., wield pow
erful influence upon them, though
| they are the represent atiVeS of dis
tinct department of he goxefnHnent"
The president, he harged, was not
content with the exel else of the same
, power exercised by Washington, JEFF
ferson, Jackson, Lir lcoln and Grant
and Mckinley, "but In his, ouHrpow-
ering ambition reac' nes out with Gag
er hand and exerc ses powers not
dreamed of by then a.
Where does he get this :. author
ity?" Mr. .Beall der handed HHoW does
he Justify his actio ns?" The president
he said, made two defenses. One was
| that there was an inherent power
| belonging to all sovereignties, apart
| from any power conferred by the
constitution; the Other was that
! through judicial Interpretation there
must be vested n a federal govern
ment q yaower o do things it had
not possessed be tore.
The president was denouncef for
insisting on a Jail sentence for Rob
ert NJ Harper, a druggist of this city,
convicted of violating the pure food
and drugs act, while the sentence wss
still pending. AS regarded the Gaze OF
Judge Wiley, he said, the president
had insulted the legislative branch c #
| the government by writing letter to
; the judiciary committee, while thes
! case was still under investigation,
declaring Judge Whitley innocent Of
! the charges against him. That iet-
!; ter" he sExclaimed, was :zsimply Ehe
(; will of the big stick over that COM
mittee and the membership Of the
house. He regretted the committee
had not asserted it's independence Dy
sending the message back as an in
suit
After @all, said Mr.. Beall, the Presi-
dent was not entirely to blame be-
cause the senate and house 'sit with
folded hands. Having abdicated the
authority given to them they Sit
supinely lat his feet
In his opinion "a more disgusting
usurpation of power was never wit
messed by the people of any nation"
Congress, he declared, no longer
was a legislative department." 1t is
simply machine to record the will
of the man at the other end of the
avenue and it did not deserve any
more respect from him or the peO-
pie than it now receives
''He wieids the big stick with one
hand" Mr.. Beall continued" and a
fountain pen with the other, and he
raises havoc with both. He is a
broncho buster and a trust buster,
the only difference being that in
busting a broncho he b1indfolds the
animal and in busting a trust he
blindfolds himself. He can draw the
finest bead con wild cat but can't
| get a bead on the constitution at all.
He is a contradiction. He deciaimes
! against race suicide, but insists on
| keeping tariff on safety pins and
baby buggies.
He eultivates the artistic, he white
washes Paul Morton and is row
frescofng the reactionaries with
tint of b1ue.
"He can see a war cloud before
breakfast, but gets color-blind before
lunch time.
He is generous, given the power
by and with the advice and conseu
of the senate to make treatries, he
is willing to relieve that body Of
this Onerous duty ;and do it all him
self. i
He is a magician; he can trans
form our uncle Joe-a roaring lion
before us in the house-into a pur-
ring kitten at the white house.
He can hold the senate in one
hand and the house in the other and
keep 10th in the air most Of the
time.
: He can even nominate a presiden-
tial candidate, "Mr. Beall declared
He LIS the strangest combination of
wisdom and folly; of honesty and
obstinaey. and of the patriot and the
politician. OF courage and rashness:
and of the spectacular and the gro
tesque that this republic ever saw,
and just what niche he is to occupp
in the temple Of his country's history,
God and the future alone can tell
The agricultural appropriation bill
was considered for amendment and
when 1t was laid aside for the day,
there has been stricken out the
provision for new weather stations in
the states of Texas, Kansas, Virginia.
Michigan, Vermont, Missouri and In
diana Al five o'eloctr tho h0uSo ad~