The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1910-12-23
THERE MUST BE A RESTORA-
TON OF REPRESENTATIVE
GOVERNMENT TO THE PEG
PIE.


The overwhelming demand and neces-
sity Of the people, is that representative
government shall he re-established.
In theory. and by the Constitution, this
was intended to be a strictly representa-
tive and free government, and it was,
up 10 eighteen husdred and sixty, free
and representative government, but
since that period 1t has been neither free
nor representative. Under our Constitu-
ton Congress is in reality that
department OF our government which
most fully emioiies the representative
principles Of our system. because the
House at Representatives stands closer
to the people. as the members of that
house are elected every two wears and
by the votes of the people living in the
district represented by the member Of
Congress from that district while the
United States Senators are elected BY
the Legislatures Of the States The
members OF the Legislature are elected
by the people and were supposed to rep
resent the people. aud as rule did so
represent them up to the year eighteen
hundred and sixty The President. who
is the head OF the Executive Department.
is as far removed from the people, as are
the Federal Courts and also the other
departments Of the government.
Since eighteen hundred and sixty this
representative feature Of the government,
has been constantly undermined and
eliminated by maladministration Of the
government, until the present day, when
the substance of representative govern
ment no longer exists. and only the
shadow OF it remains. The people for
many long years have been deluded by
being told that they have a representative
government by the Republican party and
by the very men that were destroying
every vestige OF representative govern
ment. Men were being elected to the
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Representatives, who were not intended
to represent the people, and who did
not represent them nor the interests of
the people, and they were deceived and
deluded to their irreparable injury.
Men were elected to the Senate and the
House OF Representatives who were
intended 4 IA
special privileges and special interests to
the detriment of the whole body Of
the people. After the war, the Repub-
lcan party was in absolute control of the
government, and they made this govern
ment a means by which to make money,
aud by exploiting the people for the ben
eft Of certain class, and they have en-
abled certain class of people to make
more fabulous fortunes than have ever
been made in the history of the world
and this has been accomplished in the
short space OF fifty years. 1t has been
done largely by using the money which
they robbed the people of, to buy the
people TO nominate and elect to the
House of Representatives, and to buy
the Legislatures Of the States, and then
elect to the Senate men whom they know
would represent and perpetuate the sys-
tenn by which they made money, and
by which they have succeeded up to this
time. But still when they have not been
bought, they have coerced the voters
to support these men.
The laboring people have been CO.
creed by the threat Of the loss of en-
ployment, and where money and coer-
con failed, they have resorted to open
fraud and corruption at the ballot box.
We have thus reached a point where
government by the people, of the peo-
pie, and for the people does not exist
in this republic.
This is practically true, both as TO
the State and nation, for the people have |
but very little to do with the naming of |
their representatives, and those who
are named TO represent them do not rep
resent them, but on the contrary they
represent some boss or some machine
which dominates the people.
The United States Senate is ruled by
one man and few assistants The
House Of Representatives is under the
absolute dominion of its speaker-Mr.
Joseph G. Cannon, apd this has been