The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-13
IN POLITICS
URGED by SPEAKER
Addresses at Annual Dinner Of
Republican League Of
Aneida County.

Utica, y. " April 12.-Tho annual
dinner of the Republican League of
Oneida county was held this evening.
and attended by ZOO men. for the most
part anti-organlation men. The speak
crs included Charles j. Bonapartc for
mer Attorney General of the United
States; William II. Hotchkiss, State
Superintendent of Insurance. and Con-
gresham George w. Norris, OF Ne
braslSa.
Former Assembiynon alerwin *
Hart, president Of tile league, In his
Introductory remarks, said tho people
are as hard To fool as in LIncoln's
Aldrich tariff bllt and are tired OF
continued disclosures about politicians
for revenue only"
Mr.. Bonaparte's address was an anal
ysis OF the methods of bosses and
rings. protest against the methods
of BOTH and - plea for returning po-
itIcal power to the people. ~
"Thc mass OF our citizens habitual.
ly come TO the polls not to choose
their rulers but to record preference
between nominees OF two usurping
monopolies," he said.
Mr. Bonaparte declared leaders have
made their trade so dangerous, odious
and noisome that against 1t every
force that makes for Righteousness
must be directed tomorrow, as II
should be To-day"
and after referring TO the. message
sent 10 the legislature yesterday by
Governor Hughes for an Investigation
OF Legislative practices and procedure
Governor voicing the public demand
for the uncovering OF The secret
places of political power and iegisia-
tive favor, said
Two Dioyys ut system
Thus within week have two blows
been struck at n ysten--rather y
system within system-of whlcR
New Workers have become wear.
Executives of great States do not
speak thus without extreme provoca-
Through what q period have We
been passing? Until recent wears con, con
been smiled at by the cynical,
The boasts Of some OF these In BACK
room talks, led toward several OF the
disclosures in the inquiry now elias
inf. What an atmosphere was that OF
the capital city? said one witness.
"This is not Sunday school. this Is
Albany. whore graft has been sub
jeet for Joking, and the dislrioulofs
of IL honored In song.
And what shall be said of Y people
whose action at the polls or in con-
vention has made such things pos
sible? Each decade OF late has seen
+ the executive grow stronger. the Leg
Iislaturc weaker; each decade the peo-
rla have beCou! NOR satisfied to trtst
a man. not merely 10 execute brt
even, All times TO make the laws. The
current inst now Is stronger :han ever
| before. Impressed by the corrupt
practices of the few, the plain peo-
! ple are beginning to doubt the re-
LIABILITY of the Legislative branch.
Stories from Mississippi's contest COM
mare in lurd yigor with those from
| Pittsburg; New Jerseys stories OF late.
| cast in shadow even the daily tales
! about New York. Carried to the ulti-
mate, the present dis trust of popular
| representation in City Council. IN
| tsate Legislature, yes. even in Federal
| Congress-, means. sooner or later,
practical despotism. u chieftainship
which, while still elective. has yet all
| Of the dangers which the fathers
| fought God forbid that the founda-
| lions of representative government
| should thus be weakened.
and, so, take 1t, our Governor
was looking far into the future when
he asked a thorough and unsparing
Investigation into Legislature pro-
cesses and procedure What the peo-
| pie want is, however, not so much
la concurrent resolution, as a concur
] rent revolution, an overtsrn in
methods. perhaps rather than In men.
| The cry just now is to investigate. So
| be it,