The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-26
Things SHEPARD STANDS FOR
,ym N,TION tLTSM - NOR DEAD
tND OtGHr TO BE.
,.rr ~ Many Clauses Iniei-rabi~.- Fer
Government Re~uiatiea of Public
service. Not Private Business. ana
for Popular Election or senators.


service, No, Private Business. ana
for Popular Election of senators.
Bong inquired Of last night about the
s.na',r-hlp and other matters OF current
rrItrr, Edward n. Shepard said:
/ am reluctant to answer your ques-
tons On politics. end for the very reason
which Won give for asking them-that
many democrats in this state are think
rs If me- as a candidate for the United
state S-nstorship. ] have ask ed neither
N" rn'" nor the support Of any one
b. the confidence shown me dusing the
lat lev weeks hy SO many OF my party
associates has given me a real ana very
peasant sense of honor which will aiw avs
remain. whether or not the Office shall
come TO me
i u. however. useful for me at this
time again TO recite my political creed?
Must not rhe choice for this Democratic
s-nstorship place calling for So heavy
a service Of craftsmanship to New York
and to the country and for 30 signal and
continuous service to our great party
and 10 its lasting and enlarged presf ige
and -uccess-must not this be determined
upon consideration Of the long known
and we'll known relations OF the candidate
e. public Affairs rather than by what he
chooses 10 say TO help his own election
Viii not his ingrained and abiding opin-
ions and those habits of thought upon
which. inthe long run. every man IL pretty
cure 70 act give better assurance OF the
80 he would make OF this great ONCE.
whether To help or TO hinder public wei
fare either to make Democracy more
powerful or less powerful with public
opinion and therefore with voters at cleo
tons to he held during the six years OF
tho Senstorship?
But YOU tell me that the speeches
II min. made during many political
campaign when I had no personal for
tun. at stake. and during those months
between political campaigns when poiit-
ica discussion is OF quite a. much value
and its sincerity better assured You
tel me that all Of this long continued
ard amply recorded disclosure Of my
opinions lacks the freshness needed for
current publication. and for The moment
l yleIG my judgment 10 yours.
For several weeks befor. the Demo-
,ra,lc convention at Rochester lsst Sop
tamber I was the chairman OF COM
mttee directed by the Democratic State
committee to prepare platform material
for the Rochester convention: and the
platform then adopted although in larger
part the work Of others than myself
~-t forth. satisfactorily TO myself. my
opinions upon issues between the Demo-
cratic party and its chief competitor.
First and foremost in the struggle Of
Present day politics is the group % qIes-
lions which 90 to the very Foundation
70 our democratic republic At the
Inner given AZ New York by 'h. Demo-
-afic State committee early last Sept an
u.-. referring to NJ. R,ossveI,'s speech
~ Osawatomi- just delivered. siii tha'
. the outcry for a New Sarionalisn
zee was the largest immediate DANCE;
rat the most perempto-y dIty Of the
democratic party was an olispoken
-esistance to what NJ. Roosevelt rightly
,on-,dered a new form Of Al old thing
',~ the Thing was al old and a. famous
~ George III o. Bonaps~te. His cry
sppealed to those VINO would do thing
,thout much thinking and who ara more
uang.rot.s to the country even IL some
'nes they inspire greater respect than
hose who think without much doing
The short cut OF strong and ,snfet-
'ersd Executive reveraeS the Amer lean
zeal Of government for which our revo-
l.ronary war was fought. for which our
Institution was established and for
,-h'ch the Democratic party its Ell was
4 s...x "a. has.F-
- glory For il would mean the de-
srr'Iction Of the patience and restraint =
o. orderly saf-government and OF free
com thoroughly and systematically
worked ont: il would mean slsO the
Gorninanre Of mere organized physical
iurC.
When spoke in September did not
~ uh and certainly now after the cleo
'.u | do not thinks that the man on
u r-"tatck ~ near at hand But IL 10
.., '---ary for patriotic Americans and
.... Democratic party IN a hundred ways
.DI n most fields OF Federal Legislation
withstand the tendency to remedy
or-ugs who's. genesis and cure are not
90 Yndsrstood by oppressive disregard
human rights which. although nm =
G.iLt.d seem inconvenienf. One who
dies tho election returns in our State
10 -'... that the New Nationalism il not
e"' ndubitabiy set at rest. Questions
nm is scope arise to-day about taxa
u'r aDout creation and control OF col
uo-atIons. about interstate commerce
and indeed in nearly every department
4 III" Federal power.
So II Is that / declare myself hostile
~ Impairment Of the dignity and powers
- m. States or OF judicial power within
Institutional limits. And. therefore.
Import firmly the power Of the courts
70 M. controversies duly brought before
hem 10 deal feariessIy. although always
,aYtiou@ly. with the constitutional vaiid
.'v n N. acts. legislative or executive
public officers whether high or low.
To tariff questions have given muci
my thought and public activity eve
-nca came to manhood. For me tn
'.9rAI aide Of ihese questions is no lea
ror-ant than the economic. " ~ not
pa- once observed by A. ID. White
"T"-tion Of a few more or less fac