The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-12
NAMES NO NAMES.



The president was speaking to the
Union League club or New York. He
mentioned no names, but announced
with emphasis that this sensitive
nerve" of the serious minded of the
people of the country had been touch
ed by these proposals and that VIXEN
they realized that "impious hands were
likely to be laid upon the ark of the
covenant" the judicial branch of the
government, a profound protest was
heard from all thinking people,
In beginning his speech the presi-
dent thanked the Union League clubs
of New York and Philadelphia for
their recent Endorsements of his candi-
dacy. 1t has been unusual for these
part in pre-convention campaigns.
But" he added, circumstances have
made the present pre-convention cam
paign of such a character that both the
Philadelphia and New York clubs have
indicated in resolutions a conviction
on the part of nearly all their mem
berS that there is something at stake
in this campaign that should awaken
the interest and arouse the action of
all who believe in the principles ana
form of government that are embodied
in our present constitution and who
cherish the institutions preserved and
secured by that constitution as essen
ulated by law"
Attacks the AgitatOrs.
1.-THE necessity that there was for
arousing our people to prevent the
abuses of corporate privilege and pow
er, and to wreSt from concentrated
wealth the exercise of political con-
troll, and the success that has attended
such agitation among the people, he
continued, have been taken advant-
age of by persons, some of them sin
cere, some of them demagogueS, and
all of them with an insufficient knowl-
edge of the necessity in the main
tenance of liberty and progress, OF our
constitution and it's guarantees, to
propose changes, rather for the sake
of change than with any definite plan
of improving the body polite Be-
cause courts have not manifested as
quick perception of the advantages to
be realized from these proposed
changes, and in some instances have
perhaps unduly broadened constitu-
tional restrictions to declare them in
valid, it is proposed to change the
whole nature of. our judicial system
and render it subject to popular re-
view, either by what is called the re-
call of the judges when their conduct
on the bench is not approved by ma
jority of the voting electorate, or by a
recall of decisions and a reversal OF
the judgment of the judges whenever
they declare invalid a Legislative en-
actment which they deem to be in
violation of the fundamental law.
cit was not until the sensitive nerve
of the serious minded people of this
country was touched by the PROPOSE
ton to recall the judges, or to recall
their decisions, that such people of
all classes began to realize that i'm
pious hands were likely TO be laid upon
the ark of the covenant which is the
independence of the judicial branch
of our government. A profound pro-
test was heard from all thinking peo-
pie against the proposal. I am here
tonight to express my satisfaction that
the members of this club have felt it
to be their duty to express to the pub
lie at large, their sense of the crisis
through which our institutions are
passing and the necessity for guarding
as we would our liberty and all that
we hold dear in our homes and in our
life against the innovations that are
so recklessly advocated by men who
profess to be acting in the interest of
reform and progress.
I'm this contest for the preservation
of our ancient landmarks of govern
ment, and for the security of life, lib
erty and prosperity involved in the
maintenance of an independent judi
ciary, we may from time to time suf-
fer temporary defeat, but those of u.s.
and they are most of US, who have an
abiding faith in the judgment and
good sense of the American people,
may we'll have confidence that in the
end the real benefit of the people will
prevail and that they will defend and
protect these institutions that have
served them so long and so WE'LL