The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-18

TOWN ALL IN GREEN
Joint Celebration Of Evacuation Day
and st. PatrIck's Anniversary
with Many Kinds Of
Features.

r1Jnited Press Leased Wire Service
BOSTON, March 1S.-Dismal skies.
i riot Of shamrock green and an en-.
thusiastic crowd, despite the earliness
Of his arrival, greeted President Taft
at South station at Z O'Clock, when he
reached Boston for a busy joint cele-
bration of evacuation day and st. Pat
rick's anniversary.
The president went Immediately to
Boston City club where he breakfast
ed and shook eyerybody's handt From
there he sped to the Hotel Somerset
where at $3.50 he had another break
fast, Colonial breakfast" Mayor
John F. Fitzgerald and other city
officials we're hosts. The chief execu-
tive was booked to attend seven
meals today.
The remainder of his program was
attendance at a peace meeting at the
Somerset at noon; address to both
branches of the legislature at one
o'clock; informal luncheon by the Pill
grim Publicity Association at 2; re-
view Of the South Boston Evacuation
Day and st. Patrick's day parade at
8: reception to the Taft League of
Massachusetts at q; dinner of the
Charitable irish society at g.; Boston
bank officers dinner at 9; Boston Pa
per Manufacturers dinner at 10, and
the Yale Club dinner at 1890. The
president will spend tonight at the
Somerset and start for New Hamp-
shire tomorrow
Denouncing soap box presiden-
tiai primary as an open avenue for
fraud and violence" unless properly
safeguarded by legal regulations,
President Taft today gave his reasons
for opposing primary unless amply
legal machinery is provided. The
president spoke to the general court
OF the legislature Of Massachusetts
In discussing the recall OF judges and
the recall of judicial decision, the
president contended that 1t is impos-
sible for all the people to take a d.
rect part in the functions of the gov
eminent He said the constitution
founded government "of the people,
for the people. by a representative
part Of the people" He denied the
proposition that whatever is right is
constitutional"
Many read direct attack on Roose-
welt in to the concluding statement of
the president. when after deploring
the agitation against the courts ano
the constitution he said: "Irresponsi-
Bile assaults upon either in intemper-
ate language, or on baseless assump-
tons, or bias, or incompetency
made by those whose statements
have influence with any part OF
the people, are a serious menace to
enduring government"
The president said in part:
One can easily discover tendency
In modern politics to exalt above the
written law ann above the written
constitution what is called popular
will as If that were a higher law to
which we must all admit allegiance
and, by obeying 1t, ignore or trans
gre3s statutory and constitutional
limitation. This heresy is not stated
exactly in the form of an assertion
mat judges and others are to ignore
statutes and constitutions because Of
conflicting popular will; but 1t is In
the mere insidious proposition that
plain construction of the statute oil
the constitution is to be defeated and
strained and otherwise impossible
construction put upon the language oil
the constitution. There is no rule fol
ascertaining what this popular will is
except the observation and imagina
tlon OF the person who is appealing to
tn
The continued reiteration Of the
proposition, let the people rule IL II
mas any significance at all, and is in
tended otherwise than to flatter the
people, is intended to be a reflection
OF the government that we have hat
eown to the present time. Now, II
spite OF all the corruption, in spite o,
al the machine politics, in spite OF ev
cry defect in operation Of our gov
ernment that can be pointed out, l dc
not hesitate to say that the history Of
.ne last 1S5 years show that the PEG
PIE have ruled.
me occasion for these remarks 1.
Tue attack upon our Judiciary and tht
PROPOSAL, by judicial recall, or recall
" JUDICIAL decisions, to destroy It's In
aependence and thus to take ava,
from the arch Of government the KEY
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