The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-22
SENATOR LODGE
OPENS FIGHT IN
BUCKEYE STATE
Criticizes Action Of Democratic
House by Method Of Passing
Appropriation Bills
TALKS ABOUT M'KlNLEY
Feels President Taft Was Fully JUS
titled in Vetoing Tariff
Legislation
TALKS ABOUT M'KlNLEY


Columbus, o., Sept 21.-The ma
tional and state Republican cam
paigns were opened here today and
officially put in full swing at two
mass meetings by speakers supplied
by the national and state campaign
committees Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, of Massachusetts, delivered
the keynote speech. in which he
eulogized the Republican party.
THE Democratic House." he said,
determined to enter upon career
of legislation and in order to secure
their legislation they adopted to an
extent never known in our history
that most vicious practice of attach
ing legislation to appropriation bills,
which hitherto the rules OF both
houses have been carefully framed
to prevent. They started out with
the proposition that they were going
to make great economies but when
the final account was made up II
was found that the economies all
crippled those branches of the gov
ernment where there were no votes
and the extravagances in which they
freely INDUCED were poured out Law
ishly where it was thought that
large sums from the treasury would
result in securing support at the
polls. The economies and extraya
gances alike were determined not by
the interests of the government or
the people but in every case by the
hope of votes"
The speaker asserted that the ac'
tions of the Democratic legislators
had crippled the State Department
to effect a saving of 100000; that
they selected this year. when Mexico
is in a ferment. of revolution to cut
off five cavalry regiments from the
army; that their economy had
caused this country to d'op from
second to third place among the
navies of the world with the Pan
anna canal on the point of being
opened and that their Civil Service
Legislation threatened the disorgani-
cation of the service.
The Democratic tariff measures,
vetoed by President Taft, were criti-
cized by Senator Lodge, who con-
tinued:
But during the last few years
another question, or rather a series
OF questions, have arisen, which far
transcend all others, because they
involve the fundamental principles
lupon which our government and our
institutions rest These questions
have been raised and violent cOnsti'
tutional changes have been agitated
and advocated by men OF all parties
This agitation has divided opinion
in the two great parties, whether
the division has been openly de-
clared or not. These questions are
far greater than any possible ques-
tion of economics or administration
| Ii the proposed constitutions
changes should be carried into effect
they would completely revolutonizt
our system and theory of govern
ment as we have known it since tht
beginning of our history.
Would Injure Courts,
ut Is now seriously proposed tC
make the courts dependent upon The
. will of a majority of the voters al
any given moment-and which may
be fleeting, temporary or accidental
The courts Of the United States
were made Independent by giving tt
, those who sit upon the bench
tenure during good behavior, and al
Independent judiciary has been, al
whole, the great bulwark OF NJ
man liberty. If you make yot
courts subservient to the will OF
majority of :he voters at any giyel
, moment, they are no more independ
ent than when they were subservien
to the viii of the king and the vita
3 protection of our industrial right
and liberties vanishes.
s "All the progress that has bee
6 made in this country in fifty yea,
9 has been made by the Repub!lca
!, party. TIE Republican party cam
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