Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-08-22
GEN. KE|FER DISCUSSES
THE RECALL IN GREECE
Tells of Its Failure to Work
Before the Christian Era.
Visits Headquarters.

/ NEW YORK. August 2c-J. Warren
keifer of Springfield. Ohio. who was
Speaker of the House of Representatives
in the Forty-seventh Congress. called at
republican national headquarters yesier-
/ day to see Chairman Hilles. He learned
that the chairman would not return from
Washington until this morning, but he
stopped long enough to discuss the gen.
| eral political situation.
| Gen Keifer said he thought the situation
was clearing up. and that most Of the
| sober-minded citizens had come to the
| conclusion that there was absolutely
nothing in the Roosevelt cry OF fraud"
/ at the Chicago convention. They were
also beginning to learn that the professed
new doctrines of the recall and the like
were really old.
"The best thing have yet seen against
| the recall" said Gen. keifer, is transla-
| ton of portion of an essay of Aristotle
written some $50 years before the Chris
/ tian era. in which he denounces it's fail
ure in the Greek republic and demon
any other thing to do with the destruc-
| ton of all the Greek republics. 1t may
not be generally known that we have
tried the recall in the United States. At
| the time of the Declaration of Independ-
ence in 1916, we had advocates of the
recall. who believed. or pretended to be-
lieve. that the recall was necessary RENE,
dy to keep everything in the hands of the
people
Recall of Congressman.
Tom Paine is said to have been,
though patriot in the revolution, a
great advocate of the recall. In the arti-
cles of confederation the recall was re-
| cognized. and it was therein provided
| that there should be recall of congress
men. etc.
THE principle and policy of the recall
| existed until our present federal Consti-
| tuition was adopted. and SO far his
| tory now gives conditions, we can easily
conclude that the national constitutional
convention of 1877 did not have a single
| member in 1t, from George Washington
down, who favored the recall. and it dis
| appeared with the adoption Of the Con-
stitution. and is now unearthed by Roose-
| welt, and called the new doctrine OF the
recall"
| The headquarters Of the National
| League of Republican Clubs is daily In
| receipt of a large number of letters from
young men who want to organize first
voters clubs. In 1905 the league had 321
| clubs with membership of 100000, most
| OF them first voters.
| Crazed With Egotism.
| {. t. Conover of the firm OF Crawford
q Conover of Seattle. Wash, has sent to
national headquarters a copy of a letter
he has written to the publisher OF the
Schoharie Standard in this state The
Standard is a Roosevelt paper In ask
ing that his paper be discontinued Mr.
Conover wrote that formerly he was an
ardent Roosevelt supporter, that he had
made hero of him, as many others
/ had, but that was before he was crozed
/ with egotism and ambition
10 knife his best friend and wreck
| the party, IL only he can win,' wrote Mr.
| Conover. causes him no conjunction
Honor. fidelity, truth-they are nothing.
| Just so he can be exalted, and he even
mas been so shameless as to play the
| baby act and cry fraud, fraud when
the fraudulent efforts of his own sup
| porters fail