The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-04-18
THINK RECALL DANGEROUS
That Initiative and Referendum
Will Do Away With Representa-
tive Government, Which Should
Be Maintained

The differences in the beliefs of
the two opposing parts OF the re-
publican party today in the United
States. Is well illustrated by the
platform adopted by the New
York Republicans and the speech of
the chairman of the convention.
Butler. president of Columbia Uni
versity-that educational bulwark
of the entrenched interests. The
reports give the following:
The platform as adopted by the
committee in part says:
Eve believe that order is the
prerequisite of progress and that
this national tradition must not be
DESTROYED nor principle sacrificed to
opportunism.
Recall Attacked.
eve believe that public con-
science should express itself proper
" and affirmatively in the election
of public officials and not negatively
In their recall To reverse this order
would encourage disregard of duty
in electing public officers and place
a premium on neglect of that duty.
Eve believe In the Republican
principle of protection to American
working-men, American industries,
and the American farmer. Gus
toms duties should be adjusted up
on facts ascertained by an impair
tial board with authority to make a
thorough investigation.
eve believe In the amendment of
the national banking law and the
creation of national reserve
association. together with a pro-
vision for an elastic system of
currency and credit.
eve oppose as subversive Of
our form of government, the initia-
tive. the compulsory legislative
referendum and the recall, either Of
public servants or judicial decisions.
eve oppose the recall of judges
or any system which viii introduce
cowardice as an element in the adj
ministration of Justice"
Decries Patent Medicine.
Denunciation of the critics of the
Republican party. within and with
out its ranks. of "political patent
medicine men, of "the men who
would destroy the independent
judiciary and of ''those who
tell us that we must buy their
political patent medicine or fail to
carry the next presidential cleo
tion,'' formed the keynote of the
address before the convention of
Nicholas Murray Butler, president
of Columbia University, the tenn
porary chairman
''The Supreme Issue of 1912"
was the subject of DIR. Buffers ad-
dress. This he defined as the
maintenance of our Republican
form of government" In con-
clusion. he declared that the chief
measures of progress confronting
the nation were the enactment of q
workingman compensation law
enactment of proper monetary legis-
lation; revision of the monetary
legislation; Fevision of the tariff
supplementary legislation to the
antitrust law; judicial settlement
of international disputes; economy
In government and legislation tc
shorten the laws delays. He SAID
In part:
Critics Seek Violence.
ssCritics tell us that we are be
hind the times; that we are, in thu
significant language of the gam
ing table, stand-patters, that w
have lost touch with the march o.
progress; that we ap out O.
sympathy with the satisfaction O.
the deepest human needs and will
the alienation of human suffering
that we put property rights abov
human rights: and that SOM
means-violent if possible, peace
able if neeessary-must be foun,
to free the government from on
paralyzing control.
"These extraordinary statement
appear to mean, so far as the
mean anything Ineligible, eithe
that the American people are In
competent for self-government, o
that they have created govern
mental machinery which, while i
form under popular control j
really managed by private an
special interests. Examine for
moment these alternatives. If til
American people are incompetent
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