The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-27
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 81, 1919.
ANOTHER CHANCE FOR TEDDY TO
RIJSTER

Naw we may expect to hear the charge that
Governor Woodrow Wilson has proven him.
self to be the friend of all special interests,
and that in him lies the hope of ali the bosses
and bosslets, for without the gold of the brib-
ing corporations the bosses have little in
centive to work.
h Ii lie true that the predatory interests and
the bosses do not know 1t yet. After his
Simpoliteness in handing Murphy direct snub.
and after he had played the dictator in New
Jersey--hitting Nugent with a terrific broad
tide and multiplying the perfectly legitimate
ambition of seraphio Jim" smith--they had
concluded that Governor Wilson had devol-
pred a slight GOODNESS toward bosses and their
masters, but 1T must be mistake. He is
not against them but with them they will
learn from their friend r. r. His blows at
Murphy, Nugen, and Smith we're merely the
fxtherly chastisements which he gave them for
their own good He Is for them heart and soul.
This interests and the bosses may not have
known it before. and may not know IT yet.
but Colonel Roosevelt will tell them all about
Il in his next speech
He believes in the initiative the referen-
dunn and in the all-ef executive officers.
but--and here's the proof OF his villauy-
~ does net -balieRe In, the recall of Judges,
He does not, for he says himself. The
man Ia lost to all sense OF propriety we will,
be- told He not only opposes the recall OF
Judges. but actually has the audacity to get
up before an intelligent audience of American
people and bra1enly tell them SO TO their faces.
He did not try to hide his beliefs. Apparently,
he is not at all ashamed of his perfdy. He
appears to be perfectly willing to let all man
kind know of his reasonable conservatism.
Upon his own brow he has placed the brand
and he cannot expect Colonel Roosevelt to
exercise his usual self-rastraiut and refrain
from calling attention TO IT. CONSIDERABLY.
the Third Termer has spoken OF Governor
wilson But twice has he placed him in the
Ananias club, and even then he satisfied him
self with accusing him OF "misstatement OF
facts" and Inversion OF the truth Liar and
.deliberate fasifer'' he has not yet applied
to his opponent. Such commendable charity
OF judgment he cannot be expected to exer-
-eise-in the future, for he has as a text for
hurting anathemas Governor Wilson's own
testimony to the effect that he does not be-
liese in that great panacea of all ills of the
political and social organism, TO wit; the recall
Of judges. The torrent of denunciation so
long damned up will break and will
sweep before it Wilson and all his chances of
election.
II is too bad, but it cannot be helped. 1t
is true that many hold that the people as
body are incapable OF deciding on a point OF
law That while they have the right to re-
serve to themselves the privilege of recalling
judges If they wish they also have the right
10 give it up. There some things the
majority has no right TO do. For instance 1t
cannot take from man his property without
due process OF Law. There are other things
lit can do if ii will but cannot do as well as
chosen representatives. Handing down legal
to have the right to recall judges they can
do so. but many contend that they are not
capable Of exercising this power, and the peo-
>ple apparently agreeing with them, have de-
cided not to do so. The questions TO be settled
are questions which the man on the street can
not settle. because he has not trained himself
10 this end. His training Is in various other
directions, and TO those who have been trained
In the Law he entrusts the duty OF interpreting
the law
In spite of the fact however. that IL is not
distrust OF the people and not the belief that
the people have right TO recall judges If
they wish that places Wilson in opposition to
the recall OF judges he is TO the practical"
man essentially an academcian and old fogy,
friend OF predatory wealth tool of the
bosses and an enemy OF the people because
he does not believe in it, For him there can
be no quarter