Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-19

peace with all the world has been
preserved and strengthened.
With this record of consistent policy
and faithful service the Republican
party can rest with confidence on its
title to command the approval of the
American people.
We have a right to say that we car
be trusted to preserve and maintain
the American system of free repre-
sentative government handed down
to us by our fathers. At hands
it will be no empty form when the
officers of the national government
subscribe the solemn oath required
of them by law that / will support
and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies.
foreign and domestic; that I will bear
true faith and allegiance to the
same"
No Apologies to Make.
We shall not apologize for Amer
lean institutions. We cherish with
gratitude and reverence the men,
DRY of the great men who devised
the American constitutional system
their unselfsh patriotism, their love
of liberty and justice. their lofty con-
ception of human rights, their deep
insight into the strength and the
weakness of human nature, their wise
avoidance of the dangers which a
wrecked all preceding attempts at
popular government. their
of view which adapted the system
they devised to the progress anu
development Of a great people.
We will be loyal to the principles
thew declared and to the spirit OF
liberty and progress, of Justice and
security. which they breathed into
that immortal instrument.
No government which must be ad-
ministered by weak and falliole men
, can be perfect, but we may justly
claim for u government under the
constitution that for a century n a
quarter II has worked out the best re-
suits for individual liberty and
In civilization yet achieved
by governmental institutions. Under
the peace and security which 1t has
afforded. not only has u countr
became vastly rich. but there mas
been a diffusion of wealth which
should inspire cheerful confidence IN
the future. Witness the 1857, lSo
separate savings banks accounts
with 81, 212, 583, 598 deposits, in the year
1911. witness the 1851. 512 farms and
the value of farms and farm property
of $40, 991, 449, 900 In the year 1910, a
value more than doubled between 1900
and 1910. Witness the stream of I'M
migrants pouring in from all coun-
tries of the earth to share the happier
lot of labor in our ~ortunat land
9,673,9 7 of them since 1901.
Nowhere on earth Is there such un-
fettered scope for the independence
Of Individual manhood; nowhere
greater security and competency for
the family home; nowhere more uni
versal advantages of education for
rich and Door alike; nowhere such
universal response to all demands OF
charity and noble plans. for relieving
the distress and improving the con-
dition of mankind; nowhere a more
ready qu%ickening of public spirit
under the influence of high ideals;
nowhere the true ends of government
more fully secured than In the life of
America today under the government
of the constitution.
VIII Maintain Limitations.
We will maintain the power and
honor of the nation, but we will OBJ
serve those limitations which the
Constitution sets up for the preserva-
ton of local self-government. This
country Is so large and the condi-
tions of life are so varied that 1t
would be intolerable to lave the
local and domestic affairs of our
home communities which involve no
national rights, controlled by majori-
ties made up in other States thou
sands of miles away or by the Off
Gals of a central government.
We will perform the duties and
exercise the authority of the offices
with which we may be invested. but
we will observe and require all off,
cials to observe those constitutional
limitations which prescribe the boun-
daries of official power.
However wise, however able, how
ever patriotic, a Congress or an ex-
ecutiye may be, however convinced
they may be. that the doing of a
particular thing would be beneficial
to the pubiic-if that thing be done
by usurping the powers confided tc
another department or another ONCE
1t but opens the door for the destruc-
ton of liberty. The door opened fol
the patriotic and w~ell-meaning te
exercise power not conferred upon
them by law is the door opened also
to The ~self-seeking and ambitious.
There can be no free government
in which official power Is not limited
and the limitations upon official
power can be preserved only by rig
!. orously insisting upon their observ'
ance
We will make and vigorously en-
force laws for the promotion of public
interests and the attainment ofspublt
ends, but we will observe those great
rules of right conduct which our fla h
ers embodied in the limitations of thu
Constitution. We will hold sacred tbs
declarations and prohibitions of the
bill of rights. which protect the life
and liberty and property of the citi'
zen against The power of government
We will keep the covenant that oul
fathers made and that we have re-
affirmed from generation to generation
between the whole body of the people
and every individual under nationa
jurisdiction.
It is a covenant between over.
wheIming power and every weak and
d~efenseless one, every who reliei
upon the protection of his country,
laws for security to enjoy the fruits
of industry and thrift, every n who
would worship God according to hi,
conscience, however his faith ma,
differ from his fellows; every on,
who asserts his manhood's right tt
freedom in speech and action-a sol