The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1912-03-01

| siOns of the courts whenever they con.
| tlictcd with his own views and he has
over and over again, IN private and
i'm public, given expression to his op.
| position to them.
Nov, there is q motive for all this,
and there Is cause for this attack
upon the institutions Of the land.
think | can tell YOU what II is. II arts
as from the fact that when Mr. Roose.
welt was president he was not allowed
to influence and control the decisions
of the courts. and they declined to
pass under the domination OF his ar
bitrary and impcrious will OF course,
Judges are only human; they have
made mistakes and their adjudica-
tons are not divine; but one thing
they have done to their eternal cred.
il, and that is. that they have stood
as barrier between him and diCta.
torial usurpation.
During the whole of his administra.
ton he had an idea lingering in his
mind that il was the duty of the
courts to carry out the policy of the
executive branch of the government
and this belief was connected with
another idea, and that was, that so
far as executive functions were con.
cerned he was absolutely supreme,
unlimited by the specifications OF the
instrument that created them.
Needed No Persuasion.
Nov, what is the present situation?
Mr. Roosevelt is a candidate for pres
ident of the United States. There
was no need of any persuasion what
ever to induce him to enter the field
There was no dragging of Cincinnatus
from the pillow and there was no nee
essity that any Mark Anthony should
thrice upon the LuperCal offer him
the crown. He was willing to come
with his crown and frame a Constitu-
ton of his own in accordance with
the charming and aluring platform
that he mas promulgated. ! do not
know what sort of a new party he
t will have if he is nominated and elect
ed We have quite a number of par
ties on hand now. There are republi-
, cans and democrats and insurgents
t and progressives and radicals and re.
= dictionaries and neurotics and para
e noiacs and another party will only
= add to the gayety and festivities OF
the entertainment.
4 Il had hoped that outbreaks like
4 this were over when MIR. Roosevelt
T. abdiCated his place a few years age
K and started upon his restful and harm
e less expedition to the jungles of Afri
n ca to slaughter animals that provi
dence had never created. Here he is
i. however, and he has come to stay
a | do not know what we will do will
g our friend.
d Would it be possible if he consents
n TO tender him to the new republic o
| China in the event of his defeat-ant
Il | am satisfied that, even if nominal
l. ed, he will be easily defeated. ! woult
d almost be willing to make a new
g treaty for Chinese immigration
they would accept him in exchange.
a Would Make Him King.
b. In order to do away with a grea
e deal of unnecessary intermedar
process" the senator said he had wri
If ten a few amendments to the cOnst
e. tuition for the eX-president which h
n would like to tender him 'if he
e again called to the throne" Thes
C. amendments. from which read q
IT length would invest in the colonel a
r. the powers of government, legisli
lie tive, executive and judicial, in orde
IS that he might properly govern tn
to people "who have called upon me
I'll preside over their destinies, etc
ar "You know what believe, NJ
ne President" continued the senator
d. believe that there are large numbt
II. of Mr.. Roosevelt's followers in tn
ly country today favor veSting in hi
he autocratic power. Our institution
underwent radical change under h
of administration He inaugurated ne
an era of constitutional thought. He a
st nounced over and over again, in d
he fiance of the unbroken decisions
as the courts. that under the general We
in fare clause of the constitution co
ID gress had the power to enact any lie
lat islature that tended to the gener
,al welfare of the nation.
nj Make no mistake" he conclude
ny 81 am not eXaggerating the situatio
it'll He is perfectly sincere and his N
DIS tive is not q corrupt one, and he W
en- do this because he is possessed wi
ISL a mad fancy that this is and ought
is be an executive government, that I
Of powers of the executive ought to ov'
ride those OF the legislative and jul
cial branches of the public seryic
gy and what he proposes is not by &C
me stitutional amendment, because
try knows he cannot procure it but
all the patronage and all the pow
the and all the resources that he can co
not mand to practically force upon
on country an Interpretation of our
ganic law that will level its disti
TIL tons and mutilate and obiterate
her checks and balances. He will then
ed the pursuit of his own Unsuitable a
1m- bition possess a degree of autocra
,ry- power that no president of the
ad- United States has ever attained