Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07


and activity in the government will
tire them into such an indifference as
still further to remand control of pub
lie affairs to minority.
Hostility to Judiciary.
instead of giving US the benefit of
any specific remedies for the hard
ships and evils of society they point
out, they follow their urgent appeals
for closer association of the people
in legislation by an attempt to cult
yate the hostility of the people to the
courts and to represent that they are
IN some form unfolding Injustice and
are obstructing the popular will At
tempts are made to take away all
those safeguards for maintaining the
independence of the judiciary which
are SO carefully framed in our consti-
tuition. These attempts find express
sion in the policy, on the one hand,
of the recall of judges, a system I'M
der which a judge whose decision in
one case may temporarily displease
the electorate is to be deprived at
once of his Office by a popular vote,
Arizona constitution and which the
Democrats of the house and senate
refused to condemn as the initial pol
icy of new state The same spirit
manifested itself in the vote by Demo
cratic senators on the proposition,
first, to abolish the commerce court,
and, second, to abolish judges by mere
n oil oh he
st!tuttOn their terms are for life, on
no ground except that they did not
like some of the courts recent de-
cisions.
Another form of hostility to the
| Judiciary is shown in the grotesque
proposition by the leader of former
Republicans who have left their party
FIR recall of decisions, SO that a de-
cisiOn on q point of constitutional law,
| having been rendered by the highest
court capable of rendering it, shall
then be submitted to popular vote to
determine whether it ought to be sus
| tanned
! Again, the Democratic party in con-
gress and convention shows its desire
10 weaken the courts by forbidding
| the use of the writ of Injunction to
protect a lawful business against the
destructive effect of a secondary boy
colt and of interposing jury in con-
| tempt proceedings brought to enforce
its orders and DEGREES These provis-
ions are really class legislation de-
signed to secure immunity for law
! lessness in labor disputes on the part
| of the laborers, but operating much
more widely to paralyZe the. arm Of
the court in cases which do not in
vOlve labor disputes at all The hos
tility to the judiciary and the meas
ures to take away it's power and it's
independence constitute the chief def
mite policy that can be fairly attribut-
ed to that class of statesmen and re-
| formers whose absorption and control
the Republican party escaped at Chi
cago and the Democratic party yielded
to at Baltimore. ~
- Such Innovations Rejected.
The Republican party, Mr.. Taft con-
tinued, stands for none of these in
novations. 1t refuses to make changes
simply for the purpose Of making a
| change, and cultivating popular hope
that in the change something benefi-
cial, underlined will take place. The
Republican PARTY believes in progress
along the lines upon which we have
attained progress already.
cannot think that the American
people, after the scrutiny and educa-
ton Of a three-months' campaign, dur
;ng which they will be able to see
through the fog of Misrepresentation
and demagoguery, will fail to recog-
Enize that the two great issues which
are here presented to them are, first,
whether we shall retain, on sound
and permanent basis, our popular con-
stitutional representative form OF gov
eminent, with the independence OF
the judiciary as a necessary key to the
preservation of those liberties that
are the inheritance of LOGO years, and,
second whether W. shall welcome
prosperity which is just at our door
by maintaining our present economic
business basis and by the encourage
ment Of business expansion and prog
ress through legitimate use OF cap
ital
Appeal to All Conservatives
know that IN this wide country
there are many who call themselves
Democrats, who view, with the same
aversion that we Republicans DO the
radical propositions OF change In our
form of government that are reckless
ly advanced to satisfy what Is sup
posed to be popular clamor. They are
men who revere the constitution and
the institutions of their government
with all The love and respect that we
could possibly have. men who oepre-
cate disturbance in business condi-
tons. and are Tearning for that quiet
from demagogic agitation which Is
| essential to the enjoyment by the
whole people of the great prosperity
Which the good crops and the present