The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-07-04

| Ties Ill Ills Campaign is W ledu IIle HRuI
against third term. That opportunity
should appeal to every drop of patriotic
blood flowing in our veins.
Unquestionably, we have been wrong
in assuming that tradition against third
term constitutes sufficient safeguard
against INSCRIPTIONS ambition for un-
limited power We need definite con-
stitutional limitation which shall prevent
imperia!istic souls fro forcing personal
continuation in Office for long periods or
| for life and the personal selection of a
successor in office. And the constitu-
tional provision should go one step fur
thur than our recently assailed tradition.
"The provision should be limited to a
single term. Then will the occupants of
the office have before them but the one
ambition, so to fulfill the great trust re-
posed in them that upon retirement they
shall hear from a grateful people the
commentator, We'll done, thou good
and faithful servant.
= CANADIAN RECIPROCITY FAVORED.
THE temporary failure, owing to the
action of the electorate of Canada, of
the effort to effectuate reciprocity with
that country is regrettable. The agree
ment proposed was in the interest of the
people of both countries. Its immediate
and laudable purpose was to lessen the
cost of living in each country.
"Whether later the mutual advantage
of our respective people shall be appre-
ciated by our neighbors across the
border, the consciousness that we took
the right course should content us. In
all probability, however, the sober
second thought of the people of Canada
will induce Reconsideration of the action
of last year. The temporary reduction
of the duty on cement by the Canadian
opponents of reciprocity is significant of
the results that in due course may be ex-
pected.
Cali honor to the Democratic House,
which stood for the good of the Nation
as a whole and prevented the repeal of
the Reciprocity act, thus leaving the
door open to Canada if her people shall
later elect to accept our proposal.
TRUSTS AIDED BY THE PRESIDENT.
Combinations, of course, multiplied
rapidly under such encouragement and
stimulation, especially as the evidence
accumulated that the executive depart
ment of Government could be relied
upon for protection even in case of at
tack by enemies.
I'VE are indebted to the President for
the evidence that his predecessor, hav-
ing first enjoyed an interview with
George W. Perkins, restrained his At
torney General from bringing suit
against the Harvester combination.
''For the Steel Corporation he went
further, for he wrote his Attorney Cen
eral, in advance of it's absorption of the
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company, that
he had decided to interpose no objection.
Indeed, he apparently stood ready to
perform similar kindly offices for all cor
porations, for he advocated the pas
sage of a statute permitting voluntary
! submission of all engaged in interstate
commerce to Federal authority, with
the advantage to them of immunity
from prosecution because of contracts
made, if stamped in advance with exec
utve approval as reasonable.
'"The view of executive duty which
these acts suggest is Numerically OPP
posite to that of that sterling Democrat,
President jackson, who wrote, The
laws of the United States must be exc
cuted. | have no discretionary power
on the subject; my duty is emphatically
pronounced in the Constitution
THE UNIT RULE ADVOCATED.
Wednesday night the committee voted
to abrogate the unit rule as to all State
delegations except those where the State
laws are mandatory to the subject. This
had the effect of giving Woodrow Will
son Is votes from Ohio and may cause
break in other delegations. 1t was hailed
as great Wilson victory in a session
that had been marked by prolonged
Wilson demonstration. The vote of the
Maine delegation was as follows: Yes,
7; no, 2; not voting, 3. E. L. Jones was
reelected member of the Democratic
National committee.
The credentials committee overturned
the action of the national committee,
and gave the ten seats from South Da-
kota to Clark delegates, in the first ac-
tual test of strength between the Will
son and anti-Wilson forces. By vote
of % to %, the committee unseated the
ten Wilson delegates who had then re-
ceived the highest vote in the State pri-
maries June 4th, and gave the seats to the
Clark delegation headed by Andrew E.
Lee. This was one of the two delega-
lions that had run under the Clark ban
ner, their combined vote exceeding that
of the Wilson ticket.
At the session Thursday evening
Bryan led the convention into declara-
ZION ol pFORreSSlVeneSS unneard OF IN
political history. A resolution intro
duced by him, which was passed by a
two-thirds majority, declared the cor
vention opposed to the nomination of
any candidate for president under obliga-
ton to j. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas F.
Ryan, August Belmont or any of the
privilege seeking class" The resolu-
ton was as follows:
Resolved, that in this crisis in our party's
career and in our country's history, this con-
vention sends greetings to the people of the
United States and assures them that the party
of Jefferson and of Jackson is still the cham
pion of popular government and equality be-
fore the law. AS proof of our fidelity to the
people, we hereby declare ourselves opposed
to the nomination of any candidate for Presi-
dent who is the representative of, or under
any obligation, to ]. P. Morgan, Thomas F.
Ryan, August Belmont, or any other member
of the privilege hunting and favor seeking
class.
| Be it further resolved, that we demand the
withdrawal from this convention of any dele
gate or delegates constituting or representing
the above-named interests.
The Nebraskan was interrupted bv
cheers several times during the reading
of the resolution, which after much ex-
citement and shifting of votes, was
carried by 889 to 1876.
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