Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-28

TO the jungles of Africa to slaughter ami
mails that Providence had never created
Here he is. however. and he has come to
stay. do not know what We will dc
he consents. to tender him to the new re-
public of China, in the event Of his de-
feat-and am satisfied that. even II nom.
mated, he will be easily defeated. ]
would almost be willing to make new
treaty for Chinese immigration il they
would accept him in exchange"
In order to do away with great deal
of unnecessary Intermediary process. the
senator said he had written q few amend
ments to the Constitution for the eX-
President which he would like to tender
him II he Is again called to the throne. =
These amendments, from which he read
at length, would invest in the colonel all
the powers of government. legislative. ex-
ecutive and judicial. in order that he
might properly govern the people who
have called upon me to preside over their
destinies," ETC.
Inaugurated New Era.
''You know what believe, Mr.. Presi-
dent" continued the senator. Il believe
that there are a large number of Mr..
Roosevelt's followers in this country who
would today favor vesting in him auto
cratic power. Our institutions underwent
a radical change under his adninistra-
ton. He inaugurated new era OF con-
stitutional thought. He announced over
and over again, in defiance of the IN
broken decisions of the courts. that un-
der the general welfare clause OF the Con-
stitution Congress had the power to en-
act any legislation that tended to the
general welfare of the nation. 80
Make no mistake" he concluded.
am not exaggerating the situation. He is
perfectly sincere, and his motive is not q
corrupt one. and he will do this because
he is possessed with a mad FANCY tnal
this is and ought to be an executive gov
eminent. that the powers of the executive
ought to override those of the legislative
and judicial branches of the public sery-
ice; and what he proposes Is not by con-
stitutional amendment, because he knows
that he cannot procure II, but py an tne
patronage and all the power and all the
resources that he can command to prac-
tically force upon the country an interpre-
tation Of our organic law that will level
its distinctions and mutilate and obliter-
ate it's checks and balances.
He will then. in the pursuit OF his own
Unsuitable ambition. possess degree OF
autocratic power that no President OF the
United States has ever attained or would
have ever dared to exercise, except at the
risk of impeachment. Speaking for my
country and not for my party. speaking
for the autonomy and stability OF our
institutions. speaking for the Constitu-
ton in all it's parts, if We are to pass in
again under his yoke. with his out
stretched arm under his latest utterance
hanging over the seat of justice. the
refuge and bulwark of our institutions,
ready to strike it down with a wanton
attack upon it's integrity, then, In my
Judgment. it would have been better if the
Constitution had never been framed and
its authors never attempted by an appor-
tionment Of constitutional functions al
most perfect in their allotment to con-
struct an indissoluble Union Of indestruc-
ible Stafes''