The Prescott daily news., 1912-08-01
MIR. TAFT ACCEPTS
 THE NOMINATiON
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due for productive labor. It means stagnation and retrogression. It de- stroys the handspring of human action that has carried the world on and up ward for 2,000 years.
 Opponents Offer No Remedy.
 do not say that the two gentle men who now lead, one the Demo cratic party and the other the former Republicans who have left their party, 3n their attacks upon existing condi- tions, and in their attempt to satisfy the popular unrest by promises of remedies, are consciously embracing Socialism. The truth is that they do not offer any definite legislation or policy by which the happy conditions they promise are to be brought about but if their promises mean anything, they lead directly toward the ap- propriation of what belongs to one man, to another The truth is, my friends, both those who have left the Republican party under the inspira- tion of their present leader, and our old opponents, the Democrats, under their candidate, are going in a direc- ton they do not definitely know, to- ward an end they can not definitely describe, with but one chief and clear object, and that is of acquiring pow CT for their party by popular support through the promise of a change for the better What they clamOr for is a change They ask for a change in government so that the government may be restored to the people, as If this had not been a peoples govern ment since the beginning of the con- stitution. I have the fullest sympathy with every reform in governmental and election machinery which shall Facilitate the expression of the popu- lar will as the short ballot and the reduction in elective offices to make 1t possible But these gentlemen, pro- pose to reform the government, whose present defects, if any, are due to the failure of the people to devote as much time as is necessary to their political duties by requiring a politi- cal activity by the people three times that which thus far the people have been willing to assume; and thus they propose remedies which, instead of exciting the people to further interest , and activity in the government, will tire them into such an indifference as still further to remand control of pub lie affairs to a minority
 Hostility to Judiciary
 Ins,e0d of giving us the benefit of any sec.fc 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 culti. vate the hostility of the people to the courts and to represent that they are h some form upholding 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 un- 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, a pernicious system embodied in the Arizona constitution and which the Democrats of the house and senate refused to condemn as the initial pol Icy of a new state. The same spirit manifested itself in the vote by Demo- Cratic senators on the proposition flrst, to abolish the commerce court and, second, to abolish judges by mere act of repeal, although under the con- stitution their terms are for life, on no ground except that they did not like some of the courts recent deci- sions
 Another form of hostility to the jul dietary is shown in the grotesque proposition by the leader of former Republicans who have left their party for a recall of decisions so that de clsion on a point of constitutional law having been rendered by the highest court capable of rendering 1t, shall then be submitted to popular vote to determine whether it ought to be sus tained.
 Again, the Democratic party in con gress and convention shows it's desire to weaken the courts by forbidding the use of the writ of injunction to protect a lawful business against the destructive effect of a secondary boycott and by interposing a jury in contempt proceedings brought to en force its order and decraaS These provisions are really class legislation