The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-03-09
TAFT CONDEMNS
PLAN ADVOCATED
BY ROOSEVELT
IN SPEECH AT TOLEDO Insr
NIGHT HE TAKES DIRECT is.
SUE WITH TEDDY.
POLlTICS WITHOUT Merit
Thus characterizes New.FaroIed
Preac'1ings of Candidate Col Roose-
Velt--Made More Than a Dozen
Speeches From Train Platform.

'oledo, March 9.-After a day spent
Ior the most part on the rear platform
oI ms private car, President Taft con.
Guided his brief Campaign" through
Eastern and Northern Ohio last night.
On the way north from Pittsburg to
Toledo the President made more than
a dozen speeches from his private car
TO crowds that varied with the size of
the towns at which his train stopped.
He President reached Toledo late
IN the afternoon. His reception was
not so cordial as at other Ohio towns.
out there was enough cheering to
make Secretary Hilles and Ohio poll
ucians who travelled with him through
the state, say they were well pleased.
Leaving Toledo late last night. the
President was due in Chicago early to-
day for a two-day stay.
In his speech President Taft made
answer to the propaganda for the re-
call of judges, and to the more recent
proposal for the recall of judicial de-
cisions. His topic was The Judiciary
and the Progressives." He made no
direct reference to Col. Roosevelt, nor
to the latters speech at Columbus,
but referred freely to some of the poll
cies that were enunciated by the for
mer President before the Ohio consti,
tutional convention.
utterly without merits or utility"
"reactionary instead of progressive; "
crude. revolutionary, htful and un-
stable" were the terms in which the
President referred TO the recall meth
od Of reversing judicial constructions
of the Constitution.
Il have examined this proposed
method Of reversing judicial decisions
on constitutional questions with care. "
President Taft said 81 do not hesitate
to say that it lays the ak at the root
OF the tree Of well ordered freedom,
and subjects the guarantees of life, lib
erty and property without remedy, to
the fitful impulse of temporary ma
iority of an electorate.
Government by unanimous vote OF
the electorate is impossible, and there
fore the majority of the electorate
must rule. We find that government
by the people. is, therefore, under our
present system, government by ma
iolity % ore-fourth of those whose
rights and happiness are to be affected
by the course and conduct of the gov
ernmcnt. This is the nearest to a
government by the whole people we
have ever had. Women suffrage will
change this. and it is doubtless coming
as soon as the electorate can be GER
tain that most women desire it, and
will assume its burden and RESPONSE
bilty"
The President repeated his former
declarations that the judicial system
was not as perfect as it might be made
and called attention to his speeches
and messages to Congress, urging re-
form I'm procedure. He spoke OF de-
laws and the costs of litigation.
But these humdrum defects and
tboir tedious remedies" he declared
are not of the spectacular character
to call for political discussion or to at
tract effort from politicians in the
nassace of remedial legislation. The
formidahle attack upon our judiciary
,,ou, &c that the Judges do not RESPOND
snffcientIv to popular opinion. 1t is
,oid that courts are interposing their
ah.+rrctive mower to the enforcement
Of LEGISLATION looking to the rellel Oh
tho oppressed by declaring laws un-
constitutional and by so-called 1udicial
LEGISLATION in interpreting into statutes
words not intended by the legislature
.Inded | do not hesitate to say tnat
7 do not concur in the reasoning OF
.oortain courts of last resort as 10 tne
constitutional validity OF certain so
cial reform statutes, and l am very
smx,ous that the remedies proposed IN
the statutes should be given enec''e
operation" 80 oru.
# the impeachment were too Gun