The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-06
NEXT VICE PRESIDENT
GRANDSON OF VIRGINIA

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In his first term OF office Marshall
was handicapped by the fact that
| the upper house In Indiana was Re-
| publican. He made himself so popu-
| lar with the people of the State. how
ever, that they gave him.. In 1910.
solid Democratic legislature. II was
then that he took a stand against
| Tom Taggart. Democratic boss of the
| State. on the question OF choosing
! United States senator. and won out.
His candidate, John w. Kern, who
! had been Bryan's running mate in
| 1908, was endorsed by the Democratic
State convention and later elected
senator from Indiana.
Some Of the more important pieces
| OF legislation enacted during his sec
| ond term were;
Ratification Of the income tax
! amendment through the federal con-
stifution, q resolution for the pop
ular election OF United States sena-
tors. a corrupt practice and campaign
| contribution publicity statute, an en-
ployers liability law on liberal lines.
aboIishing workmen's waiver and the
feilow-servant rule, bill authorizing
! railroad commissions to fix rates, child
/ labor laws, cold storage limitations,
Standardization OF weights and meas
ures, sanitary inspection OF school
houses. Industrial inspection for safe
| ty Of factories. mines and railroads,
a law making block signals obiiga-
tory on all steam and electric rail-
ways, and a bill for making uniform
the accounting of all public Offices in
TIE State.
Mentioned for President
As early as June. 1911. there was
talk Of naming the Hoosier State gov
ernor for president on the Democratic
national ticket While the movement
never assumed the proportions OF q
4 nation vide boom. II gathered great
strength In Marshall's own State. and
! thirty Indiana delegates went to Bal
tlmore instructed for him as the first
| and only choice" FOR the presidential
! nomination.
| In the course Of many speeches
Marshall has made clear his attitude
On most of the great auestions of the
day The general progressive views.
however do not carry him to the point
~ favoring the recall OF judges or
judicial decisions. Speaking before
the convention which endorsed him
| for president last March, he said:
Lincoln held II to be the inaiiena-
bic right OF an unsuccessful litigant
to go down to the tavern and cuss
the court. 1t is the theory of Roose-
Welt that Ii is the right OF the unsuc-
cessfui litigant TO 60 down TO the tav-
ern and overrule the court. Bitter
ness Of spirit and indignation at what
deem 10 be judicial injustice seize
me. Even now / am chating under
what j conceive TO be the unwarranted
interference of courts with my pre-
negatives But my sober judgment.
looking TO the permanent good OF the
people. compels me to insist that the
courts must remain free and untram-
naeied that we must first seek relief
through the remedy we now have and
patiently abide the reversal of judicial
injustice. Until the provisions OF our
present constitution with reference to
officials are tried. and until graver
evils arise than have thus far arisen.
there is but slight semand for the
initiative, referendum and recall"
Fer Representative Government,
More recently. at Fort Wayne. In a
speech before the Indiana Editorial as
soeiation. on How May Constitutional
Government Endure?'' he stated his
position with great clearness on the
general proposition OF representative
government.
Notwithstanding our boast. our
government IL not OF and by and for
the people, said he. Yet ! make bold
to say that il Is still a representative
democracy. Public speakers and the
public press have been giving voice
fer twenty years to the fact thai this
Is not peoples government with laws
TO preserve the equality OF mankind.
and to give each citizen his oppor-
tunity for honest success. 1t has been
heralded and shouted that the bosses
are In control from ocean to ocean:
that their machines have taken over
the politics and legislation of this
country; that the bosses and their
machines have. prevented the people
from crystalizing our great ideals into
enforceable laws
ITO be sure. we have had bosses,
and we have had machine politics in
America. We have mad legislation
which. by ennrtment ami construction,
has not tended to promote the ideal
OF equality and the opportunity for
honest success. But 1t Is equally true
that the people. II they could only get
"a chance to express themselves, would
declare in unmistakable terms their
belief that this system was vicious;
that they would smash the machines,
Danish the bosses. and select officials
who would always stand four-square
with the theories Of the fathers
One OF the acts that brought Gov
ernor Marshall into the public eye
was his honoring of California's requi-
sition for John j. Mcnamara. At
the moment, there was a deal Of hon.
est doubt Of .McNamara's guilt, and II
required no small degree Of courage
to surrender the man into the hands