The Hattiesburg news., 1913-11-05
WILLIAMS DEFENSE

SlQe the record anu compare ulIl Will
Huerta or to somebody else with whom
he was not in the slightest degree COM
parable. 1t would not become me to
undertake to say what Huerta has
done, because he is the de facto head
of another government at this time;
but you all know what this language
means There is no moral difference
between these things!
"Now let me come to the next
charge, that the President of the Uni
ted States violated the constitution of
the United States. The constitution
of the United States makes it the duty
of the President of the United States
from time to time to counsel with
Congress and to advise Congress, not
to advise with it-in public messages.
Every frequently men seem to come
to the conclusion that because the
constitution authorizes the President
to advise Congress in public messages,
therefore he has no right to advise
them in any other way. Men who say
that do not know the history Of their
country. No man advised Congress
more than did George Washington. He
sent for members of Congress and
talked to them. No man advised
more than did old Thomas Jefferson.
He used to ride his horse up here, and
hitch it under the construction shed
at the other end of where this Capitol
now stands, walk into the cloak-rooms
of the House of Representatives and
the Senate and talk chattily and pleas
antly to the members about measures
that were then pending. 1t was gen.
orally found afterwards that thus
reasoning together in brotherly love-
Congress had somehow come to enter
tain his opinions or he it's.
"The man we now have in the White
House is the best informed, the best
| equipped, the most highly educated
and the most cultured President we
have had in the White House since
Thomas jefferson went out of it, and
he resembles him somewhat. When
influencing members of Congress and
Senate, he does not do it with big
stick as did a recent President Of the
United States He does it tactfully,
automatically, suavely He appeals
to their reason; he appeals to their af'
fection for the party organization OF
which they are members-a laudable
feeling, laudably appealed to. He has
: exercised no influence upon any man
save by an appeal to his reason or tC
his party loyalty, to that sentiment
which makes a man true to the school
OF political thought to which he be
longs.
81 throw down the gauntlet here and
now, for | am getting tired of it.
say the President of the United States
has not used patronage to influence
, legislation, and I say no Senator has 6
right to make that statement from this
: minute on without furnishing some
, proof of it somewhere, or some 'evi
dence tending to prove it, deny it
I say 1t is a slander and a calumny.
81 have differed with him. l still
J differ with him about some matters
F, He has not used with me the coerciy'
power of reason. l suppose perhaps i
was because he thought | was a prett!
hard-headed individual and it would b,
useless to try it; but whatever thu
reason may be, that is the fact.
"The United States has never suf
fered political leadership. 1t has hat
too little of it rather than too much o
: it. Although upon the statute book
we have three separate, coordinate
and independent branches of govern
ment, yet no government in the worl,
could be carried on like wagon will
three mules pulling three differen
ways. The constitution and the Law
books may say forever that you ar
independent and coordinate but yol
have got to work interdependently no
Independently You have go to worl
harmoniously. If you do not, you will
arrive at no result.
How else can three branches of tn,
government work interdependentl.
and harmoniously except by having
each appeal to the reason of the other
So senators and congressman go t,
Z the White House and advise the Pres
| dent. 1t is no new thing. A part o
/. the duty of this august body is to ad
wise him as well as to consent to hi
, acts. Its members go there indiv'd
ually and they advise him: Mr.. Pres