The Hattiesburg news., 1913-11-05
would be ill-advised to take up and

$50, on the other hand, the Presl-
dent, when he meets them, with equal
talks to them. About what?
About that which is their business
and his business, and, back of them
both, the business of the people of the
United States. whose agents and in
strumentalities both of them are.
81 have stood upon this floor and
defended President Taft against this
identical charge, when a senator sit
ting on this side of the chamber made |
the charge that the President of the |
United States had no right to talk to |
senators and congressman or to ex-
press opinions about public affairs, ex
cept through a written message or |
through publicly spoken message.
contended then that the President of |
the United States did not cease to be
a citizen of the United States because
he had become a President; that upon |
the contrary it was doubly, tenfold his |
duty to express his opinion upon public |
matters after he became a President |
and to use every right influence to
make the right policy, as he saw it,
prevail in our counsels.
1--WE have not suffered, l say, from
leadership. We have suffered from
'bossism.' But what is bossism? 1t is
the irresponsible, unofficial unelected,
unsolicited leadership. 1t is subter-
ranean leadership. 1t is private lead
ership. 1t is the invisible empire. 1t
is leadership through instrumentalities
not Rnown to the constitution or the
laws.
"You will never suffer from too
much official, elected, responsible,
public leadership, unless the man who
tries to lead has not the qualities of
leadership, and then he will not have
any followers. No man can lead the
Senate except by appealing to it's
reason or it's sentiments. No man
can lead the House in any other way
There has not been the slightest at
tempt by this President to lead them
in any other way.
"I remember when the present oc-
cupant of the chair" (Senator Thorn
ton was President pro tem) "and
had some views which the President
of the United States did not share and
which, later on, the Senate and House
did not share. An appeal was made
to me, not by the President, but by
my own idea of what was right in free
government, to surrender my own
views to the views of the majority of
the school of political thought to which
belonged. That appeal, made by my
self, l obeyed. Would it have been
any worse if the President had made
that appeal to me instead of my max
ing it to myself? Not particle. Was
| overcome when l cast vote that
did not want to cast? Why, you might
just as we'll say, when a man took a
notion to go down the street and buy
! cigar and then began to argue with
, himself about it, and said: l have
smoked half dozen this morning; an
other one will make me nervous;
had better let it alone; and he did let
it alone, that he had been overcome.
You might just as we'll say, if he did
not make the argument to himself but
the Senator from South Carolina, Mr..
Tillman made it to him, that the Sena-
tor from South Carolina had 'coerced
and overcome him-had brought some
brutal outside force to bear upon him
81 throw the gauntlet down right
here and will pick up any other mans
gauntlet any day. I say that the en-
tire American people may hear it, in
so far as they care to hear my voice
at all, it is not true that the President
of the United States has used or at
tempted to use the patronage power
of this government to further any po
litical end go further and | say II
there is any quarrel to be picked with
him upon that subject it is that he has
appointed too many men who are MOI
Democrats to office; that he has beer
too little controlled by party considera
tions. | believe in team work and
believe the President ought to believe
in it too. l believe in interdependen
working and l think he ought to be
lieve in it too. If there is any criti
cism to be made of him at all it is tha
he has not worked interdependently
quite as much as he ought to have
done. .-...
Il do not know of any President ex