Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-01-09
VALED|CTORY OF
SENATOR BAILEY
Picturesque Texas Statesman Will
Soon Resign His Seat
in Congress.
ATTACKS RADICAL PRESS
Declares Adoption of Initiative
and Referendum Would Over
throw Present System
of Government.

Washington, Jan. 2.--Senator JOS W.
Bailey of Texas. long one of the pic .
turesque figures and striking speakers of
the Uni,ed States Senate. delivered to-
day before crowded floor and galleries
ms inal speech as member of that
body Within n day or two his resigna-
tion Will be laid before the Senate and
communicated to Governor Coquitt of
Texas his expectation being that r. NJ.
Johnston Of Houston will be named to
I'LL out his term, which would end
March A.
senator Bailcy's speech was an attack
upon the principles Of the initiative and
referendum as institutions that would. If
adopted, bring about the overthrow OF
the present system Of American govern
IT MT. He declared they oririnatcd in the
d sire of politicians 20 IS APP" the re-
Sponsibilitl for action on such petty
questions as the location of state capitals
ana the settlement of prohibition fights.
As institutions of government, he de-
clared that the schemes for direct leg
is!ation by the people would convert the
nitcd States from Il republic into
democracy, and would give its control
into the hands Of the unsltilcd the idle
and the vicious"
An attack upon William r. Hearst In
the course of his speech, IN which he
characterized Mr. Hearst as a miserable
dog who had bounded him." brought
Senator Ashurst of Arizona to his feet
He attempted to answer this phase of Mr.
Lailev's attacl, unon radical rewsn,nnr.
and magazines. but was stonnea nv the
b Texas ecrator with tb,, ZIP tba, ho
could make that ro.,l,. outsido" Luton
Mr. Ashurst tool. tbo f,u,r f., hteo,vn rich,
and in tho course or his ler.,so of tho
system Of direct government. Maid q fri
! butte to Mr.. un..rst. rs = lov,l American
! citizen.
c,o,-r, ,,,,,, ,-,.,.t. ,,,-,.,,
me EaIeries were CROWDED ana many
/ PERSONS "alteo ii the corrldors 10y an
/ opportunity 10 near the IeXan iareWeI
""uiesS' senator p"lieS spoke ior TOUT
/ "o"r9' anu iecelNeu the cIoSeS' attention.
AS ne conc'u"eu wave oi applause swept
/ 'hr"uEn inc SaHerles'
i ,',',,' ",.so'' n'nousn euo'-
" his declaration that direct LEGISLATION
is not in accord with the principla of
American government. received only COM
rcndation from the Texan senator
.'If the man ", have elected president
Of the United states ,ivoo the country
a sane and satisfactory administration.
he declared. 'the Rcpublican party will
never nominate another candidate for the
! presidency.
"Why should YOU ne continued adj
vancing toward the ~opublican side of
the chamber. "vou didn't carry but two
States this Wear. and those two of the
smallest. The contest four years from
now will be between us and the Roose-
veltians. He CRoosevelp will take some
more. but thank God they will be the
kind ", can afford IN lose
our conflict is with Roosevelt. If our
president believes he can take the radical
vote away from Roosevelt he is mistaken.
The only man who can do that, and he
has not succeeded we'll is Eugene V.
Debs He is the only man who can out
Roosevelt in attracting the radical vote.
What the Democratic PARTY needs. is not
the radical but the democratic vote"
SAWS pr,prr .-O,, o,-,rrEIID
nNN - senator n','eS 'peo'' vas
ueNo'eu " eA'erPts ana quotations. from
'"e "'''''sS VI me men ""o O'7'"'Nou
anu 'n'''''''' '''cu t'e carry erl' u .ne
soNe' u''''"'' LII" ''o''' ''"
Genus VINO nan IN 'ater years u'scusseu
'he eicct OF dlrect lesls!auoh upon us
u,hat ho colt, ,,.,'', ,'',,.,l.,ian,,Io nroo,
that the United States began as a repre-
sentative government and not a dcmoc-
racy of direct legislation. From the lat
ter. among whom, was Governor Wilson.
he quoted to show that the opinion of
Students was that tho people were not
. well qualified In Iepislat,. as were sea
soned men selected by them. who framed
their lrpisla,ior 70. dliherativo asss M
bly,.
Senator Bailey produced a book of POS
pages which he said renrosented the -
questions submitted ~ the direct vote of
the people Of Oregon in one year.
Now. honor bright " he said "how
many citizens do you suppose there are
who studied those o,estionsq How many
understood them when they did study
them? | do not moan IN reflect on the