The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1913-01-24
BAILEYs GREAT ARGUMENT


ley's farewell address to the senate
and people of the United States" and
while many of them have abused, ira
duced and vilified him, some going so
far as to hit below the belt, and some
even resorting to sand-bagging, yet
not one, neither Bryan with his elo-
quence, nor Watson with his logic,
nor any of their lesser satellites have
attempted to answer him in kind.
The senator's logic and his facts
seem unassailable, and, # assailable.
appear impregnable.
They are unassailable and impreg-
nable because they are like the house
built upon a rock.
He dug deep, and laid the founda-
ton on rock, and the rains descend
ed in the sense of vilification, and the
winds blew in torrents in the shape of
abuse, and beat upon the house this
stalwart man erected, and it fell not,
for it rested upon a sure and safe
foundation.
Mr.. Bailey quotes from the found
ers of the government: he quotes
from the trainers of the constitution;
he quotes from the expounders of that
instrument, those occupying places in
the congress of the United States; the
decisions OF our judicial tribunals,
from Marshall on down; he quotes
from Story and Cooley, our great law
commentators; he quotes from the
next occupant of the White House.
Putting himself behind barricade of
such men as Thomas Jefferson, James
Madison. Charles Pinckney, Alexan-
der Hamilton, Fisher Ames, Oliver
Ellsworth, James Wilson of PenByl-
vania, Richard Law, Oliver Wolcott,
James Monroe, John Marshall Ed
ward Pendleton. Patrick Henry, Geo.
Mason, Zachariah Johnson, Amos
Marks, Thomas Paine in his Rights
of Man." Daniel and Noah Webster,
jeremiah Black, Justice Story Judge
Cooley. Chief Justice Fuller, Woodrow
Wilson, he feels that he is secure inI
the temple that he has erected, and
that the little arrows of hatred, NAL
ice and envy will fall hurtless at his
feet, and which he grinds into pow
der.
Senator Bailey debated the form
and structure of our government in
comparison with all the other govern
ments of the world. He said that we
must decide between a direct and a
representative government-thatt their
co-existence is a matter of impossi-
bility.
He was there with the goods to
show thta no direct government had
ever existed for any length of time.
and quoted from the formidable array
of names mentioned to prove that in
their opinion no such government
could long exist
His array of material from the
great students, statesmen, jurists and
patriots is clear lucid, massive and
impregnable.
Widely differing upon other lines,
the same as Hamilton differed from
Jefferson upon certain theories of gov
eminent, upon this one thing they
u,ara IN borro0pi O,,c n oraau,aD+ tho
same as were all the founders of the
government, the trainers of the con-
stitution and all the great commenta-
tors upon it from Ellsworth and Mar
shall, and Webster, and Story, and
Cooley, and Fuller, down to and in
Guiding Woodrow Wilson.
The senator invites our attention
to the following extract from a work
Of the president-elect:
A government must have organs: it
cannot act inorganically-by masses.
1t must have a law-making body; it
can no more make law through it's
voters than it can make law through
its newspapers.
Quoting from their writings on gov
eminent Of those mentioned above,
Senator Bailey says of this extract
from Woodrow Wilson:
This is much stronger than Web
ster, it is much stronger than Leiber,
lit is much stronger than Mill, because
lit practically declares. in effect, that
la government in which the people
legislate directly is impossible.
But Mr. President, | am fortified
in my contention by the opinion of
one wiser than Webster or Leiber or
Mill or Wilson. With a scholarship
as ripe as theirs and as thoroughly
conyersant with all governmental sys-
TENS as they were, he possessed the
further advantage of having borne a
conspicuous part in making history
rather than writing it,
Then he quotes from the great JEFF
ferson
A government is republican in pro-
portion as every member CONFUSING