Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-31
THURsDAY....,ocToBER 81, 1915
WHITTIER Is THE PARTY
OF JEFFERSON DRIETINGo

WHITTIER Is THE PARTY
OF JEFFERSON DRIFTING
Thomas Jefferson, founder OF III
democratic party, studied the pas
with care and saw far into the future
With his written convictions Defor
us it is interesting to speculat,
whether jefferson f alive today
would now be supporting the candi
dates OF the party which he founded
whether he would admit that the dem
ocratic party of today is, in truth. tn,
party that he founded; ana whether
jefferson would view with approval
the spectacle of democratic presi.
dent OF the United states appealing to
the nation for the return Of partisR h
and subseryient congress; not for the
unfolding OF the hands OF n com
mander-in-chief in war, but for the
continuance in the hands OF the presi.
dent of practically absolute power in
determining the treaty relations Of our
nation, and in debating the policies
ef'peace. -... n
jefferson said:
I said to the president (Wash-
inston) that IL the equilibrium of
The three great bodies, legislative,
executive and judiciary, could be
preserved, if the legislative could
Le kept Independent, / should
never fear that the executive had
swallowed up the legislative
DESTROYED THE LIBERTY
AND THE RIGHTS OF MAN IN
EVERY GOVERNMENT WHICH
HAS EXISTED UNDER THE
SUN? THE GENERALIzTNG
AND CONCENTRATING ALL
CARES AND POWERS INTO
ONE BODY, NO MATTER
WHETHER OF THE AUTO
Gratis OF RUSSIA OR FRANCE
OR OF THE ARISToCRATS OF
THE VENETIAN SENATE"
And the democratic national plat
fern of 1912 when that party was at
least in its forms of appeal, still the
party of Thomas Jefferson said
We believe in the preservation
and maintenance in their full |
strength and integrity of the three
coordinate branches OF the federal
severnment--the executive, the
legislative and til. judicial--each
Keeping within its own bounds and
not encroaching upon the just
powers of either of the others
Senator Fall, in his address to the
convention which nominated him,
said:
81 have heard it asked and have
had the question asked me, what
is the difference between the two
great parties today, aside from
the protection issue? why, my
fellow citizens, 1t is the VERY
FOUNDATION STONE OF THE
GOVERNMENT. OF THE
UNITED STATES. Our fore
fathers formed written consti-
tuition providing that it should
be the supreme law of the land,
and they said that they formed
this constitution, following the
Massachusetts Bill of Rights, TO
THE END THAT THIS GOV
ERNMENT OF OURS SHOULD
RE. A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS
AND NOT A GOVERNMENT OF
MEN. And up to within o. few
years. no man OF either party has
dared to assert that this govern
nent Of ours was formed upon
any other theory, or was founded
upon any other principle. But re-
Gently new light in the political
armament arose, and in the year
1908 the president OF Princeton
college, Woodrow Wilson, wrote
'"rhe Constitutional Government
of the United States" and sent II
out TO the people, ana in this
book, for the first time. was an
nounced the. theory that George
washington who presided over
eur great constitutional conven-
ton, that Alexander Hamilton,
Madison, jefferson, who upon his
return from France labored for
the adoption of the constitution,
THAT THE GREAT FATHERS
OF THIS COUNTRY WERE I
MISTAKEN IN THE CHARACT- {
Eff OF THE GOVERNMENT 9
WHICH THEY FORMED: that a
they thought they were adopting a
Nswtonian theory of govern s
ment, when, az matter Of fact, |,
they had adopted Darwinian 4
theory OF EVOLUTION, AND THAT Il
TETS WAS A GOVERNMENT OF (,