The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-03
ooNsr1ruTIoNAL GoVERNMENT AGAIN.

dent of the United States.
| The people have SO willed it.
| Government by bureaucracy is nearing it's
| end
| For almost eight years the country has sui
fered from the oppression OF individuals placed
at the heads of administration bureaus OF the
| government at Washington, clothed with VIDE
discretionary power, and given control over.
| the disbursement of large lump sums OF pubic
money. The regulatory powers possessed oy
those officials have been exercised to such u
point that they have become practically the
legislators for the people, making and enforcing
regulations that amount to laws One mas put
to glance at the long list of bureaus into which
the executive departments are divided, as well
as the independent establishments responsible
directly to the president, to realize the extent
/ to which the executive authority has invaded
every part of the lives of the people of the
United States
March fourth, next, will see return of repre-
sentative government through the medium OF
the elected delegates of the people in the na )
ltional senate and house. The executive depart
Iment of the government will cooperate in the
reform, as there is no desire upon the part OF
Mr. Harding to perpetuate the white house
iautoeracy that exists. Congress, In har-
imonious accord with the president, will resume
Its function of law-making, and there will be
an end of the delegation of that function IL,
large measure to officials In the executive
branch of the government. Huge lump sums
heretofore turned over to official bureaus for
disbursement as they saw fit will give way to
specific appropriations for designated objects.
The departments and bureaus will become in
fact the executive agents of the people, charg.
ed with the duty of administering the laws Of
congress instead of inflicting their own dscre-
ton upon the people.
Aside from the unspeakable Wilson league
covenant, Wisconsin was the dominant is
sue in the campaign, and there was no particle
lof question as to how the people were divided
upon that The mass of them were thoroughly
sick and tired of the president, of the men he
has drawn around him, of his intense egotisn
and of his attempt to magnify his Office at the
Expense of other branches of government. Mr..
WILSON'S own best friends fell away from him.
Laudation of him ceased and his name was very
rarely mentioned save in comment on something
he formerly did or said. What other president
comes to mind who, before the election Of his
successor, had dropped so far out Of the popular
thought
AS for James Middleton Cox, the defeated
candidate. in less than four months this ener-
getic politician, previously almost unknown to
ninety-nire per cent. of Americans beyond a
radius of one hundred and fifty miles or SO from
Columbus, Ohio, projected upon and into the
public understanding such a picture OF his
moral and intellectual personality as many
wears of intimate acquaintance often fail to pro-
duce The achievement is without parallel IN
our political history The portrait is master
piece of industrious art. It is composite OF
superimposed aspects of character and mind,
laid and overlaid with sef-revelation. There
has never been such singer of mud IN the
person of candidate for president. Courtesy,
tolerance, dignity, self-restraint were words I'M
known to him after he took the stump HIS
whole demeanor in this respect was grotesque IN
the extreme if it did not denote a temperament
and a lack of scruples sinister in view OF the
Office and power to which he asplred by
hundred unconscious and unattended dlsclos-
ures during the few months Of his soliciting the
Office of highest dignity and greatest responsl.
bilitv. Governor Cox the candidate measured
for the information of the voters the extent OF
his personal unworthness to be elected. There
was not in any quarter Of unmortgaged OPINION
the least degree of confidence IN the htness OF
Cox. as q statesman, to exercise the junction Oh
president Of the United States OF America
He that stands upon slippery place
Mates nice OF no vile hold to stay him up
r. ,,;o,+ he we'll for the dignity and decency