The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-26
DESCENDANTS OF FIRST
SETTLERS TOLD TREND
IS TOWARD RADICALISM
Francis Scott Key-Smith Says
Liberty and Constitution En-
dangered by Continuation of
Bryan's ''NeW Deal"

berS of the Society OF MarynoWer
Descendants were told by Francis
S. Key-Smith, a great-grandson of the
Marylander who wrote "The Star
Spangled Banner, that the November
8 election had left the country "some-
where between the old established
order and what is now called New
Deal"
Speaking at the society's annual din
ner, Mr.. Key-Smith, Washington at
torney, asserted the constitutional
form of government and the liberty
which it insured for American citizens
are endangered by a radical move
ment which began with William Jen-
nings Bryan forty years ago and was
considerably advanced by Theodore
Roosevelt.
Between Two Forces
GAS a people and a nation, he said,
1--WE are between two conflicting and
contending forces: constitutional gov
eminent, guaranteeing individual lib
erty and protection to private proper
ty, the long established and accepted
principles for social security and econ
omy, and some communistic, human
itarian, hysterical and abortive the
DRY of each for the whole and the whole
for itself as the sine qua non for all of
life's hardships and inequalities"
Supporting his contention that the
New Deal actually began with Bryan
in 1896, Mr.. Key-Smith said:
"In that year the Democrats nomi-
mated William Jennings Bryan against
William Mckinley, the Republican
nominee for the Presidency. Bryan
advocated and sponsored free and I'M
limited coinage of silver at legis-
lative established ratio with gold of
16 to 1 and thereby sponsored fiat
money. He also urged the popular
election of Senators, Government
ownership of railroads and ali public
utilities.
"He failed of election and under
Mckinley as President the country
prospered. Both capital and labor were
cared for, as both are entitled to be,
and the rank and file of the great mass
Of the American people freed Of class
warfare.
"Speak of the forgotten man." he
continued. "Who are more forgotten
today than these middle class Ameri-
cans who, while unorganized, bear the
brunt of the warfare now waged by
labor with the support of the Govern
ment against capital and called New
Deal?"
Turning then to Theodore Roosevelt,
Mr.. Key-Smith said:
"In place of McKinley's wise and
conciliatory policies reconciling the diff
ference between capital and labor,
Roosevelt Immediately started upon a
disquieting trust-busting and strike
settling policy all his own. For eight
years the industrial world was thrown
into upheaval and beset with difficult
ties; difficulties for capital, difficulties
for labor and for the whole American
people, retarding progress from which
the country has never recovered.
Radical Changes Made
"The results of this new policy Of
political thought were radical changes
in our organic fundamental constitu-
tional policy, through repeal by amend
ment of those wise provisions of the
original Constitution designed and
planned to prevent the destruction Of
the Government created by it. 49,.
"Under two amendments, the Six
teenth and Seventeenth providing
for levying Federal income taxes and
the direct election of Senators), spon-
sored and effected by radical thought,
it is now possible to secure legislation
by radical popularly-chosen Con-
gress, taxing capital and private prop
erty out of existence and centering all
power in the Executive, contrary to
the entire policy and purpose of the
founders and the Constitution they
framed and adopted.
Liberty Soon Destroyed
"This destruction of constitutional
policy is now being attempted in the
name of constitutional government to
the destruction of the liberty of the
American people.
"Let US make no mistake, the coun-
try has not outgrown it's constitutional
government but is grooming under the
vain struggle to exist half constitu-
tional and half radical"
Mr.. Key-Smith urged that all "fur-
Their entertainments upon American
liberty be opposed, and that efforts be
made ito stem the well meant but
misdirected vox populi which in it's
ignorance would destroy for pleasure
true liberty, extending it to indeter-
inmate license in whirlwind desire
to better the best"
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