Show MAY MEAN MONARCHY BEFORE MANY YEARS Strong Speech of William A Hotch Hotchkiss Hotchkiss Hotchkiss kiss on Corruption in High Places Utica N Y April 12 The present distrust of popular representation in legislative bodies means sooner or later latera I Ia a practical despotism declared Wil WI William William liam A Hotchkiss state superintendent of insurance in a speech at the annual banquet of ot the Oneida County Republican can league here today Through what a period we have been passing passins said Mr Hotchkiss Un Until Until Until til recent years considerations on on the side seem to have been smiled at by bythe bythe bythe the cynical the boasts of ot some of ot these men in the back room talks led toward several disclosures in the inquiry now closing What That an atmosphere was that of the capital city where graft has been beena a subject for joking and the distributors distributors distributors of ot It honored in song Each de do decade decade cade of late lies has seen the executive grow stronger the legislative weaker each decade the people have became more satisfied to trust a man not merely to execute but even oven at times to tomake tomake tomake make the laws The current just now Is stronger than ever before Impressed by the corrupt practices of the few the plain people are begin beginning beginning beginning ning to doubt the reliability of the leg legislative legIslative branch Stories from Mississippi Mississippi sippi vie in lurid vigor with those from Pittsburg tales talas of New Jersey of late cast in the shadow the daily dally tales about New York The present distrust of popular representation In city coun councils din cUs In n state ie ye y ln tp the federal congress menus sooner or later a practical despotism Rl a chieftain chieftainship chieftainship ship which while still elective has in it all of cf the dangers against which our fathers fought God forbid that the foundations of representative government should thus be weakened And so I take it our governor was looking far Into the future when he asked a thorough and unsparing In Investigation Investigation into legislative processes and procedure |