Show STATE RIGHTS the autocratic reign of speaker undoubtedly had a great influence on the nation and waa a strong feature against the party at the polls this fal lyet the tendency ten dancy of the ee publican party to usurp a si control over the whole country by means of the lodge bill should it be come law has worked the greatest disaster the right of states to govern them selves hag never been upon to such an extent as during the present rule of the g 0 p and there are hundreds of who think that the question of right has been rather too lightly considered n the recent laws proposed and the decision of the supreme court con cured in by the republican publican Ke justices only in the original package case there is senator EDMUNDS of vermont than whom a more staunch republican lived he said recently before a bar association in montpelier it has been a hundred years since the national government was formed oat of states and by the states and for the first time in that yeara has risen a question as to the extent and of the functions that the have hitherto and without the preservation of which the union could not have been formed for not a single state would have eone into it we are told now that if the principle is carried out it is not possible for the state without alie consent of congress and how congress ever pot the power except in the several instances named in the constitution I 1 am unable to caa that a state cannot without the consent of congress regulate its own internal affairs I 1 do not believe that sort of doctrine is going io stand review in the courts the people of the states should have charge of the preservation of their own autonomy whether it relates to traffic in drugs ilyn amite or intoxicating whatever restraints and regulations each state chooses to exercise it is indispensable I 1 lor the cafets of the nation as it is for the safety of each state that each state regulate for itself ia relation to such matters each state must sovern itself and must have its own different policies and social institution saD each should have the inherent ftp it to take care of itself in respect to such regulations this ithe 0 of a great leader and talks boldly in that strain bo many there must aho vho fool thel bame aly the ff digression during this nono can tell safe it is to say u i this encroachment on tho right state to regulate it own cor n to govern it own elections t lato all the departments ahr to the state government wl meet with favor in the na tion tho late election B pr of te rights in this count |