| Show I L V Pre Prevail V L ng Opinions ion 5 I Comment o t of f the American Press pes V Republican Decision at Springfield Republicans have the opportunity opportunity opportunity which is a duty to save the institutions of representative democracy in the United States Not since meetings of Republicans cans in the middle of the last century were held at Ripon Wis Bloomington Ill Jackson Mich and elsewhere in the middle west t thas has the political future of the countr country been so clouded The early Republicans prepared the way for the salvation of the American union of states No one else could do it and if iC they had hadnot hadnot hadnot not dedicated themselves to the cause it would not have been done Not since the perilous days of the and has there arisen until now a question upon the answer to which depends the continuance continuance con con- of the United States as its citizens have known it Although Although Although Al Al- though many mens men's minds arc are troubled there is no agency other than the Republican party now to be found which can guarantee a political program preserving American government within the confines of American law Not only has the Democratic party been lost ost ir in the thc swift current current current cur cur- rent of at revolutionary events but congress also has been swept away It might have been a check against executive encroachment but it neither challenges nor stops It has virtually lost its constitutional constitutional by surrender er There is no shadow of guaranty that a bill will be thrown out of at either house for Unconstitutional unconstitutional unconstitutional provisions So far as congress congress congress con con- gress is concerned acts will vill be passed no matter what effect they would have on the liberties of the American people If It the Republican party had been infected with the disease of subversive ideas there would be nothing to which the American people could turn to preserve themselves from the grasp of government government- The American people have had a proper dread of an all comprehensive all nIl powerful centralized government seeking to function in regulation of every form of human activity Representative Representative democracy under fixed protections has been the defense against the danger of government overreaching its proper duties and becoming too vast and to too powerful powerful powerful pow pow- erful to be endured The trend of such government is able when it once has been re released released released re- re leased to expand and develop It it- it self Several great civilized nations nations nations na na- na- na now give warning of what happens rho Tho citizens under them are arc utterly prostrate although in every other respect than political management they represent the flower of human achievement and culture That did not save them Americans who look at the fu future future future fu- fu ture with dread look also to the deliberations at Springfield to give them the thc hope that they can fight and win retaining thereby what has made their nation great and given them the security of free people whose liberties cannot cannot cannot can can- not be successfully assailed Chi assailed Chi Chicago cago Tribune Waley Pupil of Parlor Penologists Two factors stand out brilliantly brilliantly bril bril- in capture of oC tho the kidnapers kidnap kidnap- ers of year old George Ceorge Weyer Veyer haeuser r. r One the electrifying speed and dispatch with which the federal agents moved The other the fact that Harmon Waley Valey chief of the kidnapers would have been in jail unable to stage the had the process process process pro pro- cess of criminal justice operated with any degree of common sense or sanit sanity But the record of Harmon Valey WaIcy Waley Wa- Wa ley Icy is a challenge to the parole system which must command the tho attention of every thinking citi citi- zen What an astound astounding ins record What That a ghastly reflection on our cumbersome system of criminal justice which l leaves aves states largely helpless to track down parole violators violators vio yb- who flit from one state to another mother At a time when pardon boards In New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania and other states tes have been notorious for setting killers loose faster taster than police can gather them InThe in inThe inThe In- In The record of Harmon Waley Valey calls for federal action for some federal agency which can be organized to keep track of at crimInals criminals criminals crim crim- and parole violators who seek seele sanctuary by jumping state lines Too the parole system must be sharply curtailed Excellent In theory It has been subjected to wholesale abuse There Thero is is' is no imaginable reason why a man with a record like lilee that of Waley Valey should have been granted parole There is no better timo time than right now to realize that the federa federal federal fed fed- era eral government which has been so successful in rounding up kidnapers kidnapers kidnapers kid kid- must tal take e a hand in preventing preventing pre pre- ventin venting these crimes by patching up the great gaps in the net of state justice Justice even even though the supreme court may find that also an invasion of states' states rights When we know that most of the major crimes today are committed committed com corn by habitual criminals criminals we we only invite more such crimes by tailing falling to keep those criminals in jail instead of extending them mercy because sentimental parlor parlor par par- lor br penologists want us to do so Philadelphia Record I |
