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Show OLJ.) SATAN is UHKXm, Editor Washington County v Yes, tho yery lWu is j'."1 lose, and the rafters suii-! our political hierarchy art 'tT';t ling; but let us hope ih.M but for a short season! all accounts Franklin ll j. velt has stirred up a horn,,, j'' in tho rank and file of tT ieal muggards, and thev arV ing particular cain lest tw j, dent should steer the rooc! s,.,' state into foreigu seas a' dear old Democracy be d.iO.,. flinders npou the mercuW, of everlasting chaos. " 1 am seriously persu.id,j ever, that those political lia'.' uro frightened at a spei.,or their own contrivance, r ' they are laying down a d,, triade as a smoke screen to their own oligarchical rcsm,,, crumbling beneath the m.i-',. hand of the greatest hKn, friend tho people have ev,.r ' in a President. From a legal standpoint t, tt , is innocent until he is ,oim,. by regular court procecilnns . k . in this case Franklin n. velt is being tried ami nan., by his political enemies ,,., l'oro ho has enterlahul a )k,,, if nmmit.t.inp. Mil nffeni. ... ... deplorable fact in the who,. graceful proceedings is tint it;.. are fighting a frieiul, u L blinded by jealousy, ami j,;,.,, being the forerunner of h,,lrw, which knows no bounds, i0 venge presents a spectacle rath,' gloomy to contemplate. In defense of the Presidint. proposal to re-orgauizo tho s,. prcme Court, I would call voH attention to the words ot Cht: Justice Hughes; ho said, as 1 member it, "it is not what tht Constitution says, but it 1b ft; the Supreme Court ot the Un:w States says it says" implying tim the Supreme Court has taken m-on m-on itself the authority to tmerfit: the Constitution as best sails fr whims of the Court. But in the opinion of the t.v er Chief Hughes stopped six of the whole truth. What l should have said is this: "It i not what the Constitution sin neither is it what the Suprna Court says it says, but it Is tx BIG BUSINESS says for the Si-preme Si-preme Court to say it says'' If I were Boss I'd kick tte nine old men in the pants t: tell them to go hunt a job. TV; have been in there until fr! have come to believe they own a country, and they are not tt wrong. All this bellyaching s;-: "packing the court" "Dictatonl:;' "Defiling the Constitution1' i: "juggling our dear old IM racy" is political bunk pore ul simple. Better we banish all these jm dreams and take on a little Americanism for a change. Sylvester fetl |