Show altal vhf r 1 I IC abc va C TINIS AN oration delivered by hon jahu JohnG G Culls lej speaker of the house of rep at a dinner given boston p D the ilie inet by the bay gluba ciuba noted new england democratic lifts been commented upon considerably by the press mr carlisle is a recognized leaders leader of his par ran able man and an acom shed parliamentarian his utterances a are noteworthy and nur speech at thi the sub hub was greeted with rith enthusiastic thusia pl audits we clip a portion of the report of his bis address from the boston herald because it sounds the keynote of the democratic scale and I 1 its vibrations should be heard throughout the land he said the principle of ocal self govern ro entla the vital part of democracy the amendment to the constitution declares decla reFf that the powers not delegated to the united states by the const ku aloo aioo nor prohibited by it to the state are reserved to states respectively or to the people no bowe can justly be claimed unless itis it Is granted agib X pi ess terms or by necessary implication it if so no such grant of power tin ban ran pan be lound and if its I 1 exercise by the state is not prohibited it belongs to tb the state eState and her people and thus the whole doctrine of states I 1 rights I 1 as defined in this article it does not sanction lod se secession dession but it instructs the leveral states and heir people as to of all legis legislative lati asao executive and iudici ai power not delegated to the united states stales by a fair abid led donable construction of ehte constitution ution by this constitutional dai clec anne F neo of state W rights the democratic darn crati party ar of stands today to day iq as it al alway a a stood and at as I 1 t trust rust 1 it applause will ill stand forever hereafter heie after loud 0 ud twity five years ago the tendency was to effay this doctrine to a da dangerous i n extreme but since that ti time ime the dangerous dan erous extreme has threatened from fam aul quite e an an opposite direction G great at and d p powerful interests too loo powerful almost tb be successfully resisted es isted are constantly pres pressing ging ga ast dst the barriers of the co constitution and demanding madding de the extension of he federal power to a degree contemplated by the most extreme federalist itt abb early days it is bluite ui e common commo a now DOW to td hear gentlemen able gentlemen in congress and elsewhere contending tor the exercise of power owera by government evet ever a subjects subject si simply because the tates states t refuse t to do db so or because bebau e it la tb thought bought t tha a the st ato legislation h t not be entirety effective the argument is tat hat whatever the states do or r com caja oot not do must be done oy by an congress gr or the departments or ot orthe the asene pal al government Covern ment fehd that antly of grants of power ower it 13 14 ro ehg right aad the duty cluty of a overa govern anen p exercise a a general coq and control over all th the e concerns ol of the people K mi president this is not democratic doctrine dop trine as I 1 understand it and it chever waa tremendous cheers it means centralization firsthand fir first stand aad in evitable dissolution afterward no martof the aion is fio 80 vitally inte ine sf ced in an the preservation ew and lib maintenance intact of this local authority as the new england states and in no part of the union have the beneficial results attending the maintenance of this doctrine ly been ii so thoroughly demonstrated demon sti abed your town meeting is the most democratic ara c institution in this country fC f cheers heers tt t has never endangered the liberties bf a single human being the town the state and the general government all have their appropriate powers and duties and so ion long as these are respected and maintained neither encroach encroaching ingon on the domain of the dhe other there will frill be harmony and unity ta in oui our complex system of government ern ment the ideas expressed in the foregoing are distinctly democratic they are entertained by the majority of the people eop pie of utah this is why the la large r ge majority of them are de democrats I 1 la political laith faith but in the light of recent history it would be difficult to maintain the truth of mr carlisles statement that the democratic party always has stood by that constitutional doctrine several measures which lead to the most pronounced centralization and which vest in the federal government powers that belong exclusively to the states or to the people have been fostered and furthered by democratic influence in and ou out of congress the blair educational 2 b bill the oleomargarine bill the interstate commerce bill are samples only ef measures that do vio violence lenco to the principles enunciated by mr carlisle and favored by the democratic party or at least a powerful portion of it the party can scarcely be viewed as a whole upon any important public question it is divided upon many topics on which it should be linit united edif if it preserved its traditional policy and its vital distinction from republicanism remains more as a chlory theory than a practical and living issue ane he passage by a democratic house of a measure prepared by a democratic leader proposed to vestin vest in the president and senate and in a governor of their appointment power to select levery office in a territory with a hundred and eighty thousand chousa nd people was mas scarcely an evidence of the democratic bartys adherence to the vital democratic principle of local self government the passage of the infamy by the house was the mos mosta pronounced heresy that demo crais be guilty or of it was so thoroughly opposed to abe ahe fundamental of american government that even the centralizing republicans Re pu bli could not stomach it and it had bad to be 0 rejected Wb whenever enever the democratic party in order to please the mob 0 or tp gain the ithe applause of I 1 katics tramples upon the very dis tive principle that distinguishes it froth from its great political opponent it makes a deadly thrust at its own existence and taps the fountain of its essential vitality the democratic party wept went back on its basic dogma when it bave gave assent f to the error of Ter Terri toria vassalage the doctrine of the supreme power ol of congress over the territories was as great a concession to centralization as it was possible to make etwas it was as undemocratic as it could bould be fo tor r it is a despotism of the rankest character and it is directly in opposition to the dog doctrine trine laid down by mr carlisle as the essence eubence of democracy oc racy that by congress no p power ower can be justly claimed unless it is granted in express espres term terms or by necessary implication the authority naw claimed to gov e ern rn the territories composed of citizens citie cide who are a part of the people eople p I 1 without any regard to their will or wishes to tax them without rep representation resen tallon to appoint officers to regulate abe affairs without their concentto consent to impose arbitrary conditions as to thi the elective franchise and to take it away st altogether og ether to interfere at will with th their I 1 purely domestic concerns and exercise sove an power over them in every sep sense pe I 1 0 01 the word cannot be found elther eitner by expression or implication in the great instrument of freedom which it to aishe the professed mis the democracy to uphold 7 that hat power is not given iven to congress it t has been assumed and when the democratic party recognized that power p it ft receded from I 1 its special g ground yle yielded ded up sp much to its political enemy e in a and d weakened its own cause ess essentially ti a V it gave an advantage ta e to t the f foe 0 e ow which 11 belf has been followed lo 10 e u up and effectually if it became beame necessary in iff the course af M events a and d the acquisition of territory t or I 1 for the federal government to e exercise powers pat expressly conferred f erre in id the constitution it should have av benthe been the aim and work of the democratic emock atle party to have prevented the exercise of monarchial monarch lal powers and pie preserved served the vital principle of local self government intact but to yield up the right of Au supreme preme power to congress ani to recognize its right ft legislation over any more than the limited space defined by the constitution was to depart from democratic essentials ana pave the way ay to tile the centralization I 1 that has followed the democratic party is gradually losing lustug its democracy it is difficult to draw the lines between it and its nominal opposite my many so called democrats are imbued with the heresies her esies of republicanism and many many republicans ar are tinctured with the flavor of democracy bocra mo cracy and add alto altogether eaber the clear e cut ut a and dd definite doctrines nes of the constitution ution are being left as a memory while expediency and popularity ity and selfish and grasping ends sway away the major portion of both political parties leading the country towards thattis that dissolution which mr carlisle declares the inevitable consequence of centralization iza tion we endorse the sentiments contained in the following lowing lol which we clip from an article in ia the boston herald and which we commend to the thoughtful notice of every democrat who reatis reads it unless the advice it is taken to be a true democrat in principle one will have to keep from connection with the democratic party if the democratic party believes in limiting the f extent and power of the the federal government by a strict construction 0 st of the constitution let it forthwith set the bonds beyond which central power shall not go let it instantly set itself to the work of lopping p vii g off and ana curtailing those extensions n s and usurpations of federal power which a qua of cf a century of abuse has occasions in this wa way as mr carlisle says its leaders can build up a party that will outlive all others but to tamely submit out of mistaken notions of expediency to stultification of principles is to prove itself unworthy ot triumph and therefore deserving of defeat |