Show radicals and Con conservatives v es serve as necessary check upon each other by FORMER SENATOR CHAUNCEY M DEPEW of new awk J in free governments there must be parties the nearer they are in in numbers the better the government the membership of a 0 party is if partly temperamental and partly psychological there will always bo be what el MN president wil wilson s on calls forward men they mccomi much that is needed but are not always safe their propositions are radical especially in economical industrial and social legislation there are other men who are satisfied with the existing order they are comfortable and do not want to be disturbed they are the brakes on the motor when the radicals hayo hava gone too far there are enough of the conservatives among them to use more boref caution and put the opposition in power thus the country never goes headlong over the precipice or dies of dry rot 0 a the raudy study of the origin of parties in our dur own country and the binem upon which they have generally divided is most fascinating it goeb goe down dowil very roots of our existence and tha very foundations of our government it illustrates again the continuing power of masterful creative genius and the grip of a dead hand that cannot be loosened alexander x hamilton was one of those original geniuses who def defy y analysis As a boy he mastered the principles of government and elucidated them with such clarity as to capture the minds and the imaginations of the statesmen of the revolution devolution thomas jefferson had rare gifts and acquirements acquire ments and a wonderful and intuitive understanding of popular im impulses p ulses hamilton believed in a strong central government and checks upon hasty popular action jefferson had been in close contact with the french revolution devolution and wanted power and authority in the state rather than in the dentral government and the fewest possible restrictions upon the immediate action of the popular will in the framing of our constitution is seen the results of tho the influence and teaching of these two antagonists hain harmonized ionized into general principles by the overwhelming power of george washington washington was not a genius unless common sense belong to that category and he had more common sense than any man of ilia his period in this arany or any other country |