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Blair, the second speaker for the affirmative, further developed the affirmative position and said that they stood for the enforcement of the excise law as one of the general body of laws and that Mayor Low's duty of enforcing this law was mandatory, unless he had received by statute some especial discretionary power with regard to it. He then quoted from a speech of Daniel Webster in 1832, showing that an executive officer has no more license to construe the laws which he is to enforce than a private citizen whose only duty is to obey them, and further...
Anthony was the third speaker for the affirmative. He first established the fact that the strict enforcement of the excise law can do much to aid the respect for and observance of all laws, and in doing so established the fact that Mayor Low has sufficient power to enforce the excise law and that Mr. Roosevelt, when police commissioner, succeeded in accomplishing a more difficult task and proved this statement by quotations from Mr. Roosevelt himself, Mr. Riis and by citing the resolution passed by the Liquor Dealers' Association at that time. He then cited some of the beneficial results...
After referring briefly to the arguments of the last speaker, Clark closed the constructive case for the negative by defending the policy of judicial enforcement on practical, moral and theoretical grounds. An attempt to enforce this law would be certain to result in the return of Tammany to power at the end of next year. The reason for this is evident when we consider that unless there is a union of all anti-Tammany forces, Tammany is sure to elect its ticket--even last fall a few thousand votes turned the other way would have changed the result. Besides...
...years old. He prepared for college at the Lawrenceville School. He is a member of the Cliosophic Society and in Hall won the freshman prize debate, the freshman declamation contest and also received second prize in the sophomore-freshman extemporaneous speaking contest. He was the successful speaker in the interclass oratorical contest in his sophomore year and this year was alternate on the team which defeated Yale. During the past year he was editor-in-chief of The Daily Princetonian...
...order named. The main speeches will be twelve minutes in length; the rebuttal five. The judges will be: Chief Justice E. E. Baldwin, of the Connecticut Supreme Court; Professor Patten, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Chief Justice J. H. Stiness, of Rhode Island. Hon. J. J. Myers '69, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, will preside...