Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1892-03-24

tney cOmPelleo tnlS supreme Noui
to reverse its own righteous ruling
to flount history and M. our public
law to public shame; never since
then have they cared enough to gel
;. fig leaves for their indecencies tc
pack that Court again. Gaughte'
and applause.) And while Sher-
mans silver law is draining off oul
gold to Europe in steady streams
and driving us headlong to an ex-
elusive silver basis, not one Repub-
lican lawyer, not one Republican
merchant or board of trade, or cham
I Der Of commerce in all the North
has raised against that law demand
that We repeal it for that constitu-
tional reason, and reviving less bad
law which it superseded.
THE ISSUE FOR NOVEMBER.
But that would be the first step
toward living up to the constitution,
and would keep in plain sight of the
people until next November, the
Republican crime, the peoples YER
dict and the peoples duty to unite
in its renewal. Propose to Repub-
lican to return to the constitution
Just where it's violation is most fresh.
most fragrant, and he will start with
genuine surprise. Yet inhibitions Of
criminal codes are not more sacred
than the inhibitions in the written
constitution of the government.
Restraint upon malefactors, like the
restraint upon Republican Congress
men, is for the purpose Of prevent
] ing evil. There is no certain penalty
for the violation of the constitution
as there is for each violation of the
criminal code, to be sure, but there
is no more reason why the people,
still living under an unchanged con-
stitution, should let tolerated viola
tions become the normal way of life,
than there is for making murder,
rape and theft canonical because
hitherto unprevented. 1t is idle to
expect help If m the Republican
partisans in our endeavor They find
it profitable to make laws s'to pro-
mote the general welfare" but for
their particular welfare.
That most stringent limitation
written upon the very premable OF
our constitution, they convert into a
blanket clause for cover for every
stretch of lawless license. Permit
ted to make laws in order to promote
the general welfare, which can mean
nothing else but what is for the well
Of all, they put into It malignity,
.ad breathe IN their own little ras-
atty permissions to promote any
."::, y that can bribe an
appropriation from the peoples taxes,
5r force his way in government part
aership with protected monopolies.
That is the way they promote the
| general welfare" They promote
sheir own welfare.
But we need no help from Repub-
lican partisans in the next November
election Is the good people of the
nited States will make alliance with
I one another and the Democratic
party, to place their verdict on the
wrongdoings OF the Republican Con-
gress and upon the Executive who
endorsed them all and made them
Iaw. (Applause.) That is the first
and greatest step in the pathway OF
our return to the old Democratic
faith and tradition. That is the way
TO begin living Up to our constitution:
in full obedience to its unqualified
supremacy, instead of taking pater-
nal guidance from the Republican
revolutionists over a crucified constl-
tuition.
We need no help from the Repub-
iican partisans. 1t is enough that
we all of us unite to hate these Re-
publican wrongdoings in order to
elect Congress and Executive that
will put stop to them. Repeal
their odious laws and restore the
country to its peace and prosperity
(Applause.)
WHAT DEFEAT WOULD MEAN.
We must never depair Of the
republic. But I can truly say, that
if these enemies of the republic who
now possess its powers shall escape
an overwhelming defeat next Novem-
Der by our divisions, or our failure to
unite and conquer, they will be able
with that reprieve so to buttress
about their stolen powers, so to
forty and entrench themselves, that
another generation wiser and more
self-sacrifcing than we, may have to
suffer and take up the noble effort
which has failed and dropped from
our unworthy hands. (Applause.)
But by Unity and concord in our
ranks now, we can surely triumph.
Unity viii endow with needful power
/ the great Democratic party, to-day
the sole efficient instrument cf re-
form. Unity will enable it to force
relief from unjust tariff taxes.
! Unity will enable it to call a halt to
the growth and spread of grinding
E.,a.a,,ol;as Unitu will enable II TO