Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-10-11

nSned; the Fignts ana powers of the states
danger OF assault from any quarter; the
General government is absolutely secure The
mastering and omnipotent, is the deadly
enemy now menactng the Institutions Of our
of the Old war between Hamilton and .Ie sffI
son. IT is even more than that; for then
Federalism struggled only to organize the
throw what was established and to substi
tute what was rejected.
1 am amazed. Mr.; Chairman, to find SO
many Democrats undecided as to where duty
and allegiance call them. My heart burns
with indignation when 1 behold the con-
tempt with which the time honored prfnci-
despise the subterfuges under which as
saults upon them are justified. This is day
triumph and its immortal principles domi-
nant throughout the land but instead, we
are a5oat mon post to pillar With
ing with each other about our party policies
and the very dogmas Of our faith. We need
less obsequious tim1dity; loftier devotion
to principle, and less of fawn1ng adulatfon;
more old fashioned Jeffersoniane Jacksonian
Gratis are familiar, and less of that more
modern and spurious article, which few
repudiate. 1t is time to call halt and take
our bearings. We should renew our hold on
the faith OF the fathers. Democrats at least
and what the Democratic party really stands
for Let US see. In 1900 Thomas Jefferson
the founder Of the Democratic party, was
nominated and elected to the presidency
upon platform containing these declara-
tions:
Preservation to the States of the powers
not yielded by them to the Union and
resistance to existing movements for trans
ferring the powers of the States to the Gen
Reliance for internal defense solely upon
the militia, till actual INVASION
In 1910 the Democratic National convention
adopted this resolution:
"Resolved, That the Federal government
from the Constitution; and the grants Of
power shown therein ought to be strictly
construed by all the departments and agents
of the government, and that Il is inerpedienf
and dangerous to exercise doubtful constitutions al
pOlcers.
substantial terms, by every national CON
vention OF our party from 1910 to 1892. In
1892. after reaf1irming allegiance to the
J G and exempiif1ed by long and
illustrious line of his successors in Democrat
1c leadership" the Chicago convention made
awe believe the public welfare demands
that these (Jeffersontan) principles be ap-
ment through the accession to power of the
party that advocates them; and we Solemnly
declare that the need Of a return to these
eminent, based on home rule and individual
liberty, was never more urgent than now,
when the tendency to centraliZe all power
at the Federal capitol has become menace
to the reserved rights of the states, that
strikes at the very roots or our government 1 eIn
fathers of the Republic
Upon that platform Grover Cleveland was
this great principle of local sovereignty and
self government the Democratic party is
absolutely pledged, and hitherto in loyal
devotion to 1t there has been mo varia BILE
ness, neither shadow of turning Never
has a Democratic National convention
spoken upon the question without reamrm-
ing IFS ALLEGIANCE TO the principle.
If platforms are without meaning, If they
are nothing more than campaign receptions,
Democrat asserts, "to catch votes and
promote success at the polls, rather than to
poses,'' then the platform declarations of
the party which have quoted are without
substantial significance. But if party plat
plane than that; If they are in fact what
they pretend to be-, and ought to be, the
nartY nurpose then as to this great a1es
ton of local sovereignty, whatever any Of
fetal may do or individual say, there can be
Democratic party itself. And if the great
fundamental principles of the Democratic
ton ha Of our institutions or important to the
cause of human liberty, they are Just as
much SO today as they We're ere, when I THOMAS as
Andrew Jackson lifted his iron hand to de-
fend them.
Mr. Chairman, at this point will conclude
l think the application of them can be safely
left to the sober second thoug ht of the PEG.
any discussion in detail of the somewhat
exaSperating incidents out OF which all
rious apprehension now is that, yielding to
influential pressure in period OF great ex-
element, some bad precedents have been
established, which may return to plague us
at some future day. Those who would jus
tify or eXtenuate an arbitrary exercise OF
doubtful constitutional powers, because at
hot limo az cQ6 n q
should remember that 1t Is during periods OF
unusual public excitement and commotion
that dangerous precedentS are most easily
established. They should not forget that
bad precedent established today may return
to plague US on the morrow; indeed tha at
far more dreaded than its present erect
once permit the unlawful or improper inter-
ference of the Federal authority In the po-
lice or local affairs of the states, and the
precedent thus established Will be appealed
to as a warrant for future fnterferences In
other respects; and every new precedent, IT
should be remembered, weakens the power OF
the Individual states to resist future en-
is one of the powers which was not granted
to the General government, but was reserved
to 5ae of the
the United states, from one OF which
quote the following:
can those powers which relate to the In
ternal police of state are not surrendered
or restrained by the Constitution of the
United states, and the authority or the s!ate
The term ''Polfce Power is very compre,
hensive. In general way it embraces all
those powers necessary to a sovereignty In
protecting the personal and property rights
of the citizen, and in the preservation OF
public order. 1t means great deal, but
means nothing more certainly than the pres
ervation of the public peace, the suppress
sion of mobs, and the prevention of domes-
tic violence in every form.
The Supreme Court declares that 1.-The au,
thority of the State over these is unqualified
and exclusive The Federal government
has no right to Interfere in these affairs. ex-
cept in pursuance of the Constitution OF the
United States. That instrument authorizes
the General government to protect state
against domestic violence only when
called upon by the legislative or executive
authority thereof. Here is the exact Ian
guage of the Constitution:
1.-The United States shall protect each
(State) against invasion, and, on applica-
ton of the Legislature of the Executive
(when the Legislature cannot be convened),
against domestic Violence
/ protest against the right assumed by