The Coconino weekly sun., 1896-08-27
SENATOR DAVIS VIEW. The Democratic Platform Strikes at the Governments
 Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLISM.
Condition of Affairs Worse than War Would Result from Dem-
 ocratic Success.

In q speech delivered at St. Paul Au- very clearly the fact that free silver is mot himetallism and showed what evil results would follow Democratic sue cess. He said that for the first time since the election next preced- ing the great Civil war, we are required to guard the very founda- tions and bulwarks of national stability, of commercial honesty, of financial con- duct, The Democratic party which met at Chicago in convention in July suffered a wonderful change in that convention. The old oracles and guides of the party were rudely turned aside. It was Occu- pied and demoniacally possessed by new spirit-something which has not raised it's, its head in the political conventions of was any one thing which the 100000 of men who went out to defend this coun- try thirty years ago thought that they had entirely obliterated when they re- turned. it was the malign doctrine of state rights, which lay at the bottom rebellion which ever reared its head against n civilized government. To and behold, in that convention, from the state of South Carolina, as of yOre, you find the declaration of the same state rights. in the same spirit as in the an- cicnt time, and done in connection, my fellow citizens, which must appeal to the resentment and repugnance of every lib- crty-loving and country-l0ying man. Ev- cryonc who knows anything about me Knows that l am not a political admirer of Grover Cleveland; but If there was any one act of his administration which, after the contentious of history have memory, that will remain star-bright forever. it was his action, when the pulse of business beat low. when com tnercial intercourse was cut off by rioters Nn Chicago, by which. upon principles and l,reccdents laid down by George Wash ington loo years before he evoked the strong arm of the United States to re- store law and order in this country. lApplause and chcers.l
 This act is c0vertly (and coyertly is too mild a word) denounced in the Chi cago platform. More than that. If there as anything in this country or in any na- rfion upon which the stability of the gov Srnment depends. the very keystone of the great arch upon which the ranged empire stands. the ultimate principle of absoluteism that must exist somewhere in all governments. it is the courts of our land. where men sequestered from politi- gal concerns and political ambitions, holding the scales of justice even be- tween contending passions and contend
 
 what the law is. And for more than 100 years the Supreme court of the United States has sat in that exalted position, Huidway in the capitol of the nation be- tween .he Senate and the House of Rep rcsentativPs, typical object lesson of their position and of their sublime ca pacity to restrain either. and has done inore to conduct the government tO the siigh plane which it occupies. was going 40 say, than all the statesmen which this country has ever produced. (Appiause.) The Chicago platform strikes at that court strikes at all courts. and enun- riates its malign prophecy of the reOr- sanitation of that court and of any other court if necessary, to register the fitful and passionate and repudiating edic.s of mistaken and misguided men, of mistaken and misguided parties.
 A Crisis is Impending.
 And worse than that, my fellow citi- xens--worse than that! If there was another thing which the veterans of the last war thought they had achieved and thought it had achieved. it was the ob- liberation of all sectionalism in this coun- try; we were to have no South. no North. no East, no West, any more. The whole country was to be d unity. But in these Mater days, we see the solid South com ing up to the banks of the Ohio and the Missouri as before the war, and with sectional demands upon an economic is. sue. precisely such as was made before lf..e Rebellion. And now, with the p,ch- fork of Tillman stirring up the doctrine If state rights, with the bomb of Altscid in the dcnunciation of our courts and of President Cleveland thrown under the very fabric of our government. they have chosen to put forward as m issue some thing which touches more immediately fhe conviction. the passions, the cupidjty and the honesty of men. and which in it- self contains more disintegrating influ. cnccs to our prosperity than all the causes combined that have mentioned. The Democratic convention, or the Democratic party, as now organized, has joined the Populist party In bonds of un- holy wedlock upon the demand that tbe United States shall take position upon the currency of this country which I. speaking to you under the responsibility ,ot man who is speaking to his neigh more disaster to this country than the greatest foreign war could possibly bring nbout. (Applause.)
 And that is the subject that I hove hecn asked to talk to you tonight about. l am going to do so, as 1 said in the be- ginning, not with any attempt at deco ratiye speech, not den0uncing any men Nhc huS Suoose tO from me. TOT I tell you, my fellow citizens, that many and many thousand men who differ from us today on this matter one year from now will be wondering why and how they came to do 1t. (Appiause.} And so l shall go on. may be tedious. I am going to give you facts and fig. sIres. l am not going to draw on my own imagination for my facts at nj. The facts that I shall give you will he impregnable. It is for you to judge whether the deductions I shall draw from them can be refuted.
 Now what is the question? For a cor rect understanding of the question is al- ways the first step towards the solution of the controversy. The question is moi whether there should he the free and 'splimited coinage of silver in the hints .of all the nations, by the consent of the principal commercial nations of the globe upon ratio to be agreed upOn That is not the issue. We all might agree that when this is brought about, as 1t will be. if the United States conducts itself with Judgment upon this question, say we might all agree that that would be an excellent thing. The Republican party has pledged itself in successive platforms tn labor to bring about international agreement. The most advanced think. CTS upon financial questions in both hemispheres are advocating, especially in