The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1896-10-03

Well, II has been -..1..eustd, and let Us
! resolve in Wisconsin TO so Overwhelmingly
/ wipe that gaTg out Of existence that that
doctrine will never be challenged again.
LAppIause.l No wonder, ladies and gentle
men, that gallent old Ed. Bragg can't
stand 1t. [AppIduse.l
/ Words of Chief Justice Marshall
Excuse me If I read for a moment. /
do not read it so much for the benefit Of
this audience as I do in the hope that it
Will some how find its way into tht news
papers. Llaughterl and that sometime and
/ somehow Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Altgeld will
! see 1t and learn something about the con-
I stitutiOn of the United States IApplause I
/ First what are the relations of the gen
/ eral government to interstate commerce
4 and the transportation OF the mails? They
/ are those Of direct supervision control and
| management. While under the dual sys-
! TEN which prevails with US, the powers of
! the government are distributed between
! the states and the nation; and while the
! latter is properly styled a government of
| enumerated powers, yet within the limits
| of such enumeration it has all the attrib-
! utes of sovereignty, and in the exercise of
! those enumerated powers acts directly I'M
/ on the citizens, and not through the in
! termediate agency Of the state The gov
! eminent OF the union, then is emphatical-
| ly and truly a government Of the people
! In form and in substance il emanates from
! them. Its powers are granted BY them
and are to be exercised directly on them
! and for their benefit Listen: No trace
! is to be found in the constitution of an
| intention to create a dependence of the
! government OF the union on those of the
states for the execution OF the great powers
| assigned to it. It's means are adequate to
/ its ends and on these means alone was it
expected to rely for the accomplishment
! of its ends. To impose on it the necessity
! OF resorting to means which il cannot con-
! troll, which another government may furn-
! sh or withhold, would render its course
| precarous, the result Of its measures I'M
certain, and create a dependence on other
! governments which might dsappoint its
| most important designs, and is incompati-
! Die with the language of the constitution
! That is good law It sounds we'll doesn't
/ 1t? Who do you suppose wrote It? Chief
! Justice John Marshall. in Mccullough
against the state Of Maryland, many, many
! years ago
Away with this idea that the president
| of the United States cannot enforce a fed
eraI law and protect the federal property
OF the state of Illinois without first OBJ
tanning the permission Of Gov. Altgeld.
Laughter and applause Do we propose
to make that man president % the United
States who fought for that doctrine and
who will maintain it?
Integrity of the Courts
There is another proposition in that
platform which ought to strike terror to
the heart of every good citizen. whatever
his political affiliations heretofore may
have been. and that is the proposition
which even shocked David Bennett Hill
Llaughterl, whom l am family hoping viii
come out after little for sound money,
and that is the suggestion that whenever
the Supreme court Of the United States,
| in the exercise of the jurisdiction vested in
that tribunal by the constitution, renders
| decision which is not agreeable TO con-
gress, they shall proceed to pack that
court in some way. with Judges who will
/ reverse it, and who will be more com
pldisent. You reCollect. ladies and gen
tlemen, that the Supreme court of
the United States is created by
the constitution. There are three subdi-
visions OF our government, each independ-
ent of the other: The executive the legis-
lative and the judiciary. The Supreme
court of the United States has been, from
the beginning, an honor to this country
and its line of decisions, the great men
who have been upon that bench shedding
/ luster upon our Jurisprudence and upon
the Jurisprudence of the world, have
abundantly indicated the wisdom of the
trainers Of the constitution in creating it,
/ in making it perpetual and in providing
for the Independent and fearless action by
reason of the life tenure of its judges.
Il do not like to hear men cast suspi-
cion upon judges Our last reliance is in
the integrity the courage and the indie
nendence of our judiciary. When the peo-
NIL. are swayad nv passion when congress
NAV 90 wrong when the senate. which
vas intended to he a conservative BODY
NAV be a revolutionary BODY. we take com
fort in the fact that We can rely upon the
narriotfsr1 unou the wisdom and Unon the
fearIessnase of tho Judiciary rADnIausa
m, ,, no - - bic hI,sira. in mn.
10 ~, T,ri,,a+a IT, 70 IostToJ the confidence
- tba n.oI,Ia in the judiciary i = nubIir
enemy. TAppIause.l II is cowardIy
oct .binr n ,vbisnarinq somarhfng
about the character Of woman; and moth
/ ing on earth can be meaner than that.
/ TApplause.l 1t is the next thing to it, to
4 pass unfriendly comment and imPeach-
ment on judges and the integrity Of their
/ purposes, because judge cannot come
down from the bench and resent an insult
! like that. I say the people in this election
/ ought 10 see to 1t that no president IS
elected upon platform which calmly pro-
/ poses. by unmistakabIe suggestion, to make
/ the Supreme court Of the United States,
and other courts in our system, the mere
/ football Of politics, the mere tool of pas
4 si0ns. applause
/ Il think Mr.. Bryan thus far in his talks
and he says, I understand, that he never
/ sees a crowd without wanting to talk to