The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-28

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 hold differing opinions Indeed, have
 never had so much respect for demo- crats as l have now. (Applause,)
 That party has once more exhibited it's
 capacity to be ruptured and party that cannot be split is public menace. When the leaders of a party assembled in convention to depart from it's tradi- tional principles and advocate doctrines that threaten the integrity of the gov- ernment, the social order of our com munities and the security and sound-
 ness of our finance, 1t ought to split and it dignifies itself when it does split.
 A bolt from any party is now and then most reassuring incident, and was
 never more reassuring and never had better cause than now (applause and cries of You're rightly
 But these democratic friends who are disposed, more or less directly, to help the cause of sound finance in this cam paign ought not to expect that the re- publican party will reorganize itself because the democratic party has dis organized itself Daughter and ap- plause) The republican party, the re- publican voters, if sound money tri- umphs, as believe 1t will, must in the nature of tho thing constitute the body of the successful army We ought not, therefore, to be asked to do anything that will affect the solidity the loyalty, the discipline or the enthusiasm of the republican party Applause; a voice, Nobody going out" This reference to the Bryan meeting in Madison Square Garden was greeted with prolonged au- plause.)
 The republican party fronts the de- structionists and trumpets its defiance
 to tho enemies of sound money. It will fight, however, without covering any of the glorious notices and inscriptions that are upon it's banner. (Applause.) When the house is on fire-and many of our democratic friends believe that to be the present domestic situation
 the tenant on the top floor ought not to ask the tenant in the basement to bury any of his opinions before he joins the fire brigade; and so cur democratic friends, who realize, as we realize, the
 gravity, the far-reaching consequences of this campaign, ougat not to ask the republican party to reorganize itself, to put aside any of the great principles that it has advocated in order to win a vote.
 If their opinion is sincerely held, as they insist, k ougnt to determine their action for themselves without reference to what anybody else should do. And I submit to these gentlemen, for whose
 opinions I have the highest respect. whether, if it be true, as they say, that
 the success of the Chicago nominee
 would plunge this country into ire deamable commercial distress and drag the nations honor in the dust, there can he any question fer such gentle men but this, How can we most sure ly defeat the Chicago iominee?" (Ap- plause.)
 Neither conventions nor committees can create issues nor assign them to
 their places as to their importance. That is the leading issue of the cam paign which most agitates and most interests the people. In my opinion there is no issue presented by the Chicago convention more important or vital than the question they have rais- ed of prostituting the power and duty of the national courts and national executive. The defense of the constitu- tion, of the integrity of the supreme court of the United States and of the presidents power and duty to enforce all laws of the United States without awaiting the call or consent of the gov- ernor of any state is an important and living issue in this campaign. (Ap- plause.)
 Tariff and coinage will be of little
 moment if our constitutional govern ment is overthrown. When we have a president who believes that it is neith- CT his right nor his duty to see that the
 mail trains are not obstructed and that interstate commerce has it's free way, irrespective of state lines and courts, who fears to use our ancient and familiar power to restrain and punish law-breakers, free trade and free silver will be appropriate &C.,
 compartments of such an administra- tion and cannot add appreciably to the national distress or the national dis honor (Applause.) There is only one @ nation or as citizens
 u IS the rule or the 1dWS COuSLlCu- tionally enacted and finally interpret ed by the judicial tribunal appointed by the constitution. When it becomes
 the rule that violence carries it's end we have anarchy condition as de- structive to honest labor and it's re- wards as death is to the tissues of the human body. (Applause.) The atmos-
 phere of the Chicago convention was
 surcharged with the spirit of revolu- ton. Its platform was carried and its
 nominations made with accompanying incidents of frenzy that startled the onlookers and amazed the country.
 The courts and the president were arraigned for enforcing the laws, and government by the mob was given pref erence to be enforced by the court de- crees. The spirit that exhibited itself in this convention was so wild and strangely enthused that MT. Bryan himself iikened it to the zeal that pos sessed the crusaders when they re- sponded to the impassioned appeals of Peter, the hermit, to rescue the sepul- chre of Our Lord from the hands of the infidels
 His historical illustration was more potent and more forcible than he knew; for the zeal of the crusaders was a blind and ignorant zeal; they sought to rescue the transient and intellectual sepulchre that had held the body of the Son of God, while they trampled upon the precepts of love and mercy