The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31

history Our wealth was greater. our i'm
ternational trade was greater. our manu-
features were greater and everything that
tended to wide general diffusion OF pros
perity was present in the land. That can
not be denied. He may say that we did not
do it. that 1T not Republican policies
ina that dla it. out the TACT that It was done,
not be denied.
Il have said before that If you have lost
anything. and know where you lost It., you
had better go back there to find 1t. Isn't
that more reasonable than to accept the
suggestion of Mr.. Bryan that YOU shall
not go back and look for this prosperity
where you lost it, but shall allow him TO
"a TAKE you out into another Held or take you
lost is there?
BASIS OF ALL PROSPERITY.
AT the bottom of all prosperity lies the
enforcement of the laws. If cannot
have orderly communities. IL the laws ere
not observed. if men do not respect the
rights of property and the rights of mon,
then no policies Of either party can peg
sibly bring prosperity. The Republican
party stood in 1S61--it has always stood it
stands to-day-for the just and firm en-
forcement of all the law, State and ma
tional. The Democratic party has in it's
platform at Chicago announced Il doctrine
which to my mind is destructive of the
dignity and authority and respect of the
national government When our fathers
established the government under the Con-
stitution of the United States. having pre-
viously established State governments.
they made a clear and easy division of the
powers of the State and of the national
government. Certain great functions We're
surrendered by the people to Congress and :
to the national government because the
State governments could not benehcially
exercise them. Among these powers was
the duty OF organizing a system OF mai's
with each other upon family affairs or upon
ginning was very crude, conducted by post
riders on horseback or by stages, has come,
now to be great complicated and mag
nificent system. The entire business OF the
country depends on it's prompt administra-
ton of the duties committed To 1t. The
merchant depends on his order for goods
being promptly delivered. The banker de-
Ponds on the prompt exchange of CORE
business. Our people depend. separated as
as they are-men moving from one state
to another. leaving the Old tather ana
upon the mails of the United States. So
this great system that was to run through
all the States was contlded to the national
But that was not all. There was to be
commerce between the States. Indiana is
an inland State; she could no; consent, as
her goods had TO pass through Ohio ana
Pennsylvania to reach the seaboard. that
those States should levy any exactions on
her commerce. The wheat raisers and corn
raisers Of Indiana could not agree that the
their product should levy any tribute or
duties or exactions. Therefore that sub
ject was committed TO the national govern
ment. 1t has never been doubted that the
exclusive power to regulate commerce with
foreign nations and among the States was
in the United States.
Again 1t was essential il we were to
have government at all that we should
have courts of the United states TO Interpret
its Constitution. aid it's laws and to enforce
them by proper DEGREES and mandates. SO
our fathers organized judicial system,
at the head of which they placed that
august tribunal. the Supreme Court of the
United States. Under that great court they
constituted certain inferior courts--the Cir
cult and District Courts of the United
States-to be held in the several States con-
of which the United States Courts had jul
Tba might tSe hsar OF
marshals of the United States. who, like
the sheriff of your county. took the ,writs
of the courts and executed them. If we
surrender the judicial power of the United
States surrender what Washington
called the very keystone of the arch upon
which our magnificent fabric of govern
ment rests.
THE LAW AND ORDER ISSUE. ai
There has been a new issue raised AZ 4
Chicago 1t grew out of the railroad strike
in that city. Let me hastily sketch the
conditions: First there was a railroad
strike. Following that. though distin-
guished from it, because the men who were
engaged in the labor strike discIaimed re-
sponsiblity for the violence that followed.
Anarchists and reckless men who were in
famed against life and property tore up
the railroad tracks in that city. turned
the switches, burned the cars. stoned the
cars that were entering and leaving the
city, so that innocent men and women go
ing on their natural journeys from one
place to another were liable to be killed
by the missiles thrown by an angry aud
vicious mob: stations were burned; tho
mails of the United States were inter-
rupted: the farmers produce as i was
cago towards the East, was stopped, and
they were subjected to whatever losses that 4
might occur in the destruction of the cars
in which it was contained; or of any loss In
the market price of their goods when 1t
was delivered. That was the situation in
Chicago. with this further addition: The
courts of the United States had issued cer-
tain writs against men who were engaged
in this work and the marshal of the United
States found himself unable, against
this fearful mob. to execute the writs
of the court. In that condition of things.
felt called on by the duties of his office,
by the high sanction of an official oath,
wipe out of the way those distractions
to the mails and to make the roads safe
through Chicago without risking their
lives. (Applause) Was II not his duty to
do so; his sworn oath? And yet Governor
seeks to be again. arraigned the President
and insisted that he had no right to In
his; that it belonged to the State of I'M
nois and that before TIE President should
enforce United States avs in Illinois he
must ask Governor Altgeld's consent.
There was great interest aroused IN
that question. and | am glad to say for
Republicans that they did not seek to make
any party capital out of the fact that
Grover Cleveland. as President of the
United States, a Democrat had enforced
these laws with troops. out of the fact
Governor of Indiana. had enforced the
peace of the State of Indiana by the use or
troops. Democrats had served us SO. but
our people said ii not Il parity ques-
ton; that it was question OF national
peace. of national authority. They said.
We don't ask what Mi. Clevclands politics
is; he is President. We don't ask what
Claude Matthews's politics is; he is Govern
or We stand. did in 1861. the
loyal Democrats then did behind Lincoln,
for the Constitution and the law. CAP
plause.1
THE DANIEL RESOLUTION.
This subject came into the Senate of
the United States. and John w. Daniel. Il
Senator from Virginia. the very same man
who presided over the Chicago convention
that passed this resolution and nominated
Mr.. Bryan, introduced resolution in the
Senate commencing the course of Presi-
dent Cleveland" General Harrison read
the resolution offered by Senator Daniel
in the Senate and continued: This reso-
luton passed the United States Senate
without dissenting voice. But that IL not
ali. The New York Herald undertook 10
get the opinions of many of the Governors
of the States upon this question. One or