Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-24

judges have recently asserted were
never before exercised by the judi
ciary of any State of the Federal
Union, or by the judiciary of the
United States, and are unknown in
the judicial history of Great Britain,
from which we have copied for the
most part our judicial system. | sup
ported the President in sending
troops to defend the distinctive Fed
eral rights which were assaulted at
Chicago. supported also, and was
one of the committee which favora-
bly, reported, the bill of Hon. David
b Hill, providing for the extension
of trial by jury, and no repugnance
between the two positions was ever
discovered until hypercritical OPP
ponents of the Chicago platform
sought pretext for the use of hard
names in stigmatizing democrats.
There are some phases of the demo-
cratic platform in which l do not
concur, but they contain no assault
upon the liberties of the people and
convey no menace to their interest.
have never seen any platform deal
ing generally with multitude of
subjects in which I did not discover
something not entirely in accord
with my own views, and in this re-
spect | am in no wise peculiar.
Regarding it as whole, and espe-
cially regarding it in comparison with
the platform of the republican party,
it is to my mind a most admirable
and patriotic document. On the
great questions of the free coinage of
silver, OF the tariff, of trusts, and in
it's opposition to the piling up of our
national debt in peace times by the
increase of interest bearing bonds.
the platform commands my unquali
fed appreciation. Were the conven
tion of which we were members to
meet again, William jennings Bryan
would be made it's unanimous nomi-
nee by reclamation. The splendid
powers he has exhibited in this can
vass and the patriotic fervor which
he has devoted to the cause of the
people have amazed the country,
and have attracted to our standard
the support of thousands of our best
citizens. So far from relinquishing
any feeling or effort in his behalf, |
have never in my life cast a vote with
more pleasure than that which | will
cast for him on the Ord Of November
next.
He has met his opponents at every
point of assault, and has waged the
war of democracy with Il skill Of
argument and power of eloGuence.
and with Il dignity and moderation
of statement, which shows him to be
the foremost of living democrats. He
is worthy leader of the party OF
Jefferson and Jackson, and not III all
our history has any party had a
leader of whom it had better cause
to be proud. have not doubt that
Virginia will give him her electoral
vote. and there is good reason to
believe that he will have a majority
in the electoral college. Be this rs
it may, the democratic party, which
was supine and impotent in the
spring of the present year, acquired
new life and strength upon the
nomination of Bryan and the adop-
ton Of the platform on which he
stands at Chicago. The people know
that real democracy, and not sham,
appeals for their confidence and
sutfrages. They know they have Il
leader who does not say one thing
and mean another. The straddlers
and the two-faced who leave us will
have their places filled by earnest
men who believe in our principles
and who will give us loyal support
and service. The democratic party
was never stronger in it's vitality
than it is now. And its future has
been assured by its realignment on
true democratic principles and by its
nomination of William j. Bryan for
President
cannot close without expressing
my admiration for the great service
you have rendered to our cause in
your able journal, and at the same
time my grateful sense of apprecia-
ton for your personal kindness to me.
am, very truly your friend,
JOHN w. DANIEL.