The record-union., 1896-09-24

Every time a lawyer goes into court
and asks for reversal of decision of
the court, and 1t is not an infreqeunt
thing. every time a lawyer does it, he
attacks the correctness of the decision
which he desires to have reversed
LET me read to you what the Republi-
can platform said about decisions of
the Supreme Court in 1860. We con-
denim the recent opening Of the African
slave trade under the cover of our ma
tional flag, aided by perversions of ju-
dicial power That is what that plat
form said. It declared that a decision
of the court was perversion of judi
cial power. There is no language in our
platform that is as harsh on the Su-
preme Court as that Republican plat
form. (Applause.)
my friends, on these two questions
where We are assailed by the Republi-
cans to-day we have not taken as en-
phatic a stand as the Republican party
took in the first platform upon which it
elected a President of the United States.
Let me read to you now what Abraham
Lincoln said about the Supreme Court.
This is from his inaugural address: L
do not forget the position assumed by
some that constitutional questions are
lO DC uSCiuCu ny llc ouplSIHc AOuI l,
nor do I deny that such decisions must
be binding in any case upon parties to
the suit as to the object of that suit -
The next paragraph was then quoted,
and then Mr. Bryan said: Mr.. Lincoln
says that if it is meant to be asserted
that the Supreme Court has right to
determine the policy of the people on
great questions that we will have re-
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cf the Supreme Court. Our platform is
rot as harsh as the language of Abra-
ham Lincoln. I quote these sayings in
order that you may all see how far
fetched is the criticism that is leveled
against US. I quote these in order that
You may see that the very men who used
the criticisms against us must, in order
to do so, also abandon the Republican
platform upon which Lincoln was elect
cd. (Applause.)
Now, our opponents say that we are
opposed to the enforcement of the law.
I deny it. / stand as the candidate of
three parties. l do not speak Of myself
as an individual, because the individual
is lost in a campaign in the represent
ative character of the candidate. But,
my friends, want to say to you that the
fear that is expressed is not a fear that
if elected / will not enforce the law. I
lave said it before, and I say it again,
that if by the suffrages Of my country
men I am placed in that position which
is the highest position in the gift Of the
people of the world, every law shall be
enforced against the great as well as
against the small. Great applause.)
I'VE seek not to destroy but to pre-
serve In their purity the institutions of
our country, whose language is the Ian
guage Of Samuel J. Tilden (applause),
used in an address to farmers and work
ingmen and mechanics, delivered on
February g. 1888. They accused reform
ers then of being destroyers of the pub
lie peace, and he asserted then, as we
assert now, that we have not come to
destroy
Mr.. Bryan then spoke at length on
the question of free coinage. When Mr..
Bryan concluded he was cheered loud
ly.
The meeting at the rink was under
the auspices of the Bryan League of
Kings County, and was genuine work.
ingmen's gathering. Fully 5000 per-
sons were in attendance, while an i'm
mense number of others were unable to
obtain admission. 1t was 1875 p. m.
when Mr.. Bryan arrived. He received a
most enthusiastic reception, the cheers
| ard applause lasting fully five minutes.
His speech was mostly a repetition of
the one delivered at the Academy.
He was driven to the Margaret Hotel,
in the lower part of the city, where he
remained over night.