West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-10-29

| same KIM OF dollar we now have.
IL viii have the govern ment stamu
on 1t, the government will declare
IT legal tender for any and all
debts, and it will be equal to gold
or any other kind Of money in debt
paying power. Is that kind OF
"a dollar not good enough for any
body? liz it is not, the one think
ing differently should emigrate 10
some other country, we are purely
American here. You also hear a
great deal about the Chicago plat
form IN reference to federal inter
ference and the supreMe court.
The Republicans are making "A ter
rlble scare crow out of hat; trying
to Intlmidate voters by misrepre
senting it, and entirely forgetting
that the language used in the Chi.
cage platform is not BALI so strong
as that used in the Republican
platform OF 1860 on which Lincoln
was elected aud was the very foun.
dation of the Republican party.
MIR. Bryan in his Brooklyn speech
proved their whole argument false
aud / shall quote him in part, as
to federal interference. We will
see just what the Chicago plat
form says. eve denounce arbi
trary interference by federal au-
thorities in local affairs as u viola
tion of the constitution of the
United States, as crime against
free Institutions. | will now
quote what was SAID in the Repub-
lican platform OF 1860. That the
maintenance inyiolate of the rights
OF the state, aud especially the
right OF each state to order and
control its own domestic institu-
lions according TO its own judg-
mrnt exclusively, is essential to
that balance of power upon which
the operation and endurance of our
political fabric depend; and we de
n0unce the lhwIcss INVASION by
organized force of the soil of any
state or territory, no matter under
what pretext. rs among the gravest
crimes" Now compare the two
and you will find the language used
in the Chicago platform is mild to
tins one. Now lets see what the
Chicago platform says about the
supreme court. 1t says in speaking
of the income tax: "But for this
decision of the supreme court there
would be no deficit in tie revenue
under the law passed by Dem
ocratlc congress. In conformity
with the uniform decisions of that
court for nearly one hundred years,
that court having sustained in that
decision constitutional objections
to its enactment which had pre-
Vlously Geen overruled by the a5les.
Judges who ever sat on that bench;
we declare it is the duty of cong
rcss to use all the constitutional
power which remains after that de-
cision, or which may come from
its reversal by the court AS it may
hereafter be constituted, so that
the burdens of taxation may be
equally and Impartially laid, to the
end that wealth may bear its due
proportion of the expense of gov
eminent" Now this is what they
make such great howl about.
Lets see what the Republican plat
form SAID in 1860. 1--WE condemn
the recent opening of the African
slave trade under the cover of our
national flag, aided by perversions
of judicial power" You can not
fluid in the Chicago platform any
such emphatic language. | will
quote you further what Mr. lin
coin said in his inaugural address
md M. Bryan $ INTERPRETATION of it:
WHAT LINCOLN SAID.
81 do not forget the position assumed
| by some that constitutional Questions
are 20 be decided by the Supreme Court;
nor do deny that such decisions must
be binding in any case upon the parties
| to the suit as TO the object of that suit,
while there are also entitled to very
high respect and consideration in all
| parallel cases by all other departing n Is
| of the government" / quote again
| cat the same time the candid citizen
must confess that IL the policy of the
| government on vital questions affect
1 lug the WnOle people IS TO be 1rreVOca-
| bly, fixed by the decisions of the Su-
/ preme Court, the instant they are made
in ordinary litigation between parties
in personal actions, the people will
! have ceased TO he their own rulers.
! having to that extent practically re-
signed their government into the hands
/ of that eminent tribunal"
Mr.. Lincoln says that il il is meant
! 70 be ascertaiued that the Supreme
| Court has right 70 determine the pol
] icy of the people on great questions,
( that they will have resigned our gov
/ eminent into the hands Of the Supreme
| Court Our platform is not as harsh as
the language OF Abraham Lincoln. We
do not criticise that court as he crit
icised it; and when he used those words
ne was standing there as coordinate
part Of tie Government OF the United
/ states.
quote these authorities, my friends,
in order that you may all see how far
! fetched is the criticism that is leveled
against us ] quote these In order that
I you may see that tho very man who
/ used the criticisms against US must. In
order TO do 80. abandon the Republican
platform upon which Lincoln was
| elected.
But ! must apologize Tor quoting
from Abraham Lincoln as n Repu blican
| authority. Abraham Lincoln Is nc
/ longer Republican authority tC-e.