Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-10-16
PRIEST is FOR GOLD
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND MAKES A
POLITICAL STATEMENT.
Declares UnreservedIy for Mckinley
and the st. Louis Platform,
and AII That 1t Means.

| IN response to the written request of n
business men of this state who are of
all political opinions, gave the state
ment addressed to them) to the Asso-
ciated Press.
Il am not unwilling, in the crisis
through which the country is now pass
ing' TO speak for the integrity of the
nation for social order. for the prosper
| lly Oh the people, for the honor of Amer
lca ana the permanency of free institu-
tiohs. am citizen of the country
concerned In all the interests of the ma
| ton, subject to all the responsibilities
| OF citizenship. To be silent when words
OF mine may be of some profit to the
people would be cowardice, would be
| criminal
| Il am not unmindful of the objection
made against the churchman speaking at
| any time on matters which have entered
the arena of politics, lest this inau-
once as a teacher of religion seem to
be used to promote the interests of a
political party. might reply that there
are occasions when political platform
| means disaster to the country, when pol
tiles are closely connected with morals
or religion, and that on those occasions
the churchman must be the patriot with
cut allowing moments thought to con-
siderations of expediency, and must take
In hand the moral or religious issue, even
| II 1t be vested In the garment OF politics
| But in the present instance, / seek 10
| excuse of this kind / speak entirely
as citizen, without warrant from my
| ecclesiastical position. Deep as my con-
| victions are, hold in all due respect
| my fellow citizens who hold convictions
| at variance with my own. l impeach
neither their good faith nor their hon
| or. l am dealing not with men, but with
principles and movements. This justice
| which l render to those whose ideas
1 am ready to combat, 1 am sure they
| will render me.
Il stand by the platform and presi-
DENTAL candidacy of the republican con-
ventlon at st. Louis. I am opposed to
the platform and the presidential can
didate of the democratic convention at
Chicago. The days of the civil war ex-
cepted, at no time did SO great a peril
| threaten the country as that which is
involved in the political campaign OF
today.
1.-THE question of the free and unlm-
tied coinage of silver is put in the fore
ground This question has it's import
arce; but it Is of a minor Importance in
the presence of other questions which
are brought into issue. The movement
which had its expression in the Chicago
convention, and which now seeks by
means of popular suffrage to enthrone
itself in the capitol of the nation, is in
its logical effect against the United
States; it is secession, the secession of
1891 which our soldiers believed they had
consigned to eternal death at Appomat-
tox, but which demands again recogni-
ton from the American people. The
declaration in the Chicago platform has
and can have no other meaning.
Pointing to Cleveland.
| We denounce arbitrary interference
by federal authorities in local affairs as a
violation OF the constitution of the
United States and a crime against free
Institutions The words point to the act
| of Grover Cleveland, in sending United
| States troops to protect national prop
erty and enforce national laws, during
the Chicago riots in 1894. In those words
there Is the old secession doctrine that
states are independent of the national
government at Washington. There Is
annulment of union; there Is notice
served upon the flag of America that out
side the District of Columbia it is with
out power of self-assertion or self-de-
Tense. The president Of the United
States is told that to enforce national
laws and protection to national property
he can not march his troops into any
state without the authorization of the
governor of that state.
"One of the chief speakers at the con-
vention of Chicago understood the sig
nifcance of the convention and voiced
It's spirit-I come from a state which was
the home of secession said Senator Till
| of Carolina IT saw he n
tinued, it is a sectional issue and it will
prevail
"And fitting was it that the speaker,
| yoicing this sentiment of the conven-
| ton, should be the representative OF
South Carolina. Thrice now has South
Carolina spoken for secession-when 1t
nassed in 1882 the notification ordinance;
Wien in 1861 1t fired on Fort Sumter;
when in 1896 it cries out "a sectional IS
J sue, and 1t will prevail
.'rhe platform of the Chicago conven-
ton threatens the country with destruc-
ton of social order, with lawlessness and
anarchy. The personifcation ~ law and
of social order in Americs IS our courts,
| and the promise of safety to our free in
, situations is the prompt obedience of the
| people to those courts And now the
: courts are to be shorn of their powers,
/ | and shorn of 1t in favor of moDs, bent on
r!oting and the destruction of property
! We especially object says the Chicago
p,atform, to government by injunction
as a new and highly dangerous form OF
r oppression Here reference is made to
the action Of the courts during the ;'hi-
: cago riots, without which action there Is
no calculating how much ruin would have
, come to the city. The palladium of Amer
team liberties is the supreme court al
. | washington the counterpart of which
In majesty and in power to enforce abso'
: lutte Justice, does not exist among the ma
tions of chrlstendom. But as far as it /:
possible, outside of partisan politics, in
=. dependent of all political influences
through their life tenure of office, th'
Judges of this court rule congress anC
: president, states and nation, and expounC
the law in all its infexibility, no matte
who or what must yield to it. And nov
convention speaks of the supreme cour
=, as it may be hereafter constituted IN
tlmating unmistakably the intention, /
= the party represented in that convention
came to power, to so constr
l. tute the courts, by the popular election
= Judges. by the shortening of their term
) of office, or otherwise, as to make it in
d sensible to the stern voice of the law an
ir ..-.oos;,,a 70 tha nasain0 whirnS of DOlit