The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-09-02

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manifestation of stupidity as denial
of this fact2
Furthermore, as to legalizing theft.
The Republican party, to which the
Advertiser very properly belongs, has
localized theft over and over again. 1t
stole the slaves of Maryland and Ken.
lucky. 1t repudiated all the war debt
of the Southern States, loaned by in
diyiduals in hard cash. 1t stole mil
lions of acres of the public domain to
enrich the railroad kings. 1t made
deprecated paper pay debts contracted
in honest silver and gold. 1t stole
nearly a hundred million OF dollars
from Southern farmers in an illegal
cotton tax which was declared uncon-
stitutional, and it has never refunded
a cent. 1t upheld thieving State
Governments that robbed the people in
every way possible. 1t has fostered
trusts and monopolies and combines
that rob citizens every day and night.
That is the record of party whose
organs are denouncing Bryan because
he wants to shake the plunderers by
the throat The Advertiser is pretty
paper to cry ''Stop thief"
The New York Tribune and the Phil
adelphia Press join in denouncing
Bryan because he failed to disclaim
the plank of the Chicago platform,
protesting against the sending OF Fed
eral troops to put down riots ina
State. Why should Mr.. Bryan dis:
claim this planks The sending OF
troops to Cchicago by Cleveland,
against the protest oil Altgeld, was the
most fragrant violation OF States
rights under the Constitution that has
ever been perpetrated. l said so at
the time and l repeat it now. The
Constitution specially sets forth the
only conditions under which the Pres.
ident of the United States can send
troops into State. There is nothing
left to implication. He can send
troops thither only ION application of
the Legislature, or of the Executive
when the Legislature cannot be con
vened." The maxim of interprecia,
ton of the Constitution is that what is
not granted is forbidden. When
Grant sent troops to Louisiana and
swept the State House he was acting
under the call of the carpet-bag Gov
ernor. When he tried to swamp the
State OF South Carolina with troops he
did so at the call of the Governor, and
even then the Democrats claimed he
was acting unlawfully because the
Legislature could have been convened.
Cleveland sent troops to Chicago
against the protest of Governor OF q
sovereign State. The King of Eng
land dared not call out troops to sup
press the Chartists. That uprising
was controlled by a chief constable
and $50, 900 constables and special po'
lice. If the President can send troops
into State of his own volition States
rights are gone. The Democratic
party in Congress basely stultfed it,
self when it commended this act OF
Cleveland. Gen. Schofeld is said to
have been riding all over the country
in Pullman's private car, about the
time of the riots, when Pullman should
have been the first to 60 to Jail. he
was the greatest lawbreaker of them
all. There are other ways of putting
down mobs than by violating the con
stitution of the United States. The
Democrats deserve to win on this
plank if on no other.
AS to the threat of reforming the
Supreme Court it is rather mischiev
Gus measure but the Court has laid
itself under reprosch by the income
tax decision. There is no doubt what
ever that since the case of Hylton VS.
United States, about a hundred years
ago, the Supreme Court has held valid
every form of income tax laid by Con,
gress. The income tax is the fairest
tax ever devised. It is upheld by
England and by Germany, two coun'
tries as far removed from socialism
and anarchy as possible. If the Unit
ed States Government cannot levy an
income tax it must enact the highest
possible form of tariff, to meet its
enormous expenses, and the Democrat
ic policy OF low tariff will become a
barren ideality.
The Courts of the United States have
been reformed more than once. In
1901 the Federalist party, in order to
entrench itself in power, created d
whole system OF Courts, and appointed
Federalists as Judges. One OF the
first acts of Jefferson's administration
was to knock those Courts and Judges
higher than kite. 1t was desperate
remedy, but it was justified. After
the war the Supreme Court of the
United States, by vote of a to 3, de-
clared the greenbacks unconstitutlon'
al. This was such set back to the
Republican policy that the Court was
reconstructed. Two Judges were ap
pointed by Grant, and on rehearing
they voted with the three old Judges
in favor of tho greenbacks, thus re-
versing the decision by to 4. One
of these packed Judges, Bradley, stole
the Pridency from the Democracy and
gave it to Hayes. 1t comes, there
fore, with very poor grace from Re-
publicans to denounce any PROPOSE
ton to tamper with the Courts. They
tampered with the Court so as TO Sc
cure practical reputation when
they secured payments OF debts
in deprecated currency. Demo
Gratis cannot say much either, because
the abolition of the Federal judiciary
was the pet measure of Jefferson.
do not commend the proposition to re-
form the Supreme Court. But that is
no reason for not showing up the ig'
norance or inconsistency of the vir
tuous newspaper critics of the Demo
cratic platform.
AS for the proposition to give term
of years to Judges of the United States