The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25

federal government, the delay ana obstruc-
ton OF that one letter gives the federal gov
eminent jurisdiction to enforce Its law Jap
plause.)
That one letter carrying It's message of
love, OF pleasure, OF duty, OF sorrow, or of
business. Is as much the concern of this
great government and as much entitled to
its care and to free, unobstructed passage
over the mail routes OF the republic as II 1t
were tons OF mall instead of one solitary
envelope. Applause.)
Why, fancy, my countrymen, civil disturb
ance In Chicago; the mail trains stopped and
the mails looted, the postoftice put to the
torch, the custom house and internal rev.
enue office broken into and robbed, the Unit
ed states district attorney hanging to the
lamp post, the federal judges tarred and
feathered and ridden out of town on rail-
while the successor of Andrew jackson sits
in the White house in Washington waiting
Tor Gov Altgeld to consent that he may en-
force federal law! Applause.)
Voice-Hit him again.
That platform In another plank proposes
to change the constitution and tenure Of the
federal supreme court Why does 1t want to
do this? Why do the Populists of Chicago
desire to strike down the independence and
destroy the integrity Of that great tribunal?
MY countrymen, your land and mine has
progressed faster, has gone farther has seen
upon its soil the requirement of more pros
perlty, and has amongst its people today q
larger percentage of property owners than
any other land on earth. And why? 1t Is
because that scheme of federal government
framed by our fathers in the federal consti-
tuition is scheme which noiselessly, but
powerfully, protects and defends in every cit
Zen the rights Of life, liberty and property
through the administration Of it's judicial
branch. (Applause.)
When the law no longer protects property
tnere Is no acquisition of property. Where
the law best protects and defends the right
OF property, there is the highest state of
industry and the largest number of men who
have won by their enterprise and their work
property protected by law.
Now, what do the Populists want to do
with the federal Judiciary? If we wish to
inquire into the Intentions Of Populism, we
must go to the fountain head of those
pernicious principles grouped under that name
and that is the state of Kansas. Gaughter)
When the PoDulists got control of Kan
sas few years ago, Mary Ellen Lease
Qaughter) who Is a sort of Bryan in petit
coats daughter and applause), as Bryan is
kind of a Mrs. Lease in trousers Qaughter)
Mary Ellen Lease said: "Now, we have got
Kansas, we want the United States and
the way to get the United States is to go
on raising hell in Kansas" Laughter.) And
they followed her advice
Three weeks ago, when I was down in my
native state, Iowa, district judge there
yer In Kansas to his father and a friend in
Iowa. In that letter he said he could get the
Populist nomination for district judge in
his district, but he said in Kansas the Pop
ulists require that a candidate for judgeship
shall appear before their convention and take
a solemn pledge that If elected to the bench
he will refuse to enter any judgment or de-
cree to enforce the collection Of a debt
(Applause)