The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-28

CuHNGlltlOu lIldJ TeNOluIlOnS ulQ not De- gin with the rich and prosperous. MT, Tillman felt that the change In the management of public affairs was to be so radical that he proposed sulphur Immigration Of the ship before the new crew took possession. (Laughter,) Now, my friends, all these things in didate the temper In which that plat form was adopted and the spirit that prompted the nominations that were made. There was no calm deliberation. There was frenzy. There was no from experience was most able to di- rect public affairs. There was an im- pulsive response to an impassioned speech that selected the nominee
 Not amid such surroundings as that, not under such influences are those calm, discreet things done that will commend themselves to the judgment of the American people. They de- nounce In their platform interference by federal authorities in local affairs as violation of the constitution of the United States and crime against free institutions. MT. Tillman approved this
 
 words direct condemnation of Mir Cleveland as president of the United States for using the power of the exec utive to brush out of the way every obstacle to the free passage of the mail trains of the United States and inter- state commerce and my friends when ever our people approve the choice of a president who believes he must ask Govrnor Altgeldt or any other governor of any other state permission to en- force the laws of the United States we have surrendered the victory the boys won in '61. (Applause.)
 Once we were asked, and a grave question vas raised, whether the Unit ed States could pass it's troops through Kentucky to meet rebel alnv. My friends, this constitutional question, this division between the general and local authorities, is plain and easy one disturbance which is purely To- cal in state is a state affair The president cannot send troops or lend any aid unless the legislature calls up- on him for help or the governor, if the legislature is not in session But when a law of the United States is invaded and broken it is the sworn duty of the president to execute 1t and the coaven- ton arraigns the president for doing what his oath compelled him to do. (Applause.)
 Comrades of the great war for the Union, sons of those who went out to battle that the flag might not lose it's lustre, will We consent, after all these years that that doctrine which was shot to death, in the great war shall be revived and made victorious in a civil campaign? (Cries of NO! No!O But this assault does not elld tllere. The supreme court of the United States and the federal lower courts are arraigned because they used the familiar writ of injunction to suppress violence to re- strain men from breaking a law, and that platform maintalns-I will show you it was so understood In the con- vention and in the committee on reso- lutions-that the democratic policy was when the supreme court, exercising it's constitutional power and duty, gave an interpretation to a law that was not pleasing to congress, they would in crease the number of judges and pack the court to get a decision to please them (Applause.)
 My friends, our fathers who framed this government divided its great pow CTS between three great departments the legislative the executive and the judicial They sought to make these independent the one of the other, so that neither might overshadow or de- stroy the other. The supreme court. the most dignified judicial body in the world (applause), was appointed to in- terpret the laws and the constitution, and when that court pronounces a de- cree as to the powers of congress or as to any other constitutional question. there is but one right method if we dis agree, and that Is the method pointed out by the constitution, to amend 1t to conform to our views.
 That is the position to-day.
 Mir Hill says in his speech of this as- sault upon the court that provision, if it means anything, it means it Is the duty of congress to reconstruct the su- preme court. It means-and now note his words, and 1t was openly avowed that it means-"the adding of addition al members to it, or the turning out of office and reconstructing the whole court I will not follow any such rev. olutionary step as that"
 You are to answer. then, my friends, in all the gravity of a great crisis, whetheryou sustain party which pro- poses to destroy the balance which our fathers instituted in our system of gov- ernment and whenever a tumultuous congress disagrees with the supreme court and a subservient president is in the white house, that the judgment of the court shall be reconsidered and re- versed by increasing. the number of judges and packing the court with men who will decide as congress wants them to- (Applause). I cannot exag- gerate the gravity and importance and the danger of this assault upon our constitutional form of government One of the kindest and most discriminat- ing critics whoever wrote with a for eign pen about American affairs, MT Bryce, in his American Common wealth." pointed out this danger, that the constitution did not fix the num- Der of the supreme court judges and it was possible for reckless congress and a reckless executive to subordinate and practically destroy the supreme court by the process I have just de- scribed, and the Englishman after speaking of this says:
 What prevents such assaults on the fear of the people whose broad, good