The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-28
discIpline Of the Republican parry. tApplause. )

discipline of the Republican party. Applause)
voice: Nobody going out
This reference to the Bryan meeting in
Madison Square garden was greeted with
prolonged applause and laughter.
The Republican party fFlnts the destruc-
Zionist and trumpets its defiance to the
enemies OF sound money. It Will fight, how
ever, without covering any of the glorious
notices and inscriptions that are upon it's
banner. (Applause.) When the house Is on
fre-and many of our Democratic friends be-
Ieve that to be the present domestic situa-
tion-the tenant on the top floor ought not
to ask the tenant of the basement to bury
any Of his opinions before he joins the fire
brigade, and our Democratic friends who
realize, as we realize, the gravity, the far
reaching consequences OF this campaign,
ought not to ask the Republican party to re-
organize ITSELF 20 put aside any of the great
principles that 1t has advocated in order to
win a vote. If their opinion is sincerely held,
as they. insist, it ought to Determine their
action for themselves without reference to
to what anybody else would do and submit
to these gentlemen for whose opinions /
have the highest respect, whether, if 1t is
Chicago nominee would plunge this country
into commercial distress and drag the nations s
honor in the dust, there can be any question
for any gentleman but this: 'How can We
most surely defeat the Chicago nominee?"
DOMINANT ISSUE.
Neither conventions nor committees can
create issues nor assign them to their places
as to their importance. That is the leading
d
and most interests the people. In my opinion,
there Is no issue presented by the Chicago
convention more important and vital than the
question they have raised of protecting the
power and duty of the national courts and
the national executive. The defense of the
constitution and of the integrity of the
preme court of the United States and of the
presidents power and duty to enforce all
the laws of the United States without await
ing the call or consent of the governor of any
state, is an important and living issue in
(ADnIanSe1 n
age will be Of little moment If our consti-
tutional government is overthrown. When we
have a president who believes that it is
neither right nor his duty to see that the mail
trains are not obstructed and that interstate
commerce has It's free way, irrespective of
state lines and courts, who fears to use our
punish law breakers, free trade and free
silver will be appropriate accomplishments of
his administration. and cannot add possibly
to the national distress or national diShonor.
Applause) n
There is only one rule by which we can live
usefuly as "a nation or Or peacefully as clt,
ally enacted and finally interpreted by the
judicial tribunal appointed by the constitu-
ton. When it becomes the rule that violence
carries its end, we have anarchy--a condition
as destructive to honest labor and its rewards,
as death is to the tissues OF the human body.
The atmosphere Of the Chicago convention
was surchanged with the spirit of revolution.
Its platform was carried and its nominations
made with accompanying Incidents of frenzy
that startled the onlookers and amazed the
country. The course of the president was ar
raigned for enforcing the laws, and gov
ernment by the mob was given preference
over government by the law, enforced by the
courts DEGREES and by executive orders. Inc
spirit that exhibited itself in that convention
was so wild and strangely enthused that Mr..
Bryan himself likened it 10 the zeal that
possessed the crusaders when they RESPONDED
to the impassioned appeals Of Peter the Her
nit to rescue the sepulchre OF our Lord from
the hands of the infdels.
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and more forcible than he knew, for the zeal
of the crusaders was. blind and Ignorant
zeal they sought to rescue the transient ana
Intellectual sepulchre that had held the BODY
of the Son of God, while they trampled upon
the precepts of love and mercy which ne mad
left for their guidance in life. tAppiauseJ
He told us that the silver crusaders had ar
rayed father against son and brother against
brother and had severed the ties OF ioVe.
Senator Hill watching the strange proceed
ing had to extend that brief political code
from which he has gained so much renown.
He felt compelled to say Il am Democrat,
but I am not a revolutionist tApplause.)
Senator Vest realizing that they were IN
augurating a revolution, reminded the con-
vention that revolutions did not begin WIN WIN
the rich and prosperous. Mr.. IlllHan ieiI
lie affairs was to be so radical that he pro-
posed sulphur fumigation Of the snip DeIore
the new crew took possession OF It, Uaugh-
teri ......ssa,,5,
cate the temper in which that platform was
adopted and the spirit that prompted the
nominations that were made There, was NO
calm 1dsiiberafion. There was frenzy There
was no thoughtful searching OF the man VINO
from experience was most able to direct pup
liz affairs There was an impuls1vc response
fo an inpassioned speech that selected the
nominee Not amid such surroundings as
that not under such influences are these caim
discrete things done that VIII commena Inem- ZEN
selves to the judgment OF the American pew
pie. (Applause)
They denounce in their platform 1nterfer-
ence by federal authorities In the local al az
fairs as a violation of the constitution OF tne
United States and crime against free 1nstl-
tutions. Mr.. Tilman in his speech approved
this declaration. 1t was INTENDED 10 De IN
words a direct condemnation of Mr.. Cleye-
land as addressed to the United States for
using the power of the executive to brush out
of the way every obstacle to the free passage
of the mail trains and interstate commerce.
and my friends, whenever our people ap-
prove the choice of president who believes
he must ask Gov. Altgeld or any other gov
force the laws of the United States, we have
surrendered the victory the boys won in 1851
(Great applause.) Then we were told, and
grave question was raised, Whefner the united
States could pass its troops through Ken
tuckv to meet a rebel army in Tennessee.
My friends, this constitutional question,
this division between the general and local
authorities is a plain and easy one. dis
turbance which is purely local in state, Is
a state affair. The president cannot send
troops or lend any aid unless the legislature
-
the legislature is not in session. But when
q law of the United States is invaded or
broken, it is the sworn duty OF the president
to execute it. and this convention arraigns
the president for what his cath 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 luster. will we consent after these
years (cries Of mo. no'') that that doctrine
that was shot to death in theswar shall be re-
vived and made victorious in a civil cam
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But this assault does not end there. The
supreme court of the United States and the
federal lower
COURTS ARE ARRAIGNED
because they used the familiar writ of in
junction to suppress violence, to restrain men
from breaking the law, and that the platform
plainly means. l will show that it was un-
derstood in the convention and in the COM
mittee-the one on resolutions-that the pol
icy was that when the supreme court exercis-
ing its constitutional power and duty gave
an Interpretation to law of the United
States that was not pleasing to congress,
they would increase the number of judges and
pack the court to get decision to please
them. Applause.) Ny friends. our fathers
who framed this government divided its great
powers between the three great departments
The legislative, the executive and the judi
eial. 1t sought to make these independent
the one of the other, SO that neither might
overshadow or destroy the other. The su-
preme court, the most dignihed judicial body
In the world. was appointed to interpret the
laws and constitution, and, when the court
pronounces a decree as to the powers of
congress as to any other constitutional
question, there is but one right method, IL
we disagree. and that is the method pointed
out by the constitution, to amend it to con-
form to our views. That is the position to-
day. Mr.. Hill said in his speech of this as
sault upon the court
'aThat provision, If 1t smeans anything
means that it is the duty of congress to re-
construct the supreme court OF the country
It means" land now note his words, land
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ing of additional members to 1t or the turn
ing out of Office and reconstrueting the whole