The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-24

meanings not intended to be given them. and
an interpretation which they will not bear.s
Let me read to you the plank Of the Chicago
platform, against which 10 much abuse has
been leveled:
|. I'VE denounce arbitrary interference by
fedora! authorities In local affairs, as viola
ton OF the constitution Of the United States
as crime against free Institutions"
Ihat Is the part which they say Is bad.
When did that become bad? Let me read a
plank OF another platform. and see how this
plank which am about to read compares
with the one which have read
The maintenance inviolate OF the rights of
the state. and especially the right Of each
state to order and control it's own domestic
institutions. according to it's own Judgment,
exclusively, Is essential to that balance OF
power upon which the operation and endur-
ance OF our political fabric depends. and we
osnounce the lawless invasion by armed force
OF the SOIL OF any state or territory, no mat
Ter under what pretext. among the great
est OF crimes. (Appause.)
10 you know from what platform that plank
Is taken? "a voice, From Abraham Lin
coin 81 Yes. from Abraham Lincolns that
is plank in the platform of the Republican
Party OF 1860. and when you compare our
plank with that you will find that ours is
Inild In language compared to this one. ZAP
piause.) Abraham Lincoln ran for president
on mat that platform. He was elected president
on that platform. and in his inaugural ad-
uress ne quoted that plank in full and reit-
Grated it with his approval
Ihey say that we trying to destroy
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suage on enc whose name l honor
:, Assidlous efforts are making to terrify
! the public mind with apprehension of social
ulsoroer, TO represent the great measure Of
.elorH Wn1ch IS now presented to you as
ulsorganlzlng and to stigmatize It's supporters
as destructive and agrarian. We who now
ADDRESS you have been the organs of these
lmpufauons. We pause, therefore for a mo-
ment to repel them. We entertain no senti-
ments adverse to social order, we seek not to
DESTROY, but to preserve in their purity the
n orr nfrxy'
whose language is that? 1t Is the language
OF Samuel ]. Tilden, used in an address TO
the farmers, mechanics and workingmen.
There they accused the reformers as being
disturbers of the peace, and they asserted
then as we assert now, that we have come
TO save the government which we love. Great
applause.) They had just such contest then
as we have now.
If banker dares have an opinion of his
own. he is menaced with ruin. and half OF
the New York banks who terrify and intimi-
date their country correspondents. stand with
the great London banks, which have pad
locks on the safes of the New York banks.
| believe that the patriotism and the f1rmness
OF patriotic people will prevail in this
struggle. To think otherwise would be to
despair OF a government like this. My
friends. we cannot have free government
unless the people are free to act. If the
people have to obtain consent from a few
people before they can act, then their action
VIII have the same effect as that of a few
people, and we will have democracy merely
In form. We would have a plutocracy in
erect which Is the worst form OF govern
ment: have read these extracts to you,
my friends. to show you that In this day
we were assailed by the same people who as
sailed those who were aiding to make govern
m n better In these days, who sought to
tighten the burdens upon the hacks Of the
people and give them larger share In the
control OF the government under which they
lived. This is history repeating itself and.
my friends. we should not be DISCOURAGED by
these things. Let me read another extract:
Banded together by the same unity OF in
terests arraying them in an organized mass
which acts and operates through all the ram
lncatlons OF society constituting property by
monopoly and perpetuities, and binding to it
political power and establishing an aristoc-
racy more potent more permanent and more
oppressive than any which has ever existed.
such is the dynasty of associated and privi-
legged wealth which is the ruling power at
present in nearly every civilized nation
Those are the words of Samuel ]. Tilden
1 repeat them today, that this government Of
associated wealth, this government by cor
poration, is the most tyrannical government
that any people ever suffered under When
you hear that am opposed to governments
you know that am opposed to governments
by corporations; when you know / am OPP
posed to a government by great aggregations
OF wealth, you will understand why they
call me an anarchist.
Mr.. Bryan then went into an extended dis
cussion of the silver question.
Mr.. Bryan's address lasted an hour and
half, and was concluded at 1918. Under the
guidance Of q local committee he left the
Academy for the rink meeting; Upon reach
Ing Montague STREET however, the disappointed
crowds who failed to get entrance to the
hall shouted for speech and from rude
platform hastily provided, the candidate made
a brief open air address. Meanwhile, inside
the hall Senator Joe" Blacburn of Ken
lucky, had been introduced. He arraigned
the boiling Democrats mercilessly declaring
that New York Democrats were today con-
fronted by spectacle which they had never
before had. From president to dog
pelter;' he cried. "the leaders of the party
are skulking in the rear" Amid great ap-
plause one Of the most enthusiastic meetings
Mr.. Bryan has held in the East was brought