The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-08-29
The Democratic Platform Strikes
ct the Governments
Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLISM.
Condition Of Affairs Worse than War
Would Result from DEM
ocratic Success.

very clearly the fact that free silver is
not bimetalism and showed what evil
results would follow Democratic sue
cess. He said that for the first
time since the election next preced-
ing the great Civil war, we are
required to guard the very founda-
tons and bulwarks of national stability,
of commercial honesty, of financial con-
duct. The Democratic party which met
at Chicago in convention in July suffered
a wonderful change in that convention.
The old oraclcs and guides of the party
were rudely turned aside. 1t was occu-
pied and Economically possessed by new
spirit-something which has not raised
its head in the political conventions of
either party for thirty years. II there
was any one thing which the 2,OOO,OOO
of men who went out to defend this coun-
had entirely oblterated when they re.
turned, it was the malign doctrine Of
state rights. which lay ut the bottom
and was the impetus of the greatest
rebellion which ever reared its head
against,a civilized government. 10 and
state of South Carolina, rs of yore, you
find the declaration of the same state
rights, in the same spirit as in the an
cient time. and done in n connection. my
follow citizens, which must appeal to the
resentment and repugnancc of every lib
eTly-lONlHR anu COuntTy-lONlHH ultl. EN-
eryone who knows anything about me
knows that ! am not political admirer
of Grover Cleveland: but if there was
any one act of his administration which,
after the contentious of history have
ceased to rage about his acts and his
memory, that will remain star-bright
forever. it was his action, when the
pulse of business beat low, when COM
mcrcial intercourse was cut off by rioters
in Chicago, by which. upon principles and
precedcnts laid down by George Wash
ington 100 years before, he evoked the
strong arm of the United States to re-
store law and order in this country.
Applause and cheers.
This act is cOvertly land covertly is
too mild a world denounced in the Chi
cago platform. More than that. If there
is anything in this country or in any ma
ton upon which the stability of the gov
eminent depends, the very keystone of
the great arch upon which the ranged
empire stands the ultimate principle of
absoluteism that must exist somewhere
in all governments, it is the courts of our
land, where men sequestered from politi-
cal concerns and political ambitions,
holding the scales of justice even be-
tween ,contending passions and contend
ing rights. decide for their fellow citizens
what the law is. And for more than 100
years the Supreme court Of the United
States has sat in that exalted position,
midway in the capitol of the nation be-
tween the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatiyes, typical object lesson of
their position and of their sublime ca
pacity to restrain either, and has done
more TO conduct the government TO the
high plane which ii occupies. was going
to say, than all the statesmen which this
country has ever produced. (Applause.)
The Chicago platform strikes ut that
court, strikes at all courts. and enun-
re- m Of ha
ganizatiOn of that court and of any other
court II necessary, to register the ftful
and passionate and regulating cdc.s of
mistaken and misguided men, of mistaken
and misguided parties.
A Crisis is Impending.
And worse than that. my fellow citi-
zens-worse than that! If there was
another thing which the veterans IF the
last war thought they had achieved and
which the loyal sentiment of the North
thought it had achieved. it was the OBJ
liberation of all sectionalism in this com
try; we were to have no South, no North.
no East, no West any more. The whole
country was TO be unity. But in III. Sc
later days, we see the solid South com
ing up to the banks of the Ohio and the
Missouri as before the war, and with
sectional demands upon an economic is.
sue, precisely such as was made before
tie Rebellion. And now, with the pinch
fork of Tillman stirring up the doctrine
of state rights. with the bomb of Alleged
in the denunciation~of our courts and of
President Cleveland thrown under the
very fabric of our government. they have
chosen to put forward as an issue some.
thing which touches more Immediately
the conviction, the passions. the cupility
ana the honesty of men, and which in IL
self contains more dsintegrating influ
ences to our prosperity than all the
causes combined that | have mentioned
The Democratic convention, or the
Democratic party, as now organized. has
joined the Populist party in bonds of un-
holy wedlock upon the demand that the
United States shall take a position mon
the currency of this country which /
speaking to you under the responsibility
of man who is speaking to his reirh-
bors, say that l believe Is fraught With
more disaster to this country than the
about. (Applause.) 80 e
And that is the subject that I have
been asked to talk to you tonight obout
1 am going to do so, as | said in tho be
ginning, not with any attempt Mt deco
rative speech. not denouncing any mon
who may choose to differ from me. for
tel you. my fellow citizens, that many
and many thousand men who differ
from us today on this matter one wear
from now will be wondering why md
how they came to do 1t. jAppiause1
And so l shall go on. l may be tedious
i am going to give you facts and f;g.
ures. l am not going to draw on nv
own imagination for my facts Mt ali
The facts that / shall give you will he
impregnable. 1t is for you 70 Judge
whether the deductions l shall draw
from them can be refuted.
Now what is the question? For n cor-
rect understanding of the question is nj.
ways the first step towards the solution
Of the controversy. The question is NOT
whether there should be the free and
unlimited coinage of silver in the minis
of all the nations, by the consent of the
principal commercial nations of the globe
upon ratio to be agreed upon. That is
not the issue. We all might agree that
when this is brought about, MS II will mo
IL the United States conducts itself with
judgment upon this question, I say we
might all agree that that would he nm
excellent thing. The Republican party
has pledged itself In successive platforms
TO labor to bring about international
agreement. The most advanced think
ers upon financial questions in both
hemispheres are advocating, especially in
foreign lands, the resumption of the coin
age of silver, by united action of nations
who, before we did, long ago. independ-
entity of us and uncOntrollab Ia hy a..