The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-09-24
MORRISON TALKED.


a very weak audience turned out
to hear the candidate for congress
on the gold ticket, Mr.. Morrison of
Caldwell, at the town hall last Mon
day evening. When he opened with
his "Ladies and Gentlemen" land
spaced there were about thirty pres
cnt, which afterwards picked up
little--to forty or fifty by the
time he had finished Mr.. Morrison
started out by stating how his party
revered the constitution, but failed to
explain why it had destroyed some Of
the money Of the constitution or why
it opposed returning to that money.
lie denounced the Chicago plank in
reference to the supreme court to his
satisfaction, and then started out on
''when the glorious old republican
party rode into power in 1860, it"
He was here interrupted bv the
question, "What did the platform on
which the republican party went into
power that year have to say about the
supreme court?'
Morrison stared at the intruder and
said, Il am not talking about plat
forms. 1T Mr.. Lockwood who had
asked the question: will listen he will
learn what | have to say"
In case his reply may not have
been satisfactory to some of his au-
dience we here give part of the Abe
Lincoln platform of 1860, aud along
side Of it place the present demo-
cratic plank, denounced by Morrison,
so they may he compared:
REP PLANK 1850 DEN. PLANK 1890.
That the present dem Until the money ones
ocrttlc administration tion Is settled we are
mas l"r exceeded ourlopposed to any agitation
worst hpprehensons iniior further changes In
US measureless subserv-l our tariff laws except
lrhrN 70 the eNactions such rs are necessary to
OF sectional interest as make the deficit in reve-
esNrmllN cNinced IN sinue caused by the adj
desperate eNcrtions tolverse decision of Tho
force the infamous i.e-l Supreme Court on tho
compton constitution income tax. Hut for this
upon tie protesting peo- decision by the Supreme
pr" OF hhhshs, IN con- Court there would be no
strung the personal re- deficit in the revenue
l"t,on between master'uader the law passed BY
anu servant 10 inNolNea democratic congress-
nn uhInahhed propertNtn strict pursuance OF
!h p'r,"nt IN u> at The uniform decisions OF
'eWpiu"hiorrement ev- that court for nearly 100 |
Wy "here. ON inhd and Years. that court having |
SEA. THROUGH rnE iN-under that decision sus-
'hWhNrloN or CON tanned constitutional |
GRHss AND or rnE FED- objections Ia its .nn,.t !
1AL ''thrs' OF the eN- ment which had been |
rthe PIetensiohs OF aovarrulcd by the ablcst /
purely local interest. judges who have ever sat |
That the new dogma ON that bench
that the Constitutions We ,eclnr. TINT n Ia |
y, rs "Wh i"rce carries the duty OF congress to /
saNsfl INTO any or MI use All the constitutions
81 we territories OF thelal power which remains
hi'rd states, Is a dan after that decision, or /
terNus pohtical hcresN. which may come from
a, variance with the eN- its reversal by the court
pnclt provisions OF thatns 1t may hereafter be
instrument ITSELF with constituted. so that the
runtemporaneous expo-ib burdens OF taxations
sltion. aud with lefis-lmav be- equally and I'M
nuVe and JUDICIAL partially divided. to the
INCIDENT. ~ EkyoLU-end that wealth ma,
i,"HAn' N irs rkSDkN- bear It's due proportion
- ANp sthNhhSi'h ofoi the expenses OF the
THE PEACE AND HARMONY government
or THE COUNTRY.
The republicans were then iustlv
snarling lwler the bred scott dccis-