The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-23
CARLISLE IN KENTUCKY.
CARDINAL PRINCIPLES OF DEMO-
CRATIC FAITH DEFENDED BY
THE SECRETARY.
HooDLuMs WE'RE IN EVIDENCE.
Audience Endeavored to Break
Up the Meeting.

Fellows hall, which was crowded to
its utmost capacity. Mr.. Carlisle was
received with most generous and hearty
applause when he appeared on the
stage. This was followed by vocifer-
Gus cheers for Bryan from a crowd OF
about a hundred men, forming line
in the standing room at the rear of
the hail. This continued for some time
after Secretary Carlisle began to speak,
completely drowning his voice, so those
1 nearest him on the stage could not hear
his words. At the same time, crowd
| occupied the street and rent the air
with shouts for Bryan. This continued
| at frequent intervals during the Ell
tire speaking. Now and then a man
on the outside would shout: Carlisle,
| the traitor" Once after Mr.. Carlisle
began his speech, he stopped and beg
| ged the turbulent crowd to leave the
! hail. The disturbers did not leave, but
they interrupted him afterward less
frequently. The mayor and several
police officers were in the hall, but no
| perceptible effort was made to stop the
disturbance Mr.. Carlisle said in part:
| l have come here to speak in behalf of
! DeInOcrdllc cdnQlQdLeS pl6QBeQ 10 Jno prlQ-
| clpIeS OF Democratic platform, and my
purpose is to discuss some of the pending
| political questions from purely Democratic
| standpoint. We are not Republicans or Pop
| ulists or fusionists; we are simply plain old
! fashioned Democrats, without any modern
| adulterations in our doctrines or any of the
Populist or communistic appendages to our
! organization. 1t may be that the hOmely
! doctrines of the old-time Democracy will
| CRATE harshly upon the ears of many who are
here this evening, but they are as true now,
! my friends, as they were in the past when
we all stood together in their defense, pre-
pared to go down in defeat year after year
rather than abandon a single honest convic-
! ton. None of US stopped then to inquire
/ whether our candidates could be elected but
we asked only whether the principles they
/ advocated would promote the welfare Of the
| country. We made no alliances with our
| political opponents; we erased no Democratic
1dmes from our ballots to make room for
[aliens to our faith, and whether victorious
| or defeated, we kept the old Democratic ban
| ner at the head of our column, and never
! surrendered.
Here in this county. when less than twenty
! years old, 1 began to address the people in
public in opposition to new and dangerous
! political party, secretly organized to pro-
scribe large and meritorious class Of our
| fellow citizens on account of their nativity
/ and their religion, and from that time to
! the present, although more or less actively
! participating in nearly every political con-
test that has occurred in this country, I
! may safely challenge my severest critics to
show that / have ever uttered an un-Demo-
cratic sentiment or cast an un-Democratic
| vote. claim the right therefore, to be
! heard in the counsels of my old associates,
to discuss the questions upon which the diff
ferences of opinion have arisen to vindi-
cate the conservatism and patriotism of our
common faith and to appeal for a fair and
/ impartial judgment upon the great issues
which have been precipitated upon the coun-
| try.
We have reached a period of great discon-
! tent and great danger. Party lines have to
great extent been obliterated Party or
ganizations have been partially changed, and
! the counsels Of old and experienced party
! leaders disregarded. The issues involved are
Of such tremendous Importance to the coun-
! try that for the time being ordinary party
>obligations sink into utter insignifcance, and
! every patriotic citizen is imperatively called
/ upon to obey the honest dictates of his own
| conscience. without regard to the approval
! or disapproval of caucuses or conventions;
and that is what many thousands of our
people doing.
Strange and alarming doctrines have been
promulgated under the name of Democracy,
and the party discipline has been evoked and
party loyalty has been appealed to for the
purpose OF coercing or persuading the people
/ to cast their votes contrary to their honest
judgments. | know the potency of these ap-
peals to party fealty, for | a party man
! and always have been; but my ALLEGIANCE is
due primarily to the principles of my party
and not simply to the organization that as
sumes to control 1t and dictate its platforms:
and certainly not to any organization which
divides its authority and its ticket with my
political opponents, and Incorporates un-
Democratic features into its creed in order to
secure their support. In ordinary times and
! in the presence of ordinary questions of pol
! icy and expediency, no citizen can be prop
erly censured If he conforms his action to the
! Judgment of a majority of his political friendc
! but no man or set of men can rightfully have
authority to dictate how you shall vote on
questions which, in your opinion, involve the
honor and the peace and prosperity of the
country.
There were Democratic principles long be-
fore there was any Democratic organization
There has never been a time in the history
of this country when there was not strong
and aggressive Democratic sentiment among
our people. 1t was the vital force behind
the revolution which resulted in the achieve
ment of our independence; 1t was embodied
| IN that great declaration which startled the
crowned heads and electrified the oppressed
people of the world, in 1776. What are the
| principles of this American Democracy for I
| do not refer to that wild, turbulent and de-
structlve form OF Democracy which has been
! imported from abroad and which is SO nearly
ALLIED TO ANARCHY
that it is almost imnossible to distinguish ono
from the other? Liberty regulated and pro-
tected by law, local self-government and
strict construction of the powers delegated
/ by the states and people to their agents: no
interference with the private business of the
citizen except so far as may be necessary for
the preservation Of the public peace. the
public health, the enforcement of honest con
tracts and the maintenance of the lust al-
| thority Of the state and federal governments.
no prescription on account of religious belief
freedom of speech; freedom of the press
habeas corpus; the subordination of the mill
! tary to the civil authority; no taxation bevond
the necessities of the government honestly
and economically administered: the nearest
possible approach to the absolute freedom of
commercial intercourse at home and abroad
/ and sound money for the use of the Deon1e
| IN order that their trade may be profitahIe
and that they may not be cheated out of their
| earnings by the use of spurious or depreci-
ated coin or irredeemable paper-these are
some OF the familiar and essential articles in
the creed of the old Democracy, which. dur
ing the last hundred years. have been illus
! trated and consecrated by the Senius of
Thomas Jefferson, the heroism of Andrew
jackson and the courage fidelity and patriot
| ism of Grover Cleveland
During all that time Democracy has consti-
\ tuted the great conservative force of the
country. 1t Is opposed to paternalism and
radicalism in ali their forms and At every
great crisis in our affairs 1T has appealed r.
the sober reason and Judgment of the neonIe
4 for support. 1t upholds the honor and dig
! nifty of the judiciary as the last refuge p,
i the oppressed citizen: 1t vindicates the rights
of labor and the rights of property. If d.
| nounces violence and crime whether com
! mitted bv one man or by combinations q,
acy of the state laws within their respective
spheres; snd while it advocates all neces-
sary reforms in legislation and adminisfra
/ ton. it resoutely resists all revolutionary at
tempts to subvert the foundations of puhlir
authority to destroy the basis of our com.
| mercial and industrial system. 1t does no,
/ recognize the omnipotence Of any human gov
ernment. and 1t, therefore. denies the power