The Dickinson press., 1896-09-12
GEN. HARRLS0NS VOICE
1t is Heard in New York 90 the
Vital Issues Of the Grea
Campaign.
PERILs OF PoP0CRAT SUCCESS.
A Stirring Address in Which All
Questions Are Handled in a
Mastery Way.

-siastic audience gathered to hear the
issues &C the campaign discussed by en-
Prcsidcr' Benjamin Harrison. Hon.
'Chaunccy NJ. Dcpcw presided over the
meeting. Both Mr.. Harrison and Mr..
Depew We're the recipients Of ovations
when they entered the hall. Upon call
ing the gathering to order, MIR. Depcw
delivered an address on campaign issues,
at the close of which he introduced cx-
President Harrison, who ut once entered
into a discussion of the issues. He spoke
at considerable length, being very fire.
quently interrupted by applause. Re-
ferring to his appearance as a campaign
speaker he said it was due to his sense
of the duty he owed to the country to
combat the fallacics sought to be foistcd
upon the people by the Democratic party
and its allies. He acknowledged his re
spcct for the feelings which actuatcd
the gold Democrats in occupying the DO.
sitiOn they do, but said they must not
expect the Republican party to reorgan
ize itself because the Democratic party
had ~disorganizcd itself. The Demo
cratic party had once more exhibited its
capacity to be ruptured and u party that
cannot be split was Il public menace.
When the leaders of a party assembled
in convention depart from it's traditional
principles and advocate doctrines that
threaten the integrity of the government.
the social order of our communities and
the security and %soundness of our
6nance, it ought to be split, md it digni.
hes itself when it does split. A bolt
from any party is now and then a most
reassuring incident and was never more
reassuring and never had better cause
than now. The Republican party fronts
the destructionists and trumpets it's de.
hance to the enemies of Sound money!
1t will fight, however, without covering
any Of the glorious notices and inscrip
lions that are upon it's banner. Contin.
uIng, Mr.. Harrison said:
THAT is a leading issue of a cam.
Ralgn which most agitates the people.
In my opinion there is no issue present.
ed by the Chicago convention more i'm.
portant or vital than the question they
have raised Of prostituting the power
and duty of the national courts and ma.
tional executive. The defense of the
constitution, of the Supreme court of the
United States and Of the Presidents
power and duty to enforce all of 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 this campaign. Tariff and coin.
age will be of little moment if our con.
stltutional government is overthrown.
When we have a President who believes
that it is neither his right nor his duty
to see that the mail trains are not OBJ!
structed and that interstate commerce
has its free way, irrespective of state
lines and state courts. who fears to use
strain and punish lawbreakers, free
trade and free silver will be appropriate
accompaniment of such an administra-
ton and cannot add appreciably to the
national distress or the national dis.
honor. (Applause.)
"The atmosphere of the Chicago con-
'vention was s%urcharged with the spirit
of revolution. Its platform was car
ried and its nominations made with ac-
%,companying incidents of frenzy that star
tied the onlookers and amazed the coun-
try. The courts and the President were
arraigned for enforcing the laws, and
government by the mob vas given pref
erence over government by law enforced
by the court DEGREES and by executive
orders. There was no calm deliberation;
there was frenzy. There was no Thought
perience was most able to direct public
affairs. There was ar impnlsive re-
Spouse to an imprisoned speech that So,
lected the nominee. Not amid such
surroundings as that, not under such in
1auences, are these calm. discreet things
done that will commend themselves to
the judgment of the American people!
(Applause.)
'They denounce in their platform in
reference by federal authorities in local
affairs as a violation of the constitution
of the United States and a crime against
free institutions. Mr.. Tillman in his
speech approved this declaration. It
was intended to be in words a direct
condemnation of Mr.. Cleveland as Presi-
dent of the United States for using the
power of the executive to brush out of
the way every obstacle to the free mass
age of the mail trains of the United
States and the interstate commerce, and.
my friends, whenever our people ap.
prove the choice of a President who
any other state permission to enforce the
laws Of the United States, we have
surrendered the victory the boys won
In 1851. (Applause.)
MY friends. this constitutional ques.
ton, this division between the genera
and local authorities is a plain and easy
n {. A disturbance which is purely 10
cal in a state is 4 state affair. Til
President cannot send troops or lend any
aid, unless the Legislature calls upoi
4im tor help or the governor, if Tho
Q law of the United States is invaded
and broken. it is the sworn duty Of tn,
President to execute it. and this convcn
ton arraigns the President for doin,
What his oath compelled him to do
Union, sons of those who went ont II
battle that the flag might not lose #
luster, will we consent after these wear
(cries of 'No!) that the doctrine whicl
was shot to death in the great war shat
be revived and made victorious in a CIV
campaign? (Cries of 'No!)
"But the assault does not end Their
The Supreme court of the United State
and the federal lower courts are al
writ Of injunction to suppress vioIenc,
to restrain men from breaking the law
and that platform plainly means-I wi
show you that it was so understood i
the convention and in the committee o
rosolutions-that the Democratic polio
was that when the Supreme court, excl
cising its constitutional power and duty
gave an Interpretation to a law of til
United States that was not pleasing t
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