The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01


Id that mortal constitution was the power to
re-possess himself OF the forts and other prop
erty belonging to the United States We
sent under his proclamation 2700, 600 men, and
we drove the Confederates into the ocean, and
established for them and ourselves, as 1t was
before, this glorious and indissoluble Union.
that will be perpetual long the rocks
on which this continent rests-if what? II
we maintain Ii in its primitive power and
effulgence. (Applause) This government was
created with three different departments, all
separate from each other, yet all interdepend-
ent on each other The legislative, or con-
gress, to make the laws; the judicial to ex-
pound them, and the executive to enforce
them. AS long as these separate departments
are Kept distinct, as long as you have re-
spect for authority, no matter what that de-
cision is, as long as you do that you can have
begin In the Chicago platform to stab this
sorm OF government-in the first plank you
propose to take away from the president Of
the United States the power that Abraham
Lincoln. as your chairman has well said, had
70 possess himself of the forts and other
property belonging to the United States. You
powers OF the supreme court and add to it's
NUMBER until you can get decisions to suit
you You also propose that you will have no
more government by injunction"
injunction by the courts means simply this
1hat IL you or | attempt to do wrong they
enJoin us from doing 1t. That rs a peace
measure entirely. And this republic would
be rope OF sand II those three powers were
taken away from the general government.
Wnen you take them away you will leave
THIS government a rope of sand. And in
leaving 1t without power to enforce its man
GATE, you reduce this people to anarchy, and
you raise the red flag of revolution, instead
OF the stars and stripes that your soldiers
fought for. Nppiause.) They took away the
credit Of the government OF the United States,
by saying that the government of the
United States should not sell bonds to main
tain its credit. They refused to put in their
platform plank which proposed to keep
sacred the contracts already made. BY big
ger yell than ever they put that down. They
spit upon your honored president, the first
YOU have he'd in II irty wears. And thew would
have impeached him there If they had had
their way and had had the power. Oh, in
that act they sent Grover Cleveland's name
down the corridors of time immortal, when
theirs Will be rotten and forgotten. ZAP
plause.) They propose to wipe out your power
and mine in any city of this Union to tell
how much currency we want to do business
in other words, to wipe out the banks Of the
country and substitute fiat money. My
friends, where did you read from any Demo-
cratic national convention any platform that
breathed any such sentiments these?
Where did you read that you had power to
extend the interstate commissions powers,
and in their twin sister at Chicago-and their
candidate stands on both platforms buy the
railroads of the country and run them? Where
did you read of this paternalism in any Dem
ocratic theory of government? Haven't you
been
CHASING AFTER STRANGE GODS,
you regular men? 1 say you have. And I
say, in other words, that this regularity Of
yours makes me think of story Laughter.)
You want to stick to it. You know it amt
right. You know there is not word Of
Democracy in it, but still 1T is regular. And
you might get away with Doran or LAWYER
or Cutcheon, or some of these Democrats
whom you have all been glad to follow in
the past, but you want to be leaders your
selves, and you don't care if you do come
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kiting concern. There was on old logger,
and he had forty men for choppers. He took
them into the woods and they didn't have
any cook, so they elected one man cook, and
amongst that crowd that ever said a word
against his cooking they would elect cook,
and the man they elected cook could take his
place. The next morning the potatoes came
on half-boiled, the coffee wasn't well cooked,
the steak was actually raw. One of these
regular fellows, who wants to go with the
procession and stay with his principle, he
says: We'll, that's an almighty mean steak,
but I like the cooking" daughter and ap-
plause.) They put a plank in that platform
that you never have seen in any Democratic
the great founder of the Democratic party
believed that the unit of value in this repub-
lie should rest on both metals, but he said
that when the ratio was fixed by law, If the
commercial ratio in the worlds market varied
from the law, that the commercial value
should prevail. Do you want it 16 to 1-or
bust? Naughter.) Bust all the people.
Whether it is right or wrong, do you want to
do that. You have no authority for it in any
platform OF the Democratic party, or in any
platform of honest men. (Applause.) But
you want it and 1t is in the platform and
l don't know how to get this dishonesty out
Of that platform, except to beat the -candi-
dates that are nominated on it. Applause and
laughter)
There is no use of talking that There were
a hundred thousand business men In New York
who marched today, in a clear day, from the
battery to Twenty-third street, carrying the
banners that your fathers bore in the re-
bellion; carrying the banners that won our
battles with Mexico and gave us back Texas
even in the battles of the revolution those
men were carrying it, and they were carry
ing 1t in an honest cause. And all over this
Union men were marching in solid phalanx.
marching to the tune Of Yankee Doodle -
to save the nation. Applause.) He wants
wrap the American flag around him and say
to American citizenship: mo foreign power
dictates to u.s." (Applause.) 1 heard a
story up in Duluth, Of where they hung a
rainy weather. And a little boy, when asked
what they hung that on the wall for. said
1t was to hide the dirt. daughter and ap-
plause.) This flag, that was borne in the
streets of New York and all over this Union
today, was not hung there to hide the dirt:
but the flag that is wrapped around the Pop
ul1st candidate is there to hide the dirt of
reputation. Applause) I wish that I could
be excused from talking about the crime of
1873. 1 know to an intelligent audience II
must be tiresome. They have had it dinged
much talked about by the Populist Candidate
except that, and l don't know as thew talk
about that very inteligently. You will be
the Judges when l get done. But all the
think as much as it did Abraham Lincoln
after the first battle of Bull Run An old
congressman went in there and bothered him
for three-Quarters Of an hour about how he
could have won that battle of Bull Rim.
Wen, Lincoln, when he got up awfully tired
said; My friend''-you know he was a
SooI seory-teller-" usually when man talks
as long to me as you have, it reminds me
OF story of something; but what Won ave
said don't remind me of anything" G,augb
ter and applause.)
TALK WITHOUT KNOWING.
They talk their issues, and their primitive
money, and things that they don't know anv-
tning about, and 1t is wonderful, as old Josh
Billings says, how many things a man talks
about on this silver question that is not so.
or is not true" Now l will tell Won some
thing about this crime of 1S73-and haven't
got to tell 1T but once more, and that is in In
diana, and 1 am thankful for that. Laugh
teri In 1873 we had a law on our statute
books that coined a silver dollar at 41215
grains. 1t coined also half-dollar, quar-
ter, ten-cent piece, a f1ve-cent piece and a
three-cent piece, all in silver. John j. Knox.
an honored citizen of st. Paul. good finan-
cier, presented a bill to congress asking them
to stop the coinage of silver dollars-just as
Thomas Jefferson did in 1S0S through James
Madison, his secretary of the treasury, stop
ping the coinage in the minis, because spec
ulatorS were buying them I'D and sending
them away. The reason for that bill is this:
He wanted the fve-cent piece and the three
cent piece stopped from being coined because
the dollar OF Ape grams was worth then
three cents more in the markets of the world
than 1t was worth to bring the silver there
and coin it, and nobody would bring it there
They never had brought, between 1892 and
1873. but a little less than eight million dol
lars, and every one Of them had gone into
the stockings Of the people, or gone abroad