The record-union., 1896-09-26

| All these and other tnlngS INC Nepuo-
lican spurns who goes over to Organism
and 16-to-1-ism. and noninterferenceism
and Supreme Court reconstructionism,
and free tradeism, and all the other fads
and isms that crankiness, fncivicism and
incipient communism have jammsd In
] to the Chicago platform.
|
PLAYING THE PEOPLE FOR FOOLS.
The Government by Injunction. nom
Interference, Supreme Court stuff1ng
and anti-tenure Of Office planks In the
Chicago platform Mr.. Bryan especially
approves, and has repeatedly an
nounced he will enforce, SO far as he
can, If elected. Lately he has been
driven to explain what he means and
how he reads these planks, and his ex-
planation is clearly a modification OF
his original view.
| For instance, In one Of his latest
speeches he says the reference to the
Supreme Court means only that as
Judges die off or resign Congress should
use all power remaining to it to undo
the evil flowing from the reversal OF the
court by itself in the income tax mat
ter. us it not possible" he asks. that
future Judges may return to the earlier
view taken by the court?"
But Mr.. Bryan sounded very differ
ent note In the New York City speech.
and in June last, In a Western maga-
zine, he denounced the system Of select
ing Federal Judges, saying that a
President cannot choose SO intelligent
ly as can electors, who should reserve
| the power to depose by refusal to re-
elect" Life positions he declared breed
Indifference In the public servant" In
that article he clearly intimated that
courts ought to decide as Is by political
election decreed, and therefore not. we
must conclude, as the law is.
When he thus wrote he did not fore
see the protest of Senator Hill in the
Chicago convention, but when he spoke
in Madison square Garden he had for
gotten the fight made against the plank
and what a shock it had given the whole
country.
As to the other planks. The Govern
ment should not interfere in domestic
affairs in a State. But shall 1t refuse
to protect the citizen claiming a right
under Federal laws and the National
Constitution2 Shall the Government de-
fer its duty Of protecting interstate
| commerce and the passage Of citizens
from one State into and through an
other to the whim, viciousness, coward
ioe or incompetency Of a State Execu-
| tive? What sort Of a Government
would we have that could not send it's
mail trains into and through any State.
its troops and supplies, without con-
| sulting the State Executive or legsla-
| tive body?
The courts cannot set UP q Govern
| ment by injunction. OF course. They
never have done so. But If leaders Of
mobs, interposing to prevent the pas
| sage Of interstate commerce. are for
bidden by Federal court, defy its
mandate and continue in their lawless-
ness, shall the court confess its inca
pacity or maintain it's power and extend
| to the interrupted citizen and to the
| Government departments the protec-
tion guaranteed by the Constitution?
| Who is there to-day 50 bold as to say
| that the President in 1894 did more than
| his duty in ordering the Chicago Debs
| mob dispersed and interstate traffic re-
stored7 Who Is there Is so ignorant of
| first principles as to say now that the
| appeal Of citizens to the courts for writs
| Of command against law breakers that
| they refrain from interrupting him in
his rights should have been denied?
That was all there was to "interfer-
| ence" and Government by injunction"
In 1894, and it was to that time and the
| acts related to 1t that the plank Of the
| Chicago platform referred. Those in
the convention know this to be true, and
| of the many there we have seen we have
| yet to meet one who denies 1t.
| 1t was Mr.. Daniel who presided over
the convention OF Chicago who intro
duced the resolution in the Senate COM
mending the President for his action.
and 1t was Senator White who seconded
1T, the same gentleman who was made
Permanent Chairman Of the conven-
| ton.
Now, why did the Bryan convention
put those two resolutions into its plat
| form? Mr.. Bryan knows why. Alt
geld knows why. White and Daniels
| both know; all the leaders know-the
| resolutions were thought to be neces-
sary TO placate the turbulent, COM
munistic and lawless element in
and about the convention and whose
votes are wanted by tho Democracy.
That soft solder would do for them and
patriotic men wodld not care, was the
/ theory of the platform makers. But
1t Will not work. Loyal, law-abiding
men who believe that a government
worth preserving has in 1t the elements
and powers of self-preservation are not
to be deceived.
| The Louisville "Courier-Journal de-
/ clares there was another motive actu-
ating the schemers also. It thinks that
the Bryanites passed the resolutions to
give workingmen to understand that If
Bryan's triumph should result In cutting
down their wages, and they should
strike and resort to violence, they could