The Dickinson press., 1896-08-29
SENATOR DAVIS view.
The Democratic Platform Strikes
at the Governments
Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLISM.
Condition Of Affairs Worse than War
Would Result from Dem.
ocratic Success.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLIsM.

In n speech delivered at st. Paul Au-
gust 4, Senator G. X. Davis pointed out
very clearly the fact that free silver is
not bimctallism and showed what evil
results would follow Democratic sue
cess. He said that for the first
time since the election next preced-
ing the great Civil war, we s,r are
tions and bulwarks of national stability.
Of commercial honesty, of financial con.
duct. The Democratic party which met
at Chicago in convention in July suffered
q wonderful change in that convention.
The old oraclcs and guides Of the party
were rudcly turned aside. 1t was occu-
pied and demoniacalIy possessed by new new,
Its head in the political conventions of
either party for thirty years. # there nGe
was any one thing which the 2.0OO.WO
of men who went out to defend this coun-
try thirty years ago thought that they
had entirely oblitcrated when they re.
state rights, which lay at the bottom
and was the impetus of the greatest
rebellion which ever reared its head
against civilized government. Lo and
behold. in that convention, from the
state of South Carolina, as of yore, you
find the declaration of the same state
rights. in the same spirit as in the an
follow citizens. which must appeal to the
resentment and repugnance of every lib
erty-loving and country-loving man. Ev-
eryone who knows anything about me
knows that | am not politica! admirer
of Grover Cleveland; but if there was
after the contentious of history have
ceased to rage about his acts and his
memory, that will remain star-bright
forever, it was his action, when the
pulse of business beat low, when COM
mercial intercourse was cut off by rioters
in Chicago, by which, upon principles and
precedenttss laid down by George Wash. 81
strong arm of the United States to re-
store. law and order in this country.
[Applause and cheers.
This act is covertly land covertly is
too mild a word) denounced in the Chi
cago platform. More than that. If there
j; anything in this country or in an any ma ma
ernment depends, the very keystone of
the great arch upon which the ranged
empire stands. the ultimate principle of
abs0luteism that must exist somewhere
in all governments, it is the courts of our
land, where men sequestered from politi-
ca! concerns and political ambitions,
tween contending passions and contend
ing rights, decide for their fellow citizens
what the law is. And for more than 100
years the Supreme court of the United
States has sat in that exalted position,
midway in the capitol of the nation be-
tween the Senate and the House of Rep
resentatives, typical object lesson of
pacity to restrain either, and has done
more to conduct the government to the
high plane which it occupies, was going
to say, than all the statesmen which this
country has ever produced. (Applause)
The Chicago platform strikes at that
court, strikes at all courts, and enun-
ciates its malign prophesy of the reor-
court If necessary, to register the fitful
and passionate and repudiating cdicts of
mistaken and misguided men, Of mistaken
and misguided parties.