The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-10-15

ernor of that State.
"One of the chief speakers at the
at Chicago understood the
of the convention and
voiced it's spirit / come from State
which was the home of secession, said
Senator Tillman, of South Carolina,
4 say he continued, it is sec
tional issue and it will prevail
And fitting was it that the speaker
voicing the spirit of the Chicago CON
vention should be the representative
of South Carolina. Thrice now has
South Carolina spoken for secession
when it passed in 1882 the nullifca-
ton ordinance, when in 1861 in fired
on Fort Sumter and when in 1896 it
cries out: A sectional issue, and it
will prevail
"The platform of the Chicago CON
vention threatens the country with
destruction OF social order, with law
lessness and anarchy. The personifi-
cation of law and Of social order in
America is in our courts, and the
promise of safely to our free institu-
lions is the prompt obedience of the
people to those courts. And, now, the
courts are to be shorn of their power,
and shorn of it in favor of mObs bent
on rioting and the destruction of prop
erty.
We especially object, says the
Chicago platform, to government by
injunction as a new and highly dan
gerous form of OPPRESSION Here ref
erence is made to the action of the
courts during the Chicago riots, with
out which action there is no calcula-
ting how much ruin would have come
to the city.
1.-The palladium of Anne iiber-
ties is the Supreme Court at Wash
ington, the counterpart of which is
majesty and in power to enforce abso-
lutely justice does not exist among
the nations of ChristendOm.
But, as far as it is possible to hui
llltlII lllSCiiulbNi otlGiNlN Vi pau llSttu
politics, Independent of all political
influences through their life tenure of
office, the judges of this court rule
Congress and President, States and
nations, and eXpound the law in all its
/ intleXibility no matter who or what
must yield to it. And now a conven-
tioD Snaa |, c of tho Srpra,na Count SOC
| it may be hereafter constituted init
mating Enthusiastically the intentiOn,i if
| the party represented in that conven-
| ton come to power, to so constitute
the court by the popular election of
the judges, by the shortening of their
terms of office Or otherwise, as to make
it insensible to the stern voice of the
law and responsive to the passing
whims of political parties.
Worse to my mind than all this is
the spirit of socialism that permeates
the whole movement which has issued
from the convention at Chicago. 1t
is the international of Europe now
OttiNliiS pob III <lIlClIN
'Of this one cannot but be con
WINGED when the movement is closely
observed, the shibboleths of its adher-
ents listened to, the discourses of its
orators carefully examined. The war
of class against class is upon us, the
war of the proletariat against the pro
nnrfN hn11nr No h nj, Il
this can be given to the appeals to the
common people, to labor, to the
poor and downtrodden' and to the de-
nunciations against 'plutocrats,' and
corporations and 'money-grabers,'
and bankers
Many adherents of the movement
do not preceive its full meaning.
But let them beware, they are light
ing torches which, borne in the hands
of reckless men, may start up in this
country the lurid fires of commune
America, heretofore, has been free
from sOcialistic hatred and warfare
1t has been country of opportunities
for all men and it has given to the
laborer a livelihood higher and better
than is afforded him in any other
country of the world Is this all to
be changed? If social chaos, gloating
over ruins, to be the method of social
elevation of the masses?
There may be room in some things
for peaceful amelioration through
well-informed public opinion ard or
derby legislation, but class hatred and
angry passion never lead to aught
but general misery and suffering.
The people of America must today
look warily around, guard against
catch-words and misleading war
cries, avoid giving any countenance
to socialistic or an&rchistic tendencies
and know that the first condition
or prosperity to any and all classes of
the people is peaceful Common
wealth and assured social order.
THE monetary question is indced,a
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