The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-29
SENATOR DAVIS view.
The Democratic Platform Strikes
at the Governments
Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BlMETAlllSM.
Condition Of Affairs Worse than War
Would Result from DEM
ocratc Success.

IN speech delivered at ST. Paul An
gust 4. Senator G. n. Davis pointed out
very clearly the fact that free silver j.
not bimeiallism and showed what evil
results would follow Democratic sue
Cess. He said that for the first
time since the election next preced-
required 10 guard the very founda-
tons and bulwarss Of national stability.
OF commercial honesty. Of financial con-
duct. The Democratic party which met
at Chicago in convention in July suffered
a wonderful change in that convention
The old oracles and guides Of the party
were rudely turned aside. IL was occu-
pied and Economically possessed by new
spirit-something which has not raised
its head in the political conventions OF
either party for thirty years. II there
was any one thing which the 2.OOO.OOO
Of men who went out 20 defend this coun-
try thirty years ago thought that they
had entirely Obliterated when they re-
turned, il was the malign doctrine OF
state rights. which lay ~ the bottom
and was the impetus Of The greatest
rebellion which ever reared its head
against civilized government 10 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
Gent Ume. ana zone IN u cOunttAlou. III
fellow citizens, which must appeal 10 the
resentment and repugnance of every lib
erty-loving and cOuntry-loying man. Nv
eryOne who knows anything about me
knows that / am not a political admirer
of Grover Cleveland: but IL there was
any one act Of his administration which.
after the contentious OF history have
ceased to rage about his acts and his
memory, that will remain star-bright
forever, il 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 ana
precedents laid down by George Wash
ington 100 years before. he evoked the
strong arm of the United States TO re-
store law and order in this country.
lApplause and chcers.l
This act is coyertly land covertly Is
too mild a world denounced in the Chi
cago platform. More than that. If there
is anything in this country or in any ma
tion upon which the stability of the gov
eminent depends, the very Keystone OF
the great arch upon which the ranged
empire stands. the ultimate principle Of
absoluteism that must exist somewhere
In all governments, il is the courts of our
land, where men sequestered from politi-
cal concerns and political ambitions,
holding the scales of justice even be-
tween contending passions and contend
ing rights. decide for their fellow citizens
what Nne law is- Anu IOE mort lulI wv
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
resentatfves, a typical object lesson OF
their position and of their sublime ca-
pacty 10 restrain either, and has done
more 10 conduct the government 10 the
high plane which il occupies. | was going
20 say. than all the statesmen which this
country has ever produced. (Applluse)
The Chicago platform strikes 1T that
court, strikes at all courts and enun-
ciates its malign prophesy of the rcor-
ganiZation Of that court and Of any otner
court If necessary. TO register the fifful
and passionate and repudiatng edicts of
mistaken and misguided men, of mistaken
and misguided parties.
A Crisis is Impending.
And worse than that. my fellow titi-
zens-worse than that. If there was
another thing which the veterans If the
last war thought they had achieved and
which the loyal sentiment Of the North
thought il had achieved. il was The OBJ
liberation of all sectionalism in this cnnn-
try; we were 10 have no South. no North.
no East, no West. any more The whole
country was 10 be a unity. But in these
latCr days. we see the solid South com
ing up 10 the banks of the Ohio and the
Missouri as before the war, and with
sectional demands upon an economic is
sue, precisely such as was made before
tie Rebellion. And now, with the mich
fork of Tillman stirring up the doctrine
Of state rights, with the bomb Of Alterid
in the denunciation of our courts and of
President Cleveland thrown under the
very fabric Of our government. they have
chosen TO put forward as an issue some
thing which touches more Immediately
the conviction. the passions, the cuDiiity
md ha hfn - Of IL L
self contains more disintegrating infu-
ences 10 our prosperity than all the
causes combined that | have mentioned
The Democratic convention, or the
Democratic party. az now organized. has
joined the Populist party in bonds Of un-
holy wedlock upon the demand that the
United States shall take n position upon
the currency of this country which !,
speaking 10 you under the responsibility
of a man who is speaking 10 his reigh-
bors, say that ! believe is fraught With
more disaster 10 this country than the
about. lApplause.)
And that is the subject that | hive
been asked to talk TO you tonight about
] am going 10 do so. as ! said i'm the be-
ginning, not with any attempt nj deco
ratiye speech. not denouncng any men
who may choose 10 differ from mo for
i tell you. my fellow citizens. that many
and many n thousand men who differ
from MS today on this matter one year
from now will be wondering WHY and
how they came TO do il. (Appiause1
And so ] shall go on. may be tedious
j am going TO give you facts and fiv.
ures. ! am not going 10 draw on nv
own Imagination for my facts AT Mi
The facts that | shall give you will he
impregnable. II Is for you 10 Judge
whether the deductions | shall draw
from them can he refutcd
Now what Is the question? For n COR
rect understanding Of the question is nj
ways the FIRST step towards the solution
Of the controversy. The question is moi
whether there should be the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver in the minis
Of all the nations. Ivy the consent of tho
principal commercial nations Of tho rlobe
upon a ratio 30 hc agreed upon. That is
not the issue. We all might agree that
when this is brought about. as il will he.
If the United States conducts itself with
judgment upon this question. | say we
might all agree that that would be an
excellent thing. The Republican marty
has pledged itself in successive platforms
20 labor to bring about international
agreement. The most advanced think.
ers upon financial questions in both