Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-24
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by the court as it may hereafter be be
constituted.
Has no court a right to reverse the
decision of this court? If not what right
had this court to reverse the courts for
a hundred years before it? (Applause).
This court changes from time to time.
Judges die or resign and new Judges
take their places. Is it not possible, my
Friends that future judges may adhere
to the precedents of a hundred years in
ptead of adhering to a decision rendered
by a majority of one, and that one
changed his mind in two months? Every
time a lawyer goes into court and asks
for a reversal of decision of the court
and it Is not an infrequent thing-eVery
time lawyer does it he attacks the cor
rectness of the decision which he de-
sres to have reversed. Let me read to
you what the republican platform says
about decisions of the supreme court in
1860:
1--we condemn the recent opening of
the African slave trade under the cover
of our national flag, aided by perversions
of judicial power
THAT is what that platform said; it
declared that decision of the court was
a perversion of judicial power. There is
no language in our platform that is so
arsh on the supreme court as that re-
publican platform. My friends on these
two questions we are aSSailed by the
republican party today. We have not
taken as emphatic a stand as the repub-
iican party took in the first platform
upon which it elected president of the
United States. Let me read to you now
What Abraham Lincoln Said
about the supreme court. This is fro
his inaugural address:
IT do not forget the position assumed
by some that constitutional questions
are to be decided by the supreme court
4 hn oh
be binding in any case upon the parties
to the suit as to the object of that suit
The next paragraph was quoted and
then Mr. Bryan said: "Mr. Lincoln says
that If 1t is meant to be asserted that
the supreme court has a right to deter
mine the policy of the people on great
questions that they will have resigned
our government into the handles of the
supreme court. Our platform is not as
harsh as the language of Abraham Lin
coin.
81 quote these authorities, my friends,
in order that you may all see how far
fetched is the criticism that is leveled
against us. | quote these in order that
you may see that the very men who used
the criticism against us must, in order
to do so, abandon the republican platform
upon which Lincoln was elected. ZAP
plause)
Now our opponents say that we are
opposed to the enforcement of the law.
! deny it. l stand as the candidate of
three parties. / do not speak of myself
as an individual because the individual
is lost in campaign in the representa-
tive character of the candidate, but /
want to say to you that the fear that Is
expressed is not fear that If elected /
will not enforce the law. / have said it
before and say it again, that If by the
suffrages of my countrymen l am placed
in that position, which is the highest gift
of the people of the world, every law
shall be enforced against the great as
well as against the small. Great APP
plause) 1t is
Not Fear of Lawlessness,
my friends. Think of men who have
transgressed the law being afraid that
there will be lax enforcement of the
law! Think of men who have consid-
cred themselves greater than the gov
eminent who are afraid the government
will not be great enough They remind
me of the man in court-the person who
seemed uneasy and the judge assured
him that The had nothing to fear; that
he would get justice in that court and he
said: Great heavens. judge, that's just
what I'm afraid Of (Applause)
They say that we are trying to de-
dress you have been the peculiar objects
of these imputations We pause, there
fore, for moment to repel Them
we entertain no sentiments adverse
TO social order; we seek not to destroy,
but TO preserve in their purity the insttu-
tions of our country. Samuel ]. Tilden
used this language I'm an address to farm
ers and working men and mechanics, de-
livered on February g. 1888. They accused
reformers then of being destroyers of the
peace, and he asserted then, as we assert
now, that we have not come to DESTROY
Let me read from that same speech of
Tilden's: "A powerful moneyed corpora
ton engaged In death struggle with the
government to whom it owed its exist
ence assaled the purity Of our press. A
mighty combination of politicians and
control elections, to change the admins
tration of government and to re-estab-
1ish the supremacy of the great moneyed
corporations over the business of the
country
"That same moneyed power exists to-
day, and 1t Is doing this same work today
that 1t did in the days of Tilden, and
business men are terrified. Tilden said
that the patriotism of the people pre-
patriotism of a patriotic people will pre-
vail in this struggle. To think otherwise
would be to despair of a government like
this. My friends, we cannot have a free
government unless
The People Are Free to Act.
II repeat, my friends, that this govern
ment by the few. this government of as
sorted wealth. this government by cor
porations, is the most tyrannical govern
ment that any people ever suffered I'M
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