The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

| within the knowledge of any man now liv
| ing, the favorite object of attack by
| the small souls and sanderous tongues
/ there assembled to mingle and TO chatter.
/ In the lobbies Of the hotels, through inter
| views in newspapers, in every conceivable
/ way these harpies sought to advertise their
fealty TO Populism: and to magnify them
| selves by brutal Islander OF the President
| of the United States
A FITTING CLIMAX.
1T found its climax when a montebank
| who disgraces a Southern State in the
| Senate of the United States offered reso-
luton for the adoption of that convention
which disgraced the convention, in that it
allowed it to be read. The institutions of
the party We're attacked. If anything has
ever been established in the Democratic
party it the right of States to be rep
resented in convention by duly chosen
delegates. Yet. for the purpose OF obtain
ing the requisite majority in that conVen-
/ ton, without the shadow of right without
| ed delegates from the State of Michigan
/ were excluded from the floor and their
places IlIled py men VINO neu ~ ~, sn.luom -
a title to represent. or rather rnlsrepresent
| the people of that State. And by the same
revolutionary methods the representation
/ of the State of Nebraska was denied TO
| the Democratic party of that State. It's
representatives were driven from the nan
! and a delegation of POpuliSts, headed by
the man who was afterwards nominated
for President of the United States, was
| elected in triumph and welcomed with APP
/ plause. Was it strange that out of the
| meeting of men so drunk with their own
| temporary power and Importance. so re-
| CARELESS of party uSageS, so laWleSS as TO
the rights of fellow Democrats, there should
| have been evolved platform, the most
| groteSque declaration that has ever en-
anated from any convention that should
! Justly claim to influence the result in the
| election of a President? The Chicago con-
vention declared:
:. We denounce arbitrary interference by
| federal authorities in local affairs as a Vi
| olation of the Constitution of the Cnlted
| States and a crime again free institutions.
I'VE all know what this means chicago
was in the hands of a mob. Private prop
| erty was being destroyed. Innocent persons
We're being terrified and maltreated. Mails
were delayed and interfered with. Women
and children were suffering for food ana
water upon trains that We're standlng sun
on the hot prairies of Illinois. The man
dates of the courts were set at defiance,
officers of the State were either cunning.
inefficient or terrorized. The President of
the United States restored order protected
the property of the government ana en- en-
courts. For this "A grateful Nation APP
plauded him and the Senate publicly APP,
soul, an urfaithful pubic servant, me
Governor of Illinois, and at his pehest me
convention OF this powerful party Dy ti1 ~
his infamy. which denied the right or the
| President of the United states TO ENFORCE S
the laws of the United States within the
several States of the Union. 1t is almost
disheartening to find that any considerable
dav 70 thus deliberately declare the
ploded doctrine of notification, Wnlcn Was was
the twin of sectonalism and the parent OF
secession If the long and bloody war for
the preservation of the Union settIed any
thing BEYOND q2iestifon nion i 5e't the e eH
ecution of its powers and assertion OF It's
own prerogatives. the authority or the
as dead as its apostle John G. Calhoun
and he who seeks to revive its spirit by
reopening the question must not expect 70
escape being classed as an enemy of pubic
peace and the security of the Union. me
thing that lives ana r en9 acSson ~ in r his fa
nous toast proposed as deflance 70 me ne
nulliers: Our federal Union 1t must De
preserved.
MOB RULE INVITED.
again the convention declared: We es-
pecially object to government by injunction
as new and highly dangerous form OF
oppression This open attack upon and
denunciation of the courts grows out or
the fact that the United States courts were
used as an Instrument with which to sup
port and enforce the laws of the United
States. A declaration like this is a species
of anarchy. 1t invites the rule of the mob.
Liberty under and subordinate to the law
is the only real liberty Liberty in defiance
to law is license, the tyranny of the power |
full. the rich. the strong, the oppression of |
the weak the poor the obscure. If there |
is anything in the American government in |
which every citizen has an active and |
earnest interest it is in the preservation |
for the enforcement Of justice and the |
equal protection of all And among all the |
powers asserted by the courts none is so |
wise or benevolent as this same power OF |
injunction here denied. To indulge in this /
declaration was but concession to the |
laWleSS element of miSrule kindred to the |
denial of the right of the President to en- |
force the laws and was a concession to |
anarchy and communism.
= THE platform declares: We are opposed |
to life tenure in the public service This is |
an attack either upon the judges of our |
national the
service which now prevails to minor |
places. | am inclined to think it means /
the latter, and is open bid for return I
to the spoils system, which SO long dis
graced degraded and harmed the pubic
service. 1t is the first time since its adop-
ton that either of the two great parties
has dared attack this most excellent sys-
tenn While | think that some reforms and
changes IN the manner OF examinations is
desirable and Will be accomplished never
theless the permanence and security of the
system, 1ISssgrGatest merit can never be
successfully attacked. 1t has always been
a Democratic doctrine, and is of Democrat
lie origin and growth. 1t has been strength
ened. extended and upheld to a greater
extent by President Cleveland than by all
the others combined 1t is fast taxing out
of our politics the canker and evil which
is enc fruitful source debauchery. 1t has
had the justification and appreciation of the
wisest minds in botn parties. 1t is fixed +
in the system OF our country and no wild
eyed denunciation can serve to shake il.
Yet these party marplots in their anxiety
to appeal to every class of dissatisfied and
discontinued voters and thereby increase
/
practically demand that with each presi-
Dental election all the positions of the
government shall be placed at the mercy of
spolsmen and distributed by congressman
and Senators as their private perquisites
Such denunciation is useless and is only
valuable as showing to what desperate |
straits the Democratic party has been driv-
en- in its search for votes.
SECTIONALISM PREACHED
IF any doubt existed as to the atmos
phere under which this platform was |
formed and the nomination made, and the
baleful influence that it has exerted upon
the people of this country, the campaign
since made in support of the nominees of
the Chicago convention would supply the
proof. Sectionalism, a thing new to the
Democratic party, a thing deprecated and
denounced by every one of the patriots of
our country from beginning until now has
been openly and definitely preached. The
candidate for President himself started
into the enemy's country, and from that
day to this it has been loudly proclaimed
from a thousand places that there is in
this country a difference in interest a diff
fernce in patriotism, inequality in the
way the public burdens are borne and a
hostility between the people, growing out
of the accidental matter of their homes he
ing in different sections of the country
An effort is being made to array the West
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