The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-29
Great Mass Meeting at Carnegie Hall
Last Might i'm the Interest of the
State and National Ticket.
SPEECH BY GEN. B. F. TRACY
ON BRYAN'S PROPOSAL TO NULLIFY
THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.
Senator Lodge on the Efforts of the
POpocratic Candidate to Arouse
Sectional Feeling.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2S.-The Republican
mass meeting at Carnegie Hall tonight
was a great success. The gathering in the
immense hall was a representative and no
table one. on the platform, which was
tastefully decorated, sat elbow to elbow
Republicans who for several years had been
at loggerheads on local issues. They ap-
parentiy forgot past differences to make
the rally for the gubernatorial candidate a.
success. Besides Frank 5. Black. candidate
for Governor, and Timothy l.. Woodruff.
candidate for Lieutenant Governor, were
Garret A. Hobart, vice presidential candi-
date. Chairman Hanna, Thomas G. Platt,
ex-senator Gibbs, Congressman sO'Dell and
fully 500 wellknown city and State Repub-
licans Lord Chief Justice Russell, of Eng
land, and a party of friends occupied one
of the boxes.
Gen. Benjamin f. Tracy, ex~Secretary Of
the Navy, presided and opened the meeting
with a rousing speech. In the course of it
he said
IF you ask my opinion as to which OF
those three pianks OF the Chicago platform
is the worst l answer unhesitaungly that
it is the plank which pledges that the fed
erai laws, when resisted by domestic vio-
lence shall not be enforced without the
consent of the Governor of the State. IL
is the worst because it is the most danger
Gus and most easily accomplished. YOU
cannot change the character of the Su-
preme Court, nor can you repudiate the
debt of the Nation without the concurrent
action of Congress, but 1T is within the
power of the President. in case of armed
resistance to the laws, to destroy the gov
''The people read the Chicago platform
with a feeling of horror akin to that which
swept over the country at the flring on
Fort Sumter. Then party differences were
forgotten and the patriotic people or the
Union resolved that whatever else might
peal was to arms to preserve the Union-
To-day the appeal is to reason, TO patriot
ism and TO the ballot to prevent the disin-
tegration of the Nation and TO save 1t from
the dishonor of reputation.
For the first time in the history of this
country has candidate for the presidency
declared that ii the federal laws are re-
sisted by riot and bloodshed in any state
he will not. without the consent OF the Gov
ernor, interfere No man can be President
of this country without first registering an
oath that he will support the Constitution
and faithfully discharge the duties which
it imposes upon him. pledge made by q
candidate for the presidency m aavapce az Cor OF
gress without the consent OF the Governor
Of the state Is piedge thd ne WIZ sioidte hs
Office Congress IS helpless and the people
are helpless
a nerveless and faithless President We al
ready know For four months Following the
election of 1850 the Nation lay helpless ana
dying through the neglect of the executive
to enforce the laws. Buchanan refused TO
take any steps to prevent the secession or
TIE Southern States. But the 4th or March
came at last and with il came the immor-
tai Lincoln Buchanan based his refusal
to act upon the ground that he had no
constitutional power to force the seeding
States The pernicious doctrine was shot
to death at Gettysburg and buried forever
at Appomattox In the Chicago platform
we have a new invention by which nullifl-
cation and secession are made easy.
Fellow citizens, q graver crisis never
confronted the country than the crisis
which confronts 1T now. In 1861 we met
the crisis successfully with the sword; in
1896. under the leadership of Mckinley ana
Hobart, we will meet it successfully with
the ballot
General Tracy then introduced Congress-
man Black who was received with cheers.
hand clapping and band playing. The can-
didate for Governor was listened to atten-
lively, and when he made a telling point
the audience applauded vigorously
AT the conclusion of Mr., Blacks speech
General Tracy introduced candidate Wood
ruff to the assemblage, and especially to
those who ride the wheel. as one who is
well known throughout the State as the
friend Of coed roads, He was enthusiastic-
ally greeted and when the excitement sub
sided the nomiIlee for Lieutenant Governor
suolxe briefly. He. too, was rewarded WITH
liberal applause throughout his speech