The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-24
SPEECHES AT BROOKLYN.
MI. Bryan Delivers Three Addresses
at the Academy Of Music.

| gathering or labor men IN the upper
part of the city. \ solid mass OF hu-
manity packed the Academy of Music.
and the streets surrounding the Acad-
emy were blocked with disappointed
throng, who struggled and fought to
! gain admttance to see the Democratic
| standard bearer.
A resolution was adopted with rous-
ing cheers pledging the Democrats OF
Kings county to an earnest and un-
compromising support TO Bryan ana
| Sewall
When the names of Senator Quay and
Mr. Patt (both of whom We're sarcas-
tically alluded to in the resolutions)
We're mentioned. there We're Kisses,
while loud eroans followed the men,
tion OF Chairman Mark Hanna's name.
Then Bryan came. The secretary
had just said: Il have Il list of vice.
! presidents of the meeting, l will read a
| few But he never read them. A
mighty shout went up. The audience
seemed to rise as one man. In an IN
slant men and women We're shouting
with all the power of their lungs ana as
nearly everybody was armed with Il
small American flag these We're waved
| in the air until the whole auditorium
appeared to be a kaleidoscope of red,
white and blue. Those who did not
participate at first became infected
with the enthusiasm and rose and
cheered with their more emotional
neighbors. The waving of the flags,
the resounding cheers from thousands
of throats. the excited people all con-
tributed to make it scene worth wit
| Messing.
| When quiet wds restored, Mr.. Bry-
an spoke as follows:
If you don't stop. If you don't preserve
| order, our opponents will say you are
| against order as we'll as against law.
| only wish that the distinguished divine
| whose name has added even to the fame OF
your great city-Henry Ward Beecher zap
again champion the cause of the people,
in their great fight. ANY man would
| whose sympathies were on the side of hui
manity, my friends. ,(Applause.l We are
open fight. ca voice: They never went
| to the war; We are fighting an enemy
| that was never honest in its dealings with
| the people. We are fighting an enemy
| that has ever sought to avoid the real is
sue and fight the battle on some other:
IN DEFENSE OF THE PLATFORM.
Before addressing myself to the money
| question ! desire to say something in re-
gard to the planks of our platform which
| have been assailed by the enemy. l only
speak of them because persons in the Re-
publican party have called amentipn to-
them, and sought to twist them into
meaning never intended, and to give them
an Interpretation which they will not
bear.
Mr.. Bryan then read the plank de-
nouncng federal interference and de-
clared ii as mild in tone when viewed
by the side of the plank on the inviola-
bility of state rights in the Lincoln
platform of 1860. Continuing, Mr.. Bry-
an said.
Now. my friends, If our platform is
wrong ! want these Republicans to repu-
date Abraham Lincoln (applause), be-
cause IL you take Abraham Lincoln from
the Republican party you have taken from
1t its most sacred memory, my friends
Applause.)
Now let me call your attention to an
other thing they complain of. They say
We criticise the Supreme court Let me
read you what we say on that subject,
land the speaker quoted the plank In the
Chicago platform denouncing the supreme
court for its decision against the income
taxi What criticism is there? | call at
tention TO the fact that the court over
ruled the decision! of hundred years. 1t
is fact. Haven't we right to mention
4 fact? We declare that congress ought
to use all the constitutional power that
remains. Let them insist that having
taken part We dare not use what they left.
I'VE demand that congress shall use
such power as may come from a reversal
by the court as II may be hereafter con-
stltuted.' Has no court hereafter the
II not, what right had this court to re-
verse the courts for one hundred years
before II? tApplause) This court chang
IS from time to time; judges die or resign,
not possible, my friends that future
Judges may adhere TO precedents of hun
dred years instead Of adhering TO deci-
sion rendered by a majority Of one, and
that one changed his mind In two months?
Every time lawyer goes into court and
asks for reversal OF u decision of the
court.-ard 1t is not an int!equent thing
every time lawyer does IL he attacks
the correctness OF the decision which he
desires to have reversed, Let me read to
you what the Republican platform said
about decisions of the Supreme court in
1860:
We condemn the recent opening OF the
African slave trade under the cover of
cur national flag, aided by perversons of
judicial power. That is wnat that plat
form said: 1t declared that decision of
the court was a perversion of judicial
power. There Is no language in our plat
folm that is as harsh on the Supreme
court as that Republican platform.
QUOTES LINCOLN.
Ny friends. on these two questions where
We are assaiied by rhe Republicans today
the Republican party took in the first
platform upon which it elected presi-
dent of the United States. Let me tell
TO you now. what Abraham Lincoln said
iHt SouplsI1t tOuil. lUIS IS III MS
inaugural address: II do not forget
the position assumed by some that constl-
tutonal questions are to be decided by the
supreme court nor do ! deny that such
decisions must be binding ON any case
upon the. parties to the suit as to the OBJ
ject of that suit"
The next paragraph was quoted and
then Mr.. Bryan said:
Mr.. Lincoln says that II 1t is meant to
be asserted that the Supreme court has
r.n nj determine he npltry nf b.,
pie OF great questions, that they will have
resigned our government into the hands
of supreme court. Our platform is not
as hash as the language of Abr aham Lin
coin.
quote these authorities my friends, in
order that you may all see how far-fetched
Is the criticism that Is leveled aginast us,
quote these In order that you may see
that the very men who used the criticisms
against us must, in order to do SO, aban-
don their Republican platform upon
which Lincoln was elected. (Applause)
Now. our opponents say that we are op-
posed to the enforcement of law. ] deny
II. | stand as the candidate of three par
ties. | do not speak of myself as an indi-
campaign of representative character CT
the candidate. But my friends, want to
say to sou that the fear that Is expressed
is not fear that II elected that will not
say 1t again. If by the suffragcs of my
countrymen ! am placed in that position.
which is the highest position In the gift
OF the people of the world, every law shall
be enforced against the great as we'll as
against the small. Great applause.J 1t is
not fear Of lawlessness, my friends.
Think of men who have transgressed the
law being afraid that there will be a lax
enforcement of the law within that of men
who have considered themselves greater
than those who are afraid the government
will not be good enough.