The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24

fact that the court oVerruled the de-
cisions of hundred years 1t is a fact.
haven't we right to mention 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? We de-
mand that congress shall use such power
as may come from a reversal by the
court as it may hereafter be constituted.
Has no court a right to reverse the de-
~clsion OF this court? If not, what right
had this court to reverse the courts for
100 years before it? (Applause) This
court changes from time to time judges
Gle or resign and new judges take their
places. Is it not possible nv
friends, that future judges may
adhere to the precedents of a
a hundred years, or to the decision of
majority of one, and that one who chang
ed his mind in two months? Every time
lawyer goes into court and asks for
reversal of decision of the court-and it
is not an infrequent thing-every time a
lawyer does 1t he attacks the correctness
of the decision which he desires to have
reversed. Let me read to you what the
republican platform says about decisions
Oh the supreme court in 1850: We con-
denim the recent opening of the African
slave trade under the cover of our ma
tional flag, aided by peryerstons of Judi
clal power That is what that platform
said. 1t declared that a decision of the
court was a perversion Of judicial power
There is no language in our platform that
is as harsh on the supreme court as that
republican platform. (Applause). My
friends, on these two questions we are as
sailed by the republicans to-day. We
have not taken as emphatic a stand as the
republican party took in the first plat
form upon which 1t elected a President of
the United States. Let me read to you
now what Abraham Lincoln said about
the supreme court: This is from his in
augural address: I DO not forget the po-
sition assumed by some that constitutional
questions are to be decided by the su-
preme court; nor do I deny that such de-
cisions must 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 it is meant to be asserted that the
supreme court has right to determine
the policy Of the people on great ques-
tions that we have resigned our govern
ment into the hands of a supreme court?
Our platform is not as harsh as the Ian
guage Of Abraham Lincoln.
IT quote these authorities, my friends,
in order that you may all see how far
fetched is the criticism that is leveled
against us l 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. Gap
plause.) Now, our opponents say that we
are opposed to the enforcement of the
law. 1 deny it. l stand as the candidate
of three parties. / do not speak of my
self as an individual because the individ-
ual is lost in campaign in the repre-
sentative character Of the candidate, but.
my friends, want to say to you that
the fear that is expressed is not a fear
that if elected that win not enforce the
law. have said it before and l 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 we'll as against the
small" (Great applause)
'It is not fear of lawlessness, my
friends. Think of men who have trans
crossed the law being afraid that there
will be a lax enforcement of the law.
Think of men who have considered them
selves greater than the government who
are afraid the government will not be
great enough. Theys remind me of the
man in the court-the person who seemed
uneasy, and the judge assured him that
he had nothing to fear, that he would get
justice in that court, and he said, Great
I6dNeHs JuQStt suSl w AAelI IA al NAN 80
(Applause).
"They say that we are trying to destroy
our institutions. We who now address
you have been the peculiar objects of
these imputations. We pause, therefore,
for a moment to repel them.
4" We entertain no sentiments adverse to
social order; we seek not to destroy, but to
preserve in their purity the institutions of
our country Samuel J. Tflden (applause)
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mers and workingmen and mechanics, de-
livered on Feb. T. 1873. They accused re-
formers 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 Til
den's: "A powerful monied corporation en-
cages in death struggle with the govern
ment to whom 1t owed it's existence assail-
ed the purity Of our press. A mighty COM
bination OF politicians and monied inter-
ests is again in the field to control elec-
tions, to change the administration of the
government and to re-establish the SUI
premacy of the great monied corporations
over the business Of the country
THAT same monied power exists to-day,
and ii is doing this same work to-day that
1t did in the days OF Tilden, and business
men are terrified. Tilden said that the
patriotism of the people prevailed in that
struggle. l believe that the patriotism OF
a patriotic people will prevail in this
struggle To think otherwise would be to
despair of a government like this.
my friends, we cannot have free gov
ernment unless the people are free to act.
/ repeat, my friends, that this govern
ment by the few, the government by the
asserted wealth, government by corpora
tions is the most tyrannical government
that any people ever suffered under. (Ap-
plause) When you know that / am OPP
posed to a government by the few; when
you know am opposed to government
by the great corporations you will un-
derstand why they call me an anarchist.
But / do not want to dwell longer on
this. / want for a few moments to call
your attention to the present financial
system and then explain to you what we
desire to substitute in the place OF this
financial system. Now. the present fnan-
cial system is based upon gold The pres
ent financial system contemplates the re-
tirement of greenbacks and treasury
notes and the substitution of bank paper
for those notes. The present financial sys-
tenn contempates the retirement OF
all legal tender silver certificates. con-
templates gold only as the legal tender
money of this country, and bank paper
only as the paper money Of the country.
The financial policy under which we now