The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-03

| nv experiment of debased currency, and
| perhaps that will succeed Maj. Nc
| Kinlcy says, Let us turn once more to
the policies and the practices. and the
| measures which from Washington to
| Harrison has made this country the
| greatest, the frecst, the wealthiest
| the most prosperous and the best for its
| people of any land in the world
| Mr.. Depew sat down. in Il tumult Of
| applause. as Gen. Harrison stepped to
! the front. He was in evening dress, i'll
| contrast to Mr.. Depew, who was i'll
| frock coat, and us he waited for the Ell.
| thusinsm to subsidc, looked i'll very good
| health.
Gen. Harrison said:
Ladies' and Gentlemen-I am on the
! republican retired list, not by reason OF
! my age or by the plea of any convention,
| but that the younger men might have
| chance and that | might have rest.
| I.aughtcrD But / am not Il soured or
disappointed or bcdriddcn citizen. My
| interest in my country did not cease when
| NV last salary check was casled.
| daughter and applausc.) l shall speak,
my fellow citizens. as Il republican,, but
| with Derfect respect to those who hold
| different opinions. Indeed, | have never
| had so much respect for democrats as ]
| have now. (ApplaCsc.l Or, perhaps,
| should say / never had so much respect
! for so many democrats ms | have now.
| (Applausc.) That party has once more
| exhibited its capacity to hr rupturea'
and Il party that can not he spin ~ pup
! lie menace. When the leaders OF party
assembled in convention depart from It's
! traditional principles and advocate doe
/ trines that threaten the integrity OF the
| government, the social order of our com
| munitieS and the security and soundncsS
! of our finance it ought to split, and 1t dig
| nifcs itself when it does split. But these
! democrats. friends, who are disposed
! more or less directly to help the cause
! of sound finance i'll this campaign, ought
! not to expect that the republican party
/ will reorganizc itself because the demo
! cratic party has disorgani2cd itself.
: daughter and applnuscD If the rcpubil-
: can party. if sound money triunphs, rs |
! believe it will, the republican vote must.
, in the nature of things, constitute the
; body of the successful army. We ought
! not. therefore, he asked to do anything
: that will affect the soidity, the loyalty,
! the discipline or enthusiasm OF the re-
! publican party. (Appausc.) The Ic-
: publican party fronts the destruction
| lists and trumpcts its defiance to the enc
; mics of sound money. 1t will tight. how
4 ever. without covering any of the glo-
riOus notices and inscriptions that are
upon its banner. When the house is on
fiIc-nud many of our democratic friends
believe that to he the present domestic
situatoil-thc tenant on the top floor
ought not to 20 to the basement to bury
any OF his opinions before he Joins the
, fire brigade. and our democratic friends.
/ who realize. as we realize, the gravity.
the far-rcaching consequences "i tins
campaign. ought dlot to ask the rcpuhil-
can party to reOrganiZc itself. 10 put
aside any of the great principles that 1t
has advocated. in order to win vote.
If their opinion is sincerely held, as they
insist, it ought to determine their action
! for themselves without reference to what
anybody else should do. And | submit
to those gentlemen. for whose opinion L
have the highest respect. whether. If 1t Is
true. as they say, that the success of the
Chicago nominee would plunge This coun-
try into commercial distress and drag
The nations honor in the dust, there can
be any question for any such gentlemen
but this: How can we most surely de-
feat the Chicago nominees? lAppauseD
Neither conventions nor candidates can
; create issues nor assign them to their
! places MS TO their Importance. That is
/ the leading issue of Il campaign which
most interests the people. In my opinion
there is no issue presented by the Chicago
convention more important and more
, vital than the question they have raised
! of protecting the power and duty OF the
courts. Tariff and coinage will be of lit
; tie moment if our constitutional govern
/ mcnt is overthrown. When we have Il
president who believes it is neither his
duty nor his right to see that mail trains
Nre not obstructed and that interstate
( commerce has its free way, irrespective
# courts, who fear to use our ancient
md familiar power to restrain and pun
Sh laWbrca kerS. free trade and free sill
yer will be appropriate accompaniment
of such an administration, and can not
appreciably tend to the national distress
or dishonor.
There is only one rule by which we
! can live usefuly as nation or peace
. fully as citizens. 1t is the rule of the
| laws cunstitutionally enacted and finally
I interpreted by the tribunal appointed by
; the constitution. When it becomes the
/ rule that violence carries its end we have
= anarchy-a condition as destructive to
/ honest labor and its rewards as death
is to the tissues of the human body. zap
p!auSeD The atmosphere of the Chi
j tago convention was surcharged with the
/ spirit of revolution. This platform was
carried and its nomination made accom-
! pany incidents of frenzy that startled the
/ On-lOOkcrS and amazed the country. The
/ courts ana the president were afralSnSu
, for enforcing laws, and the government
by the mob was gwen preference over
! the law inforccd by court DEGREES and
| by executive orders. The spirit that cX
| hibted itself in this convention was so
! wildly and strangely cnthused that Mr..
! Bryan himself likencd it to the zeal that
| possessed the crusaders when they re-
| spOndcd to the impassioned appeals of
! Peter the Hermit to rescue the SCpulchre
! of our Lord from the hands of the inf
| dels. His historical illustration was
more forcible than he knew for the zeal
of the crusaders was blind and ig-
norant soul; they sought to rescue the
transient and Intellectual deputies that
had held the body of the Son of God
while they trAmplcd upon the prccepts
of love and mercy which He had left for
their guidance in life. (Applause.l He
told us shat the silver crusade had ar
raycd father against son, and brother
against brother, and had sundcred the
tcndcrest of love.
Senator Hill, watching the strange
proceeding, had to extend that brief po-
litical code from which he has gained so
much rcnOwn. he felt compelled to say:
Il am a democrat, but | am not rcvo-
lutionist."
Senator Vest. realizing that they were
inaugurating a revolution, reminded the
convention that revolutions did not begin
with the rich and prosperous.