The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-18

NOT MONEY PLANK ALONE.
Now, my objections to that Chicago
platform are not tc the money plank alone.
My objection to the Chicago platform, the
objection of every Democrat to that plat
form, is that it is undemocratic from pre-
amble to finish. 1t makes only two allu-
sions to anything that has been heretofore
held by the Democratic party, and those
illusions are either evasive or cowardly.
1T is true it refers to the Monroe doc
trine, a doctrine declared in 1924 by the
administration of Mr.. Monroe, but left un-
construed. An attempt was made during
the lifetime of Monroe, through the adj
ministration of John Quincy Adams, his
successor, who had been his Secretary of
State, to construe the Monroe doctrine in
the instructions proposed to be given by
Congress to the United States delegates 10
what was called the Panama Congress, to
be held in the city of Panama, composed
of delegations from the American nations,
to consider interests mutual and common
to them-a Congress which, by the way,
never met. And John Randolph fought a
duel about. 1t and that was the only pow
der ever burned on the Monroe doctrine,
went down and the toy empire he had
sought to found in Mexico fell with him.
That doctrine remained unconstrued until
the captain and commander of this Democ-
racy-the man who led up to success at
the ballot box and to a triumphant victory
by a large majority of the Electoral Col
lege in two c-ampaigns-the Monroe doc
trine remained unconstrued until that cap
tain and commander gave it expression
doctrine with the Cleveland construction is
the doctrine. Applause) The party that
met at Chicago, referring to the Monroe
doctrine, had not the manhood and the
courage and the American sense of fair
play to give to this captain due credit
for having given vital force and interpre-
tation to that doctrine.
THE FEDERAL POWER.
1.-THE convention at Chicago, amongst it's
other planks, adopted one denying to the
federal government the right to enforce
federal law by federal power without the
assent of the State within whose borders
that law might be violated How does this
affect you and me? This is a. campaign
in which we discuss fundamental PROPOSE
tions. We want to know how the delibera-
lions of that platform affect our govern
ment if they be crystallized into law and,
affecting our government, how do they af-
feet us? That platform denies to the fed
eral government the right to enforce fed
eral laws within the borders of a State
when the same is violated without the
consent of that State. That is a renewal
CURED in South Carolina in 1882 under the
administration of Jackson
1.-THE candidate of the Populistic conven-
ton at Chicago in nearly every speech he
makes attempts to identify the great name
and memory of Jefferson with the heresies
of that PLATFORM. why, In 1867 the nulIl-
fiers of South Carolina sought to identify
Jefferson with that constitutional heresy.
While holding a banquet in Washington
city, on Jefferson's birthday, Calhoun sat
at one end of the table, Jackson, the Pres
ident of the Republic, at the other; CAL
houn proposed a toast to the memory of
Jefferson, Identifying Jefferson with South
Carolina and her effort at notification.
Andrew Jackson rose at the other
end of the table, holding nigh
uttered this sentiment which from then un-
til now has been one of patriotism and
manhood in every nation on earth where
that phrase of jackson has been repeated:
shall be preserved (Long applause) That
was the answer of the Democratic party
through the mouth of its captain to nulli-
fication in 1882; that has been the position
from then until now, elaborated as that
sentiment was in Jackson's message to
Congress in answer to the challenge OF the
notification committee or South Carolina.
And this so-called Democratic convention
at Chicago renews that notification
Mr.. Irish then illustrated with a Japanese
yen, q Mexican dollar and a gold piece, the
fact that the value of money was based on
its commercial worth and that this in turn
was regulated by its bullion value, saying:
"A gold coin is worth the amount
stamped on its face by the government, be-
cause the government stamp is q certificate
that the gold is SO many grains and of
such a fineneSS: and that banks receiving
gold count it not by the name it bears, but
by the weight of it, thus keeping it always
at its natural or bullion value, while silver
is received at the rate stamped on it's face.
In fact, a silver dollar may have the cheek
of the Goddess of Liberty worn down so
far as to make it impossible for her to
blush. and yet 1t is a dollar-because 1t has
the stamp of a dollar and because there is
a pro1d dollar nladpn hack of it,