Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-10-14
DEMOCRACY AND THE SUPREME
 COURT

DEMOCRACY AND THE SUPREME
 COURT.
 Altgeld, of Illinois. and Bryan cite Abraham Lincoln's views touch ing the decision of the Supreme court in the D-ed Scott case. aud assert that 1t extends m sentiment and bold expression 10 the length of the Chicago platform, and by intimatiOn or inference at leas, as far as the deriSlOn and mockery of the courts of Illinois, expressed m the proclamation of pardon issued by Altgeld to the dynamiters No such expression, either in letter or spirit, can be found in any of the utterances of Lincoln. In his speech at Lincoln. Illinois, June 26, lS5I he said:
 We believe as much as Judge Douglass tperhaps morel m obedi- euce tO and respect for the judicial department of the government. We believe that its decisions on consti- tutIonal questions when fully settled should control not only the particu- lar cases decided, but the general policy of the government, subject to be disturbed only by the amend ment oi the constitution in the manner itself prescribes. Anything beyond that would be revolution .'
 But compare the utterances oi that great commoner of the dNmo cratic party, Steven A. Douglass, with the Chicago platform. Judge Douglass said:
 The courts were prescribed bv the constitution and created by tbe authority of the people to deter mine, e1pound and enforce the law. Whoever resists the final decisions of our highest judicial tribunal aims deadly blow at our whole republi- can system of goverument-aim a blow which, if successful. would place all our rights and property at the mercy of tumult, anarchy and violence. l repeat, therefore. that if reSistence to the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case or any other case, falling within its jurisdiction as defined in the constitution should be put before the country as a political issue, i' will becOme a distinct and naked issue between the friends and enemies of the constitution, between the friends and the enemies of the supremacy of the laws
 MT. Douglass in his great speech in Chicago, in 1881, in favor of the constitution and the union. and against treason aud rebellion, said:
 Every man must be for the United States or against IL. There can be no ueutrals in this war either patriots or traitors"
 These two declarations of the chieftain and one of the saints of the democratic party, would make his fame immortal among the Amer ican people if his public life had began and ended with their utter ance and lift him above his party and prove that the man who IS not greater than his party Is too small for loyal American citizenship.
 These declarations of Judge Douglass further atix treason to the of the Chicago platform against the Supreme Court.
 Daniel Webster, the greatest ex- poundcr of the constitution. on January 4th, 1926, speaking of the bill 10 increase the number of the Court judges, said:
 "Mr. Chairman, I assert with all the emphasis of speech that if saw in this bill which would lessen the responsibility or touch the integrity of the Supreme Court. l would be the last man to favor 1t. I look upon the i.dicial part ot our aS its main support. am persuaded that the constitution could not exist without i,. I shall oppose whatever is calculated to disturb the fabric of the govern ment, to unset;le what Is settled, or shake the faith of honest men in the stability of the laws or the purity of their administration