The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-01
MAJESTY OF THE LAW.

ercise as the workingmen or this country.
tApplause.)
MAJESTY OF THE LAW.
See the state OF these farmers living out
here In the country. No policemen patrol
the road I'm front OF their houses; no watch
men stand guard while their families sleep.
What is II that shields them? What is IL
that protects them and keeps the tramp.
the vagabond and the thief away from
them? 1t Is the invisible, and awful. ana
avenging presence of the law. The sheriff
is not with you. but he is here. and the
courthouse is here with its judge; the Jail
g. here for criminal offenders. and the man
who invades your country home, 5eizes
your property or insults or outrages your
family soon has the law on his track. In
that fact your security rests. Can you af-
ford TO follow In the footsteps OF those who
say that riot and incendiarism is any
body's right in this country? Can you af-
ford in any degree to relax the law or
make its enforcement slack? No. that flag
means that every man is free to pursue
his own course In life in search OF happi-
ness and prosperity. but he must not lay
his hand upon another man in violence;
he must not seize any mans property; he
must exercise his rights in Subordination
TO the rights OF others.
What Is the Chicago declaration? IT
grows out OF the great strike which took
place In Chicago. Men have a right to quiz
work when they please and they have the
right 10 work when they please, but no
man has a right TO compel any man to
work and no man has right to beat an
other man because he wants to work. (Ap-
plause.) At Chicago. following this strike
and taking advantage of it the hoodlums
and thugs and Anarchists of Chicago tore
UP railroad tracks, burned cars. stoned
trains that Were passing in and out of the
city, burned railroad stations, interrupted
communication between State and State.
stopped the mails OF the United States.
Mr. Cleveland. as President OF the United
States. had a sworn duty TO see that the
mail routes were not interrupted.
there Auburn
= two-wheeled gig. with a little pony in
~, 10 carry the mail to some country
gig carrying the mail sack of the United
states ~ under the protection OF that flag.
No man can interrupt him If he does 1t
IS law of the United States that is
broken. IL is the federal courts that takes
held upon him. and not the State courts.
SO our great railways are all made post
roads. and whoever stops the mail on a
railroad train or stops the train in which
the mail is usually carried, violates the
laws Of the United States, not the laws of
that particular part OF the State. So
the United States have exclusive control
OF commerce between the States If Ohio
would tax the wheat of Indiana as il passes
Through lay any burden upon ii, you would
be shut out from tidewater. Therefore.
%nen this commerce il interrupted II is the
United States law that is broken. not Il
State law. This was DONE as / have said.
at Chicago. and Mr.. Cleveland exercising
his plain constitutional duty with just as
little show OF force as possible, with
much humanity az possible. used the force
Of the United States to push these obstruc-
tie rs out OF the way of the mail trains
and out OF the way of interstate commerce..
and all loyal and law-abiding people of this
country approved II.
Farmers OF DeKaib ccrntv. can you Of
ford To say that mobs shall control and
that the President shall not enforce the
Jaw The action OF the President was APP
proved by Democrats and Republicans and
by the leading newspapers of the country
Of all politics and by the Senate and House
OF Representatives at Washington. Senator
presided
Chicago convention. introduced a resolution
commencing what Mr.. Cleveland had done.
and man, no PopuliSt. no Democrat. no
Republican,. not even Pfeffer, of Kansas,
dared TO vote no on that resolution. Cap
plause.)
'.Rut times changed Governor Altgeld.
of Illinois. who had denounced Mr. Cleve-
lands action as an impairment and violent
. Interference with the rights of Illinois
Governor Altgeld and his followers got hold
of what they called the Democratic con-
vention at Chicago. wreSted il from the
control of those old Democratic leaders you
have trusted. denounced your Democratic
President and proclaimed that the Presi-
dent CT the United States had no right TO
execute the laws of the United States: that
re must come and ask Governor Altgelds
consent.
NOT A QUESTION OF POLITICS.
TT is not a question of politics; it is not
q question of .ariffs or free silver: it is not
one Of those questions that have divided
the parties; il is question that rallies the
patriotic thought and interest of every
man. whether he is Democrat or Repub
lican. (Applause) In 1861. when this issue
was made before. all over this State, all
over tire North, the loyal Democrats put
aside their politics to keep until the war
was over. (Applause) There are rndica-
tions that now when this issue is again
raised. all through the States Democrats
are laying politics by to reassert the doc
trine that the President of the United
States can enforce the laws without ask
ing anybody's consent. The veterans who
marched under the lead OF Jackson and Lee
and Longstreet, and the Governors of
southern States. like Virginia and Missis
ssppi, declared when this incident at Chi
caro- occurred Let the United States en-
. force It's laws: the South stands with you.
. y through the South gallant Confederates
have arrayed themselves against Mr.. Bryan
and Mr.. Altgeld and their dangerous Chi
cage proposition CApplause) If that flag
IS so meaningless. IL the government for
which 1t stands is so powerless that il may
not execute us own laws without bending
suppliant knee 10 the Governor OF a
State, then let US have no flag days. for we
piause.)
The Democratic campaign-I call it so
because the Chicago convention. while I'M
democratic. has stolen the iabel-SeemS to
proceed upon the theory that the farmers
OF this country are all anxious TO pay their
honest debts in 50-ccnt dollars and so they
are always saying that while i'm the cities
and towns the business men this year are
with the Republicans. that out on tho
other way. That UNDERWRITERS the Ameri-
can farmer. He il reading man, u
thinking man, and he is an honest man.
tApplause) You forget these things which
you talk In this way to him. my Demo-
cratic friends. He knows that times are
evil and that he is not getting adequate
prices for his wheat and corn. but he
knows that the government OF the United
States cannot fix the price at which he
sells his wheat and corn. He knows that
just now the appreciation in the value of
wheat comes from Il natural cause. He
knows that a cheap and fiuctuating dollar
IS his enemy. We know that right well in
Indiana because we have had a good deal
OF experience with that kind of money
Many OF my older friends here recall the
free bank times in Indiana when we had
dollar bills that varied in value from 10
cents to n dollar-very few of them worth
dollsr-and that fiuctuated from day to
day. The man who sold something on his
farm either had to hitch up his buggy at
once and use fast trotter TO get into town
with his money and put il in bank or run
the risk. il he kept il until next day. of
having il go down on his hands. The mer-
chants in Indianapolis absolutely deposited
in the bank three or four times a day for
fear their money would go down in an
hour
SHORT LEG AND NO CRUTCH.
The Democrats slid in their platform of
iSs2 that a deprecated dollar was destruc-
tive to the interest of business, and that it
eSDecfallv deStr1Icfiva "a, iota