The San Francisco call., 1896-10-06
Federal Intervention to Suppress
Riots and Enforce Law
justified.
CAMPAIGN ISSUES REVIEWED.
Reasons Why the Voters Should Join
in Upholding the Integrity of
the Nation


half were colored people. The distin-
guished speaker was met at Hanover
junction by com mittee of well-known
Republicans, and on his arrival here was
driven to the Jefferson Hotel.
After dinner he was driven to the
Auditorium. General Harrison was
cordially received by the crowd, Judge
Lewis, who presided over the meeting,
presented the speaker of the occasion.
There were in the stand number of lead
ing Republicans and Sound-money DEM
ocrals, and there were many Bryan men
in the audience.
About o'clock the electric lights sud-
denly went out as they did when Mr.. Bryan
spoke in the same place recently. For
about five minutes the hall was in dark
ness. During this time Mr.. Harrison re-
marked that our party does not need so
much light as that of our opponents. ~An
old colored man soon brought in torch,
which he passed up to the speaker. The
lights we're turned on soon afterward.
Mr. Harrison then spoke as follows:
have upon my return TO my home in the
West been requested by some Virginia friends
10 SPEAK 10 you LOT d LIlie upOu SOmc Va
the great issues that are now agitating in an
extraordinary way all the people of all Sec
tions of this great country. Virginia is not the
enemy's country to me.
1t is my ancestral home and its citizens are.
my fellow-citizens. There was time when
the North and South were arrayed against
each other. That time is to us now only a
memory; we are again one united, loyal
people. If it should ever be the sad fate of this
country 10 be again involved in war; if
any foreign power trample upon that
flag or invades our shores, Ineiana and Vir-
ginia will charge together against the enemy,
and then what shall stay that onslaught? The
memory of Gettysburg and Appomattox will
make it impossible for regiment of English
to get on this side of the breastworks.
The speaker then said that they were
citizens of a Union esta ablished by our fore
fathers and would claim those rights
which were left to the States when the
Federal constitution was organized. The
wisdom of our forefathers devised a sys-
tenn by which they committed to the Ma
tional Government all National concerns
and reserved to the State Governments all
local concerns. Continuing he said:
regret to notice that in this campaign an
issue is made on what believe to be the just
powers of the National Government. The in
cident out of which this grows is what has
come to be well known as the great Chicago
riot. There, in defiance oflaw, both State and
National. great organized bodies, or acting in
dividually upon mad impulse, went through
the streets Of Chicago with fire and sword, de-
stroying property. interrupting all railroad
communication and stopping the passage of
the United States mail.
nut H., Ill I,,,tT
believe these acts of violence were largely the
acts of irresponsible and desperate men, who
marched under the red flag of anarchy. The
President, Mr.. Cleveland, a Democrat, felt it
to be his duty under the constitution to use
the forces of the United States to open way
for the public mails and for interstate CON-
merce.
1t was as plainly his duty to doaso as any
duty that ever devolved upon q public Of
fetal. Does Virginia consent, does she mean
to express her consent this fall that the mails
may be stopped by q mob in any city of our
States and their delivery interrupted2 Does
that she is content that the products of her
State on the way to another State may be
stopped by an irresponsible mob In any city
in the land?
The President of the United States is sworn
to execute the laws and is made commander
in-chief OF the army and navy of the United
States, that he may have suitable instrument ts
to execute them. Without unnecessary vio-
lence, with a restraint that was remarkable,
the troops of the United States were simply
used to push out of the way of those rioters
who obstructed the progress OF the mails and
OF interstate commerce.
The courts of the United States were ap-
pealed to. That right is familiar to every
lawyer and every intelligent citizen, the right
of Injunction by which the courts restrain
lawless conspiracies to oppose the law, and it
was used by the Circuit Courts of the United
States.
1t is essential to the life of the judiciary that
1t should have power to punish those who in
suit or disobey it. These courts proceeded
with the most strict conformity to law. They
proceeded upon lines familiar to the profess
sion and yet the President who executed the
law by using the forces of the United States,
and the courts that used their powers to an
ticipate and prevent violation of the law, are
both denounced in the Chicago platform.
Contin uing, the speaker said that our
communities everywhere rested Upon the
law and its enforcement for their secur-
ity, and that of all sections the South
should be more jealous to see that the
power of the law was preserved, and Vir-
ginia especially, the State that gave to
the United States the great Chief Justice
Marshall.
The speaker then declared that Senator
Daniel had introduced and passed a reso-
luton in the Senate indorsing the action
of President Cleveland, and yet he had
presided over the convention which de-
nounced that very act. Continuing on
this subject Mr.. Harrison said:
Have we ever heard anything from the can
didate of the Chicago convention? Has he
ever said in any speech he has made that if he
should be chosen President that he would exc
cute the law as Mr. Cleveland executed It'll He
has not said it, but he has accepted every word
of the Chicago convention, and there
fore is pledged that If he is elected
President and that in New York, Chicago
or in any other great center of population a
mob should lift the red flag of anarchy and
stay the progress of your mails, he would not
interfere until the Governor of the State asked
him to- Whatever may have been your party
affiliations, are you prepared for that7
The remainder or Mr.. Harrison's speech
was devoted to the discussion OF the fnan-
cial question in its various phases.
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