Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-08-06

purpose of government was to help.
1t has maintained that the highest
prerogative of government was to
secure, to preserve inviolate their
natural right, not help, their citi-
zens; TO see that the people are
secure in all their inalienable rights,
but not to make any man or class
of men ride by legislation, not to
add one cents value to his product
or to his labor, by Legislative act,
has recognized, that the prices of
both commodity and labor must be
controlled by natural laws, such as
supply and demand. The govern
ment recognizes silver and gold as
commodities, which can be used as
both token and redemption money.
But as redemption money, the
coined money must have the same
value as the uncoined bullion, no
more, no less. This is Democratic.
This is right. The Chicago platform
seeks by legislative act alone to
make so cents worth of bullion
worth 100 cents. This is wrong,
and it is impossible. 1t simply
reduces the standard of value from
100 cents to 50 cents.
You say next that the Democratic
party has always opposed the "ar-
bitrary use of federal troops in state
affairs" This declaration is Dem
%ocratic, and | subscribe to it. and so
do all good citizens, irrespective of
party or creed. The pretext, how
ever, for that resolution was the
use of federal troops at Chicago by
President Cleveland in suppressing
the riots there in 1898, in the en-
forcement of the Interstate com.
merce law, and in protecting the
United States mails. and i'll seeing
they we're promptly transmitted.
That the Chicago convention in
tended to say that President Cleve-
lands conduct in that instance was
illegal and unauthorized and that
he was guilty of arbitrarily using
federal troops in state affairs" no
sane person can doubt. The Chi
cago convention condemned that
act. They refused to indorse it in
the amendments offered by Senator
Hill. 1t refused to indorse any act
of President Cleyeland's administra-
ton. The revolutionists who COM
posed that convention wanted it to
| go broadcast over the whole country
that the Cleveland administration
had been repudiated and condemned.
That Cleveland was a criminal and
guilty of treason in ~suppressing the
Chicago riots, and that Debs was
not a criminal, as decided by the
supreme court of the United States,
but a martyr. The gentleman who
was nominated on that platform
stated in his now celebrated speech
that a motion to table Senator Hills
motion to indorse the president
would be laid upon the table, and it
was done; and we have the humil-
iating spectacle of a so-called Dem
ocratic convention refusing to in
dorse an administration which
many Democrats regard singularly |
able, courageous, patriotic and
strong. In the refusal of the con
vention to indorse the administra
ton, in refusing to indorse Cleve-
lands act in suppressing the insur-
rection, but passing a resolution
condemning the arbitrary use of
federal troops in state affairs" in
condemning the United States court
for its part and decision in the Debs
case, the convention placed itself in
the position of opposing law and
order, and as being in ia or of Debs
and the lawless methods adopted by
him in the Chicago riots. repeat
my former statement. The plat.
form is both Populistic and Anar-
chistic, and hence un- Democratic.
For that reason, if for no other, it
can not have my sanction OF sup
port. L believe the very highest
prerogative of government is to
maintain the established order until
repealed by law, and at any cost.
Next in Importance to that is, to
maintain a firmly established public
credit, without which there can be
no private security. Next, to main
tain our national honor. both at
home and abroad. Cleveland, I'M
aided by his party in congress, has
the established order.
Has upheld the public credit, al
though criticised with the most VIC
lent vituperation and abuse. and
perilous times has main
tanned our rational honor, both at
home and abroad. Having done
this, he is entitled to be upheld and
not condemned for it. A vote for
the Bryan ticket is to condemn all
these principles SO essential to a free
republic like ours, and to- condemn
a man who must go down in history
as the greatest executive this coun-
try has had since the days of JEFF
ferson and Lincoln.
| have always been in favor of
law and order, and plead that l am
consistently right. But you say:
-Four years ago Mr.. Buckner
actively supported Governor Stone
for the nomination, and insisted
that his position on public questions
made him the strongest man the
could place at the head
of their ticket. He came to Audrain
while the primary canvass was be-
ing made and urged his friends to
support his favorite candidate. AT
that time Governor Stone was not
only demanding the restoration of
silver coinage, in accordance with
the platform since adopted at Chi
.ago, but he was denouncing the
arbitrary interference of federal
and marshals in state affairs.
Governor Stone has not changed.
stands today exactly where he
stood in his canvass for governor in
1892. Mr.. Buckner said Governor
Was RIGHT then Now he as.