The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14

HON. FRANKLIN MURPHY.
people is founded upon common sense.
(Applause.) The constitution and laws
under which we live have for their
foundations the common sense, the
common integrity and common wis
dom of the average citizenship of
America. 1t has been said by many
that the issue of this campaign is one
of common honesty ; and that's true.
But more than all, it seems to me, it
is an issue of common sense.
The Republican .sDoctrine of Common
Sense
The doctrine of the Chicago platform
is that you can have government
under the constitution, and that it can
float in the air, and never alight upon
a law breaker. But this is not com
mon sense. The doctrine of the Re
publican party is that when the feder-
al laws are interfered with, some
power must lay physical hold upon
the law breaker and stop him from
breaking the laws of his country. And
if any mob, or any force, interrupts
the progress of the mails of the United
States, or the transportation of COM
merce from one State to another,
somebody must lay physical hands
upon the law breaker, and stop him
from breaking the laws, and that's
common sense Great applause.)
The Chicago doctrine is that some
benefit may be derived from tamper-
ing with the Supreme Court of the
United States, in order to dictate by
political coercion what construction
shall be placed upon the constitution.
The Republican doctrine is that, as
some tribunal must have power to in
terpret the constitution, and as the
constitution itself has given that pow
er to the Supreme Court-the most
august judicial tribunal OF all times
therefore that Court must be the sole
Judge of the constitution, and must be
left to interpret it without political
interference or dictation, and that's
common sense. tApplause).
More Money of Value is Needed.
The Chicago doctrine is that you
can make money out of the immagin-
alton. The Republican doctrine is
that in order that money may be
worth anything, it must either be
made of substance that is worth
something, or you must have con
tract or promise, backed by patriot
ic people, agreeing to pay something
of value to the holder of the promise.
The Republican doctrine is that hon
est money is q necessity for free and
honest people, and our money cannot
be honest unless it be made out of
honest goods, or backed with honest
goods by the credit of an honest peo-
pie. 1t must be the same on Satur-
day, when it is paid to the working
man, as it is on the following Monday
when the working man goes out to
spend it. 1t must be the same in 1896,
when it is earned, as it is in 1897, when
it is drawn out of the savings bank to
be used. That is common sense. That
is the Republican doctrine. The Re
publican party believes in honest mon
ey, and they believe in the same kind
of money in October as they did in the
month of Jure, Qaughterl, and that
common sense is going to be voiced on
the Bird day ofNovember by a majority
overwhelming and unprecedented in
our history, made up not of Republi-
cans alone, but of men Of common sense
throughout the length and breadth of
the land.
Reputation National Crime.
The Chicago doctrine is that debt
is a great misfortune and ought to be
repudiated. The Republican doctrine
is that the institution of private prop
erty necessitates the making of CON
tracts, that people cannot acquire,
possess and enjoy property without
making contracts one with another,
and every contract makes debt or
obligation The freedom of contract
and the invoilability of contract are
equally essential to the institution Of
property, which means that every
body should have the right to make a
contract, and that nobody should have
the right to break a contract, and
that's common sense. Instead, there
fore, of debt being a curse to the peo-
pie, it is an evidence of the civilization
OF the people, an evidence OF the fact
that they know how to do business on
credit, and the common sense doctrine
is that in order to do business on cred
it, it is necessary that credit shall be
invoiDably maintained, -and that's
common sense. (Applause.) The Re
publican doctrine is that reputation,