Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1896-10-15

Ihe Nel lAC VI lHc udtloH anu tue
stability OF republican government.
Self preservation is the first law Of
national sovereignty.
A government without the author
/ ity to suppress insurreetion and vio-
lence is a government in name only
The constitution Of the United States
was adopted in order ITO insure do
nestle tranquility TO condition
the presidents authority to suppress
instruction, mob rule, and riots on
the will of state officials is to dethrone
the supremacy of federal law and es-
tablish the reasonable Estates Rights
doctrine. The constitution makes it
incumbent on the president to pro-
tect state against domestic violence
on application ofthe Legislature, or OF
the governor when the legislature is
not in session. In case the state au-
thorities refuse or neglect to enforce
law and preserve order it is none the
less the presidents duty to make fed
eral powers felt. ic1
United States laws cannot be enforced
in a state where anarchy reigns
and the national executive does, not
exceed his powers when he surpresses
any form of violence that interferes
with carrying the mails, administer
ing justice through the United States
courts or carrying into execution any
national law.
1t was this unwritten law of nat
ional sovereignty that justified the
union armies in entering southern
states to suppress the great rebellion
of 81. That was the great question
which was forever settled by the
civil war;" That was the principle
for which the nations treasure was
expended and for which the blood of
patriotic thousands drenched the sun
ny Southland.
If the national authority must wait
for the invitation Of governor before
ii can execute law in a state it has no
legal authority to suppress rebellion
or prevent secession, and the patriots
boast, The Union Forever, one and
inseparable' is a myth.
The republican party believes in
national authority and has never been
ashamed to spell Nation with big N.
President Cleveland, and to his honor
let it be said, holds like exalted no.
tions of the national power
When riot ran mad in Chicago,
when the lives and property of the
fair city were at the mercy of an UNI
reasoning mob, when the torch, bullet
and bludgeon of red anarchy had, be-
gun their awful work, when the police
force of the city were worn out and
pow erless to cope with the gigantic
REBEL ion-it was then that President
Cleveland cried to the law breakers,
STOP Notwithstanding Governor
Altgeld neglected to assist the city in
her sore extremity and refused to ask
national assistance. 1t is this act
that the Popocrats condemn and which
allied forth their platform plank:
1--WE denounce arbitrary interference
by federal authorities in local affairs
as a violation of the constitution of
the Unite d States and crime against
free institutions.
That plank is the most dangerous
one that has been promulgated by
any great party since the war.
There are men supporting the Pop
ocratio party who do not realize the
evil in it. That plankis so obscured
by free silver doctrine that many have
overlooked it, but it is there and it
was championed before the Chicago
convention by Senator Tillman OF
South Carolina, whose insolent boast
in that body was that he represented
state that had been foremost in Sc
cession.
The more reputable democratic
papers and speakers ignore it OF
refuse TO defend il. Debs and
Coxey and Altgelt and Tillman and
| dropping way down to our home
anarchist Ed Pollock support it.
If the ar.~democratic party
were back of Bryan this plank would
not cause so much alarm but in the
Popocratic party where demagogues
and cranks like those mentioned
above are in control such doctrine
would be fought with most dire re