Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-10-01

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labor. [Great applause.l You will recollect
that in the campaign of 1864 there came
to US and stood by us and with us thous-
ands and thousands of Democrats, as there
served in the army hundreds Of thousands
OF Union Democrats. And one Of the incl
dents Of this campaign is that the Demo-
cratic party which nominated the ticket at
Chicago and promulgated the platform at
Chicago is divided, is split in two. There
have come away from that organization, so
far as this campaign is concerned, in every
state of this union the men upon whom we
have been accustomed to look as par ex
cellence the bravest, the truest and the
best of Democratic leaders. [Applause.] In
our own state the revolt against that nomi-
nation and the platform is led by men who
for twenty years have been the leaders
Of Wisconsin Democracy; men who won
upon the field of battle, many Of them,
great and enduring fame; men who have
won distinction at the bar; men who have
won fame as debators and as orators in
the halls of congress, and in the senate of
the United States and some Of whom have
won and deserved honor in all of those
departments of human effort-Senator Will
liam F. Villas, Gen. E. S. Bragg and James
G.. Flanders [great applause], and a long
and splendid line Of men who have always
been Democrats, who in season and out of
season have fought the battles of Democ-
ray, have led time after time and time
after time forlorn hopes; men without
whose efforts Democracy in Wisconsin
never would have triumphed. And what
is true Of Wisconsin IS true Of Illinois,
which gives Gen. John M. Palmer [great
plause1 and thousands and thousands like
him to the rebellion against the Chicago
ticket and the Chicago platforms, led, ladies
and gentlemen, by the president OF the
United States, Grover Cleveland. ZAP
plause.] Whatever else may be said OF Mr..
Cleveland, this must be said Of him, that
the Chicago convention conferred on him
an unperishable honor when it refused to
endorse him. I have not been accustomed
to look with eyes of approval upon many
of the acts of President Cleveland, but the
Chicago convention has furnished conclu-
sive evidence that there are in his admins
tration and public life, acts, policies and
triotic men, when they found 1t inconsistent
with their professions and self-stultifying
to pass their approval upon them.
The Revolt of Democracy.
Gentlemen, the Democratic revolt
against the ticket nominated at Chicago
and the platform there adopted Is OF great
significance. 1t means great deal for a
man to turn his back upon nomination
of his party. 1t is next to leaving home
and breaking the ties of home; as strong
strain, it seems to me, almost, as can be
put upon man. No man does 1t without
good cause; and no man living can i'm
peach the motives of the sound money
Democrats Of the United States who are
in rebellion against Bryan and Sewall, or
Bryan and Watson. [Applause1 Nothing
but patriotism could have prompted their
action; and it is hopeful sign, that in
campaigns involving so much as this, men
are to be found in such vast numbers. and
Of so great fame, who will leave party and
do their utmost to defeat what in their
judgment is against the public interest. So
say all honor to the sound money Demo-
Gratis of Wisconsin, Illinois and other
states. CApplause.] Four years from now
they will be the leaders of reorganized
Democratic party; and they will have won
so much of confidence, fear, by their
patriotism of to-day, that it will require
our utmost efforts to prevent their delud-
ing the people on the question of free
trade, as they did in 1892 [Applause.1
"Why this revolt, gentlemen? 1t was be-
cause the convention at Chicago adopted
platform which is a masterpiece OF infamy.
[Applause.l There are three planks in
that platform, everyone of which Is sufh-
cient to condemn it. I wish to bring to
your attention one of it's declarations; it
is this: To all intents and purposes that
there is no power in the president Of the
United States, even with the congress of
the United States behind him, to enforce
the laws of the United States, and protect
the property of the United States, within
the limits of a sovereign state. Mr.. Bryan
in his letter of acceptance deals at length
with the proposition that under the con-
stitution of the United States the president
may not interfere in the domestic affairs
Of state unless requested by the legis-
lature so to do, or if the legislature be not
in session, by the governor; and his plat
form denounces arbitrary federal interior
ence with the domestic affairs of the
In Mr cd in
of his numerous speeches, or in any Of his
letters Of acceptance laughter
an instance, ladies and gentlemen, of ar
bitrary federal interference with the do
nestle affairs of any state? Do you re-
member within the last twenty years any
issue which they make by their plat
form, and which they shall not evade
That platform was framed at the dictation
of Gov. Altgeld, and the men who believe
with him, in condemnation Of Mr.. Cleve-
land, because when the interstate COM
merce of this country obstructed by
mob in Chicago, the mails stopped bust
ness paralyzed, Mr.. Cleveland kept the oath
which, as president of the United States,
he had registered in heaven, to take care
of and see that the laws be faithfully ex-
ecuted [Applause.] Are we to be told in 1896
as we were told, you remember, in 1861.
that there is no power in the federal gov
eminent to protect its property and enforce
it's laws in state? 1t was upon that propo-
sition from the legal standpoint, that the
war was carried forward. 1t was to enforce
the laws Of the union everywhere. It waste
seize again to ourselves the custom
houses everywhere; 1t was to retake our
marine vessels everywhere; it was on that
theory and that alone that John A. Dix
gave the command which thrilled the blood
of every loyal man in the United States:
If any man attempts to pull down the
American flag, shoot him on the spot
1t was because that revenue cutter was the
property of the United States, it was be-
cause that flag was the flag Of the United
States, that that command was a lawful
command. [Applause.]
Treason of the Chicago Conven-
ton.
elm almost every great transaction OF
life there are incidents entirely in har-
mony with the eternal fitness Of things.
There were such in this convention at Chi
cago. 1t is said that at one time during
that convention the band played The Star
Spangled Banner and that there came, as
If borne upon the winds from the shadowy
regions which we may fancy somewhere
are gathered around Grant, Sherman, Sker-
idan and Fairchild, faint cheer. It is
said that little later the band played
Dixie and pandemonium broke loose, as
If all the devils of Andersonville were in
that convention. IApplause1 And in the