The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1896-08-29
SENATOR DAVIS VIEW.
The Democratic Platform Strikes
at the Governments
Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLISM.
Condition of Affairs Worse than War
Would Result from Dem.
ocratic Success.

In a speech delivered at st. Paul Au-
gust 4, Senator G. X. Davis pointed out
very. clearly the fact that free silver Is
not bimetallism and showed what evil
results would follow Democratic sue
cess. He said that for the first
time since the election next preced-
ing the great Civil war, we are
tons and bulwarks of national stability,
Of commercial honesty. of financial con.
duct. The Democratic party which met
at Chicago in convention in July suffered
2 wonderful change in that convention.
The old oracles and guides OF the party
pied and Economically possessed by a new
spirit-something which has not raised
its head in the political conventions OF
either party for thirty years. II there
was any NJ thing which the 2,!OOO,oOO
of men who went out to defend tins coun-
had entirely obliteratcd when they re-
turned, it was the malign doctrine OF
state rights. which lay at the bottom
and was the impetus of the greatest
rebellion which ever reared its head
against a civilized government. Lo ana
state of South Carolina, ms of yore, you
find the declaration Of the same state
rights, in the same spirit rs in the an
cient time, and done in n connection, my
follow citizens, which must appeal to the
resentment and r%cpugnance OF every Id
e%rty-loving and country-loying man. Ev-
eryone who knows anything about me
knows that | I'M not a political admirer
of Grover Cleveland: but if there was
any one act of his administration which,
after the contentious of history have
ceased to rage about his acts and his
memory, that will remain star-bright
forever. it was his action, when the
pulse Of business beat low. when COM
mercial intercourse was cut off by rioters
in Chicago, by which, upon principles ana
precedents laid down by George. Wash
ington 100 years before, he evoked the
strong arm of the United States to re-
store law n order II 'n's country
This act is covertly (and covertly IS
too mild n world denounced in the Chi
cago platform. More than that. If there
is anything in this country or in any ma
ton upon which the stability of the gov.
eminent depends, the very keystone Of
empire stands, the ultimate principle of
absoluteism that must exist somewhere
in all governments, it is the courts of our
land, where men sequestered from p!olltl-
cal concerns and political ambitions,
holding the scales of justice even be-
ing rights. decide for their fellow citizens
what the law is. And for more than 100
years the Supreme court of the United
States has sat in that exalted position,
midway in the capitol of the nation be-
tween the Senate and the House of Rep.
resentatives, a typical object lesson of
their position and of their sublime ca-
pacity to restrain either, and has done
more to conduct the government to the
high plane which it occupies, l was going
to say, thar all the statesmen which this
country. has ever produced. (Applause.)
court, strikes at all courts, and enun-
ciates it's malign prophesy of the reor-
ganization of that court and of any other
court if necessary, to register the ftful
and passionate and repudiating edicts Of
mistaken and misguided men, of mistaken
and MISGUIDED narties.