Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-09-17
THE TWOPLATFORMS.
SOME or the DEMOCRAT AND
REPUBLICAN, UrTERANcEs.
Lsag Array % rhsags Omitted frea The
Dsnoerssse Prsseuaesmsas : Revolu-
tsonary ss.si.sats-Ne Dsslsrssiea Of
Yorsaga Policy.

V0lI0 tho y8rlu uuO uuoucl8i PiaukD
of the Republican and Democratic plat
forms dcservedIy have large share Of
the public attention, there are certain
other differences between them that
ought not 10 DO overlooked. The pres
encc Of q largo Populist, and even an
archist, element In the Chicago con-
vention was noted at the time, and
had It's influence in debating the plat
form and making the nominations. IL
found plain expression In the following
paragraph Of the platform adopted:
"Wc denounce arbitrary interference
by s~Acral authorities In local affairs
as violation OF the constitution OF the
United States and crime against free
institutions, and we especially object
to government by injunction as new
and highly dangerous form OF oppres-
sion, by which federal judges, in con-
tempt of the laws of the states and the
rights OF citizens. become Mt once leg
islatOrs, judges and cxecutioncrs."
The plain intent of this is to deny 10
the general government the right to pro-
tcct its own fixed property or its postal
service when interstate commerce is
impcrilcd by riots. 1t is simply re-
Election of Governor Altgcldts protest
ag .-..-t ihs - OF government troops
to protect the mails and public prop
erty at the time of the Chicago strike
riots, after Altgcldt himself had shown
his incapacity to deal with the mob,
and when not only the railroad and gov
eminent property, but the city itself
was In danger.
The same hostility to the constitu-
tional and orderly conduct of public
affairs is found in the covert threat,
found in the Chicago platform, to re-
organize the supreme court. After de-
ploring the decision of the supreme
court on the income tax, the platform,
continues: ave declare that it is the
duty o. congress to use all constitu-
tional power which remains after that
decision, or which may come from its
reversal by the court as it may here
aft.r be constituted, SO that the bur-
dens of taxation may be equally and
impartially laid"
This means nothing less than that
the men who made the platform pro-
pose, il they come into power, to force
designations from the present bench
and to ill the vacancies with judges
appointed with n special view To over
turning the income tax decision, or
else To accomplish tho same purpose by
inc-cae'~~ the number OF judges, tho
new ones TO bc appointed with tho
same design. In either case the pur-
pose is essentially revolutionary in its
character.
The omissions OF the Demo-
cratic platform arc hardly less Of
fcnsivc To the patriotic voter than its
uttcranccs. With the exception of n
single mild sentence Of sympathy to
the people Of Cuba ia their heroic
struggle for liberty and independence,
1t has not single word upon our for
eign relations, nothing about the la
waiian affairs which the present ad-
ministration SO badly bunglcd; moth
ing ~ attempted O'"h ag-
gressions in Venezuela; nothing about
the application Of tho Monroe doctrine
to that affair; nothing about our inter
ests in Nicaragua and the West Indies.
The Republican platform, on tho
other hand, reasserts the Monroe doc
trine toits full extent, and reaffirms tho
right of the United States to give the
doctrine effect bv responding to the APP
pcals Of any American state for friendly
Intervention in cases of European
encroachment. 1t gives generous ex-
preston of sympathy to the Gu
bans in their determined contest
for liberty and declares that the
Unit ties should ely use
its influence and good offices to re-
store peace and give independence to
the island. 1t declares that the Mica
ragua canal should be built, owned
and operated by the United States,
and that by the purchase of the Danish
islands we should secure a much
needed naval station in the West In
dies. Finally, referring to the de-
struction of American property in
Armenia, 1t declares that, there and
everywhere, American citizens and
American property must be absolutely
protected, ut every hazard and at any
cost. The one platform, as II ashamed
OF the co,orlcs. ....patriotic policy
of the present administration, is al.
most absolutely silent on foreign af-
fairs. The other gives clear cnuncia-
ton of our claims and demands as a
self-rcspecting power among the ma
tions of the earth.
The Republican platform also de-
clarcs IN favor of the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the
upbuilding Of our merchant marine, for
the con tinucd enlargement of our navy,
and for complete system OF harbor
and seacoast defcnscs; for free and
unrestricted ballot for every American
citizen, with fair count of the ballots
thus cast; favors a national board of
arbitration for the settlement OF diff
fcrcnces between employers and en-
ployed engaged in Interstate commerce.;
favors an immediate return to the free
homestead policy of the Republican
party. and dcnounces the uncivilizcd
and barbarous practice Of lynching.
Upon all these questions of internal
administration the Democratic plat
form Is entirely silent. That platform
is, In fact, SD much taken up with the
advocacy Of false system OF finance
and the dcnunciation OF accumulated
wealth. that it had little space for dec
larations IN respect to good govern
ment, even II the heterogeneous mass
that composed the convention had felt
any inclination TO consider the subject.
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