The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1896-09-23
CAMPAIGN
KEYNOTES.
Senator Lodge on the
Chicago Platform.
IT'S PLANKS TORN ASUNDER
Why It Should Cause Unre-
lenting Opposition.

why This Country Cannot Alone Uphold
Bimetallism-Possibie Only by Interna-
tionaI Agreement-The Question of Pro-
tection-The Party of Grant and Lincoln
Not Taught Patriotism by Tiliman and
Altgeld.
In his recent speech at Salem, Mass,
Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge said.
This Is no time for rhetoric or for flights
of oratory. We have had a great deal too
much of cheap rhetoric and stolen and In
coherent metaphor. The crisis which con-
fronts our beloved country is far too grave
for testing, far too serious for hysterical
shrieking, far too vital for vain appeals to
passion, prejudice, envy and oil uncharita-
bleness The time demands earnest
thought, calm argument and Judgment
governed only by knowledge, justice, mo-
rality and love of country. To such con-
sideration / invite you now.
say to you first that regard the result
of this election as more important than
any in our history, with single excep-
ton This Is not the ordinary campaign
statement but the exact truth as l see IL.
A great party organization in the country
has fallen into the hands of men who as
sail the foundation principles of free Amer
lean government
No man and no men can make issues,
and those which rise largest before us come
there from the operation Of forces which
we cannot control. Yet each of us for him.
self can select that which seems to him
most vital and rank the questions Of the
hour as they appeal to him. To me the
unity of my country, for which our breth
rem died by thousands, Is more sacred and
more dear than all else.
Tho Power Of the President.
When 1 see the masters of great party
In great national convention appeal to
sectional feeling, denounoe their brother
Americans, and even call from its grave
the moldering corpse of buried secession,
look upon those men as false to the prfnci-
pies of patriotism and unfit to be trusted.
When hear the candidate of one great
party speak of part of the United States
as 1.-THE enemy's country" / know that
he ought to be defeated as no candidate
has ever been defeated before.
When read the letter of another oandl-
date and find that he denounces sectional
ism and looks with equal love on all parts
of our common country, and, swayed by
political feeling, pleads for union and uni
ty, know that he Is patriot, that he will
govern as he fought and that the next
president of the United States should be-
aye, will be-William Mckinley.
Next to the unity of my country 1 hold
sacred the power given Co the nation s chief
magistrate by the constitution, which has
made that unity fact and preserved il
against all Corners When / see great
party deliberately declare against the pow
or Of the president, the representative of
the whole people, to enforce the laws of
the United States and maintain order, l
know that party should be beaten at all
hazards
George Washington first used that pow
er. Without it the newly launched ship of
state would have gone upon the rocks
Washington used it. Washington thought
it right and necessary, and what Washing
ton approved we may safely hold fast. 1
prefer George Washington TO an imported
socialist.
Without that power Abraham Lincoln
could not have taken rebellion by the
throat. Lincoln used it. Lincoln believed
from South Carolina set the example and
authority of Abraham Lincoln.
Free secession and free riot are far worse
than free coinage OF free trade and the
Chicago platform declares for all four.
The Supreme Court
Next to the unity and power of the
United States / set the authority of her
courts The supreme court Of the United
States has commanded the admiration of
the civilized world. For more than 100
years IL has sat In the capitol and held the
balance between contending interests and
battling passions. 1t has interpreted the
constitution and done justice between man
and man. 1t Is human and not infallible,
but In holiness of character and equity of
Judgment It has come as near completeness
as any human tribunal can ever come.
Respect for the courts and acceptance of
their decisions have been one of the mighty
bulwarks of the republic. Never before
have they been openly and wantonly as
sailed. Now comes a great party and de-
nounces the courts and proposes TO pull
down the supreme court and all the courts
in the United States, drag their ermine In
the dust and pack them to suit the within
or the passions of a fleeting political ma
jority. A party capable of such policy
deserves the reprobation of all patriotic
men and should be beaten TO the earth.
The unity of my country, the power
which guards that unity and the uphold
ing of the great constitutional courts of
the United States command an unrelent-
ing opposition 60 the men and to the party
who at this time attack them all / care
not what the other issues may be- These
three are enough to decide the vote of any
man who believes in American principles,
is proud of his country's past and is first
and above all patriot.
Yet it Is an issue apart from these, less
vital than these, but very vital, which is
absorbing public attention and discussion.
This is the money question do not pro-
pose to cover or try TO cover all the ground
involved in that question. All 1 desire
now Is to touch on one or two points.
In discussing any question IL is well to
know exactly what we mean and to clear
our minds of can't. The proposition of the
conglomerate Silver party is that we should
open the minis of the United States to the
free coinage of all the silver In the world
and agree to put the stamp of the United
States on every SO or 81 cents worth of sill
YER brought, mark 1t dollar and make It
legal tender. That Is what Is proposed,
and &c means that we should abandon the
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