Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-09-02
SENATOR DAVIS VIEW.
ihe Democratic Platform Strikes
OF the Governments
Foundation.
FREE SILVER NOT BIMETALLISM.
Condition Of Affairs Worse than War
Would Result from DEM
ocratic Success.

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
required to guard the very foundn-
Mons IL bulwarks of national stability,
OF commercial honesty, of financial con-
duct. The Democratic party which met
at Chicago in convention in July suffered
a. wonderful change in that convention.
Inc old %oracles and guides Of the party
were rudely turned aside. 1t was occu-
pied and Economically possessed by a new
spirit-somcthing which has not raised
its head in the political conventions of
either party for thirty years. If there
was any one thing which the 2.000,00O
OF men who went out to defend this coun-
try, thirty years ago thought that they
had entirely obliterated when they re-
turned, It was the malign doctrine of
state rights. which lay ut the bottom
and was the impetus of the greatest
rebellion which ever reared its head
against a civilized government. 10 and
behold, in that convention, from the
state of South Carolina, as of yore, you
md the declaration Of the same state
rights, in the same spirit as in the an
Gent time, and done in n connection, my
fellow citizens. which must appeal to the
resentment and repugnance of every lib
erty-loying and COMMISSIONING man. Ev-
eryone who knows anything about me
Knows that am 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 and
p%recedents laid down by George Wash
ington 100 years before, he evoked the
strong arm of the United States to re-
store. law and order in this country.
IADDlause and cheers.1
This act is c~overtly land covertly is
too mild Il 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
the great arch upon which the ranged
empire stands. the ultimate principle of
absoluteism that must exist somewhere
IN all governments, il is the courts of our
land, where men sequestered from politi-
cal concerns and political ambitions,
holding the scales of Justice even be-
y Nt'h- tptt DIb6iOfl6 LII CUnNtIiu-
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
resentatiyes, 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 1t occupies, | was going
TO say. than all the statesmen which this
country, has ever produced. (%Applause.)
The Chicago platform strikes Mt that
court. strikes at all courts, and enun-
GATES its malign prophesy of the rcor-
ganization Of that court and of any other
court If necessary, to register the fitful
and passionate. and repudiating edic.s of |
mistaken and misguided men, of mistaken
and misguided parties.
A Crisis is Impending.
And worse than that. my fellow citi-
zens-worse than that! If there was |
another thing which the veterans Of the
last war thought they had achieved and
which the loyal sentiment of the North
thought 1t had achieved. ii was the oh
liberation of all sectionalism in this coun-
try; we were TO have no South, no North.
no East, no West, any more. The whole
country was to be n unity. But in these
later days, we see the solid South com
ing up to the banks of the Ohio and the
Missouri as before the war, and with
sectional demands upon an economic is
sue, precisely such as was made before
lie Rebellion. And now, with the mich
FORK OF Tillman stirring up the J~octrine
OF state rights, with the bomb of Alteold
IN the denunciation of our courts and of
President Cleveland thrown under the
very fabric of our government. they have
CHOSEN to put forward as an issue some.
thlng which touches more immediately
the conviction, the passions, the cupility
ana the honesty Of men, and which in IT,
ser contains more d~isintegrating infu-
enceS to our prosperity than nh flo
causes combined that | have mentioneJ
The Democratic convention. or the
Democratic party. as now organized. has
joined the P'opulist party in bonds of nm.
molly wedlock upon the demand that The
United States shall take n position ,pon
the currency of this country which / |
Speaking to You under the responsibility |
OF a man who is speaking to his neigh.
Dors, say that believe is fraught With
more disaster to this country than the
greatest foreign war could possibly brjny
about. (Applause.)
49, 'bit 10 INT buDltCI Inny hnVn /
been asked to talk to you tonight nbout |
/ am going to do so, MS | said in the he
ginning, not with any attempt Mt deco ]
ratiye speech, not %denouncing n men |
who may choose to differ from me. for |
l tell you, my fellow citizens, that many |
and many a thousand men who differ |
from us today OF this matter one wear
from now will be wondering why and
how they came to do it. (Appinuse1
And so | shall go on. | may be tedious. |
l am going to give you facts and fig.
ures. i am not going to draw ON nv |
own imagination for my facts ot ai
The facts that | shall give You will he
i~mpregnable. II is for you TO indce
whether the deductions l shall draw
from them can be refuted.
Now what is the question? For n COR.
rect understanding of the question is nj
ways the first step towards the solution |
of the controversy. The question Is moi
whether there should be the free md
unlimited coinage of silver In the minis
of all the nations, by the consent of the
principal commercial nations of the globe |
upon a ratio to be agreed upon. That Is
the issue. VIZ all might agree that
when this is brought about, as il will be.
II the United States conducts itself with |
Judgment upon this question, ! say we
might all agree that that would be nm
excellent thing. The Republican partv
has pledged itself in successive platforms
to labor to bring about internationa
agreement. The most advanced think.
ers upon financial questions in both
nemispheres are advocating, especially in
foreign lands, the resumption Of the coin.
age Of silver, by united action Of nations
who, before we did, long ago, independ.
emily Of us. and uncomfortable by ne
suspended or limited the further coinage