Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-30
A CARD FROM GOV. COLcORD.
He Still Holds That Bryan is an
Anarchist.

EDITOR MORNING .APPEAL:-Accept
tending to me the privilege OF reply
ing to your editorial through the col
umns Of your journal. You are per-
fectly aware, however, that it is an
unequal contest first, because you are
an able and experienced writer, while
/ am a novice, and secondly, because
the readers Of your valuable paper,
unaccustomed as they are to facts,
will fail to recognize them when pre-
sented. They knew that you are
never serious and 10 dot mean what
you say. However, I will make the
attempt, feeling assured of fair treat
ment at your hands, which my official
acts ave always received, and, in
many cases. more praise than they d.
served from a political opponent. You
pay me the compliment of making lit
a political leader, which if true, [ will
reciprocate by saying that the APPEAL
and its editor occupy similar posi-
tions in the opposition party. Now to
the subject matter Of your article.
You say first thai my principal
reason for opposing the election of
Mr.. Bryan is what 1 term the anar-
chistic plank in the Chicago platform.
This 9 rot the fact as you will readily
recall after reading this article. Sad
experience has taught me the folly of
attacking a man of your ability with
a weapon as harmless as a Demo-
cratic platform. 1 have pulled it on
one or two gentlemen in argument
and it utterly failed of execution.
They simply wave it aside as a fly
catcher. You will remember after our
talk on the money question. l re-
1sd that, aside from that question,
=. 'Hf- that Mr.. Bryan's
| claim, in his letter Of acceL, N"ol
the President of the United States ha-
no right to enforce the laws OF the
United States in suppressing riotous
disorders, stopping the carriage OF the
mails and interstate commerce, ex-
cept when called upon by the State
authorities, on the ground Of Federal
interference In local affairs, would
cost him a half million votes.
1t was from his letter of acceptance
that l read and not from the Chicago
platform. though the latter is equally
as bad, but of far less Importance, the
former having been written by Mr..
Bryan over his own signature. The
plank in the platform Of 1860 did not
allude in the least to the right Of the
Federal Government to maintain law
and order throughout the Nation. Ii
referred to the lawless acts Of the
shareholders of Missouri in invading
the then Territory of Kansas for the
purpose of c%olonizing and f~orcine
order and control its own domestic 10
+ situations. The sentiments expressed
in that platform were correct then
and are correct today. But when MI
Bryan denies the right Of the Fedora
Government to send troops to an,
] part of the Union to enforce United
States laws or for the purpose OF pro
e tectiug Government property, which
Q it owDs in every State, or %preventiD;
q an Interference with the mails an,
Interstate commerce, unless upon az
plication by the Legislature OF a Stat
- or its Executive, he acknowledge
that the Government is powerless t
o preserve the Union of States, to pro
tect its own people and property or I
a enforce its own laws.
Sec. 5,597 Of the Revised Statutes {
the z. S. authorizes the President
use the armed forces Of the Govern
'7 ment in any State on application
the State authorities, and Sec. 5,2E
further authorizes him to emplc
~ such forces upon his own judgmeI
alone, against "unlawfuI obstruction
d combinations or as4elnli4go5 Of pc
q sons IN ~tau.9ur State u- TERI
tory thereof, U.. 'a@a 81 Jae UH.,,
States .aay los fs.st .@. .nt--d, OF Il
10 vNgccfl-a tu=i,al lu.tsa.- .azlrueJaG
/ 4ov-rumaa} uica yau..u, eufor
,e its law. or"a.e aa,.5s a@air .ta acti>
OF some talrj power 4eloje It can e
force them. is no government, audtn
is Mr.. Bryan'z position. F3r fear
o. interfering with States rights ne Wou
he decline to enforce United STATES La
.te uu1'i requested b. State authority. I'll
nd Of course, if never Requests a., 81
would never be enforced, although (
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