The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-30
BRYANIsM DISCUSSED FROM THE
STANDPOINT OF THE NATIONAL
DEMOCRACY.
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER
BUT ONE STEP TOWARD THE ISSUE
OF UNLIMITED FIAT
PAPER.
CONDEMNED 1T ON THREE COUNTS.
Chicago Platform ArraiEned for It's
Attacks ON Honesty, Federal
Power and Judicial Purity.

OHAOAIO, Oct. "a. Is. Humphrey,
or Louisville, spoke tonight in Rosalie
nall. in Hyde Park. In spite Of the
dIsagreeable weather, he had a large
and appreciative audience He took a
firm stand against the Chicago plat
form and his calls upon his hearers to
vote against it were received with en-
thusiasm. In pant he said:
Three prominent candidates are
seeking your suffrage. AS preferring
one OF them, / am not here to give a
reason for his election, for it is idle
10 consider that as possible, but I am
mere to give a reason for his nOmina-
tion. AT the same time you cannot
be Ignorant of the fact that Gen. John
nj. Palmer is an altogether worthy as
pirant for the office of president of the
United States. He has shown in the
field of battle and in the employments
or peace abilities of the highest order,
| a courage Of conviction and a single
| ness OF purpose worthy Of all praise
Ills Is not the sagacity or statecraft
| of intuition, but of years OF experience
| ana reflection. He knows no liberty
| above the law, no equality superior to
| order. In the people he finds the
| fountain. OF pOWer-a fountain album
| dant. but not turbulent. In our gov
eminent he finds freedom for every
| citizen to accomplish his own destiny,
| sign is to make men rich or poor.
| OF his associate, Cen Buckner,
| hesitate to speak only because he be-
| longs to my own state. AS a soldier,
| the fact that he became lieutenant
general Of the Confederate army is all
that need be said. The most sublime
| act in the life of Gen. Lee was his in,
slant assumption of the whole respon-
| sibility of the dreadful disaster that
! overwhelmed the command of Pickett
| in it's repulse from the cemetery hill
| at Gettysburg. The browning glory
| of Gen. Buckners career was his re-
| fusa1 to share the flight Of his superior
officers from Fort Donelson. AS he
had been willing to go to his death. so
he was willing to go to prison with his
brave men. AS governor of Kentucky
he showed an ability as executive that
has found few equals. He can speak
| the truth as boldly alone, with a thou
sand men against him, as with q null
| titude at his side.
! There are three propositions in the
Chicago platform, any one of which
| should condemn it in the mind Of
every true American.
The first principle laid down in
/ this platform of 1896 to which the
country has called attention is that
| relating to the supreme court of the
United States. Although disguised in
cowardly ambiguity no one can fail
to detect what it means and what it
| threatens. After expressing disap-
prevail Of the income tax decision it
looks forward ito it's reversal by the
court as it may hereafter be consti-
| tuted." Mr. Douglass once said that
the judicial system Of Illinois had been
severely criticised because the law had
failed to provide that all judgments
| of the supreme court on constitutional
| questions should be reviewed by APP
/ f0 fyyn i11Gti0nG nf the The
! proposition now is to have your writ
! of error to the next political conven-
| ton.
| The next principle to which I ask
| your attention is in reference to the
! enforcement of federal laws. The plat
form of 1896 mas this to say upon thai
| subject. 1--WE denounce arbitrary in
| references by federal authorities in
| local affairs as a violation Of the cOnSti-
| tuition Of the United States, and a
crime against free institutions, and we
| especially object to government by in
| junction as new and highly danger
| Gus form of oppression, by which fed
eral judges, in contempt Of the laws Of
| the states and the rights of citizens. be-
come at once legislators. judges and ex-
! ecutioners.'
How was this Union rescued from the
| danger of secession of states? How
| otherwise than by the arbitrary inter-
| ference by federal authorities in local
| affairs? There was no other basis for
| our civil war upon the part Of the
| North except that the government had
| the right by might Of arms, to en-
/ force the execution of federal laws In
| all the states. Against a secession Of
| eleven sovereign states the constituted
| authorities of the United States waged
| war, expended the lives of a million
| men and a treasure of four thousand
| millions of money.
FINANCIAL HONOR.
The third principle involved is the
| financial honor of the nation. The dec
| larations of the platform of 1896 are
| borrowed exclusively from the plat
forms of greenback and Populist con-
| ventions, and have no Democratic gen.
esis nor warrant The platform of
1896 on this subject is plain and wide
| departure from the principles of the
Democratic party as heretofore taught.
| These declarations are Of such length
that I can not stop here to read them
all. I will endeavOr to consider some
or all of the reasons given for the ulti-
mate proposition-the free and unlim-
tied coinage Of silver at the ratio Of
16 to /.
Mr. Bryan in his speech at Louis
vile, attempted to sustain the position
| of his party by saying that if any per-
son would agree to buy all the eggs
that were offered him at rs cents a
NOZ0n, So lOIIS DIS lie IululICQ HIS
| Use eggs would have that price. The
analogy that he attempted to draw
from that was that as long as the
| United States would coin all the silver
| that was offered it's price would be
| equal to that of gold. There is an OBJ
| vfous vice in this argument. If the
| merchant would pay gold for eggs he
| could maintain the price, but the mo-
ment he ceased to pay gold and began
| to pay eggs for eggs, the price would
| go to pieces. Under free coinage it
| is not expected that the government
| will buy the bullion, nor that the gov
| eminent will do anything to sustain the
| price Of the coin. To the contrary,
every effort that has been made by the
present administration to sustain the
| value Of the silver dollar by making
| it exchangeable for a gold dollar, has
| been resented by the free-coinage ad
! yocate For the government to attempt
| to sustain the price Of silver by giving
| silver dollars for silver bullion would
| be palpable absurdity.
| The experience of the world Is. en-
| tireiy opposed to such a proposition as
| this No nation, no aggregation of ma
| lions, has ever been able to maintain
| the parity between the two metals by
| the free coinage Of both at any ratio.
| We have twice failed ourselves when
| the difference was insignificant 1t is
beyond reason to suppose that we could