Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-27

crtv Of United States citizens during
Inc late riots by ordering the fedora
troonss into the states Of Illinois and
| California. 1t denounces this act as
..crime against free institutions
Nothing clearer could reveal tne
| change which has come over the iJeHo'
cratic party than this plank OF the
| platform, At the time of these troubles
there was introduced into the United
States Senate by Senator Daniel OF
Virginia a resolution indorsing the
| President for his courageous action
| This resolution passed the Senate by
an unanimous vote. and was as follows:
"Resolved, that the Senate Endorses
the prompt and vigorous measures
adopted by the President of the United
States and the members of his admin
istration to repulse and repress by mill
tary force the interference of lawless
men with the due process of the laws
of the United States, and with the
transportation of the mails of the
United States, and with commerce
among the states. The action
of the President and his administra-
ton has the full sympathy and support
of the abiding masses of the peo-
pie of the United States, and he will
be supported by all the departments
of the government and by the power
and resources of the entire nation"
On the occasion of it's passage Sena-
tor Daniel in speech of great force
and power, said, among other things:
II am a states rights Democrat who
would not like to see the muniments of
local self government overridden. But
| am also Il national Democrat, who
would not like to see the munimentS of
national authority and national safety
destroyed
Anarchy is no REMEDY for anything.
X intensifes every evil that exists. II
impedes every remedial process. 1t
should be stamped out wherever it
shows itself
The President is commander-in-
chief of the army and navy. He has
the plain right. and it is his plain duty.
to employ them whenever and wher-
ever the constitution and the laws of
the federal government are forcibiy
resisted by combinations Of men. 80
Il am the friend. and often have been
the champion. of those who work for
their daily bread. My sympathy is
with them. But they can have no lot
or share with Anarchists. the destroy
ers of life. the breakers of law, the
enemies of peace. order and civilized
existence. They have no place in the
ranks of incendaries. and they have no
enemy who can be SO fatal to their
every interest as those who seek to fire
them into defiance of law"
The President is right in dealing
promptly with law-breakers. He ought
to be upheld and cordially and UNI
stintedly supported here as he will be
throughout this land. by upright and
law abiding citizens
When Senator Daniel uttered these
words he struck the rock from which
flowed the living waters of the Demo-
cratic faith. The American people to
use Senator Daniels own words. will
never permit the muniments of ma
tional authority and national safety
to be destroyed. They believe. with
Senator Daniel, that anarchy is no
remedy for anything. and that it in
tensifies every evil that exists. They
further agree with Senator Daniel in
the belief that it is the plain duty of
the President to employ the federal
troops whenever and wherever the con-
stitution and the laws of the federal
government are forcibly resisted.
5. The Chicago platform further at
lacks the prosperity of all our people
when it declares for the free and UNI
limited coinage of silver bullion al q
| ratio of IL to /.
THREE ASTOUNDING PROPOSE
TONS.
Three astounding propositions are
herein stated as aXioms-I say as
lXiomS, because no attempt is made to
prove them. l. That low prices are an
evil; 2, that more money is needed to
effect industrial exchanges: >. that the
free coinage of silver will give the nee
essary relief by increasing prices and
wages.
| answer emphatically that low prices
are not an evil; that we have ample
money in circulation at the present
time: that the free coinage of silver
would result in utter disaster and con-
| fusion to our people.
MCKINLEY PRICES.
| It is not so many years ago that the
high prices caused by the Mckinley
tariff law We're deplored by the Demo-
Gratis throughout the country as an
| evil and the people generally agreed
| with us in that belief. We know that
| only through high prices can that bane
! of modern civilization, the trust, sue
ecd in its object. The people almost by
| a revolution overthrow the party re-
| sponsible for the Mckinley law, and
| rhiaf 1.-Two
| the artificially enhanced prices of COM
| modities which it produced.
| DEAR BREAD.
AT the present time. however. by a
| sudden change of front, the high prices
| denounced in 1890 as an evil are now
| held up as blessing by some of the
very people who formerly denounced
| them. These people have the assur-
ance to claim that by raising prices the
| prosperity of our Deople will he in