The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-28
Mr.. HARRISON
GREAT SPEECH


There is only one rule by which we can
live peacefully as a nation or peacetuiiy
as citizens, 1t is the rule OF
the laws constitutionally enacted
and finally interpreted by the 1uaiciai
tribunal appointed by the constitution.
When it becomes the rule that violence
carries its en-, we have anarchy, CON
dition as destructive TO honest iapor
and it's reward as death Is to the us
sues of the human body. (Appiause')
The atmosphere of the Chicago CON
Vention was surcharged with the spirit
of revolution. Its platform was carried
and its nominations made with accom-
panying incidents of frenzy that start-
led the onlookers and amazed the coun-
try. The courts and the president were
arraigned for enforcing the laws ana
government by the mob was given prei-
erence over government by the law en-
forced by the court and DEGREES by exc
cutive orders. The spirit'eXhibited that
itself in this convention was so wild ana
strangely enthused that Mr.. Bryan him-
self likened it to the zeal that possessed
the crusaders when they responded 10
the impassioned appeals of Peter, the
hermit, to rescue the spulchre Oh
our Lord from the hands of the inndels.
His historical Illustration was more pot
ent and more forcible than he knew,
for the zeal of the crusaders was a blind
and ignorant ZEAL they sought to res
cue the transient and ineffectual sepul-
chre that had held the body of the son
of God. while they trampled upon the
precepts of love and mercy which ne
had left for their guidance in lie. zap
plause) He told us that his silver cru
SADIE had arrayed father against son
and brother against brother ana sum
dered the interest of love.
Senator Hill. watching the proceed
ings. had to extend that brief political
code from which he had gained so mucn
renown He felt compelled TO say: Il
am a Democrat. but l am not reNolu-
ZIONIST" lApplauseD Senator vest
realizing that they We're inauguratihS
a revolution reminded the convention
that revolutions did not begin with the
rich and prosperous. Mr.. Tillman felt
that change In the management of pup
lie affairs was to be so radical that ne
proposed sulphur fumigation for the
ship before the new crew took possess
sion Of 1t .Uaughter)
FRENZY AT CHICAGO.
Now my friends all these things in
dicate the temper in which that pat
form was adopted and the spirit that
prompted the nominations that We're
made. There was no calm delibera-
tion. There was frenzy. There was
no thoughtful searching for the man
who from experience was most able to
direct public affairs. There was an i'm
pulsive response to an impassioned
speech that selected the nominee. Not
amid such surroundings as that, not
under such influences, are these caim
discreet things done that Will commend
themselves to the judgment of the
American people. (Applause). They
denounce in their platform interference
by fedearl authorities in local attalrs
as violation of the constitution of the
United States and Il crime against tree
institutions. Mr.. Tillman in his speech
approved this declaration. 1t was in
tended to be i'm words a direct con-
demnation of Mr.. Cleveland as presi-
dent of the United States for using
the power of executive to brush out
of the way every obstacle to the free
passage of the mail trains of the Uni
ted States and the interstate COM
merce, and my friends, whenever our
people approve the choice of n presi-
dent who believes he must ask Cover
nor Altgeld or any other governor or
any other state. permission to enforce
the laws of the United States. we have
surrendered the victory the boys won
in 1861. (Applause).
Once we were asked, and a grave
question was raised whether the United
States could pass its troops through
Kentucky to meet a rebel army in
Tennessee. My friends this constitu-
tional question. this division between
the general and local authorities is a
plain and easy one. A disturbance
state affair. The president cannot send
state affair. The president canont send
troops or lend any aid unless the legis-
lature calls upon him for help, or the
governor II the legislature Is not in
session. But when a law of the United
States Is invaded and broken it Is the
sworn duty of the president to execute
it and this convention arragns the
president for doing what his oath COM
PEELED him to do. (Applause.)
Comrades of the great war of the
Union, sons of those who went out to
battle that the age might not lose its
lustre will you consent after these years
(cries of "no'O that the doctrine which
was shot to death in the great war
shall be revived and made victorious
in civil campaign. (Crlcs of "no.")
But this assault does not end there
The supreme court of the United States
and the federal lower courts are ar
raigned because they used the
familiar writ of injunction to suppress
violence. to restrain men from break
Ing the law and that platform plainly
Will SIlo" you tTldt IL WAS so
understood in the convention and in
the committee on resolutions which
declared what the Democratic
policy was, that when the
supreme court exercising it's constitu-
tional power and duty gave an inter-
probation to a law of the United States
that was not pleasing to congress,
they would increase the number of
judges and pack the courts to get a
decision to please them. (Applause.) }
What prevents such assaults on the
fundamental law? Nothing but the fear
of the people whose broad good sense
and attachment to the principles of the
constitution may be generally relied
on to condemn such a perversion of its
powers. (Applause.) Our English
friend did not misjudge, / think, the
sound good, sense of the American peo-
pie when an issue like this is to be
presented. Whatever the question is,
whether Mr.. Bryan's view or Mr. TILL
mans view of the constitutional ques-
ton shall prevail or that of the august
tribunal appointed by the constitution
to settle it. the courts are the defence
of the weak. The rich and powerful
have other resources but the poor have
not. The high minded independent ju-
dietary that will hold to the line on
questions between wealth and labor,
between the rich and the poor, is the
defence and security of the defenceless.
tApplause.) I do not intend to spend
any time In the discussion of the tar
(applause) and need not be protracted.
iff question. That debate has been won
OUR EXPERIENCES.
I might run on eternally upon the
theoretical lines. We had had some ex-
periences but they Were historical and
remote. and not very instructive to this
generation. We needed an experience
of our own, and we have had it. Laugh
teri
I am quite as much opposed to the
cheapening the American workingman
and working woman as / am to cheap
ening our dollars. (Applause). l am