The herald., 1896-08-28

cannot be split is public menace When
the leaders OF party assembled in con-
| vention depart from it's traditional prn-
ciples and advocate doctrines that
threaten the Integrity of the govern
ment, the social order of our communi-
ties and the security of our finances, it
ought to split and it dgnif1es itself
when 1t does split. A bolt from any par
ty is now and then a most reassuring in
cident, and was never more reassuring
and never had better cause than now.
(Applause)
But these Democratic friends who are
disposed more or less directly to help
the cause of sound finance in this cam
paign ought not to expect that the Re-
publican party will reorganize itself be-
cause the Democratic party has disor.
ganized itself daughter and applause.)
The Republican parey, the Republican
voters-if sound money triumphs-as
believe it will, must in the nature of the
thing constitute the body of the success
full army. We ought not therefore to be
asked to do anything that will affect the
solidity, the loyalty the discipline or the
enthusiasm of the Republican party.
| (Applause.) ca voice. Nobody is going
out.'D This reference to the Bryan
meeting in Madison Square garden was
greeted with prolonged applause and
laughter
The Republican party fronts the de-
structionist and trumpets its defiance to
the enemies of sound money 1t Wi
| fight, however, without covering any OF
the glorious notices and inscriptions
that are upon it's banner. (Applause)
When the house is on fire and many of
our Democratic friends believe that to
be the present domestic situation, the
! tenant on the top floor ought not to ask
the tenant in the basement to bury any
of his opinions before he joins the fire
| brigade, and our Democratic friends
who realize the gravity, the far-reaching
consequence of this campaign, ought
not to ask the Republican pc.~ty to re-
organize itself or put aside any of the
great principles that it has advocated
! in order to win vote. If their opinion is
sincerely held, as they insist, it ought to
determine their action for themselves
without reference to what anybody else
| should do, and | submit to these gentle
| men, for whose opinions ! have the
| highest respect. whether, if it is true, as
| they say, that the success of the Chicago
nominee would plunge this country into
commercial distress and drag the ma
ton honor in the dust. that there can
be any question but this: How can we
| most surely defeat the Chicago nomi-
nees? (Applause) Neither conventions
nor committees can create issues nor
assign them to their places as to their
Importance. That is the leading issue of
campaign which most agitates and
most interests the people. In my opin-
ion there is no issue presented by the
Chicago convention more important and
vital than the question they have raised
of protecting the power and duty of the
national courts and national executive.
The defense Of the constitution and Of
the integrity of the supreme court of the
United States, and of the presidents
power and duty to enforce all the laws
OF the United States without waiting the
call or consent of the governor of any
state, is an important and living issue
in this campaign. (Applause)
IarIn and coinage will be of little mo-
nlent il our constitutional government
Is oVerthrown. When we have a presi-
dent who believes that it is neither~his
right nor his duty to see that the mail
trains are not obstructed and inter-
state commerce has it's free sway, ire
spective of state lines and courts. who
Tears to use our ancient and familiar
powers to restrain and punish law
breakers, free trade and free silver will
be appropriate accompaniments of such
an administration and cannot add ap-
preciably to the national distress or the
national dishonor. (Applause.)
Tnere is only one rule by which we can |
live usefully as nation or peacefully
as citizens 1t is the rule of the law con-
stitutionally enacted and finally inter-
preted by the judicial tribunal appointed
by the constitution. When it becomes
the rule that violence carries it's end, we
have anarchy, a condition as destructive
to honest labor and it's rewards as death !
is to the tissues of the human BODY.
(Applause) 4
The atmosphere OF the Chicago con-
vent!on was surcharged with the spirit |
of revolution. Its platform was carried |
and its nominations made with accom- |
panying incidents of frenzy that |
startled the onlookers and amazed the |
country. The courts and the president |
and government by the mob was given |
preference over government by the law,
enforced by the court DEGREES and by |
the presidents orders The spirit that |
exhibited itself in this convention was so |
wild and strangely enthused that Mr..
Bryan himself likened it to the zeal that |
possessed the crusaders when they re- |
sponded to the imprisoned appeals Of |
Peter the Hermit to rescue the sepucher
of our Lord from the hands of the, in
fidels His historical illustration was
more potent and more forcible than he
knew, for the zeal of the crusaders was
blind and ignorant zeal; they sought
to rescue the transient and ireffectual
sepulcher that had held the body of the
Son of God, while they trampled upon
the precepts of love and mercy which
he had left for their guidance in life.
(Applause.)
He told us that the silver crusade had |
arraigned father against son and broth
CT against brother and severed the ties
of love. Senator Hill, watching the
strange proceedings, had to extend that
brief political code from which he has
gained so much renown. He felt COM
PEELED to say: Il am Democrat, but
q, m nat a rAyn1l1tiopict (Apr,Ion~oN