, 1896-09-04

drag The niticn's honor in the dust.
here can be any question for such gen
tlemen but this: Tow can we most
surely defeat the Chicago nominees"
COURTS AND EXECUTIVE.
Neither conventions nor committees
can Great issues or assign them to their
places as to their importance. That is
the leading issues of a campaign which
most aGitm;es and most interests the
people. In my opinion there is no issue
presented by the Chicago convention
more important and vital than the
question they have raised Of protecting
the power AMI duty of the national
courts and nastlnal executive. The de-
Tense Of the constitution and of the in
,egrtty of tn" supreme court of the
tn.ted States and of the presidents
pHwe and duty to enforce all of the laws
Of he tnited States without awaiting
the call or cOnsen on the governor of
any safe, Is an Important and living
issue in this campaign. Tariff and
Coinage will be of little moment if our
constitutional government is W.
thrown. When We have a president
who believes that 1T is neither his right
nor his duty to see thai the mail trains
are not o~bstruCtGd. and that interstate
commerce has It's free way. irresDect-
i've OF state lines and courts. who fears
10 use our ancient and familiar power
20 restrain and punish lawbreakers.
free trade and silver will be appropri-
ate accomplishments of such an admin
istration, and can not add appreciably
to the national distress or the national
dishonor.
There is only II rule by which we
can live up fully as a nation or peace
fully as citizens. Il is the rule of the
laws cCnSaitutionally enacted and fin
ally interpreted by the judicial tribunal
appointed by the constitution. When
it becomes the rule chat violence car
ries It's end we have anarchy-a condi-
zion as destructive to honest labor and
its rewards as death is to the tissues of
the human body. The atmosphere of
the Chicago convention was surcharg-
ed with the spirit of revolution. This
platform was carried and it's nominal
made with accompanying Incidents of
frenzy that startled the %onlookers and
amazed the country. The courts were
arraigned for enforcing the laws. The
spirit that exhibited itself in this con-
en..cn was Sc Wild and strangely en-
Unused that Mr.. Bryan himself likened
it to the zeal that possessed the cru
saders when they responded to the i'm
pa~ssioned appeals of Peter the Hermit
to rescue the sepulchre of our Lord
from the hands of the infidels. His his
rtorical illustration was more potent
and more fOrcible than he knew. for the
zeal of the crusaders was a blind and
ignorant zeal; they sought to rescue
The transient and Intellectual sepulchre
that had held the body of the Son of
God, while they trampled upon the pre-
eepts of love and mercy which he had
left for their guidance in life. He told
us that the silver crusade had arrayed
father against son and brother against
brother and had severed the ties of
love. Senator Hill watching the
strange proceeding. had to extend that
brief no1itica, cnde from which be bas
gained 81 mich renown He felt com
nailed :, COW. "1 om , domoor,, h,,t
I am not , revoIu, aonist
Senator vost re,Gizine that tbav
were gnauyurating q rayo,u,ion ra-
minded the convention that revolu-
,i,,i.t, d;d NOT, hoai, r-s,,, .bo rfoh AVID
nrosnerous
Mr. Tilm,, fsl, ,,bot rho cb,roo !,
,be ,gament of nubric ofairs was
~ no "a radio, ,b,,. bo n.,nosod sr,
rbur rrio,otio, Tow tho shin hoforo
tb. tomb no~o.aor % =.
Noew nv friends oil +hoso ,binn,
i,d;o,to ,,,o omnor +, ,.hsoh ,,ot ,,a.
form was ado,+sd and ,bo snir;t tho,
nromn,od ,ba ror,i,o,fo,s ,h,. uoun
mad Tbero was ~, calm da,ihor,,ior
There was franzv There was M
,b~orob,fr, so~,ro,i,o for .ho MN, nv,
from ex,erienca was mos, ahIa IN d.
rect nublic affairs There w,s an inn
n~u1sive resno,so ~ an iu,or;sonoa
s,eeob that so,.c,ed tho nominao M,
ar,i1 srch ,,rrourdfras 10 ,,,. ,o
upder such infuences arc ,boso o.1u
discrea, tbings dana Nh NJ ui,, ANN ua,d