Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-10-15
THE TWOPLATFORMS
SOME OF THE DEMOCRAT AND
REPUBLICAN, UTrERANCEs.
Long Array cs ThisEs Omitted from the
Democratic Pro.osncemeat - Revelu-
tionary sentimsats-No Dsclsratios Of
Foreign Policy.

forms dcservcdly have a large share OF
the public attention, there arc certain
other differences between them that
ought not to be overlooked. The pres
encc of a large Populist and even an
archist, element In the Chicago con-
vcntion was noted Mt the time, and
had its influence in debating the plat
form and making the nominations. II
found plain expression in the following
paragraph of the platform adopted:
ave dcnouncc arbitrary interference
by f-Icral authorities in local affairs
MS a violation Of the constitution Of the
United States and crime against FREE
institutions, and VIC especially object
to government by injunction ms new
and highly dangerous form Of opprcs-
sion, by which federal judges, in con
tempt of the laws of the states and the
rights Of citizens, become Mt once leg,
islators, judges and cxccutioncrs.
The plain intent of this is To deny TO
tho general government tho right to pro-
tcct its own fixed property or its postal
service when interstate commerce is
impcrilcd by riots. 1t is simply y re-
Election of Governor Altgeldts protest
ag ,...-: tn ~ of government troops
to protect the mails and public prop
erty ut the time of the Chicago strike
riots, after Altgcldt himself had shown
his incapacity TO deal with the mob.
and when not only the railroad and gov
ernmcnt property, but the city itself
was in danger.
The same hostility to the constitu-
tional and orderly conduct of public
affairs is found in the covert threat,
found in the Chicago platform, to re-
organize the supreme court. After de-
court on the income tax, the platform,
continues: ave declare that it is the
duty o. congress to use all constitu-
tional power which remains after that
decision, or which may come from its
reversal by the court as it may here
aft r be constituted, SO that the bur-
dens Of taxation may DO equally and
impartially laid"
This means nothing less than that
the men who made the platform pro-
pose, il they come into power, to force
designations from the present bench
and TO fill the vacancies with judges
appointed with special view to over
turning the income tax decision, or
else tn accomplish the same purpose by
inc"cas'r~ the number of judges tho
new ones to bc appointed with the
same design. In either case the pur
pose is essentially revolutionary in its
character.
The omissions of the Demo-
cratic platform arc hardly less Of
fensivc to the patriotic voter than its
uttcranccs. With the exception OF a
single mild sentence OF sympathy to
the people of Cuba in their heroic
struggle for liberty and independence,
it has not single word upon our for
cign relations, nothing about the la
waiian affairs which the present adj
ministration so badly bnnglcd: moth
ing r. attempted ag.
gressions in Venezuela; nothing about
the application of tho Monroe doctrine
to that affair; nothing about our inter
ests in Nicaragua and tho West Indies
The Republican platform, on the
other hand, rcasserts the Monroe doc
trine toits full extent, and reaffirms the
right OF the United States TO give the
doctrine effect by responding to the APP
pcals of any American state for friendly
intervention in cases of European
encroachment 1t gives generous ex-
preston of sympathy to the Gu
bans in their determined contest
for liberty and declares that the
Uni. ties should ely use
its influence and good Offices to re-
store peace and give independence to
the island 1t declares that the Mica
ragua canal should be built, owned
and operated by the United States.
and that by the purchase of the Danish
islands we should secure much
needed naval station in the West In
dies. Finally, referring to the de-
struction of American property in
Armenia, it declares that, there and
everywhere, American citizens and
American property must be absolutely
protected, ut every hazard and at any
cost. The one platform, as II ashamed
of the vo,urlcs., ....patrIotic policy
most absolutely silent on foreign af,
fairs. The other gives clear enuncia-
ton of our claims and demands as a
self-rcspecting power among the ma
| tons of the earth.
The Republican platform also de-
clares an favor Of the early American
policy of discriminating duties for the
upbuilding OF our merchant marine, for
the continued enlargement of our navy
and for n complete system of harbor
| and scacoast defenses; for free and
| unrestricted ballot for every American
| citizen, with fair count of the ballots
| thus cast; favors "A national board OF
| arbitration for the settlement of diff
fcrcnces between employers and en-
| ployed engaged in interstate commerce.
favors an immediate return to tho free
homestead policy of the Republican
party, and dcnounces the uncivilizcd
and barbarous practice OF lynching.
Upon all these questions of internal
administration the Democratic plat
form is entirely silent That platform
is, in fact, SO much taken up with the
advocacy OF false system of finance
and the dcnunciation of accumulated
wealth, that IL had little space for dec
larations in respect to good govern
ment. even IL the heterogeneous mass
that composed the convention had felt
any inclination to consider the subject
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