The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-28

now. (AppiauSie.) That party has once
more exhibited its capacity TO be rup-
tured and a party that cannot be ss'i1t
is a public menace. When the leaders
of a. party assembled in convention de-
part from its traditional principles and
advocate doctrines that threaten the
integrity of the government, the social
order Of our communities. and the Sc
curiny and soundpess OF our finance,
it ought to split, and it dignifies Itself
when ii does split A bolt from any
party is now and then a most re-
assuring incident. and was never more
reassuring and never had better cause
than now. applause and cries OF
You're right'') But these Democratic
friends who are disposed, more or less
directly 10 help the cause Of sound
finance in this campaign
OUGHT NOT TO EXPECT
that the Republican party will reor-
ganize itself because the Democratic
party has disorganized itself. Qaugh-
ter and applsuse.) The Republican
party, the Republican voter. if sound
money triumphs, as I belfeve 1t will.
must in the nature Of things constitute
the body Of the successful army. We
ought not, therefore, to be asked TO do
anything that Will affect the solidity,
the loyalty, the discipline or the en-
thusiasm of the Republican party ZAP
plausk-a voice Nobody is going out" }
This referred to the Bryan meeting in
Madison Square garden and was greet
ed with applause-)
The Republican party fronts the de-
structionists and trumpets its defiance
TO the enemies of sound money" 1t
will fight, however, without covering
any of the glorious notices and inscrip-
lions that are upon this banner. Cap
plause. When the house is on fire
and many of our Democratic friends
believe that to be the present Demo-
cratic situation-the tenant on the top
floor ought not TO ask the tenant in
the basement to bury any of his opin-
ions before he joins the fire brigade,
and so our Democratic friends who re-
alize as
WE REALIZE THE GRAVITY,
the far-reaching consequences of this
campaign, ought not to ask the Re-
publican party to reorganiZe itself TO
put aside any of the great principles it
has advocated in order to win a vote.
IF the opinion is sincerely held. as they
insist, 1t ought to determine their ac-
ton for themselves, without reference
to what anybody else should do. And
opinions l have the highest respect,
whether If 1t be true, as they say, that
the success of the Chicago nominee
would plunge this country into ire
deemable commercial distress and drag
the nations honor in the dust, there
can be any question for such gentle
men but this: How can we most
surely defeat the Chicago nominee? ''
(Applause.) Neither conventions nor
committees can create issues nor as
sign them to their places as to their
Importance. What is the leading issue
of a campaign which most agitates the
people? In nay opinion there
NO ISSUE PRESENTED
by the Chicago convention more i'm
portant or vital than the question they
have raised OF prostituting the power
and duty of the national courts and
national executive. The defense of the
constitution, of the supreme court of
the United States and of the president S
power and duty to enforce all Of the
laws of the United. States without
awaiting the call or consent of the
governor Of any state, is an important
and living issue in this campaign.
(Applause.) Tariff and coinage will be
of little moment if our constitutional
government is overthrown. When we
have a president who believes that it is
neither his right nor hs duty to see
that the mail trains are not INSTRUCTED
and that interstate commerce has its
free way, irrespective of state lines and
state courts. who fears to use our an
cient and familiar power to restrain
and punish law breakers, free trade
and free silver will be appropriate &C
compartments of such an administra-
ton and cannot add appreciably to the
national distress or the national dis
honor. (Applause)
There is only one rule by which we
can live peacefully as a nation, OF
peacefully as citizens. 1t is the rule
of legislation legally enacted and en-
forced by the judicial tribune appoint
ed by the constitution. When it be
comes the rule that violence carries Its
end. we have anarchy, a condition as
destructive to honest labor and its re-
wards as death is to the human body
(Applause) The atmosphere of the Chi
cago convention was charged with the
SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION.
Its platform was carried and its nomi,
nations made with accompanying Incl
dents of frenzy that startled the oniook-
ers and amazed the country. The courts
and the president were arraigned foI
=
mob violence was given preference over
government by law enforced by the
courts DEGREES and by executive orders
The spirit that exhibited itself in this
convention was so wild and strangely
enthused that Mr.. Bryan, himself, Xix
ened it to the zeal that possessed the
crusaders when they responded to the
impaSsioned appeals of Peter the Her
nit to rescue the sepulchre of the Lord
1e~ - ia ALL 4 A
plause.) He told us that his silver cru
SADIE had arrayed father against son
and brother against brother and sun
dered the bonds of love. Senator Hill
watching the strange proceeding, had tC
extend that brief political code from
which he has gained so much renown
He felt compelled to say: Il am q
Democrat, but 1 am not a revolution
isl"
Now, my friends. all these things
INDICATE THE TEMPER
in which that platform was adopted
and the spirit that prompted the nomi-
nations that were made. There was nc
calm delifoeration; there was frenzy
There was no thoughtful searching fol
the man who, from experience, was
most able to direct public affairs There
was AN impulsive response to an impas-
stoned speech that selected the nomi-
nee. Not amid such surroundings as
that; not under such influences as these
are calm, discreet things to be done
that will commend themselves to the
judgment of the American people. Gap
plause.)
They denounce in their platform inter
ference by federal authorities in loca
affairs as violation of the constitu-
ton of the United States and a crime
against free institutions Mr. Tillman
in his speech. approved this declaration
1t was intended TO be in words a direct