Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-29

have selected for Governor - ~. 1890
~ H. usm men as these ht to take charge
,nini.,r sas. interests and complicated adj
"mani?.rations OF this great Republic
we nave a number of Important o,,as
hhaorns open n our foreign relations. Thev
n,nrne peen pushed aside. in public discus,
aioh, ny more immediate issues, but th"o
he d pet,hahsnt questions, and they must
oe neat with. We shall be called on In
d. shio ~ time 70 determine what we shall
20 N regard to the Nicaragua canal o.
must settle the controversy of the ua-
Waliah Islands, we must stop Canadian
,r ~. roaenment on our Alaskan boundary
~ "iJSt see 70 II that the Monroe doc,
arihe is guarded and vindicateJ eveTv-
mnfre. me Cuban question is ciilmi-
w When ana The day Is not far distant
pa, an end to that hideous and desolatiny
mIhese are delicate. difficult and i'm.
portaht questions. requiring the highest
ana The wisest statesmanshin Ina -
trEstiils them for "A solution to the Gu
VINO wrote that platform and held mai
convention AT Chicago.
ANA this Is not all. That Same Mat
ioIm struck at the very foundations ot
Ah"erlcaI government and the buiwarks
@ SUM- nnreIicam liberty. They assailed the
supneine court, they proposed to tear
Town that great tribunal, which for i11
yeaIs mas been the admiration Of the
Of If the I'M PACE II and the other courts
inc Dieting whim OF party passion. o"'
Reverence for the courts and aceent-
diit VI tNsiF decisions have been anyone
me giofies of our history and the cbja1
Safeguard OF the republic. IL is bt,t =
rev days since the leading spirit of thai
cqhNel,ioil declared that they would take
those rascally Judges by the throat ard
learn them tnat there should be llbertv
in the and The meaning Is pIain go
II the grammar is defective. and that is
what this new party proposes TO do to the
courts of the United States.
But they do not stop there. They pro-
pose to take from the President the
power to enforce the laws.
THAT WAS the power which Washing
ton used when the government wa
founded. and when he crushed the Whis-
key Rebellion. That was the power tha,
Lincoln used when he saved the Union.
And that is the power that these men
propose to destroy.
"Goyernment means not only the max
ing of laws, but the power to interpret
them and enforce them. If you take
from the courts the power to say what
law is. and strip the Executive of the
unced government to impotence, and
when you destroy the powers of govern
!nent the result is anarchy.
This is not the liberty for which our
fathers fought, nor that which the sons
maintained.
American liberty is not a red-capped.
barrieade. with license and riot in her
rain. but a noble figure. pure and state
like 4 goddess of the ancient world.
with law and order guarding her on
either hand. This is the liberty which
sc have always had, and that we mean
70 keep.
1t is our duty 10 place in theWhite
House 4 man who will see to it that not
the treasury has revenue and that
no creditor Is turned from it. cheated or
betrayed. but who will also maintain the
great traditions of American govern
which have come down through
Washington and Lincoln. who will pro-
Get the courts and enforce the laws. and
whose patriotism has stood the test OF
10Th war and peace. Such a man is VIII
lam Mckinley