The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-08-27

dreds of years have stood against all
that is contained i'll it. 1t is the old, old
fight. We believe in the three great de-
partments in the government We be-
lieye that the executive has the right
under the law to preserve the law and
to protect the property Of our citizens.
! lApplauseO We believe that the last
refuge of minority in time of excite
ment is pure and Independent judci-
ary (ApDauSe.) 1t may not agree
with us. We deplore the result reach
| ed in the great case referred to. Some
of us think it is an erroneous result. But
| the rights of property, the liberties of
| the citizen, the preservation of liberty
depends upon the sanctity of the court.
(Appausel And | appeal to you in the
name of the old democracy that estab-
! lished the courts of justice, that made
them Independent, that we will enter
| into no crusade against the courts to
make them cowardly, corrupt and sub
| servient.
"There is for us no king but the law
| We believe in the supreme regency of
the law. We believe in the power of
the peaceful remedies. We are Jeffer-
sonianized democrats. (Applause.) We
believe in the freedom of the press, that
men may print their opinions freely; in
the freedom of the rostrum, that they
the freedom of public opinion, that it
may be enlightened by intelligent dis
cussion; in the freedom and sanctity of
the courts, that the humblest litigant
may have the freedom he deserves. We
believe in peaceful remedies. We be-
lievc in the laborcr. We have stood by
the peaceful remedies and we will not
condOne any man or set of men who
preach violence as one mode of redress
for wrong. (Applause.)
LET us lay the issue fairly lei us say
to these laborers, whose brethren were
in the strike in Chicago: I'VE predict
ed this condition; we pointed ont to you
that the economic policies that for thir-
ty years you had endorsed would bring
YOU to this condition. We told you,
however, II house had Il little gutter
through which was taken your earnings
to put them in the pockets of the favor
ed. We told you that all this would
conceive knew it would come. But
now that it has come our remedy for it is
not by arms, nor by violence, nor by
bloodshed. not by breaking up Interstate
commerce; not by preventing the courts
from protecting the rights of property:
not by interference with the transmits
sion Of its mails, between the sick wife
and the loving husband, or the agent
by free and peaceful entry into the
courts-by the ballot-by peaceful
means. And if we appeal TO violence
if you will be lawlcss; if you will shed
blood. there is nothing left but for lib
crty to elevate law and make it reign
aver all the land. (ADplause.)
!And in every part OF that platform
there crops out the same troublesome
hercsics which the law and order peo-
pie from all time have had to meet. All |
the commentary that is to he found to |
that Chicago platform is in the more |
courageous and ampler platform Of the |
pOpulist platform ut st. Louis. Rcncw- |
cd applausc.) You see in the Chicago |
som is in all the hercsics of anarchy: the |
half ripe fruit is in the Chicago plat
form: the not quite ripe fruit is i'll the
populist platform ut st. Louis. The re-
suit is in the utter destruction of our |
that will come if that party |
gets into power. tApplause.) You |
need not tell me that it is Il real demo-
cratic convention. walk not into the |
cesSpoOl of that miserable policy under |
any prctenSc or binding whatever. 1t |
had no power to make Il pledge of pop |
ulistic and half republican policy in the
name of the democratic party. Cap
tile principles and to pledge the people
the democratic peoplc-to carry both hos
tile policies into statutes. and it is not |
merely because it wears dem
Dcratic garments. It is the hand of |
Esau, it is true, but we recognize the
voice of Jacob i'll every tone
"Fcllow citizens. measure my words
md weigh them with all precision. | am |
lln n tn ,nt nN II
'omc from uttcring them. Speaking for
myself alone, | believe that the election
IF Mr.. Bryan will he the greatest national
,alamity that could bcfall our people, and
or one | shall do all in my power to pre-
'cnt it. Great applause) This is above
I'll personalities. dear as they are to me.
md dcarcr to me than any man living
above all traditions of party affiliations.
precious as those traditions are to me
personally and to the generations of my
beloved family behind me. Higher than
til other duties ut this moment. the duty
If today is for the democratic party to
lefcat the election of Bryan and Sewall
prolonged applausc), and | believe if this
means anything-if you have
ome here from the fields and the farm.
rom the Office of the doctor and lawyer.
he banker and merchant-this repre-
sentative body that | see before me,
lever surpassed in all the history of Ken
ucky, which is the very warp and wool
If its substance and form. by coming
Up here this day with no personal offices
II honor or rewards TO gain or to give
{ you mean anything. it is not merely
he enunciation of Il platform. but it is
he execution of purpose. that Ken
ucky shall not vote for Mr. Bryan at
he coming election. (Appause) | am
lot here to make personal charges or to
sc personal names. That seems to me
lot to come up to the high level of the
OCCASION. 1t is not as to whether Mr..
'ryan is the nominee | have nothing
o say of Mr.. Bryan that is not kindly
nd pleasant. | take it for granted that
e believes what he utters. for the ca
acty to believe wrong things in youth
: extremely great daughter and APP
lausc) If he believes in the platform
e advocates he is an honest man. Thus
cleving in justice to his good character
by the help of God he shall never have
II opportunity to put it into execution
Let us be firm. Let us lay down the
cmOcratic doctrine. We are as much
or freedom of trade as we We're before
he Chicago convention betrayed the dem
cratic party. We will announce in the
Id language of the democratic party that
very man has Il right to earn his bread |
" the sweat of his brow and that car
les with it as Il necessary carOllary the
light to sell the product of that sweat |
'hercver he pleases. at the highest price
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