The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1896-10-15
PRIEST IS FOR GOLD
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND MAKES A
POLITICAL STATEMENT.
Declares Uureservedly for Mckinley
and the st. Louis Platform,
and All That 1t Means.

ST. Paul. Oct. 11.-Archblshop ireland,
In response to the written request OF Il
business men of this state, who are OF
all political opinions, gave the state
ment addressed to them) to the Asso-
ciated Press.
81 am not unwilling, In the crisis
through which the country is now pass
ing, to speak for the integrity of the
nation, for social order, for the prosper
| ity of the people, for the honor of Amer
| lea and the permanency of free institu-
| tions. / am a citizen of the country.
| concerned in all the interests of the ma
| ton, subject to all the responsibilities
| OF citizenship. To be silent when words
| of mine may be of some profit to the
| people would be cowardice, would be
| criminal.
Il am not unmindful of the objection
made against the churchman speaking at
any time on matters which have entered
| the arena of politics. lest this in1u-
once as teacher of religion seem to
be used to promote the interests of a
political party. / might reply that there
are occasions when a political platform
| means disaster to the country, when pol
tiles are closely connected with morals
the churchman must be the patriot with
| cut allowing a moments thought to con-
slderations of expediency, and must take
In hand the moral or religious issue. oven
IL II be vested in the garment of politics
'But in the present instance. seek 70
excuse of this kind. / speak entirely
as n citizen, without warrant from my
ecclesiastical position. Deep as my con-
victions are. I hold in all due respect
my fellow citizens who hold convictions
at variance with my own. l impeach
neither their good faith nor their hon
or. l am dealing not with men, but with
| principles and movements. This Justice
| which l render to those whose Ideas
am ready to combat, / am sure they
will render me.
II stand by the platform and presi
Dental candidacy of the republican con
ventlon at ST. Louis l am opposed tt
the platform and the presidential can
| didate of the democratic convention a
| Chicago. The days of the civil war ex
cepted, at no time did so great peri
threaten the country as that which Il
involved in the political campaign o
today
1.-THE question of the free and unlim
tied coinage of silver is put In the fore
ground. This question has its import
arce: but 1t Is of a minor Importance Il
the presence of other questions whlc
arc brought into ISSUE The movemen
which mad It's expression In the Cnicag
( convention, and which now seeks b
means OF popular suffrage to enthron
d Itself In the capitol OF the nation, is i
Its logical effect against the Unite
| States; It Is secession, the secession G
| 1Scl, which our soldiers believed they ha
| consigned to eternal death at Appomat
tox, but which demands again recogn
| ton from the American people. Th
declaration In the Chicago platform ha
and can have no other meaning.
Pointing to Cleveland.
1--WE denounce arbitrary interferenC
7 by federal authorities In local affairs as
violation of the constitution OF II
= United States and a crime against fr'
Institutions The words point to the a.
., of Grover Cleveland, in sending Unite
:. States troops to protect national pro
N erty and enforce national laws durir
the Chicago riots in 1894. In those wor'
IL there is the old secession doctrine tn
)r states are Independent of the nation
4. | government at Washington. There
\ | ainulment of union there Is noti
= | served upon the flag of America that GU
side the District of Columbia 1t is wit
1t out power of self-assertion or self-d
W fense. The president of the init
A. States is told that to enforce nation
laws and protection to national proper
IN he can not march his troops Into al
state without the authorization OF I
IT, governor of that state.
r "One of the chief speakers at the co
in vention of Chicago understood the 81
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It, its spirit-I come from a state which W
IL the home of secession, said Senator II
man of South Carolina L say he &C
tlnued, 1T Is sectional issue ana IL
~ prevail
"And fitting was 1t that the speak
" voscinr this sentiment OF the convt
t,on should be the representative
on south Carolina. Thrice now has Sou
IN Carolina spoken for secession-when
nic nassed In 1892 the nulllhcation ordinan
IA wien In 1861 It fired on Fort STUNT
a. when in 1896 It cries out a sectional
IAN sue and 1t will prevail
."rha platform Of the Chicago conv'
rt- tion threatens the country with destr
be tlon of social order, with lawessness
ut anarchy. The personifcatlon ~ law
of of social order in America is our coul
the and the promise of safety to our free
the stitutions IS the prompt obedience OF
gn- neonle to those courts. And now
lir- courts are to be shorn of their pow'
,et- and shorn of It in favor Of mobs, bent
the rioting and the destruction OF proper
we especially object says the Chic
n'atform, to government by injuncI
ON as a new and highly dangerous form
onnression.' Here reference Is made
u" the action OF the courts during the
cago riots. without which action ther
OF no calculating how much ruin would h
trip come to the city. The palladium OF An
In ,can liberties is the supreme court
OF washington, the counterpart of VIII
He in majesty and In power to enforce al
ub- lute Justice, does not exist among the
idle tions Of christendom. But as far as
ng- poss.ble, outside OF partisan politics.
abb dependent Of all political inffuen
iti- through their life tenure of office.
ina, Judges of this court rule congress
clSy nresident. states and nation. and expo
as The law In all It's innexibllity. no ma
who or what must yield to 1t. And
convention speaks OF the supreme c
IRE as it may be hereafter constituted.
umating unmistakably the intention
the party represented in that CONVEX
came to power. to 20 co
teie- tute the courts. by the popular electio
ioua | Judges. by the shortening OF their &
the of Office. Oh. otherwise. as to make 4
the sensible 10 the stern voice Of the law
how responsive to the passing whims OF J