The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-09-21

and Genounces as repugnant to the
letter and spirit OF our organic law,
and II Is up to- men who have FOL
lowed the Democratic leadership, as |
have, to say whether they Will take
| the acts of these great men who formed
the Democratic party as the proper in
terprctations of what the policy and
doctrine of that party have been. or
whether they will take Mr.. Bryan's
best guess as to what those great DEM
ocratic leaders propounded."
The theory which Mr.. Bryan now
declares to be Democratic doctrine was
never invented until Mr. Calhoun I'M
dertook to announce it in the senate
in 1917, for the purpose of carrying
slavery into the territories. Senator
Benton, who was certainly one or the
most eminent leaders the Democratic
party has had, describes it in his
Thirty Years in the Senate as a
new dogma" He says that Mr. We3-
ster completely exposed the fallacy OF
the proposition. and that the doctrine
had never been heard of in the coun-
try before.
The bred Scott Case.
In the bred Scott case, decided by
the Supreme court in 1856, Judge Ianey
followed Mr.. Calhoun, and announced
the same doctrine, and the pro-slavery
party persisted in IL until 1860, When
it nominated Breckenridge for the pres
idency and declared in its national
platform that during the existence OF
a territorial government all citizens
of the United States have an equal
right to settle, with their property, In
the territory, without their rights,
either OF person or property, being de-
stroyed or impaired by congressional
or territorial legislation
THE Republican party accepted the
gage of battle, thus thrown down by
the pro-slavery Democrats, and an
nounced in it's national platform for
the campaign of that year, that:
"'7. The new dogma, that the con-
stitution of its own force carries slav-
cry into any or all of the territories
of the United States, is at
variance with the explicit provisions
of that instrument itself; is
revolutionary in its tendencies and
snbversive Of the peace and harmony
of the country.
Election of Lincoln.
Upon that proposition Mr.. Lincoln
was elected president. The slave states
seeded because of this proposition,
now again announced by Mr.. Bryan,
following John G. Calhoun and Judge
Taney.
'That the constitutional guarantees
do not go into the territories until con-
gress so provides by express leglsla-
ton. has been announced by Chance
lor Kent and by Mr.. Justice Story in
their commentaries and by the Su-
preme court of the United States, both
before the Civil war and since, except
as to the bred Scott case, and perhaps
some ceses which followed it, while
Judge fancy remained as chief justice
or the supreme court.
at would seem that the re-
suit of the war would have settled for
ever that Interpretation now sought to
be revived by Mr.. Bryan. Its only ef-
feet would be to interpret the consti-
tuition in such way as to diminish
the power of the federal government
to deal with it's enemies in time of war.
"Mr. Bryan has misstated the doc
trine. 1t was the doctrine of the Cal
houn-Dred Scott-Judge fancy pro-
slavery Democrats, and for the pro-
motion of slavery alone. You can see
the discussion in the second volume
of Benton's Thirty Years in the Sen
ate.'"
Bryan False Prophet.
What do you think of the other
advanced by Mr.. Bryan?'
Ellis principal propositions are all
equally fallacious. He asserts that the
administration has wilfully violated
the principles of liberty and has de-
prived the Filipinos of their freedom
ana llldL nv N>NN>A'-
pie of turpitude baser than ours If we
now substitute our yoke for the Span
ish yoke All of Mr.. Bryan's large
of generosity of sentiment
and principle are based upon the as
that, having gone to the
Philippines, we can just as easily come
away again, or as Chairman Jones is
said to have expressed it short
time since. We went there in ships,
and | suppose we can come away In
ships'-or perhaps he said boats.
"Those who are not responsible need
not be definite in their plans or propo-
The country has had great
difficulties to deal with, and somebody
has had to deal with them, not upon
glittering and rhetorical propositions,
but upon the facts and the law.
1T would be great qualification to
many curious observers to see Mr..
Bryan shuttle together all the noble
and irrelevant sentiments which he has
quoted from others and the large and