The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-09-20

letter and spirit OF our organic law.
and it IS up to- men who have fol-
lowed the Democratic leadership, as
have. TO say whether they viii take
the acts of these great men who formed
the Democratic party as the proper in
terpretations OF what the policy and
doctrine OF that party have been. or
whether they viii 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 1t in the senate
in 1917, for the purpose of carrying
slavery into the territories Senator
Benton. who was certainly one of 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. Web
ster completely exposed the fa1lacy 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 fancy
followed Mr. Calhoun, and announced
the same doctrine, and the prO-slavery
party persisted in ii until 1860, whel.
it nominated Breckenridge for the pres
ideney and declared in its national
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 its national platform for
the campaign of that year. that:
IT. The new dogma, that the con-
stitution of it's own force carries s1av
cry into any 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
sabversive OF the peace and harmony
of the country
Election 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 c. Calhoun and Judge
Taney.
That the constitutional guarantees
do not go into the territories until con
gress SO provides by express 1egisla-
ton. has been announced by Chance
1or 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
of the Supreme court
1T would seem that the re-
suit of the war would have settled for
ever that Interpretation now sought to
be revived by Mr.. Bryan It's only eff
feet would be to interpret the cOnst1-
as n m n iSh
the power of the federal government
to deal with its 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-
the discussion in the second volume
of Benton's Thirty Years in the Sem
ate
Bryan "a False Prophet.
What do you think of the other
propositions advanced by Mr. Bryan %
His principal propositions are all
equally fal1acious- He asserts that the
administration has wilfully violated
the principles of liberty and has de-
prived the Filipinos of their freedom
and that history furnishes exam
pie of turpitude baser than ours if we
now substitute our yoke for the Span
ish yoke All of MI Bryan's large
and principle are based upon the as
sumption that, having gone to the
Philippines, we can just as easily come
away again, Chairman Jones is
said to have expressed it short
time since. We went there in ships,
and I 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-
sitions. The country has had great
difficulties to deal with, and somebody
has had to deal with them, not upon
g1ittering and rhetorical propositions,
but upon the facts and the law
1T would be a 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
generous and irrelevant sentiments
which he expresses his own ac-
count and be compelled to mix these
up with the actual facts of any given