The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-10-22

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The Republican party invites the H.
sue upon every ground-on that Of It's
professions, its achievements, IT. con-
sistency and it's loyalty to principles
and pledges.
MY eloquent friend from New York
(Mr. Cockran) in his speech the other
day did not confine himself to the dis
cussion of such issues as seem to be
of present and vital Importance. He
invited a review Of tho entire history
OF party differences from the begin
ming of the Republic to the present
day In SO doing he advanced some
claims so amazing in their character
as to invite examination.
To Andrew Jackson, for instance,
he, implicitly, at least, gives credit for
the saving of the Union. To him he
attributes the f1rst declaration that the
federal government possessed the
power to prevent by force . nullinca-
ton OF it's laws; but In that he IL mis-
taken. Long before the time Of Jack
son, George Washington announced
the same doctrine and sent Alexander
Hamilton at the head Of an army to
cross the Alleghenies and bring into
subsection the rebels Of western Penn
sylvania, who sought a nullincation Of
the revenue laws. applause on the
Republican side.)
The doctrine OF the indestructibility
of the Union, which the gentleman It
tributed to jackson, Is the antitheeis
of Democratic doctrine up until 1855.
Until that time Democratic doctrine
continued to be the doctrine Of the
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions Of
Jefferson and Madison, namely, not
only that the Union was not indestruc-
tible, but that 1t represented only
compact from which there existed up
on the part OF Individual states the
right to withdraw II the gentleman
from New York Is correct in saying
that the industructibility Of the Union
was Democratic doctrine In 1861, then
he has stripped the Democratic party
OF the south, who sought to destroy
the Union, OF every vestige OF claim
that in SO doing they believed they
were acting within their rights. When
they made war on the Union they
either believed in the doctrine of the
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions or
they were inexpressibly wicked and
deserved the condemnation of history
Nothing can detract from the fame
of Andrew Jackson, noble and fearless
patriot that he was; but it still re-
mains a historic truth that 1t was q
weak and paltering Democratic presi-
dent who listened to the advice Of his
Democratic attorney general, that
there existed no power In the govern
ment to coerce sovereign state, and
who sat idly by while the enemies OF
his country, every man OF them a
Democrat, possessed themselves OF Its
arms, its ammunition, and it's FORTH
cations, and desecrated Its flag. And
1t still remains historic truth also
that 1t was a Republican president
who, backed by the heroism of a great
people, not only said the Union must
and shall be preserved, but preserved
1t for all our people, North and South
alike, the priceless heritage of our
fathers; and who, not born to the pur-
pie, plain man Of the people, wears
such crown of Immortality as new
er in all the tide of time graced the
brow of king or emperor, Abraham
Lincoln. prolonged applause on the
Republican side.))
But the saving of the Union by An
drew Jackson In 1866 is not the only
achievement that the gentleman
claims for his party.
He ventures the assertion-and 1t Is
a venturesome assertion-"That from
the very first establishment OF this
government there never has been a
policy permanently incorporated into
our political system that was not OF
Democratic origin"
/ assert that there never has been
such policy that was OF Democratic
origin, with the exception of the es-
tablishment of the Independent treas
ury system and the extension OF ter
ritory in the interest OF slavery.
The history Of the United States is
the history OF the continuous struggle
between two opposing schools Of poll
tical thought. One school is repre-
sented by the party which has con-
tended from the beginning that the
United States is nation, solid, COM
pact, sovereign state, while the other
has contended that it is but confed-
eracy, an aggregation OF sovereign
states bound together by constitu
ton. the terms of which are to be
strictly construed. The conflict be-
tween these two schools OF thought
reaches back to the Revolution, pre-
vailed in the Confederation, and made
itself felt in the convention which
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constitution was framed and the new
government created thereby entered
upon its experimental career this con-
flict gave rise to the two parties,
which, under one name and another,
struggled for mastery until decision
was rendered on the tented field in the
greatest war of all time.
One of these parties was the party
of Alexander Hamilton, the other that
Of Thomas Jefferson. One OF these
parties was the party of constructive
craftsmanship, the other the party Of
obstruction and criticism. He certain
ly is a bold man who, in the face of
history, denies today that the perman-
ent policies which have entered into
and constitute our character as a ma
ton are not the policies advocated by
Alexander Hamilton and his followers.
Hamilton's relation to the constitu-
ton was threefold-flrst with respect
to its formation second, with respect
to its adoption, and third. with respect
to the rule of its construction. In its
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