Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-07
ASSERTS ISSUE IS
STATE VS.. NATION.
Denounces Regular Organization
as Spurious Representatives
1nsolently Attacking Homes"
BRANDED NULLIFIcATiONISTS'
In Sensational Outburst Com
moner Pillories Members of Con-
vention as Allies Of Saloon.
BRANDED NULLIFIcATI0NIsTs
nv WILLIAM J. BRYAN.

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tCopyriEh 1870. by Universal Scrvlcs.)
MIAMI. FLA. March 6.-The platform
adopted by the New York Democrats
State Convention presents an issue
which. in Democratic councils, must
overshadow every other issue until It.
Is repudiated OF Endorsed by the Dam
ocratic party Of the nation, and, IL
Endorsed. it will become the only i'm
poTtant Issue in the presidential CAM
!, ~ The plank. MS printed in tho press
hhi61 is by Federal amendments. We
pe!leve 1t to he an unreasonable inter-
guaranteed by the Constitution. We
feel that the recent enactment was the
imposition OF the ideas of an active
great majority OF the American people.
r We therefore eff DECLARE for its, speedy
sona liberty Of the p sa en ot the sfs4.
may be thoroughly safeguarded until
such time as this repeal may be
our State in tho exercise of it's soyere
eign power to so construe tho concur
ment as S be Of hcels
rb mST 1,sn on ~ Word H;ns .unnIternhIe.v
OF Opposition ("unalterably opposed'1&
70 =. proEision now embodied in the
part thereof as ths nl and d much
provision for tho election OF a Presi-&
gent dent ana ana CONGRESS-. the provision for
or any other provision OF that organic
able opposition0pp oppoat Po1 4 9hat
conceivable reason, logic or condition 3
can Sna, ffna ne; The reason given for this
unreasonable Interference with the
Ccgnas or the state as guaranteed By the
The excues given-not tho fact or
esyen the reason. but the excuse--is that
those who wrote the platform feel that i
tion OF the ideas of an active Minority
against the wishes OF a great majority
OF the American people. --'s.;G
It is worth while to notice the In q
sincerity OF the two sentences above
quoted. The opposition cannot be based
With constitutional rights. because tile Z
CONSTITUTION itself provides a way by 4
fsn, It can be amended-that is, in !
the Constitution. ~ -
r,. nd &C. Cant am Hind the Living.
living. y CONSTITUTION made 1So Years ars
ago can hardly. BIO invoked against the
r pssos Will of the people, recently ex-
accordance with the terms of the Cor
s s itself. II the present Eenera-
ho% No long pGnt w If fhs se Ssfe 5s
th,s geneEStlon. what generation in the tSs
written in 1852 The constf Hnsiasnt iaa
and the nineteenth aInendmant ~ IjS
nearly ratified Sstsst ~
:, When When the Constitution was written.
an institution that had come down from
a ah, most ancient times. and yet it was
election of Senators BY State Ierisins
a ou. put IN 1913 an amendment was
adopted ADOPTED which changed tho method. OF s.
e.cttihS senators and provided for elec-tSi
Eon BY popular vote instead OF bv
state Legislatures -
me This ,6 6pfoh nib is the only amend
vGntion or New York sees At to .'ui,-
;a q, oppose. And this opposition
ment has been enc r raht that this
States, New York Included amonS tbss
number NUM- Al but three Of the forty,
ton amendment, the only States Tajis
ing being Rhode Island, Connecticut 4
and New Jersey. >A'lSi
The second sentence quoted from thafs
PLATFORM would be amusing if il did d
Who "o Wro Win - q serious subject. Those
the prohibition amendment was aim
posed by an active minority against
inc me wishes of the great majority OF 4
Men who feel that n palpable faIse
1000 10 true are not safe advisers. One
!, e 80 n1l need to DO well Informed to-
nH ;s an active minority against tie
WnSmes OF Ds the great majority of tho
was i,npos ps1p by no On the contrary IT,
majority of the American
people, expressed after lont dalibera ~
non, and the triumph was won over
leadership OF men without. consc,ennssSi
ana .n win money sufficient to employ e
me aeiest iawyers-like ex-Secretary q
ties rs aSF s shbstance J.; to- corrupt poi
rn,p;uuent enough to attempt to ter
w, Why this dstrust Of state State h Iegt Sas
matter of State statute: DOMESTIC domestic r rs
tions and the rights of children ara 4
atntm.ss anG f. snt G by State
tected by, State statute. and men are
executed By states in accordanco witht@
statutory provisions. g'.s s
II is only when the LEGISLATURE darea Il
TO lay It's hands upon the liouor traffic 4
that it forfeits the respect OF the fnas, 81
who wrote the New York platform and
"'oas"s Gan ,hg In.,, tha,te RAJ oppos!tion
1t would, OF course. be a re,eotfon
upon the heads and the hearts of tho y
men men rssponsible for the New York
such isolated principles. Nothing but
tSssn San can explain tho attitude OF
prohibition. and they do well to uss
the word feeling" instead OF CON
science" or 'inteiiect If tho feeling
rs 70 pem ahas /! Is d disease 70 ths
cion brought 20 bear upon them by s.
the representatives Of revensefuI "
and outiawed liquor traffic. 1t is q dis-
Is so feel,ngly EXPRESSED 10 disease
Democratic party and to the nation Il
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