Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-01-26

the Constitution of the United
States 1t couldn't be possible that
they had 1t in their minds that it
was going to be all right for all
time to come, so they said, mo,
We will provide manner and
method of amending it,"
That is set forth In the docu-
ment itself, and during our ma
tional life we amended it many
times. We amended it once by
mistake, and we corrected it.
What die we do? We took the
amendment out. Fine, that Is the
way We want to do it, by recourse
to people.
But We don't want an admins
tration that takes shot at it in
the dark. and that ducks away
from il and lodges away from it.
and tries to put something over
in contradiction of 1t upon any
theory that there is going to be a
great public howl in favor of it and
it is possible that the United States
Supreme Court may be inundated
into a friendly opinion with re-
spect to it.
What have held all during my
public life Is that Almighty God is
with this country, and he didn't
give us that kind Of Supreme Court.
Now this is pretty tough for me
to have to 60 at my own party
this way. but I submit that there
is a limit to blind loyalty.
As young man in the Demo-
cratic party I witnessed the rise
and fall of Bryan and Organism,
and I know exactly what Bryan did
to our party. I knew how long it
took to build it after he got fin
ished with it.
But let me say this to the ever
lasting credit of Bryan and the
men that followed him, they had
the nerve and the courage and the
honesty to put into the platform
just what their leaders stood for.
And they further put the Ameri-
can people into position of max
ing an intelligent choice when they
went to the polls.
Promised One Thing
And Did Another.
Why. the fact of this whole thing
is. I speak now not only of the
executive but of the legislature at
the same time. that they promised
one set OF things: they repudiated
that promise. and they launched
off on a program Of action totally
different.
Well, in Is years of experience
have known both parties to fail
to carry out some of the planks
in their platform. But this is the
first time that I have known q
party, upon such a huge scale, to
not carry out the plank. but to do
the directly opposite thing to what
they promised.
Now, suggestions-and I make
these as Democrat anxious for
the success Of my party, and I
make them in good faith.
Number l: suggest to the men,
bers of my party on Capitol Hill
here in Washington that they take
their minds of the Tuesday that
follows the first Monday in No.
vember. Just take their minds off
it to the end that you may do the
right thing and not the expedient
thing.
Next. I suggest to them that they
dig up the 1882 platform from the
grave that they buried it in, read
it over, and study it, breathe life
into 1t. and follow it In legislative
and executive action. to the end
that they make good their prom
ises to the American people when
they put forth that platform, and
the candidate that stood upon it,
100 per cent. In short. make good.
Next, ! would suggest that they
stop compromising with the funda-
mental principles laid down by
jackson and Jefferson and Cleve-
land.
Fourth. stop attempting to alter
the form and structure Of our
Government without recourse to
the people themselves. as provided
In their own Constitution. This
country belongs to the people. and
it doesn't belong to any admins
tration..
Next, suggest that they read
their oath of ONCE to support the
Constitution of the United States.
And / ask them to remember that
they took that oath with their
hands on the Holy Bible, thereby
calling upon God Almighty him.
self to witness their solemn prom.
ise. It is bad enough to disap-
point us.
For Constitution
As Civil Bible.
Sixth, I suggest that from this
moment on they resolve to make
the Constitution the civil Bible of
the United States and pay 1t the
same civil respect and reverence
that they would religiously pay the
holy scripture, and ask them to
read from holy scripture the par.
able Of the prodigal son and to fol.
low his example.
stopl Stop wasting your sub
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