| Show executive authority we denounce denonn cs arbitrary interference by federal in local affairs as IL violation of the constitution of the united states and a crime against tree iree institutions democratic platform that is the plank that W 3 bryan stands on and yet the deseret I 1 newit makes bold to say whenever the laws of adv state in this union or of the united states itself are such that the chief executive must wait for an overt act to be corn com bitted afore before be can call upon the civil or military arm of the commonwealth to pr preserve e serve proper property tv and restore order the said faid state or the nation is in a condition to invite anarchy and trouble of the most serious corion 9 kind bind A chief executive who is made mada aware ef cf prena preparations rations for violence and lawlessness who knows in fact of the existence of a condition bordering on rebellion and who still waits for actual violence to be committed before striking etri king the offending element with all the force nu der his bis command is too pusillanimous and too thae atme airving to be the representative senta tive and guardian of the liberties of a free people when mr bryan sees that in the church organ he will feel that it ba has i forsaken him GOT altgeld will also feel displeased though the states rights doctrine was waa believed to have been pretty well shot to pieces during the rebellion still when iss governor refused to ant do down wn the chicago riots and president cleveland sent the federal troops to preserve order and see that the united states mails were not in with governor altgeld raised a great roar he told the president that he be was violating the constitution and when illinois needed federal troop he be altgeld would request them hut bat the country generally endorsed the action of president cleveland and it pleased the publio public to see the trains set moving again still not content with the defeat then suffered sufi suiT ered the robbers sent gov altgeld to the national democratic convention and he be with senator tillman who announced on the floor oi of the conven convention tinn that he was proud to come from the state of secession were ruling spirits in the bartys council it was to sit down on grover cleveland and favor gov altgeld that the plank above quoted was inserted if the people vote for W J bryan they endorse I 1 that dangerous principle and give encouragement to mob violence in this country ou for as the prophet joeph smith said in his views on the government and policy of the united states the governor himself may be a anti and instead of being punished as he u 4 fd be for murder and tr treason eason he may destroy the very lives lights and property he should prot protect e ct in illinois gov GOT altgeld may be elected again by the same elements which he has been championing in the past and should W J bryan brya n succeed in being elected then abe strikers could io do just as they like so far as illinois is concerned and the president would be powerless to interfere under the democratic platform the cause of the appo of the strikers might bo be i just but mr bryan would have to reply 1 ai I can do nothing for you |
