titution, and the farewell-address of George
Washington. The most sacred custom of all nations has ever been their
reverence for their ancestors, the honor they pay to their dead, and
the utmost respect to the good deeds who live after them, these customs
observed hundreds of years handed down from one generation to another,
we have come to call the traditions of a people. Tradition is an
unwritten law when it concerns a whole nation, it is above the written
statute, I would doubt the right of a court to have jurisdiction over a
man who has defended tradition of his country, against violation. As we
are not an original nation or race, the founders of the republic were
the sons of the nation whose language we speak, it is tradition with us
especially that identified us as a nation. This nation has four
unwritten laws, the oldest and most sacred, because established by Geo.
Washington, is the third term tradition, it has never been violated and
is an affective safe-guard against unscrupulous ambition, but never
before has been established a test case of its inviolability as a
warning to coming adventurers. In the present campaign for the first
time in American history we are confronted by a man to whom practically
nothing is sacred and pretends to stand above tradition. This man
abused our constitution, he wants it amended until it is abolished. If
our constitution is too old and in the way of progress after we have
grown to be a rich nation with it, then the ten commandments so many
thousand years old, must be a useless piece of junk. He has abused our
highest Courts, he has spoken in the profanest language of our
legislators, he has abused our best and most venerable citizens,
calling them liars and scoundrels, he has shamefully abused our
president, thereby undermining the dignity of the office, how can we
expect our foreign born citizens to respect our institutions when an
ex-President circumtravels the Union telling everybody that those
honorable men at Chicago were thieves and crooks. Shall the people
rule, is one of his demagogic phrases, yet he knows that in the very
sense he wants this catchword to be understood is an impossibility, the
people and herewith I mean the rich as well as the poor never rule in a
republic, they cannot rule, they have no time to rule, therefore they
elect a body of honorable men to do the ruling to the benefit of all,
in other words they entrust a body of men with their government, that