The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-19
The Plan of Campaign.

I By a substantially unanimous vote the
, Republican County Committee adopted a
resolution on Monday night, declaring that
there should be "a conference with all
organizations opposed to the rehabilitation
of Tammany Hall, with a view to the selec-
ton Of the same day for holding all anti
Tammany conventions"
This resolution expresses n laudablc de-
sire to bring about the union of all the forces
opposed to Organism under the response
Bile leadership of the Republican organiza-
tion. In the municipal election of 1894 the
representatives of Tammany Hall were in
virtual possession and control of the whole
fity administration. They held, in fact,
all the executive and minor offices. The
purpose, the declared and conceded and
pnly possible purpose, of an anti-Tam.
many conference under Republican lead
ership three years ago was, there
fore. to defeat and to dislodge from
Office the existing local administration
of Tammany men and of Tammany, and
the objective point of all anti-Tammany Or
CARNATIONS was opposition to Tammany
Hall. This year, however, the only posi-
tive and reasonable basis of successful op-
position to Tammany lies in opposition to
Tammany Hall as the representative instru-
ment and agent, the champion and exenp-
lar, the apologist and defender of financial
fraud and social disorder for which it
strove so savagely in its i%ncendiary canvass
Of last year. On this supreme issue a
vigorous and successful union under the
leadership of the Republican party was
made n year ago, without technical formal
tiles of combination or wordy resolutions,
with the result of q great victory won
In November. In New York, Brooklyn,
the county of Richmond and the town
ships OF the county of Queens, the
triumph was decisive. Mr.. MCKINLEY had
21,O0O majority in this town, $4,000 in
Brooklyn, and in the whole Greater New
York territory, $4,000. Tammany was
completely and utterly overcome.
That was the form which opposition to
the rehabilitation" of Tammany Hall
must take this autumn. There is the same
necessity for concurrent action between
forces opposed to Tammany, and the issue
> IS again so plain that those who seek to
introduce cXtraneous questions can be re-
garded only as enemies to the common
cause who are seeking contradictory
and selfish ends. People who are pre-
tending that the absorbing question is
All impossible "non-partisanship" are
working either consciously or ignorantly
for the restoration of Tammany Hall to
Office, for obviously it is an issue upon
which the forces of opposition to Tammany
cannot possibly be united. The projection
of 1t into the canvass could have only the
effect of dividing them and making easy
Tammany Halls rehabilitation
There are two conditions essential to n
successful fight against Tammany Hall
this year. The first is that the campaign
be rcsolutely and strictly conducted upon
the lines of the successful contest of last
year; and the second, a corollary of the
first, is that the Republican party of
New York, having led last years fight
on those lines, shall be the leader again
In this years fight upon the same mo.
mentous issues. All other questions are
mere questions of detail, which can be
readily adjusted. The essential thing ia
that there shall be n union similar to that
which proved successful by $4,000 against
Tammany last year.
All that is as plain as a pikestaff.