The evening times., 1900-10-05

| A8enly-lnlfu Slreel, lnlS CITY, Is 5endltS
| out to voters copies of its declaration of
! principles. The declaration is signed by
the following. who until this year have
been Republicans:
Patrick Egan. president.
Patrick Ford Michael ]. Jennings. Den
is A. Spellissy. Edward T. McCrystal
jeremiah B. Murphy, Patrick O'Mara, and
| James F. Minturn. vice presidents.
Timothy Riordan, treasurer
| Daniel Cohalan, secretary.
Michael ]. Bird. Thomas Burke, James
| Bradley. John ". Donovan, William H.
Fearns. Joseph A. MeNevin, Michael J.
| o'Sullivan. Michael R. Stack, and Michael
! j. Tierney. executive committee.
The declaration follows:
| Whenever il becomes necessary in a
| government of the people for large num-
] ber of citizens suddenly to abandon the
party 10 whose principles they have hith-
| erto cheerfully subscribed and to ally
themselves with the party to whose aims
| they have been strenuously opposed the
reasons for such a change cannot be far
j to seek, and where it is made by a great
many conservative men the grounds there
| Tor must be of interest to their fellow
/ citizens. Therefore we, the members of
/ the Irish American Union. many of whom
| have never voted any but the Republican
| ticket, hereby set forth the following
/ facts:
! False to American Doctrine.
I'VE arraign the present Republican Ad-
ministration as false to the teachings of
the party of Lincoln. of Seward. and of
Blaine, and point out that it has failed 10
maintain the principles OF the founders
| of the Republic:
| In
lied and unnecessary war of conquest and
subjugation in the Philippine Islands, thus
subvertfng the doctrine of the Deciara-
| tiCn of Independence-that all govern
ment derives its just power from the con-
sent of the governed
Second In making Porto Rico a col
| ony, as OF an empire, thus establishing
upon these shores the novel and mon
! strouS doctrines that the Constitution
| does not follow the flag and that the
! President and Congress have powers of
! government outside of and apart from
/ those given by the Constitution
Third. In reyiying the Clayton -Bulwes
Treaty. which previous American Admin
/ istrations had held to be void, and thus
| giving TO the country which claims the
| mastery of the sea joint control with our
selves of the most important of American
waters, putting that power, thereby, in
q position once more to rayage our
same act abandoning the Monroe Doc
trine. which has been the cornerstone of
the foreign policy of every American
President from James Monroe until Will
! liam McKinley-that doctrine the ac-
| acknowledgement Of whose supremacy was
wrung by Grover Cleveland from the same
power 10 which Mckinley now surrenders
| it.
'.TruckIing to England
Adnainistra tion whose trucking to Eng
| land. or any other monarchy, was such
as 10 prevent a declaration of sympa hy
| with a people struggling to be free, not
! TO mention the impression designedly
| created as to the predictions CT the
Administration in the South African
war by the recall of Consul Maerum
! during hoStilities and the substitution OF
/ Adelbert S Hay. the twenty-one-yea
! old son OF the Secretary Of State. in his
place
Fifth. III the abiect and slav:sh SUI
render To England Of 1.500 square miles
| of American territory, with the shame
! ful and humiliatins exhibition of the
| Secretary OF State giving as the reason
| for such surrender that the only alter
native was war with England, the cut
| come OF which he evidently dreaded from
| the American standpoint, although Eng
l
| ingstock of the entire world, and al
| though the Republican national plat
! form of 1896 says: We reasse, the
| Monroe Doctrine IN its full extel., ard
we reafirm the right Of the UEIte5
| States to give the doctrine effect - re-
| spending to the appeals CT any American
| state for friendly Intervention in case Of
| European encroachment We have not
| interfered and shall not interfere with
! the existing possessions CT any European
/ power in this hemisphere, but these pcs
| sessions must not Gn any pretext be ex-
tended. We cheerfully look forward to
! the eventual withdrawal Of The European
| powers from this hemisphere and 10 tha
! ultimate union OF all of the English
| speaking part Of the continent by the
| free consent of its Inhabitants
Sixth. And most disgraceful CT all. il
making a secret agreement whereby t;ae
power and influence of the great Repub-
| lie have been turned over to Chamber
| lain and others to be used as the enIy
weapon left to them with which to ward
off the ruin which is impending over
England, thus violating at once the ad-
vice Of Washington and LeHers- n against
all entangling alliances and being guilty
of the folly of allying Us with the only
nation in Europe whose falling fortunes
could afford US return for the saeFi-
fees We are called upon to make. Dis
graceful at any time. such an alliance
is doubly SO when made while England
| is using all of her power in an attempt
| to crush out the life of the two little
| South African Republics, whose ma gnif-
cent fight against overwhelming odds
has excited the wonder and admiration
| of mankind
Pledge for Irishmen
IN the face of this record we denounce
this present Administration as un-demo-
cratic, un-republican, and un-American,
and we pledge ourselves:
First, To unite all sections. classes and
creeds OF Independent Americans for
the conservation and enforcement of the
glorious doctrines of human rights and
human liberty laid down in the DecIara-
tion of Independence and the Constitution
of the United States
Second. To oppose by every means in
our power all efforts by any party, section.
or clique to build up in this Republic any
form of Imperialism, or to carry into eff
feet any system for the conquest or sub
jugation of foreign people, and to oppos.
all attempts on the part of an imperial
istic Executive to stifie the voice of Da
triotism and freedom either at home or
abroad.
Third. To oppose in every way all eff