The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-24
STANDS ON THE PLATFORM
TAMN1ANY ENUNCFATEs THE DEMO
CRATIC POLICY.


Motion of Richard Croker-They
Denounce Trusts, Importation anu
MiIitarism in the Most FOrcefui
Terms-RcpubIican Charged With
Insincerity and Their Attitude
strongly Denounced.
New York. July 2S.-At a meeting to-
night of the Tammany Hall General Com
mittee a series of resolutions. on the mo-
ton of Richard Croker, was adopted. They
say:
"Tammany Hall believes in the suprem-
acy of the American flag wherever ii
floats. but that it should float nowhere as
The symbol of liberty and civil servitude
combined; for that is a combination which
can work only dishonor to the flag and
danger to American institutions.
1T believes in that character of terri
torial expansion which was favored by
the fathers of Democracy; not expansion
by the shedding of American blood on soil
where the constitution can never follow
the flag but in that which has added to
the glory and prosperity of our Union
not in that which is to the Union a source
of disgrace and disaster.
1.-The Republican party while profess
ing a desire to carry freedom to distant
strangers of strange habits and Of uncer-
tain civilization is satisfied to leave
American citizens on American soil in
bondage to the trusts and monopolies be-
gotten of Republican legislation; for thai
is nothing less than a condition of slavery
which letters industrial energy, and gives
to the favored few the fruits resulting
from the labor of the many.
at is conceded that the nation has its
mission TO carry out; but its mission at
home remains incomplete while il is pos
sible under national legislation for 10
per cent. of the population to hold the
other 30 per cent. of the people in abso-
lutte subsection through the operation of
trusts and monopolies.
Let us not wait too long in the vain
expectation that this evil will cure itself.
The time has come for the nation to act.
Tammany Hail. repeating the promise
contained in the national platform Of its
party, pledges itself to on 'unceasing war
fare in nation, state and city against
private monopolies in every form
ABufnst war OF conquest.
"Tammany Hall condemns the waging
of war for conquest as un-American in
principle and false to the pledge Of the
nation as given by the President of the
United States. 1t condemns the uncon-
sttutional action of the President in car
rying on a war for conquest without the
authorize ton of Congress.
inspired by its forbidden alliances with
the British empire, the Republican admin
istration has reached out for colonial de-
tendencies, the control of which means
the last step in the direction of imperial
ism and military government by the
United States. That accomplished, there
will be nothing but name and location to
distinguish the American government
from the monarchies of Europe. The
country OF Washington, the republic OF
Jefferson. the union of Lincoln, will have
given way to the glory of the American
empire; and the standing army, the curse
of European civilization-the scourge of
European homes, will have come to blight
the homes of America and to dominate
her civilization.
From every country in Europe to es-
cape the tyranny of the standing army,
millions Of our countrymen have sought
citizenship and homes in America. Amer
lean fathers and mothers have a right to
the companionship of their sons in the
peacefulness of home. Their sons, though
ready to yield up their lives, If need be,
for home, have d right 20 the pursuit of
their own happiness unmolested by war
fare which is neither for the honor Of the
flag nor the security Of home
but the future of Americas young man.
hood is limited by the Republican prlnci-
Pile TO either military service on distant
fields OF doubtful glory. or to lifetime
of useless struggle against the killing COM
petition of trusts and monopoly.
Republican Insincerity.
THE insincerity of Republican declara-
tions favoring the propagation of free
dom and the uplifting Of humanity in
other lands Is revealed by the contradic-
tory attitudes of the present adminlstra-
ton toward the F'ilipinos on the one hand
and the Beers of South Africa on the
other-a war of criminal aggression
against the former in the name OF free
dom; silent and covering in the shadow
of Eneland's throne, while <he freedom
of a sister republic GIBBS away in its own
blood.
THE issues of the present campaign
are beyond the consideration of dollars
and cents They go to the honor Of the
nation-its proud place in the estimation
Of the whole world-its fidelity to that
conservative American, which. rooted
deep in the past alone can guide the ma
TONS future.
"Tbe democracy Of the nation stands
for national honor, national conservatism,
national Justice Tammany Hall, faithful
Az The principles Of democracy and SUI
bordinating all things TO Democratic sue
cess. closes its ranks, and calls for pa
,riotic unity In the name OF Democratic J
triumph"