The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-26
A CALL TO ANTI-IMPERIALISTS.
Resolutions Scoring the Adninistrn-
tiOn and Urging Bryan's Election.

tiOn and Urging Bryan's Election.
| NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-Resolutions scor-
ing the present conduct of national affairs
| party to support Mr.. Bryan have been
signed by over 500 officers of the National
Association Of Imperialist Clubs. The
signers represent the forty-five States and
fve Territories of the Union, many OF
them statesmen and all prominent men.
Inc resolutions will be circulated among
the anti-imperialist clubs located in prac-
| ticaiiy every town. and in every election
district of New York and cities of Kindred
size and Importance In the country.
There is but one object for the circula-
ton OF the resolutions, to secure the de-
feat OF the Republican Administration.
President c. c. Hughes. OF the Greater
New York Association. said today:
The resolutions and signatures will
show that the cause of anti-imperialism is
lar from being reasonable, as the more
rabid Mckinleyites declare, and that its
followers are anything but the irresponsi-
Bile characters certain interested persons
have declared them to be-"
Following are the resolutions:
We. the undersigned officers Of the Ma
tional Association of Anti Imperalist
Siupo' SohSCIOuS tndl the close Oh u UiOSl
portentous campaign is at hand. when
the merits OF its issues and Of the re-
spective candidates for the Presidency are
to be finally submitted to the jury of the
people. submit the following as a Synop-
Sis OF our position and upon it invite the
support OF the membership of this as
ISOLATION and of patriotic voters gener-
ally:
"First-We object to the imposition Of
taxation without representation by the
Mckinley Administration on the people of
Porto Rico. as an objectionable violation
Of American principles.
"Second-We object to the recognition
Of slavery and polygamy by the Mckinley
Administration in its illegal treaty with
reference to the Sulu Islands as an out
rage against the letter and spirit of
American law.
'Third-We object to the perversion and
suppression OF news and information by
the Mckinley Administration. either by
means OF censorship at Washington, or
by subsidized press, as the most mme-
date danger directly threatening Ameri-
can liberty.
.'Fourth-We object, as a people. still
devoted to Righteousness to the infamy
committed in the Philippine Islands by
the Mckinley Administration upon our
own troops as well as upon people in
nocent Of any offence whatever toward
our nation as the most shameful official
crime in the annals Of history.
"Fifth-We object to every form o. tacit
understanding by the Mckinley Admins
tration with monarchi.al Governments,
and which today deprives a people strug-
Cling for self-preservation and repnb-
lican form of government in South Africa
of the moral support and sympathy which
our people would gladly extend.
''Sixth-We object to the arbitrary ex-
ercise Of executive power by the McKin-
ley Administration unrestrained by the
provisions OF the Constitution or by the
customs and usage of more than a CEN
fury. We object to the prostitution of
American doctrines and ideals and to the
delivery OF our people to the methods OF
despots and to the snares of Imperialism.
Now. therefore. appealing to the mem
bers Of these clubs as well as to all voters
who place country above party, we ask
that they make the reelection Of Mr.. Nc
kinley impossible by declining to vote for
him, and to make positively certain that
such a calamity may be averted that they
do cast their votes for Mr.. Bryan
The resolutions are signed by Arson
Phelps Stokes, President, and about 200
others.
The following are from the District Of
Columbia: Samuel Gompers. w. A. Croffut !
]. B. Henderson. Col. Charles James. Cot |
ter T. Bride. Franklin H. Mackey, j. W. |
Hayes Crammond Kennedy, p. T. Moran,
Louis Schade. William V. Bride. and Hen
nv C.. Haltam