The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-17
HEARST ADDRESSES
DEMOCRATIC CLUBS, URGING THEM
TO ORGANIZE.
HE kRRAIGNS REPUBLICANS.
DEAREST PRINCIPLES OF THE RE-
PUBLIC IMPERILLED.

This Is no Ordinary Year In Politics.
Republicans Trying TO Force Inn
perinIIsm and MiIitnrasm Upon the
PeopIe-DccIaration of Independ-
cncc TrnmpIed Under FOot-Trusts
Flourish Under the Sanction of he
Party in Power.
New York, July lev. r. Hearst. pres
ident Of the National Associa ion of DEM
ocratic Clubs. has issued address to
the clubs in which he calls on them 10
publicly ratfy the nomination of Will
lam Jennings Bryan for President and
Adlai e. Stevenson for Vice President and
prepare to defend the republic against
the corrupt and corrupting spirit of i'm
perallsm."
The address arraigns the Republican
party bitterly for its attitude toward i'm
periolism" and trusts and urges all pa
triotic citizens to organize to preserve the
institutions of the republic.
The address continues This is no orr
dinary year In American politics. Col
onies have been established under the
American flag without the consent of the
American people and in defiance of the
constitution. The unlawful and brutal
policy of President Mckinley and his
advisers, involving the abandonement of
the principle of political equality on Amer
lean soil, has been confirmed by the Re-
publican party in its Ma tonal Conven-
ton.
THE Republican party under it's pres
ent leadership. is attempting to commit
hitherto peaceful and Just nation to a
career of imperial adventure and con-
quest. It's conservatism is disappearing,
and its main policy is dominated by a
vulgar spirit of greed unknown on this
continent until now. The Republican,
party has become a party of revolution.
1t Is attacking the irreproachab.e ana
time-approved political, Industrial and
social systems under which this republio
has steadily grown in strength aud glory,
and has dishonored our flag and our ma
tional obligations before the civilized
world.
1T has trampled the Declaration OF In
dependence under foot The Republican
Earty is he promoters and agent of the
new and terrible Trust system which
eks to destroy industrial competition in
America another revolutionary move
ment he stile to free institutions.
The spirit of mlltarism marks every
act Of the national government These
radical and experimental changes In the
order of our national progress threaten
the existence of Republican governmnt
on the American continent. Subjects and
citizens cannot long endure the same flag.
Monopoly takes away opportunity and
hope from the masses of the people: It
robs the young men Of the nation Of all
chances to achieve Their indepS ndence
and fastens upon them a perpetual wage
servitude; II converts small propyietors
in 20 hirelings and II Iuts into the hands
of a few men the absolute con rol OF pro-
dGction and prices.
Against these new and dangerous pol
icies-coudemned alike by experience and
by justice-the Democratic party is ex-
erting its Whole strength. Its candi-
dates and Its platform represent the con-
servative spirit of the American people
and their faith in American institutions
They represent opportunity at home as
against adventure in Asia; peace rather
than war, inspired by the lust of money;
citizenship, not subjecthood a homoge-
nous republic, not Heterogeneous em-
pre, a nation of prosperous, equal lib
erty-loving citizens, unburdened by war
taxes or a great standing army, leading
ultimately to military conscripion.
"The reelection of President Mckinley
will be taken by the Republican leaders
as a proof that the American people ap-
prove an imperial, military and trust
breeding policy.
I'm the presence of these impending
national perlls, the National Association
of Democratic Clubs calls upon all Demo-
cratic clubs societies and associations
in the United States to organize their
forces for the defense of republican insti-
tutions. Patriotic citizens, regardless OF
past political ties or prejudices, are ear
nestly invited TO assist in this work OF
preservation. This year the nation must
choose between the European and the
American theory of government"