Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-25
RINGING RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED BY TAMMANY.


At a meeting of the General Com
mittee of Tammany Hall, held Monday
night. ~he following resolutions were
| adopted on motion by Richard Croker:
"Tammany Hall believes in the SUI
premacy of the American flag wher-
ever it floats, but that it should float
nowhere as the symbol of liberty and
civil servitude; for that is a combina-
/ ton which can work only dishonor to
the flag and danger to American insti-
tutions.
1t believes in that character of ter
ritorial expansion which was favored
by the fathers of Democracy; not ex-
pansion 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 the
prosperity of our nation; not in that
which is to the Union source of dis
grace and disaster.
THE Republican party, while pro-
Tossing desire TO carry freedom 10
distant strangers of strange habits, and
of uncertain civilization, is satisfied TO
leave American citizens on American
soil in bondage to the trusts and
monopolies begotten of Republican
legislation, for that is nothing less than
condition of slavery which letters
individual energy, and gives to the
favored few the fruits resulting from
the labor of the many.
1t is conceded that the nation has
its mission to carry but its mission
at home remains incomplete while it
is possible under national legislation
for 10 per cent of the population to
hold the other 80 per cent of the people
In absolute subsection through the OPP
peration 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 Hall, re-
peating the promises contained in the
national platform of its party pledges
itself to an unceasing warfare in ma
ton, State and city against private
monopolies in every form.
"Tammany hall condemns the wag-
ing OF war for conquest as un-Amer-
lean in principle and false to the
pledge of the nation as given by the
President of the United States 1t
condemns the unconstitutional action
of the President in carrying on a war
for conquest without the authorization
of Congress.
Inspired ~ its forbidden alliance
with the British empire, the Republic
can administration has reached out for
colonial dependencies, the control of
which means the last step in the di-
rectlon of Imperialism and military
government by the United States. That
accomplished there will be nothing but
name and location to distinguish the
American government from the mon
arches of Europe. The country of
Washington, the republic of Jefferson.
the union of Lincoln, will have given
away to the glory of the American en-
pire and the standing army, the curse
of European civilization and 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
escape the tyranny of the standing
army, millions of our countrymen have
sought citizenship and homes in Amer
lea. American 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
a right to the pursuit of their own hap
piness unmolested by warfare which is
neither for the honor of the flag nor
the security of home.
But the future of Americas young
manhood is limited by the Republican
principle to either military service on
foreign fields of doubtful glory, or to
lifetime of useless struggle against
the killing competition of trust monop-
oily.
"The sincerity of Republican declar-
atlons favoring the propagation Of
freedom and the uplifting of humanity
in other lands is revealed by the con-
Trajectory attitudes of the present adj
ministration toward the Filippinos 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 freedom; silent and covering
in the shadow of England's throne
While the freedom of sister republic
GIBBS away in its own blood.
The issues of the present campaign
are beyond the consideration of dol
lars 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 Ameri-
canism which, rooted deep in the past
alone can guide the nations future
The Democracy of the nation stands
for national honor, national conserva-
tism, national justice. Tammany Hall,
faithful to the principles of Democracy,
and subordinating all things to Demo-
cratic success, closes its ranks and calls
for patriotic unity in the name of
Democratic triumph"
A Close Call.