The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-05
TAM'AAEY'S FOURTH
INDEPENDENCE DAY OBSERVED AT
THE WIGWAM.
B0URKE COCHRAN THEORATOR
LETTERs READ FROM VEST, BRY-
AN AND HILL.

All Three Sent Regrets and Gave
Advice to the Party-Never a Time
When Free Institutions Were in
More Peril Than at Present Said
Nest-A Never Ending Contest Be
tween Human Rights and Mans
Unbridled Greed, Said Bryan-Ad-
ministratiOn's Philippine Policy
Disgrace to Civilization Said Hill.
New York, July 4.-Tammany Hall
to-day celebrated the 126th anniversary
of American Independence The pro-
gramme differed little from that of the
Fourth of July celebrations held at the
WigWam in former years. w. Bourke
Cochran, who recently returned to the
Tammany fold. delivered the principal
address, and the other long talk" was
made by Supreme Court Justice O'Gor-
man.
United States Senator Vest of Mis-
souri, sent a letter of regret in which
he said
There has never been a time in the
history of our country when the free
institutions established by our fathers
were in more peril than at present. The
announcement is definitely made that
we have outgrown the swaddling
clothes of 1875 and must join the world
powers in trampling upon human rights
and the teaching of Washington and
jefferson"
William ]. Bryan, in sending regrets,
said:
1T is more important that we should
so discharge the duties of citizenship
| as to strengthen our nations character
and perpetuate our government, than
that we should observe each recurring
anniversary of the nations birth.
The Never Ending Contest.
There is never ending contest be-
| tween human rights and mans I'M
| bridled greed. Sometimes that greed
| creates one issue sometimes another
| but whether it manifests itself in the
| tariff question: the money question, the
| trust question or Imperialism, it is the
| same, for everywhere it tramples upon
the inalienable rights of the citizen
| "Tammany can help the Democratic
| party by throwing the influence of the
| organization upon the side of honest
methods and upon the side of honest
! pldlIOIIlS, pldlIOTlIlS winch Will set
| forth in clean. and unambiguous lam
I guage the peoples side of every issue
Those who employ hypocrisy also re-
sort to trickery to deceive the people,
| but those who believe in equal rights
to all and would deny special privi-
! leges to any must rely upon the merits
| of their cause and make an open and
manly appeal to the conscience and in
telligence of the people"
Hill ON the Administration.
Ex-senator David B. Hill said, in
! his letter of regret:
The foreign policy of the present
national administration in relation to
the inhabitants of the Philippine ISL
| ands is a disgrace to civilization. 1t
| repudiates the principles of the Decar-
| alton of Independence. The present
Republican Congress has accomplish
ed little or nothing for the benefit of
the people. 1t has not only failed to
do justice to Cuba, but it has also fail
ed to relieve the consumers of the
United States. The Nadministra ton
most advertised measure of diluted
reciprocity has already come to grief
The astonishing and strenuous defense
of Gen. Wood in regard to the Gu
ban frauds, contained in the
recent harangue of the perambulating
President of the United States, on a
concededly non-partisan occasion, has
fixed the responsibility for the crime
upon the administration, which it can
not now avoid