The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-07-05
TALKS TO TAMMANY.
Made at the Fourth of July Cello
bratiOn.


New York. July 4.-The usual Fourth
of July celebration was held in Tam
many Hall to-day under the auspices
of the Tammany Society.
Grand Sachem James A. OGorman,
justice of the Supreme Court, delivered
the address of welcome. After patri-
otto songs by the Tammany Glee Club,
the Declaration of independence was
read by Col. Franklin Bartlett.
There were two long talks" the
first by ex-senator Charles A. Towne
Of Minnesota, the other by Senator
Joseph w. Bailey of Texas. Mr.. Towne
made plea for the old Americanism.
He said the government had departed
from the high ideal of its founders and
committed a crime against the Declar-
alton of Independence and the consti-
tuition by its treatment of the Filipinos.
The constitution nowhere provided for
a colonial system. Mr.. Towne contin-
ued:
This new policy of colonization is
trying to masquerade in the borrowed
garments of Democracy. 1t has labelled
itself expansion, but the disguise is
transparent. The new policy is not ex-
pansion. Expansion is the natural and
healthful growth of an organism. The
imperialistic process of enlargement is
by the eXtraneous grating of alien and
unsympathetic tissue between which
and the parent life there can never be
anV organic relation
COnfederated Frand.
THE tendencies that under the party
in power have led to a reputation of
the Declaration of Independence and
to partial imperialization of the con-
stitution of the United States have nat
urally produced a corresponding rev.
olution in the traditions and maxims
of the government. The corruption
discovered in our colonial administra-
ton. bad as it was. has been complete
ly overshadowed by the recent reve-
lations of systematized and confeder-
ated fraud in the Postoffice Depart
ment. which has astounded the coun-
try and arraigned the administration
at the bar of public opinion. 1t is
the natural result of long continued
irresponsible power.
I'VE are at the parting of the ways.
The American people must choose and
choose soon whether to abandon the
traditions of century and a quar-
ter to enter upon the road trodden to
their doom by so many nations that
have gone before us, or to make
rededication of this government to the
sublime principles of its founders"
Senator Bailey said he had not come
primed for a speech, but to show his
Al
ciety, which almost stood alone in its
loyalty to the Democratic party. He
followed Mr. Towne by briefly criticiz-
ing the policy of the administration in
ruling the Philippines by the sword,
instead of by the constitution.
Democracy the Remedy.
Senator Bailey said that with the
Democratic party in power there would
be a stop to the Postofiice Department
thefts. Senator Bailey concluded by
saying, in praise of Tammany Hall:
You are the greatest organization in
the greatest city of the country, and by
loyalty and adherence to your princi-
Piles the people will help to make you
greater still.
Even the good fellowship of this oc-
casion would not warrant me in saying
that your brothers throughout the
country would applaud or support all
you do, no more than you applaud all
we do, but 1 speak from heart and con-
science for those united in party bonds.
when l say that there was never a
time when the patriots throughout the
nation did not and would not rejoice IN
the triumph of Tammany Hall"
Replies to the society's invitations
were read from ex-President Cleveland
Judge Alton b. Parker, ex-Gov. D. r.
Francis, ex-senator David 3. HILL
Senator John w. Daniel, Hon. W. j.
Bryan and others.
Ex-senator Hill predicted political
revolution in the near future. He said
the election of a Democratic Mayor in
this city next fall would be the opening
gun for a Democratic victory in the
state and nation in 1904. The pro-
gramme ended with short talks by
Hon. Champ Clark of Missouri, and
Hon. William Sulzer among others.