New-York tribune., 1903-02-10
ATTACKS VENEZUELAN POLICY.
Charles S. Hamlin Declares Administration
Anplies Monroe Doctrine Wrongly.

The dinner in celebration of the anniversary Q.
the birth of Samuel Tilden given IN 'Ho noiie %
the TYlden Club at Broadway and Seventy-ri'h-s'
last evening brought a huinpeI u
Democrats together.
Robert F. bowling the president, was toast
master Among those at the guest tanie were
1oseph w Folk District Attorney OF 81. >'uI"'
W L HeuseI ex-Attorney General OF Pehnsyl-
vania. Charles s. Hamlin of Boston. eN-AsslstaHI
Secretary of the Treasury under President CIeVe-
land. Attorney General John Cunneen, John b.
Stanchfeld Edward NJ. Shepard, Perry bcHhoh,'
Justice Henry Bischoff, Professor Price FRANK
Trenholm and Bird S. Coier
There were no formal toasts The speakers were
Messrs Hamlin. Folk and Shepard.
Mr. Hamlin said, in part
Hitherto we have, as a nation. regarded the tae
Monroe Doctrine having relation soiely 10 tiJ
irstitistions upon the South American republics
taking territory for hat puTp9sem ~ ana 2G
ton which must necessarily be at the bottom OF ia, All
GiP.9at 9s has eEtspded this doctrine so that it
has practica lIy made ministers judges OF IeI
lies who are cheerfully encouraged by this mea ms
to evade the payment of any speeinG @ 9 for
ward SO many other obligation incurred to 'h he
citizens Of other nations tnat te Tg could
cover no dividend whatsoever Suppose some natl2il
Snail refuse to abide by the decree OF our oank x
rintcv fudge! presume the President will then 2e
asked to issue INJUNCTION Wnlch II sIso.gS I tbr
penalties the combined forces OF our army ~; aH4 ~
navy can iufiict From such an mtefpIetdtIou u
the Monroe Doctrine may the Democratic panty
deliver us.
Mr. Folk followed. He said, among other
things
If Samuel J. Tden were alive new he would ad
4it1ation vastly worse than when ne IluIlLeI ~
aesin@t and checked the civic evil of his day Then
If was the city Of New York; now corruption has
l,rAad like a Cancerous growth 10 all OF the greA l
roi,nicpaIitjes of our country. Exposure mere ana
+he@A nnIv give faint idea Of the real Totterness
that exists 81. Louis and Minneapolis furnlsR % 2o-
iAct lessons and types OF what others are II lle
real state of affairs known. These reVelat1os
hiring the blush of shame 10 honest citizens fpr
ra wing parruitted such state OF aHalTS 10 exist
JVhere will the end be Will the people rule. or
uII they sl1Dnely permit themselves 70 ns furtneF
faeced tInfiI tho time comes. It will when
II will be too late to protest? The problem Is now
to stay the progress OF civic lepTosy aud 10 eFad-
cate it
Edward NJ Sherard warmly cheercd Tie
declared that New. York had moro civic i'm
morality than other cities only that the city was
more in the light and consequently was more
looked on He mentioned tho attitude OF Iiiden
toward the politics of his day as applicable 70 the
nolttics of the present time. Tilden he said was
not afraid TO speak his opinion politically either IN
season or out; that he never was afraid OF com
mitting himself and possessed OF that unusual
faculty of being able TO place himself in the posi-
tion Of the average voter thus being able 10 keen
in close touch with the desires and needs or the
poople in general Nr. Shepard, in ending. de-
cIsred that the Democratic party should make war
against the Republican tariff measure; Ehould
that stand now. from day TO daN. ana n2t "a}l
until 2 few weeks prior to the national ele0tlHn