The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-05
TAMMANY CELEBRATES.
Towne and Bailey Talk to the Big
Braves.

New York, July 4.-The usual Fourth
of July celebration was held in Tam
many hall today under the auspices of.
the Tammany society. Grand Sachem
James A. O'GOrman, justice of the su-
preme court, delivered the address Of
welcome.
There were two long talks" the first
by former Senator Charles A. Towne
of Minnesota, the other by Senator ].
w. Bailey of Texas.
Mr.. Towne made a plea for the
old Americanism." He held that the
government had departed from the
nigh ideal Of its founders and COM
mitted a crime against the Declaration
of Independence and the constitution
by its treatment of the FilipinOs. The
constitution, he contended, nowhere pro-
vided for a colonial system. He said:
Disguise Is Transparent.
This new policy Of colonization is
trying to masquerade in the borrowed
garments of democracy. 1t has labeled
itself expansion, but the disguise Is
transparent. The new policy is not
expansion Expansion IS the natural
and healthful growth of an organism
The imperialistic process of enlarge
ment IS by the eXtraneOus grating of
alien and Unsympathetic tissue be-
tween which and che parent life there
can never be any organic relation.
THE tendency that, under the Dartv
In power, has led to a repudia ton of
the Declaration Of Independence and
10 partial imperialization of the con-
stttution, has naturally prOducef a
corresponding revolution in the stand
ard of government. The corruption
discovered in our colonial administra-
ton, bad as it was, has been completely
0VershadOWed by the recent revelations
of systematized and confirmed fraud.
which has astOunded the country 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, to abandon the traditions
of a century and a quarter TO enter
upon the road trodden TO their doom
by so many nations that have gone
before US, or to make a rededication
Of this government to the sublime
principles of it's founders"
Stop Postofice Thefts.
Senator Bailey predicted that with
the Democratic party in power there
would be a stop to the postoffice de-
partment thefts and concluded by say
ing:
occasion would not warrant me in say
ing that your brothers throughout the
country would applaud or support ali
you did no more than you applaud all
we do, but 1 speak for heart and con-
science, for those united in party bonds
when 1 say that there never was
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 Cleve-
land. Judge A. B. Parker, Ex-Governor
d. r. Francis, ex-senator D. b. Hill,
Senator D. w. Daniel w. J. Bryan
and others.
Ex-senator Hill predicted a political
revolution in the near future He said
the election of a Democratic mayor in
this city next fall would be the OPEN
ing gun for a Democratic victory in
the state and nation in 1904
The programme ended with short
talks" by Champ Clark of Missouri
and Congressman William Sulzer and
others.