The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-20
NO HEARST F~ORTAMMANYHAL
WIGWAM LINES UP AGAINST so.
CIALIST PROGRAMME.
Public Utilities, a. q Rule, Better operated
Prlvatefy-state Socialism a Form =
Despotism mt SIayery-Least GOVs
eminent Is the Democratic idea.

fflTAtefy-btat6 SOCIALISM q Form G
Despotism and sIayery-Least GoVs
eminent Is tho Democratic idea.
Tammany laid down lust night the anti
Hearst platform upon which It will make
it's fight in the Gubsrnatorial campaign
next fall. The organization also mapped
out the issue it thinks should be made in
the next Presidential struggle. II the
advice Of Tammany is followed the ma
tional fight will be upon tariff reform.
while in this State, In the autumn; the
punishment Of the men responsible for
the insurance depredations, a general
transfer system among all the local rail-
road lines and antagonism TO the public
operation Of public utilities will be tho
principal planks.
The resolutions adopted at last nights
meeting OF the general committee Of Tam
many Hall and a speech delivered by w.
Bourke Cochran were 80 strongly opposed
to the idea Of municipal ownership and
operation Of public services that it was
manifest that, 80 far as Tammany Hall
is concerned, WilliamR R. Hearst cannot hope
for the Endorsement Of the Democratic
IL he should run for Governor.
uLs SOChIdu ubClhICu tlhb tn0 QuGbIl0n
which now faced the party was how to stop
graft and corruption and yet at the same
time not imperil the security Of private
property. Interference by public authofi-
ties with private industries he strongly
denounced, and in talking Of remedies he
suggested that the best would be to repeal
the laws which foster trusts and encourage
such Tasealities as have been recently
unfolded, and to punish men who because
of their wealth ~disregarded the laws Of
democratic government. Municipal owner
ship. he asserted, would be no palliation.
Experience, he commended, had proved
that public utilities operated by private
agencies provided better and cheaper SER
vice than when such utilities were operated
by public officers.
Despite the bad weather; the big meeting
hall at the Fourteenth street headquarters
was filed. b meeting was attended by
large numbers Of men who are in the head
ranks of Tammany Hall. Charles +. Muir
ply was one Of them, and when Mr.. Cochran
finished they crowded around him and as
sured him that the speech he had made
would surely form the keynote FOR the
Democratic fights Of the next few years.
j. Sergeant Cram presided.
After some routine business had been
settled Mr.. COCHRAN, who was seated In the
body Of the hall, rose and presented'a series
Of resolutions which had been adopted
by the executive committee,
STATE SOCIALISM rs pEsporIsM.
In the opening paragraphs attacks are
made upon trusts and upon high tariff,
For instance:
A .
Exactlons of great combinations or trusts
under cover of high protective tariffs, exces-
sive rates exacted by corporations operating
public franchises, plumber of pelioyholders
by officers OF insurance companies. and OF
stockholders by managers Of industrial oor,.
porations, corruption in public ONCE by HhicA'
revenues of government are diverted from
the service Of the people to the pockets Of
their servants and the sources Of juetice
polluted are all schemes Of some men 10
eat their bread In the sweat Of other menb.
brows. by diverting property from handS
that create 1t TO hands that ooyet 1t.
The demand is made for the repeal Of all
laws which under the delusive pretext
Of protecting American industry enable
a few men to plumber the whole body Of
their fellow citizens, by charging extortion.
ate prices for the necessaries of life and
the essentials of industry" Adequate pun.
ishment ID demanded Of men, no matter
what their position or extent Of fortune,
who have been shown to have misappro-
priated one dollar given to their care in
trust. The recent charges Of tampering
with juries should be vigorously examined,
and II proved the instigators should be
severely punished.
The resolutions. after deploring the COR
ruption and graft which they say are
degrading political andindustrial life. chuck
Mr.. Hearst in these words:
W hold that the cure for all these abuses
is not in socialism. which by enormously
extending the power Of government must
aggravate them, but in democracy, which
by excluding government from any inter-
ference whatever with private industry
must cure them"
The principle of interference by govern
ment in the field Of private industry is de-
nounced as vicious and a bar to prosperity,
but it is held that public utilities should be
subject to control and regulation by the
governing authorities. Upon this matter
the programme declares:
Whether a public utility be administered
government itself or by a private corpo-
we hold that every person who uses
il should be held to pay the cost Of the service
he receives, and that no man should
be compelled by taxation or otherwise TO
bear any part OF his neighbours expenses for
light and power, for telephone service or for
transportation Of himself or Of his goods.
Every proposal that a municipality assume
of all public utilities and reduce
rates to persons using them. regardless OF
What the service may actually cost. Is an
attempt to force some men to bear the ex-
pepses OF others. because where the outlay
FOR operation exceeds earnings the deficit
must be made up by taxation, and this We
as soclalistic. and therefore hostile
20 justice and subverslve Of democratic gov.
While experience shows that public utilities
are more effectively administered by private
agencies under the watchful supervision OF
than by public officers, we do
not believe that the service actually rendered
by private corporations operating public
in this city approaches the efficiency,
1f which they are capable and to which the
people are entitled.
To enforce the application Of these prinoi-
in this city we urge the establishment
Of a permanent commission, authorized 10