Show I I i TAMMANY HAll HAllI OBSERVES DAY DAYI Annual Fourth of July Celebration Celebration Celebration tion in the Historic Old Chamber BIG CROWD IN ATTENDANCE GOV coy A W GILCHRIST OF FLOR FLORIDA FLORIDA FLORIDA IDA ORATOR OF THE DAY DAYe New e ew York July 8 With its traditional traditional traditional enthusiasm the Society of Tam Tammany Tammany Tammany many had Its Ita annual Fourth of oC July Jul cel celebration celebration today a throng of members filling Oiling the elaborately decorated cham chamber chamber ber her In Tammany hall hail and cheering the patriotic sentiments of the speakers Governor Albert W Gilchrist of Florida Florla was the orator of the day da In delivering the Jong long talk he h awoke bygone b gone echoes of the historic edifice and aroused the enthusiasm m of his audience with his hili pro pronouncement pronouncement of renewed faith In traditional Democratic doctrines en Governor t devoted considerable con attention to the race problem defending the Mouths course coune with ith regard to the negro and alluding pointedly to tile the newer race questions which are agitating other uther eec sec sections flone of oC the country Address of Welcome The rhe address addre s of oC u welcome was vas delivered by Grand Sachem Daniel F Cohalan Numerous Xum rous letter and from prominent Democrats regretting their inability to be present were read Joint John Sharp Williams from Mississippi wrote TOtE If U there 1 I would choose as a sub subject subject When a Democrat Is Sot Not Nota a Dem Deni Democrat Some Recent Illustrations Judson Harmon governor of Ohio wrote Freedom from the impositions of a foreign f government is 15 not worth what w at atIt it cost if jf our government Is permitted to impose on all the people by increasing log Ins the cost coat of or living in order to swell the profits of a Ii few fc Address of Governor Gilchrist Governor Gilchrist t after paying high tribute to the organization organisation its accomplishments accomplishments and services turned to na national national issues declaring that great as the thc possibilities are for tor the future growth and development of this coun country country country try yet et its greatness would be but as asa asa asa a sepulcher beautiful without but within full of ot dead deed mens bones If the policy of the present ruling power In this nation Is I to continue Governor Gilchrist referred to the tar tariff if iff question and pointed out what he declared to be tim U fallacies and absurd absurdities absurdities absurdities of Republican platform promises ami anI nel assertions When hell the high protective protective tive the tariff was first established it Jt was be said for tor the tire benefit of or infant Indus Industries tries Infant Industries After years and after they have become able to compete suc sue successfully with the world do you ou still consider them th m infants he asked Then they said Mid that the foreigner paid the tax Do you suppose that the Amer American Amerlean lean ican Newspaper Publishers association believes that when they unanimously Resolved ReS that it is the sense of this meeting that the duty on printing paper wood pulp and other material entering into the manufacture of printing paper be Immediately repealed The Demo Democratic Democratic cratic party very properly styled this 6 per ton too not a tax upon the foreigner but a tax upon the spread of knowl knowledge knowledge knowledge edge Thanks to the protest of the press and the Democratic party part it is isnow Isnow isnow now proposed to revise downward this particular tax Same Old Tactics In the hut campaign did you not hear of notices being posted in the shops that they would run at half mast if the Democratic party succeeded They The would throw the financial and Industrial Interests of the country to the four winds If a party succeeded to power which would pass pas laws so that evils of I privileges and would not assert aS ert themselves In securing 24 per cent to 1 per cent more than they the should receive in the annual distribution of the wealth of the country countr They practical practically ly threatened the country with ruin if their privileges were cut down It Is the same old tactics which h were used I when Tammany was successful In fight tight fighting fightIng ing lag for the election of Andrew Jack Jackson Jackson Jackson son Governor Gilchrist condemned cen centralization centralization of wealth by br legalized rob robbery robbery robbery bery declaring it is bound to result In Inthe InI Inthe I the elimination of or the middle classes and the draining of the wealth of the mass masses Into the hands of the beneficiaries ben of the legalized legalised combinations What of the Future Will the th people assert their rights after twelve t tt elve or 01 fifteen years ears more of II I Republican rule in the interest i of the laboring man he said Will they be stronger when hen will own I of the property of the United States when 3 men shall own 75 per percent percent percent cent or ot 80 per cent of the wealth of the country Sew New England ingland ancestors anC of the Re Republican Republican publican party were largely largel responsible for fm slavery laver and its inception The Re Republican i publican party in its platform now talks about having freed the slaves They never did any such sach thing Their free freedom freedom I dom grew out of oC war Incident to se secession secession cession ce ston the seeds of which they the had themselves sown son Instead of the Re Republicans Republicans publicans claiming that they freed Creed the thee slaves staves their statement would have been more accurate had they th y claimed that in open defiance of or the constitution they enfranchised the negroes i 4 Negro Question Governor Gilchrist said sa he was op opposed opposed opposed posed to the agitation of the unconstitutionality unconstitutionality of the Fifteenth amendment to the federal fedral constitution being started by any southern legislator or state It I can safely be affirmed said he that j sooner or later when the be become become become come voters oters in California and elsewhere on the Pacific coast or when the colored contingents of Springfield III nl and of Springfield 0 O or burg or of other cities and states become too aggressive and nd that when the G t O 0 P can no DO longer use u the brother in black that this question will be settled right by b the supreme court of ot the United States Taking up President Tafts plea for Cor greater reeter division of 01 political sentiment JIt and affiliation in tn the south Governor Gilchrist said saidA saide A e Natural Supposition Instead of discussing the race ques question question question tion as It exists In the south I will in invite invite i vite rite your attention to it as It now ex cx lets in neutral territory far west western I ern frn states Suppose this element Chi Chinese nese lisse an would as ao the negroes I in ii ri the south vote te practically as a unit uniti i Pun t you nu IU upp t that the white people I f r California Ci would wouW combine so 50 as to I j preserve their very varv civilization SunI un UD I I I pose this condition existed throughout the entire Pacific coast and the states bordering thereon dont you suppose that Mr Ir Taft would have his hands full tulI fullin in iii showing these the e people that there shall be more than one political creed to be subscribed to and supported r Dont you suppose suppo e you ou w uld hear heer of the Solid Pacific I know of no greater injury which could befall the southern states than for tor forthe forthe the white people to divide and thereby leave the result to the of the negro I believe beHave in the th patriotic desire of ofIr Mr Ir Taft aIt where such de desire ire can be properly asserted a I want it to become an important plank in the next national Republican platform Patriotism should begin at home I want the Republican party perty to patriotically break the solidity of the JId New Xe England states Mates and ami of Solid Pennsylvania |