New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-01
REPUBLICANS IN WALL-ST.
THE W. H. SEWARD CLUBS SUCCESSFUL
MEETING


AN OUTSIDE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES BY
SENATOR EvARTs. COLONEL cRUGER
COLONEL SHEPARD. DR. DERRICK
AND OTHERS
Politics got little hot in Wall Street yesterday
aftcraoon. when the Democrats discovered that
rousing Republican mass-meeting was going ON
right under their noses at the steps of the Sub
Treasury Building 1t hadn't been advertised
much beforehand, and it was projected by an
organization entirely outside of Wall Street but
It got big audience and presented splendid list
Of speakers. The Democratic brokers had heard
nothing of the proposed meeting from their Re-
publican friends, and the Stock Exchange Club
had no connection with it, No Secretary Of the
Treasury was imported from Washington to explain
how the surplus, which alone excused the Presi-
dents free-trade agitation, had dwindled from an
oyergrown Newfoundland dog TO little wee
"doggie,- doggie,- and the early hour fixed for
the meeting preclude1 any sort of club parad-
ing But the size of the actual meeting reached
that of the widely advertised Democratic Wall
Street gathering which marked the beginning of
a change in the famous Cleveland luck respecting,
among other things, the weather, if the meagre
display of their clubs is stricken out
The meeting was held under the auspices Of
the William III. Seward Republican Club. a Ma
tional organization that is working hard for the
protection ticket in order TO do honor to its great
namesake. portrait of the dead statesman
filed the space between the two pillars of the
Sub Treasury porch on the extreme left, com
panion to q portrait Of Lincoln on the extreme
right Between them were pictures of Grant,
Harrison, Morton and Warner Miller. Ameri-
can flags thickly covered the corner bastion
where the speakers stand erected, and flags
were stretched in front OF ,hc lower steps. The
hal fln toft Of
George Washington SO that 1t looked as if graspcd
in his hands. Part of the steps was given over
to a delegation Of the Charles sumner Cam
paign Club. Of Brooklyn, an old organiz;'-
and fife corps The members wore caps
and capes made out of American flags, and Just
the members of the w. III. Seward Club. pre-
sented them with thirty-eight flags for the service
Of the organization.
ABAND WAS NOT NECESSARY.
There was no band to attract the big crowd, but
the Glee Club of the Wholesale Dry Goods Re
publican organization made the air vocal with
their campaign songs while the people were
waiting for the meeting TO be opened. They
busbed the free.trade baby" to sleep, they babe
Grover, goodbye they rallied around Pro
lection, put Grover in the cold cold ground
and performed the other musico-political acts
which have always drawn yellS OF deISht from
Speeches were made by John F. Baker, of the
Seward Club, who called the meeting to order:
Senator Evarts Colonel s. V. r. Cruger the
Rev. DR.. Macarthur, w. S. Guthrie, Colonel
Elliott F. Shepard and the Rev. Dr. derrick
Mr.. Evarts address aroused the utmost enthusl-
asm. and his greeting from the crowd was OF the
warmest kind. His speech was largely devoted to
demolishing one Of the latest Democratic hes
about the Republican Senate and the EXtraditlon
Treaty with Great Britain Earnest pleas were
made by the speakers in behalf of the local and
State tickets and there as hearty response TO
their concentrations and appeals DR.; DerrlchS
shouters and before he had finished he had brought
the audience to state OF lively enthusiasm.
Mr.: Bakers speech, introducing senator
ieysey presented the advantages of
over. the Tariff Reform theory, and when the
Senator came forward he found an audience
that was well warmed up for other gooa doc-
trine.
THE ADDRESS OF SENATOR EvARTS.
Mr.. Evarts said that he could not decline an
invitation 10 preside at meeting held under the
auspices of the William II. Seward Republican
Club, Bearing, as it did, the name of that Repub-
lican leader who was remembered with Lincoln
and Grant and the other great men, TO wn0m the
present candidate of the party, General Harrison,
was not unworthy to be successor. lCheeIs.j
Continuing he said substantially:
The even tenor Of Harrsons maintenance Of the
Constitution and the laws and the principles Of this Repub
can party control OF affairs will last to the end OF
the four years unbroken, undsturbed by domestic
or any foreign relations We know well why we nom-
mated General Harrison we know why the soldiers are
to vote him. (Cheers) We know why the statesmen
are to vote for him We know why the merchants and
bankers and manufacturers and wageearners all over this
country are for Harrison (Cheers)
THAT LAUGHABLE sACKvILLE INCIDENT
We have an incident which all the country is lugh
ing at final show-up of the interesting intrigue be-
tween President and the Secretary Of State on the
and the British Minister and the British Free
Traders other. The President chose TO separate
any division party by their resolutions held and advised
the President needed new treaty with Great
Britain at all satisfied that We could take
care citizens the fishermen, and their interests ana
mana our the fishery grounds without being
dependent upon any new treaty arrangement. But IN
spite o. this unanmy President and the Secretary OF
undertook make treaty that was 10 be wiser ana
better The rejected IL, and the houses passed
Retaliation law. That sufficient. But the President
thought he could make some advantage OF IT, though ne
hal not powers given him, by using II for intrigue
This was you all see, by letter from the
Minister OF Great Britain advising that all this nouoh
OF vsor and esrnestness and the part OF the
Secretary Of State was an eectoneeS
necessity and nothing else. Well. all thought
The Of Congress thought so, and now 1t is
and what is the remedy OF the reaction! The
Minister England having carried ON this relation Vi
the good country and &c the injury OF ours has at
last by letter under his own hand and affirmed again
by him. let the out Of the bag. Cl4aughterD Wei'
now has President caught the cat and put 1t back
No The cat is abroad still, all this country, with
those diplomatic and those understandings ana all
that our Government is send OF the man that
let the cat OF the bag. (Cheers.)
A DEMOCRATIC FALSEHOoD ABOUT THE In
TRADITION TREATY.
Now, this morning / in The Herald" state
ment over the OF a good many very respectable
Democrats on the subject Of the Extradition Treaty,
charging that Republicans have been Indifferent to the
rights Of our and other citizens in the protection
Of poitcaI refugees from Europe. The substance OF
sAe charge Bayard made treaty with
reat Britsn subject Of extradition and within
IL there ample protection against political grounds
and pocal being embraced in IL, but that the
Republican party insisted modifying 1t. that. at
the request Of the Minister from England Mr. West.
We have dsparagcd this protection and have exposed TO
injury and danger some portion OF our felow-eitzens
Nov there might well here for all be an end