New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-02
PROTECTION AND BUSINESS.
THESE DIZZY GOODS MEN TALK BOTH.
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THE BRIGHT PROS
Poets IN THIS STATE
JOHN r. PLUMMER POINTS OUT THE DUTY OF
REPUBLICAN BUSINESS MEN-coLoNEL CARR
GIVES AN ENTERTAINING AND IN
sTRUCTIvE ADDRESS ON FREE
TRADE EAST AND WEST
sprrcUTS ny w T. MASON
AND OTHERS.


for the Republican ticket last night. In numbers
and in enthusiasm their mass-mccting in the
large hall of the Cooper Union was fully equal
IN any OF the great Republican demonstrations
That have taken place there during the present
! camnaign. Over thirty minutes before the hour
apponcd for the meeting to begin there was stand
ing room only in the house. and in a few minutes
! moro the aisles were filled and the entrances
were choked with people anxious TO take p"rV
| in the meeting
Nearly all of those present. as was indicated by
| ,her blue badges of Amcrican-made SILK WIN
| gilt lettering were members OF the Nho'esa"
| INV Goods Harrison and Morton Club, under whose
ouspccs the gathering took place. For haf an
| horr boforo = o'clock arrived, a musical enter
toinmcnt in which nearly every one present joined
| heartilv in the choruses, was gwen. Laiaye,'c
Sykes led in the singing OF patriotic campaign
| songs Many women were in the audience anu
Joined in the singing and the expressions % err
| thnsiasm. r. II. Mohr, of the Home 'i"iN',
| CIub Of Boston, drew some amusing charco"i
sketches. in which the Free Traders were rdicuiea
and the Republican principles were lil''s'r"Veu'
| yr1J,KNowN MEN ON THE PLATFORM.
| At intervals during this preliminary Jubilee the
| lively Young mon from the dry-goods district
rave rousinC cheers for Harrison and Norton anu
for Miller and Crugcr and shouted in chorus NO,
M no free trndc!r and greeted with shouts OF
| ,vclco,nc the prominent men who took seats upon
tho platform. Among these were John f. rum
| mon nrcsdcnt of the club ex-senator james Otls'
| Co,orcl william L. Strong, w. b. Fuller, vice.
nrcsidcnt Of the club: Richard NJ. Lush Coionei
| cIorl, + Carr. Sieourncy w. Fay, A. L. Plummer,
w T. Mason of Illinois; Senator tassett u'nei"i
Samuel J. Crook, j.. J. Moore A. W. Nngman'
| T. H. Currie NJ W. Cooper, David o. HILL Nl,rE WI
| Wood. John L. Salisbury, George T. Avery H. w
Uolhrool, I NJ Wentz jr., Colonel George T.
| Clorl, William Harrington James Breath, IL. D.
Swift and CAPTAIN r. II. Staub, OF Nirgi'i"' WIN
TONIGHT undcr Stonewall Jackson and was lof tnirS
years Democrat, but is now 1or ii"ri''o"
and Morton After the homage Vi
mighty and prolonged cheer had beeh pau u
| General Harrison as banner bearing h'rs'
,,o.,r,it of him was unfured Vicc-President Fuller
stepped to the front of the PLATFORM "Hu '''S
| business of the evening began in earnest "
| NJ Fuller in calling the meeting to ORDER
soid that the club proposed to make the campaign
| r,usicol like the campaign Of Ilppecanoc anu
TYLER 100 and told of the singing and speaking
which take place daily at 1890 p m, AT 'hc
beadauartcrs of the club, No. 324 Broau"ay' 10
which all were invited. They proposed 10 nave
five weeks of singing around the Democratic cauip
| until like the walls Of Jericho, the strohenolu
Of free trade fell with mighty crash 'ApphiuSe'I
ro introduced as the chairman Of the meeting
rob, T. plnnncr. the Piumed Knight OF the
dry-goods district and president OF TINS ciuo'
FONTS MADE BY JOHN F PLUMBER
Mr. pIummcr was received With cheering again
and again renewed, and What's the matter "i''
| Plummer? Hes all righti' when sllehce was
| restored he spoke in substance as follows
r. ranfes andechernen Fellow oatirens FeHo"s'o inc
| ct,gcushin Of America (appause) Do you kho"
what that meansi Was ever anything s" gooa Ri'en ~
| man by the Creator the privilege oil American ''
shinq DO YOU tAln Of It's opportunities ana ao'a'as'
a - tho tast that It invites you TO- and that every man
in This land no matter humble can take MS sea. o
the highest patforml tApplause) IL oher' euuea.'on
observation-disclosures that is ennoblng and that HTS a
man I'm No other country the world offers to Its CIT
cns such privileges this land OF ours one thihg mas
made our citizenship valuable. and that IS wha' our
olefathers brought with them when they lanoea Oh ~
,,h uocls and thanked Goi that they were In land
,oro they might have freedom work out their destiny
one word their keynote and IL Is ourS-i'"'''
fAppausc)
After dwelling upon the importance of foster
ing American industry, Mr.. Plummer continued:
am Glad as president of the Wholesale DryGoods
Harrison and Morton Club here many dy-goo1S
non and so many mechanics as / present here to-
nicbt I srcak to you tonight as business men, and
yencrate phrase representing those VINO nave inter
ests beyond power Of destruction by the winS o"'rhs
- windy byains beg OF you practical men TO see to
/
,pool that tho Democrats shall not be permitted to
.,oa away ,hs triumph in this election which, with an
honest ballot IS sure be ours. (Applause) want
YOU to remember that the Republican party Is the rleh'
OF the woFsngman every who tries to Hit him
elf to hqier standard Of living. Don't let she devil
Of IRE, adc rule our with It's poison its dynamite
is palsy worse any foul disease thar can attack 10
beg Of you u'cn worcn, wives, sweoheai;s to exert
your that the right may prevail III not deaiH
you longer (Cr'cs Of " Go on! ~ Wen have song
nNT -
After another stirring campaign song Colonel
Clark L. Carr, Of Illinois, was introduced. After
the tempest of applause with which he was
greeted had subsidized, he said in part.
You have to do In your great association with most of
the different In the country These Industries
that W. sustain through you In the West are menaceI a.
they have not been long time by the Mills bill And
now the Democrats hedging n the East They say
they are not trade after all their dongs for hall
century the uttcances OF Carlisle WattcIson and
the President himself But when they come into Illinois
they say let N sell where sell the dearest and buy
whore we can buy the cheapest Mr. Thurman comes t.
us and says: You are taxed from the crowns OF YOU
heads to soes your feet" lie means that we are
rayiuv tribute TO Ncw-York and Brooklyn and New Eng
land (I.sughtcr)
| l remember the time taxed In different way
what a time we had get the the farm! d.
you know It often the rule to let the farms go fo
the taxesl vast amount Of land In Ilinois has bee'
acquired by those taxed titles We used to see the "o
birmingham on our Calico and we'd Ind " Sheffield
on tools and cutlery, and we'd ask where those places
we're and find out somewhere way across the water
| "A voice. English you know" and laughter) TIL
country constantly drained OF its money It's life BLOOD
taken awBy-as bad system as absenteesm In LELAND
IL there any wonder WHY we were poor2 Now we bul
from you and sell you 10th, and there Is and viii con
tnue to under that system OF interchange the mos
magnificent free trade country in the world From New
York to Francisco, from the penobscot way TO th
Gulf Of Moyico. Free Traiel loud cheefs) The IN
crnal tra1lc Of the United States is more than that O
Britain Russia France Austria and Hungary conO!ned
TRIBUTE TO MR. BLAINE.
We heard how DrosDsIei under taen eNDrcssc
better than any other living man can express 1t by tn
greatest ami gifted statesman living in this coun
Try the Polo Grounds Saturday night enthusiast
cheering and cries OF Blaine Blaine J. g. Blaine " Il
twentyavc years after the first imposed Uncl
SANS farm was worth three times Us much as 1t ha
bccn for three hundred years before. loud chenrs) Ho