New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-16
BUSINESS MEN AROUSED.
ENERGY IN THE DRY GOODS DISTRICT.

WHOLESALE MERCHANTS LEAVE THEIR OFFICES
TO HEAR AND APPLAUD REPUB
LcAy ORATORS
| An opportunity to attend Republican meetings
| six nights in the week is given to the Harrison
and Reid men Of the city, but this is not enough
| for those in the dry goods district. Their po-
| ltical zeal burns fercely that they must have
additional meetings between times. They have
! therefore organized the Wholesale Dry Goods
Club, at No. 3?4 Broadway, where they frequently
como together at noon TO listen 10 expositionD
of Republican doctrines. These meetings al.
ways remarkable. In this. Of the busiest
spots in this busy country. merchants with vast
interests to manage find time in the heat OF
the day to forget commerce and to cheer po-
lical orators. They do not, however. give tho
time grudgngly They know that all their en-
ergy ard business shrewdness will be of little
avail against the commercial and financial dis
turbance which would follow the election OF the
Free Trade and wildcat" money candidates.
They know that prosperity reiCns here and they
do not wish to risk their enterprises to the un-
certanties of an attack on the existing order Vi
things which might lead to any excesses
This club held a notable massmeeting at noon
Yesterday. Its headquarters is the ehtlre Srounu
aoor of the building, wide and deep room INTO
which nearly thousand persons can crowd
The announcements that Whitelaw Keld WIS 10
speak there filed the spacious room. 30 MANY
stood in frort Of the door that tramc was ~"
peded on the sidewalk, while several hunoreo Ia"
to 20 away without hearing word Oh 'ns
speeches
STARTING WITH SONG.
At noon Professor J. A. Adams s'ar'en ''e .s, S'
inc There was an organ the PLATFORM "nio'
n. Murn and J. A. Farlin played aiterna,e1y.
The audience was spelling for cnahce !" 81 .u
the measure Of its enthusiasm, ana Jon''. w
pro,essor with a will He called for stahza
=. - a,nor,c, y This warmed up the crowd, ana
:, ray. two more stanzas Then "Good-by, oio
Grover. Good-byn was sung with vociierousne"
that cont the sounds up and down ana acroS"
p,ood,pav above the roar CT the trucks anu c''''
Everybody seemed to join in and propaoiy s'ni'
who found themselves singing were surpfSe" "'
~ A GOOD many children uptown wouid H"''
becn ostoni,hed had they been there ana r,,s uua
their fathers singing the jolly ar. .,s me cams
asm swept away reserve, and the choruS o""'
william B. Fuller, first vcepresideh' ,ronS 9, ,,s
club was chairman, as Colon.l W nHal, .in Ms. Of
tbe be'' great houses which make Newrl lorK or @ .ns
greatest dry-goods market of the New Worli r were
reprsent1ed t,ad few cUoDrv 0 'Se n" Kneeand John
1laain. George F. Stcdman, .ex-Judge warren warren
Higey' NJ F Wood F. G heyes Se;Hsbam "A i%laHTT " +
Moore '" T. hiPTfer Terrmsnn J. SkiIman B. f.
Kngman William 4 Webb Webb Seorge SsGgeney E " Vaa'. FaV.
Woo Woodbury 6 I.angdon, Matthew c. d. Borden d u.
RoSnssn, Joseph 99i@by, WoGssGn' SsIS' EGni van
verse, Thomas Martin r. Il; VA, & '2'e McIndo".
SyGk IS%ss ts,rO secretary Of the club E. NJ
townsend f m Thomas w Porter, s D. Ashley; Iscobs a.
Libby D. E Co%n1s 9mt;er r. Thomas + na hansford.
lowell Lincoln, w. A. Brown; Gustav NJ KoSs
hiatt. Henry G. Robinson, Walter Gibson !. ~ K
Sta,yart - T. Bell Charles G: Alleyn, >. W.
lSsne, rSsriss Frost G. smith W. u Saford Samuel
Cohen and Edward P. Johnson
rx-JupGE BRENNAN SPEAKS.
There were loud cheers for Harrison ana heia'
,o,.r,n wanted to knew What is the
,ratter with Daniel Sickes? The reply showed
.h.. ,,o audience was inclined TO look upon the
1aro,oI with much favor Mr.. Fuller first intro
duced cy-Judce John Brennan. of Iowa, VINO was
loudlv applaudcd in anticipation of good speech.
The expectation justified for he stirred up ''o
audience thoroughly lie SAID IN part
NJ Chairman and Fellow -Countrymen The United
S.,e ~ America with all Of the defects laid neinst
!. hv tho Democratic party is the grandest country
ovor given 70 the world and the worlds best nope
l,ppausc) The man who has the honor 10 aduieS
YOU is an Trshman, all American TO the CORE anu y,
choice a Republican. Cries OF ""ood y anu VIZ"
,s the matter with Reidr You must be patient WIN
me- An Irshman is like potato. lie Is ho' e''u
until he is warmed (ApplauscD
II was nv privilege to ride along F1fthaVe. on
Wednesday and to look into the faces Of million
Americans and In that million saw no rassou
women and DO hungry children tAppauseJ "a'
t,rn your ewes on the rest OF the world Iherc u
starvation in Russia, hunger in Germany ana Oh VI.
hanks of the CLYDE today there are $4,000 men OUT
Of work In London tonight thousands OF men, the
bone and snew Of England will look for lodgings !"
the creyices and holes OF the docks ana "har'es'
wo have lived for thirty years under Republican ruie
and | pray that may continue TO hVe uEocr 'A'
rule for thirty years more. tApplauseJ
wish 70 talk particularly to you business men abont
the worlds markets. Where is this worlds marhe'
that Grover Cleveland proposes to glVe 10 Us "he "'
have thrown the barriers OF fiOecuoh ana nave
admitted foreign competition with the United sa'es'
VIII YOU ship Goals to Manchester. or Jack knives 10
belgium where labor is Is cents q day: or VIII YOU
shi, American silks TO Lyons There Is no worlds
market for America in India. That market Is con-
trolled by England. IT Is so In Aus'rhm ana III
Canada. There Is slice OF 1t which we have IN the
West Indies and south American republics under inc
reciprocity clause of the Mckinley bill, which was
evolved from the brain OF Blaine Cheers for BlaneJ
| come from the West which for thirty years has
given an unbroken Republican majority for every
President. The Democrats are talkisg about cary n,
those states but the liishman says, and am one
they will carry those states Just atout as much as
the Methodist. will carry hades do believe Cleve-
land wi carry Texas and Probably Tor nto, but MT
the Western states. Great applause)
Near the end Of eX-Judgc Brcnnan's remarks
great shout at the door made known the arrival
of Mr. Reid. lie had been escorted TO the place
of meeting hy Colonel c. b. Mitchell and Edward
4. Treat Hats and handllerchefs were waved.
and cheer after cheer went up as the candidate
for Vice-President made his way through the
crowd to the platform in the centre Of the room.
When he got upon the stand the applause was r-
doubled and for a moment or two the noise would