Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-09-29
FIRST GUN IN YORK
Ex-senator PIatt and Other
Good Speakers.
IN ROUSING DEMONSTRATION
II Was the First Republican Meeting of
the Campaign in New York, and IL
Was a Glorious Success.

New YORK, Sept. 28.-The first big
republican meeting of the campaign
was held tonight at Cooper union.
The news that ex-senator Warner Mil
ler, ex-senator Platt, Chauncey NJ. De-
pew and WhItelaw Reid were to speak,
attracted a large crowd. The speaker
arrived at about $50 O'Clock, and g.
corted by the Lincoln Pioneer corps Of
the eighth assembly district. Their re-
ception was most enthusiastic. Mr..
Depew entered first, followed by Mr..
Reid, Mr.. Miller, Mr.. Plstt. Marshal
Jacobus. William Brookfield, Ehhu
Root, and other notable men in the
party. AS soon as they were seated,
Mr.. BIookfield chairman of the repub-
llcan state committee stepped to the
front and presented as the presiding
officer the Hon. Thomas c. Platt. Mr..
Platt was received with applause. He
spoke as follows:
senator Platt's Address.
Mr.. Platt. after the applause had
subslded which MS appearance had
evoked, thanked the audience for its
kind reception and said he must pro-
test against being stigmatized as
prodigal son. He was a republican and
never expected to be anything else.
He then referred to the lively contest
which took place st the last conven-
ton between the friends of the dltfer-
ent asplrants for the presidential
nomination, and continuing said:
"Only two conventions have oc
IaI
in which the fierce strife has not
been engendered, and these were the
conventions which nominated for the
second time the father of his country,
George Washington, and the saviour
of his country, Ulysses 5. Grant. lAp-
| piausel.
The republicans who supported the
| different candidates at Minneapolis
have nothing for which to apologize.
Any one of them 10 qualified 10 rule
this nation IN the darkest hours of
| trial or in the golden of its pros
perlty. [Applausel. Contemplate the
| illustrioustrio and mark well
these remarkable men. There
was the champion of the great
| principal of protection to American in
| dustries, statesman, who has been
weighed in the balance and never
found wanting. a Republican tired 10y
every test and true as the steel of a
! damascus blade, Ohio's favorlte son
plause. Mr.. Platt briefly eulogized the
three candidates, Mckinley, Blame and
Harrison and continued
| Relic of Samuel y. Tiiden.
| "The democratic convention at Chi
cago denounced the Mckinley tariff as
a cneat and a fraud, denied the gov
ernment the right 10 protect the WORK
ingmen, threw the plank of tariff re-
form overheard TO the fishes and sub
stituted another plank sawed out long
ago by the late Samuel J. Tllden, VIZ
tariff for revenue only"
On that plank the republican party
ions issue with the dem mocrscy. Ap-
| plause The republican party believes
that the most sacred function of gov
eminent Is the protection OF the work
| ing man, and the noblest work 10 which
auy party can dedicate itself Is the
building and fostering of these great
industries by which the progress and
( prosperity of the nation are assured
TApplsuse. MIR. Cleveland and Mr..
| Hill both agree In declaring that pro
! lection ls cheat, but neither
| Of them dares endorse absoiute free
trade. so they are both compelled to
| repudlate platform and straddle the
issue. In his letter If acceptance Mr.
Cleveland has been forced to wTestle
with condition, not a theory, w; Ht
has been forced 10 spit upon the plat
form and eIpectoTste as consistent
/ democrat. laughter. There are
other conditions that are not theorie'
to which ne neglected TO address him
sef. For instance ne overlook ed thai
embarrassing condition which was en-
bodied IN the recent report Of tbst eE-
celient democratic official sc 70 present
conditions. ss the commissioner 0f sta
usiics OF labor.
The Feree RiiI Fsrc~.
Now democratic newspapers have
pers5stentlY for months past sprssa
through Their columns e. sorts of in
cendisry appesls ard bogus lnforms
ton IN reieton - this alleged forc'
bill There nss never been force btl
wnich vas endorsed ~ the rennpilcsf
+ party. ara the informatlon furn sher
on the SUBJECT - of TIE chsrsCteg ol
the cable dssnatches Of the iuteTvisv
with Bismarck and the Insglrs 81
geography of Mars. The repnhl5Es ~
party vi not conaoae political franz
E end fahft no n4stter bF whom
comm tied. Whatsoever ne name sni
! horsosver high sounding his title. 81