St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-26
A SILVER HOWL.
A Disorderly Crowd of People Pass
Resolutions.

NEW YORK, July 25.-Two hours of
disgracetul uprOar kept guests of the
Fifth Avenue hotel in state of alarm
tonight. The noise all proceeded from
Parlor F, where the meeting under the
auspices of the silver club had been
extensively announced to be held. Loud
bursts of shouting followed by pealS
of derlSive laughter occurred at very
short intervals. and soon after 8
O'clock the character of the bowling
showed that some of the participants in
the meeting had lost their tempers and
their wits. At half-past respectable
business men began to leave the room
in hurry, but the crowd grew thicker
and more ill-tempered. At 10 o'clock
the management of the hotel ordered
the electric lights turned out. For
thirty minutes afterwards yells of ex-
cited disputantS, who angrily refused
to leave the chamber, were heard, and
several times the hotel management
turned on the lights only to at once call
down upon them the maledictions OF the
crowd. A number of those who were
prominent among the tough element
were noticeably under the influence of
liquor.
After all the row was over it was per
fectly apparent that the meeting had
been purposely broken up by gang
who did not hesitate to furnish their
names, and who boasted that they rep
resented the Industrial alliance. A
m ember of the Populist party gave their
history.
''It is the Carey-Keogh gang" he
said, Just before the last election these
fellows who had some following among
the labor element formed what was
called the Republican Industrial ali-
ance. They were not recogn lied by the
labor organizations, though, and when
they made Overtures to the POpulIsts
they were entirely discarded. They
represented to the silver clubs of the
West that they had some power here,
but failed to get money out of them.
This is their revenge. They pulled the
leg of the Republicans last election
and thought they could do it again.
A milder factor of the disturbance
was a handful of self-styled Populists,
who were sore because the meeting was
not held under the direct auspices of
that party. They did not represent
anything but their own individualities.
The last straw consisted of the general
feeling of derision which vented itself
among the minority of the people pres
ent. The silver men could not make an
impression. The disorderly element
was not at first apparent, but asserted
itself with overwhelming force when
the resolutions were launched upon the
meeting.
When, on the motion of d. B. Harris,
who is credited with being the back
bone of the "missionary movement"
John q. Boyd was elected chairman,
the corridors on both sides of the spa
cious apartment were thronged, prin-
cipally with curious Onlookers. Mr..
Boyd nominated James w. Murphy aud
Stanley &. Hood honorary secretaries.
Chairman Boyd opened with brief
speech, in which he referred to the
country's progress and the evidently
SURPRISING wisdom of the founders of
this system of government.
"These were the men," he said, "who
gave congress the power to regulate the
value not only of money coined in the
United States. but also of foreign coin,
provided that no state should make any
thug but gold and silver coin tender
in payment of debt.
"As longas the American people have
adhered to the political and economic
principles enunciated by the fathersso of
the country they have enjoyed pros
perity and happiness, but ,wheneperiany
departure from those principles has
taken place disaster and trouble of some
kind have always been sure to follow.
"The peone of tie eJnifed States are