New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-24
LOYAL WORKERS TOGETHER.
ROUSING MEETING OF VOTER&.'
COOPER UNION CROWDED WITH ACTIVE
YOUNG REPUBLICANS.


wELLKNowN LEADERS sTRIK-
ING THE KEYNOTE OF
THE CAMPAIGN.
II anything were needed to convince fair ana
impartial observers that the so-called Milholan0
movement in the Republican party Of this city
is supported by strong Republican sentiment
IL could be found In the immense gathering
Of the bone and sinew" OF the Republican party
OF New-York whenever the meetings OF that
organization take place. Last nights meeting
OF the Republican County Committee OF the Mill
holland organization, as It's official title Is
of the Republican Organization OF the City ana
County Of New-York. was no exception to the
rule Cooper Union was as usual packed by tns
delegates Of the committee and other loyal Re-
publicans representing every Assembly Distroe
In the city
RIGHT ROYAL WELCOME.
Although 1t only business meeting Oh
the committee the interest In the proceedings
began from the start ard continued unabated
through the entire session. The speeches were
many. but they were short earnest; many OF
them eloquent, and most went directly 10 tne
core Of the question under discussion. Tne re-
ception accorded to President Milholland, TO Gem
era Kerwin ex-Judge Gedney, General La
Grange, DR.. Williams, Mr.. Wilkinson. MI Iowns-
end Mr. Wise and all the members VINO spoke
on the resolutions or other matters was natter
ing in the extreme, and demonstrated good
feeling and comra deship not always found IN
large political bodies. while the greeting to
Mayor Pngree Of Detroit, was very warm ana
a tribute from the solid hard-headed earnest
voung Republicans Of the East to a splendid.
nractical. victorious Republican leader OF the
West. which will be re-echoed in the hearts OF
the masses Of the party in every part OF tina
Union Mrs Lille Devereux Blake. who ap-
peared 10 make an appeal for woman sunrase'
received a respectful and attentive hearing from
the great audience Of good-hearted citizens ous
she must have realized before she sat down tnas
they did not regard the question OF women Voe-\
ing one Of the issues in the penang campaign.
The defeat OF Tammany Hall and the redempuon
q, tho country from Democratic misery and DIS
tress were the subjects which interested the
men who met at Cooper Union last night.
Tho keynote was touched when the resolutions
declared for straight Republican candidate ior
Navor this fall, and the nomination OF a straigns
Republican ticket from top to bottom. This de-
mand brought out such "cyclonc' cheering as
must leave no doubt in the minds OF New-York
voters that the Republican Organization OF the
CITY and County Of New-York desires to carry on
ruptton under the Republican colors. led by Rs'
publican standard-bearers.
THE VOTERS BEGIN REAL BUSINESS
Every seat IN the big chamber was filled. ana
little standing-room was unoccupied, when Presi-
dent Miholland. after Henry Clay Piercy's MILL
tary band OF the With Assembly District had
entertained the meeting with series Of patriotic
and popular airs, stepped forward amid an out
he frNn Of
where was arrayed feminine loveliness with stal-
wart Republican manhood and asked the cons
mittee to come to order. The roll was called BY
NJ p B. Vouaire one OF the secretaries and
T Thomas Fortune the recording secretary, read
the minutes OF the last meeting. which. although
a great one was hardly up 10 last nights gather
ing either In numbers or enthusiasm. Mr. NIL"
holland then addressed the committee on tho
progress already made and the work that was
before the organization. Like other speakers VINO
followed him, he referred with undisguised pleas
ure to the opening OF the State Club. the hrss
Republican home that the workers OF the party
had ever had in the city of New-York during III
career OF nearly forty years
MR. MILHOLLANDS TIMELY WORDS
Mr. Mllholland said among other things:
Fellow Members Of the County Committee ON
the threshold OF your deliberations this evening I
pause for moment TO congra5ua@te @ you upon she
ed by this organization under your skifu guldance
S that SnSe as
crued to the Republican party IN CONSEQUENCE @ OK
late yoa upon the struggle that you made for q
reformation OF the Police Board at Abany-a strug-
gle none the less praseworthy because its aim was
defeated through the subservency Of the Tam
many Governor. loud cheersD -
partisan Police Bill II was in this organization
that that bill had its beginning and 1t was due TO
passed. 49,
present police investigation for II Is this organza-
ton that has furnished the witnesses for that in
congratulate you that. in the face OF the bitter
est OPPOSITE sition-opposition proceeding from an un.
and misguided respectabllity-that in the face Of
that opposition you have gone forward with ever
late you upon the unparalleled feat that has been
accomplished through your instrumentality, where
by the chronic laggards the theorists, the club
house critics and those whose Republicanism 10
only in evidence after victories. have been trans
formed into apparent workers for the party vel
fare. daughter and applauseD congratulate
you upon % the magnifcen,, Orsanizatons that you
organizations in almost every instance superior to
nythng that & has been seen IN the city since the
finally, l congratulate you upon having done what
nS Of Of sn to DO for
home-and permanent lei headauarters for the Re
prolonged applause)
GEN KERwINS STIRRING REMARKS.
The president then called upon General Michael
Kerwin. who is chairman OF the Executive Com
mttee and OF the Finance Committee-the only
man In the organization. Mr.. Mholland said.
who held two ofrces-for report of the work Of
those committees. The Gene al refused repeated
calls to take the platform. and spoke from his
place among his associate delegates OF the
XXVIIIth Assembly District. He said:
There must be some significance In the presence
OF this vast body OF intelligent earnest Republicans
assembled here tonight. This great assembly. repre-
sentative as II Is OF the best elements Of the Republ
can party Of the city and county Of cannot
be the result OF accident There is a cause for II.