The record-union., 1896-08-19


He DenOunces the Revolutionary
Planks in Its Platform.
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, NEW
YORK, Aug. 1S.-The mass meeting of
the Democratic Honest Money League
was held this evening under the most
favorable auspices. The weather was
all that could be desired, clear and de-
lightfully cool, and thousands upon
thousands of persons turned out to hear
Hon. w. Bourke Cockran's reply to the
speech of William Jennings Bryan, de-
livered in the same amphitheater last
Wednesday night The arrangements
for the meeting were on a most elab-
crate and most perfect scale and the
trouble and tumult outside the garden
which marked the Bryan demonstration
was entirely lacking.
Ihe police arrangements We're practi-
cally the same as on the occasion of the
Bryan meeting. Acting Chief Court
right was the commanding officer of
the police force and was early on hand
with fully 500 uniformed men. 1t was
not found necessary to block the streets
surrounding the garden, as on the form
er occasion, and when the doors were
thrown open the crowd, as before stated
assembled gradually and without any
perceptible confusion
The Sixty-ninth Regiment Band rem
dered a number of national airs while
the audience filed in. Every man, wo-
1uan and child who entered was given
a small American flag and a leafet con-
tanning the words of the Star Spangled
E,4n Ar11as
We're rendered by a double quartet
in which the vast assemblage assisted
The small American flags played a
prominent part later in the evening,
when they We're waved vigorously and
with charming effect by the vast audi
ence when it gave vent to its enthusi
asrn at some of the many points made
by Mr.. Cochran in the course of his
speech.
The decorations were far more pro-
fuse than those at the Bryan meeting.
The platform, which was considerably
larger than that used last week, was
tastefully dressed in the national colors.
On it besides Major John Byrnes, Presi-
dent of the Democratic Honest Money
League. who called the meeting to order
Hon. Perry Belmont, the permanent
Chairman of the meeting. and the Hon.
Bourke Cochran the speaker of the
evening. there We're host of prominent
Democrats of national and local re-
nown and large number of Vice-Pre
dents of the meeting.
At l:43 the garden rapidly filled. AS
persons prominent in political and bust
ness life came in and We're recognized
by the assemblage the spectators mani
tested their enthusiasm by cheers
placed in the arrangement of the great
auditorium. This arrangement swelled
the seating capacity of the building to
about $4,000.
1t was SIS when Mr.. Cochran came
in. Every seat was occupied. With Mr.
Cochran were General Lloyd Brice, Hon
Perry Belmont, ex-Mayor Cooper, John
c. Tomlinson. Horace White. John
Mack, Jr., Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs
Greasy and Mrs. Briee. The party was
escorted by Major Byrne. Mr.. Cochran
was received with prolonged cheers.
Major Bryne Immediately advanced to
the front of the platform and when or
Ger was restored he called the meeting
TO order in a brief speech. He was
heartily applauded throughout When
he named Hon. Perry Belmont as Chair
man the cheering was renewed
Mr.. Belmont advanced slowly to the
front of the platform and when the
applause which greeted him decreased
began his speech in a slow and deiber-
hte manner. He said:
This is a time for very plain speak
ing. We want no victory under false
flag The Democratic standard was
supplanted at Chicago by the rag of
the Populists. which we firmly refuse
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We are Democrats. and we intend to re-
main Democrats. refusing ever to sur
render the honered name of our party
10 the Populists. The fusion of 16 to
Independent free silver men, Populists
and so-called Bryan Democrats is COM
piete. Some of their leaders attempt to
disguise the fusion, but they dare not
dispute its existence. for they depend on
votes of the fusionists. The opening of
the mints to the independent unlim-
tied coinage of fiat silver dollars is but
IN intermediate stage; the employment
of the Government printing presses for
the Issue of fiat paper money is the
ultimate end of the fusion party"
Continuing, Mr.. Belmont said: "At the
conference at Washington of the fiat
silver organization last January the
populists' claim was recognized, and If
Tree coinage should not yield enough
of fat silver. then greenbacks would
he issued. The fiat silver party thereby
abandoned the hard money contention
put forth by Mr. Bland years ago that
The quantity of gold and silver coined
lin9er free coinage should be the test
Of the volume of Government currency
and that Congress should have no other
control over the issue of legal tender
money. That was the real reason Mr..
Bryan was preferred over Mr.. Bland at
The convention.
Mr. Bland was not enough of Pop
ulist The candidate chosen has been
and is a Populist He himself an
Iounced that he is not Democrat"
Mr.. Belmont trusted that the Demo-
cratic party in the State of New York
in this crisis would hold faithfully to
the attitude 1t assumed at the Chicago
Convention. 1t would he monstrous. he
said. TO suppose anything else. That
attitude was one of uncompromising
opposition to what the delegates de-
nounced as an attack upon social or
der. But even If every State Conven-