New-York tribune., 1896-10-26
LAST WEEK OF THE CANVASS
WORK IN THE VARIOUS DIsTRICTs-CoIONEr. IN
GERsoIL TO SPEAK THURSDAY NIGHT

AT CARNEGIE HALL.
sound-money mass-meeting under the
auspices OF the John Murray Mitchell Campaign
Committee. will be held at Cooper Union
Wednesday evening. Ex-Judge Henry f. How
land will preside. The speakers will include
General Horace Porter. Major John Byrne
president OF the Democratic Sound Money
League Of America; Congressman John Murray
Mitchell. Frederic Taylor. Captain Jack" Craw-
ford. the poet-scout and Congressman Philip
b. Low. The doors Will open at I. and from 1
TO =. the hour AT which the meeting begins.
band of music will play patriotic airs. Another
band. followed by the Lincoln Pioneer Corps and
other organizations i'll leave the Washington
Arch after and will parade through the
lower part Of the city and will then march 10
Cooper Union. An outdoor meeting will also
be held. Mr. Mitchell has established head
quarters at James-st and Park Row
Charles Warren Lippitt. Governor Of Rhode
Island. will address the Dry Goods Republican
Club. Broadway and Ieonard-st.. tomorrow. at
noon.
The camapign in the XIVth Congress Dis
trict will be brought to A close by mass-meet-
ing which IS to be held at Durands Riding
Academy. Sixtieth-st and Western Boulevard
the last of a series Of meetings which the West
Side Republican Club has been conducting in
the district The club has secured speakers
Chauncey NJ. Depew. who will opeE the meeting
OF y o'clock sharp, to he followed by John Proc
tor Clarke and Congressman Qugg. Three
brass bands have been secured. delega tons from
eleven Assembly districts will attend in bodies.
a parade composed of the delegations from the
Eas; Side will march across Fifty y-ninth-st. and
there will be display Of fireworks. Mr.. Quggs
friends predict that he will be reelected by
majority OF ten thousand.
The First Mckinley League Of the XXX11d
Assembly District will have some good speaking
at Its mass-neeting tomorrow evening at Madi-
son-ave. and hundred and -fifth-st. The
League has been conducting an active campaign.
a mass-meeting Of colored Republicans will
be held at the Abyssinian Baptist Church. No.
166 Waverley Place. this evening Bishop Der
rick the Rev. Ernest Lyon. John Murray
Mitchell. candidate for Congress: DR.. T. T. B.
Reed. Richard Van Cott candidate for AS
semby; W. X. Davis and Pierre Barguet are ex-
pected 10 be present The Rev. r. ID. Wynne
will preside There will be music by the Stand
ard Quartet.
Colonel Robert u. lngerSOu Will sI'hh vi
Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall. II viii be
the Colonels first speech in New-York City since
June 1883. He will speak under the auspices OF
the Mckinley League. which has been holding
series of meetings through the State. In Albany.
Syracuse Amsterdam, Corning, Hornellsville
and other places. The League vii! close the
oratorcal part Of its campaign on Thursday
evening. with Colonel Ingersoll az the principal
h.c, = sh..e est tiffar, I'm
Illinois where he has done the cause Of Mckin-
ley and sound money immense service. Brief
addresses will also be made by ex-senator
Warner Miller Paul u. Cravath. Senator Frank
n Pavey and other speakers who have been
identified with the Leagues campaign.
Among Chairman IIackett's callers AZ the He-
publican State headquarters yesterday were
John F. Parkhurst. Of Bath. State Committee
man from the Chemung district. and senator
Clarence Lexow. Mr.. Parkhurst said that his
county Of Steuben would. beyond question: give
a largely Increased majority for Mckinley
week from tomorrow. Last year" he said
"Steuben gave the Republican State ticket 800
rluraIi,v This will be increased 10 not less
than 800 and feel great confidence that we
shall be able to lift IT 10 1000 for Mckinley and
Uobart" Senator LexOw said: II spoke last
week at Rome Little Falls. Amsterdam. Reeds
nor, and Wolcott 10 audiences the largest and
most thoroughly aroused that have ever seen
,n those sectons Every day surprising gains
are reported in every county have been in.
More than three times the number OF people
come 10 Republican meetings than can get In
side the meeting places. At Wolcott Friday
I smoke at the Opera House for an hour and "A
quarter. The house jammed. When fin
ished the people outside clamored for an ex-
change Of places with those inside. The request
WAS acceded 10. The audience | had addressed
witbdrew and a new set OF hearers came in. 10
whom I spoke for over an hour"
A large numbe. Of the Single Takers who have
refused to follow Henry George into the camp OF
Rrvan and reputation have issued a statement
stating their position.
I'VE are" they say. opposed to the public and
pr,ya,e dishonesty that Is involved In the pay
we believe would r. suit from the free coinage ~
silver at IL 10 l." The list OF signatures ap-
pended includes n number Of those who have
been prominent in the Single Tax movement.
Among them are Thomas c. Shearmar. Of Nev-
York: William Lloyd Garrison. OF Boston; Bolton
Smith OF Tennessee: Read Gordon. Of New-Jer-
sev: A T. Farquhar. Of York Penn; f. o. Ros-
coe OF BROOKLYN. and Prcble Tucker and Alfred
Bishop Mason Of this city.
An ENGAGEMENT ANNOENCED.
The announcement IL made OF the engagement OF
Mis-. Helen ". Smith only daughter OF Commodore