New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-12
At REPUBLICAN, HEADQUARTERS
MIR. POwDERLY TELLS ABOUT
Tr,RBERs AT COOPER UNION-hbro"''
FROM THE STATES.


Activity at the Republican National ffeaoa''. "
49,. IT,. onn,,,ued Yesterday Senator quay
, 90 pb,Iado,pba on an afternoon train ara
General Powell Clayton and Mr.. Scott oil 'he rN
ecutiye Committee. were Kept busy ie'e
ceiying reports, talking with vlsitorS anu ' 20
assignments for speakers In the campaign
Powderly the former Master workman Vi ''o
Knights of Labor. who was one OF the chiei spenN.
at the Mckinley League meeting In Cooper Union
Thursday evening, was at inc he"'f''
the afternoon. He said:
IL recognized many OF the men In the smah cro"u
which got together in front OF the platform anu
TO disturb the meeting. but few OF them peiohseu "
the knights Of Labor. They are all Aharcn'-''
members OF the De Leon gang. which nave Deen
fighting for years They started In TO Mss anu
make trouble for me, just as they did AT iorn'e'
meeting at Cooper Union years ago, but they SUD
sided when It became plain that the majority vi INC
large audience at the meeting were TOT Mchiio''
hone some of them were converted
Charles Foster formerly Secretary OF the ilea'-
ury and ]. Warren Keifer, formerly opeaNe' Vi III"
House OF Representatives. called upon the members
of the Executive Committee. Both were very oo"-
fdent of Republican success. ~.
Joseph Nimmo formerly Chief OF the bureau Vi
Statistics at Washington, was caller at nca"qu''
ters He expressed his gratification over '"e o''"
ton on Long Island, where he now lives 0ou''i
Money Democrats" he said. ARE very NUMEROUS
hey are going
but for Mckinley and Hobart They declare 'niS
ortv and cav they will do It, not as Democrats
hut a natriotIc American citizens. we had d h"e
meeting at Huntington the other night prese"'eu
tho Issues of the campaign and ex-senator aSse''
made a rouslng speech. stirring up great e"'nus'-
asm Our club is growing daily, and, IN snort,
have never such earnest feeing OF sue" "e
terminate to win among the citizens or our |oi-
gress district the list. or, as George Wliiam Nui '
AZ otriof NJ y
first nation on the globe
General ST. Clair A. Mulholland, OF Philadelphia
vice president Of the Union Veterans Patriotic
League in companv with Colonel Edwin Dudley.
secretary OF the organization, called al Na.IoIai,
Ueadquarters The League movement, Genera
Muholland said rs spreadihg Wro" ,s orpanized
except four. and those will be In line TINS week,
have lust returned from Wisconsin and Minnesota
In those States the veterans, regardess o, pa, ~
are practically unanimous against bryahish l. am ~,
a lifelong Democrat myself, and J fnd tnousanus
OF my comrades under the same banner VIII i,.'
this fall We are citizens first and partsans dite
ward I am about to look after League WORK III
Delaware and Maryland. Arrangements nave peei
made for a great meeting under League auspices az
Wilmington Thursday, September H. AT Witch WITCH
General Horace Porter will be the principal speaker
especially in Georgia Florida and Texas Many ex
organization, with General Hickenlooper in charge,
reports 10000 members in sight already
Colonel Dudley said: In some way ' nr I'm nr-
ganzation is against the ex-Confederate soldiers.
Nothing could be further from the truth. we are
but the battle of 1896. and our Southern veterans
are just as loyal National honor as we are" +.
Pennsylvania this fall" said Senator Thomas V:
Cooper of Media formerly Collector OF the fort OF
Rnpubican State Committee of Pennsylvania. The
same reasons that in my Judgment VIII bring about
this great plurality in Pennsyvania WI inspire me
people of other States TO vote for Mckinley. His
election Is certain