The record-union., 1896-10-07
CHAMPION OF PROTECTION.
Forcible Speech by F. K. Schoonmaker
Of New Jersey.
He Lays Bare the Fallacies of the
Adherents of Free
Silver.

The greatest Republican demonstra-
1lon OF the campaign was held last
evening, when Hon. F. X Schoonmaker
OF Plainfield, n. j., addressed a mon
ster meeting at the Metropolitan
Theater.
The Resolute Club was out in
force, and with their tasty white uni
forms and campaign torches were a
feature. They formed in columns of
Tours at Seventh and K streets, and
headed by brass band, marched down
k to Second, on Second to J, up to
Seventh, on Seventh to X, down X to
the theater and into the theater to the
stage.
Long before the arrival Of the speaker
the lower part of the theater was full
to overlooking. and while the bright
plumeS of the ladies were scattered
through the audience, by far the great
er number present We're voters.
Then the Resolute Club, the members
of which had deposited their torches
somewhere outside the building,
marched in and took seats upon the
stage, which already held the compile
ment of Vice-Presidents for the even
Ing, whose names follow:
A. WOodin, B. Lambert, J. Brown. F.
Strachauer, A. +. Robinson F. B. Odell
ID. ;. Watkins, T. j. Eames, H. X. Lee
q Hill, j. A. Davis, G.. Mclaughlin
r. E. HaSwell, E. Dundas, Robert Haw-
ley, Gus Lavenson, Charles E. Phipps,
T.. Z. Hopkins, William Ingram, Jr, c.
+. Dlllman, William Davis (Florin), AL
Oert Elkus, 0. G. Sage, L. Mebius, John
Blalr, u. A. Lindley, J. A. Cunning
nam, Charles /. Smith, c. Fl. Joy, w
Haze, W. +. Manson, =. Miller, J. Gage
by, e. l.. Soule, H. S. Mcmillan, L. H
Ilannagan, Z. L. Requin, G. H Davis,
w. Ryan, f. Jones, f. l.. Hawk, J. c.
MARITIME, Benjamin Welch, Sr., T. A.
wv. Shock, ID. w. Matthews, w. NJ Hen
derson, Howard Johnson, S. F. Gage.
L. Faure, w. II. Luther, Jesse Aiken.
r. W. jackson, Harry Rogers, Dr. I.
w. Huntington.
by this time the gallery was a crush
OF voters and hundreds We're turned
away who We're eager to listen to the
speaker from the East whose fame as
an orator had preceded him.
After the orchestra had played a pop
ular air A. J. Bruner Chairman of the
Republican County Central Committee.
arose and named j. NJ. Avery for Chair
man Of the meeting.
AS Mr.. Avery stepped forward he was
roundly cheered. Never before. he
said, had there been such an intense
feeling as at the present time-not even
III OIL lie was proud to introduce to
the people a man who had been an in
innate friend of Blaine, Garfield and
Mckinley, f. X. Schoonmaker of New
Jersey.
Mr., Schoonmaker was given an ova-
n < h< i
some one in the gallery yelled Bryan"
said he had come loaded" He had a
bag of Wall-street Doodle. and from
the sound in the gallery, which he was
unable to locate, he had an idea that
he would be able to dispense that boo
die to advantage. (Applause)
A great cry had gone up in the West.
the speaker said, against the shylock
Of Wall street, while the facts in the
case We're that the Western banker
borrowed money in the East at a 6
per cent rate Of interest and loaned it
10 his nelghbor at a rate of - per cent
besides adding charges for the transac-
9lon- 1t had come to be a matter Of
prejudice, and the politicians were care
1ul to fan that prejudice into a flame
The speaker said he did not care a
snap for the Republican, Democratic
or Populist party. He was for f. X.
Schoonrnaker Of Plainfield, New Jersey.
and the butter on his bread. applause )
The West did not know what hard
times were, but down East, where peo-
pie wanted for bread, times were really
hard.
The speaker here mentioned McKin-
1ey's name, which caused a storm of
applause, and in the next breath named
Bryan, which brought out yells in the
gallery.
'Ahl" said the speaker, I'm glad to
know where you are located, though I
am sorry to find you in the dark"
Great applause) II can't always" re-
sumed the speaker, tell an animal by
the noise it makes" Renewed and con-
tinued applause)
The Democrats had in former cam