The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18
IS THIS COERCION?
TEN THOUSAND RAILROAD MEN EN-
GAGE IN A SOUND MONEY
DEMONSTRATION.
CINCINNATI Is INVADED.
LIE TO THE CHARGE OF BULL
DOING.
M. E. INGALLS, WAS THE ORATOR.
The President of the Big Four De-
nOunces the Crowds Who Say
They Are COerced.

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 17.-What are
known as railway sound money clubs"
gave the largest demonstration of the
kind ever seen in Cincinnati tonight
Over ten thousand railway employees
paraded with presidents, general man
ayers and other officers in line on foot.
All the roads entering Cincinnati were
represented by divisions in the parade
The clubs came from Surrounding states.
There were many fine floats and trans
parencies, while lanterns of red, yell
low and green were carried by men in
brilliant uniforms. There were seven
grand marshals, each having several
wagon loads Of fireworks to illumine
the line of march. After parading the
streets over an hour the railroaders
broke ranks at Music hall, where Capt.
w. w. Peabody, vice president and
general manager Of the Baltimore e
Ohio Southwestern, presided. Ralph
Peters was vice chairman, and Charles
Fish secretary. Speeches were made
by M. E. ingalls,, president of the Big
Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio rail-
ways, and J. T. Brooks, vice presi-
dent and general counsel of the Penn
sylvania, and others.
Every seat in the hail. the stage in
cluded was occupied. Even then whole
divisions were approaching on the out
side. The whole audience was conf
posed Of railroad men. After the men
had been seated, citizens wHre per-
mltted to enter. They soon filed all
the aisles and every available spot Of
standing room. 1t was the largest con-
gregation composed of men only that
ever assembled in Music hail Mean
the city and every street and hotel
lobby was crowded with wearers Of
yellow badges
President Peabody began by saying:
This is the most unanimous BULLDOG
ing and the most enthusiastic coercion
l ever saw in my life
Referring to the charge that coer
con was used on railroad employees
he said: THE railroad employee, who
has so little manhood in him that he
can be coerced is fool and such a
fellow ought to be discharged for gen.
eral incompetency." President Pea
Eody once mentioned the name "Alt-
geld and groans from all parts of
the hall drowned his voice. Capt Pea
body then announced President M E.
Ingalls,, of the Big Four. President In
gals had been given a most enthusi-
Gstic reception when he first appeared
On the stage. Now. when ne rose to
SPEAK, Lue IOilS applause ana shouting
was vOciferOuS. President ingalls, was
introduced as "Mr. M. E. Ingalls," by
Capt Peabody. who said that this dis
tinguiShed man came not as a preSi-
dent of a great railroad. but as a plain
citizen to speak to railroad men as
citizens. Mr.. Ingalls, said
The present situation in the United States
is one in which the wealth of the nation was
threatened, and the only safety in this
emergency was the election Of Mckinley. l
how hnnn oh v1yf4h niyr MI
men who are here know that this is not true.
The reports say every day that Bryan Is
charging that coercion is used against rail-
road employees, that they forced to join
Mckinley clubs and to wear Mckinley but
tons, that he advises them to go On wear
ing the buttons but to vote the other way.
That is, he advises them not only to act the
moral coward. but to act the hypocrlte, to
become liars.
Then he added with mock fervor:
''That may accord with the moral
standard in some quarters on the
Platte, but 1t will never pass current
as the standard Of railway employees"
Then appealing to the general audi
ence, Mr. Ingalls, said: You will not
act the lie he tells you to act. will
your"
The answer was mingling of NOS
and "nevers.''
Mr.. ingalls, then said: There are
plain switchmen in the yards in this
city on whose fidelity to duty the lives
and limbs of hundreds Of passengers
depend I would no more ask one Of
these men to lie after that fashion
than I would ask him to cut off his
own head" Speaking Of the charge
that England favored Mckinley be-
cause she hated America, he said that
If England's desire and purpose was
to inflict the greatest possible injury
on America she could not succeed bet
ter than by securing the election Of
Bryan. There was no vestige of Demo-
cracy in the Bryan platform made at
Chicago. After excoriating the Chi
cago platform and giving short his
tory Of American coinage from the be-
ginning to the present, he concluded
by saying that he had loved the real
Democratic party and had been panied
that the party bearing that name had
deserted the old principles and that
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