The sun., 1896-10-31
WILD TALK TO BRYANITES.
aos,EIbERs OF FoLLT AND HATE
R.yE IN COOPER UNION

Halt
u,,, One Rnnter Talks OF Preventing
arrau from Taking HE Seat II E'ee1
.,. Bryan Called n New Messinh-
a, Annex Meeting In Union Square.
~. last two Bryan meetings for workingmen
,-.,. held last night one in Cooper Union and
or.at Union square The Cooper Union meeting
ga Noticeable for the number and character
=, the mon whose names brought out misses
and rroAn. and the character OF tho mon
uho were cheered. Among the names
htsscd and hooted were those of Abram s.
H.wit,, Wheeler H. Peckham, Joseph II.
Chon,e. william C. Whitney. William Stein-
wav oswald Ottendorfer. and Simon stern.
Tbe name of the late william NJ. Tweed was
y .h.srcd So were the names OF Altgeld and tho
Boy Orator. .,,.
a,ors we're opened, and in all the big crowd
there was Just ono American flag to be seen.
Tint was in the hands OF a man who wore
Mckinley and Hobart button. There were half
n dozen fakirs in the hall yelling:
"Ii,re y'ar, William ebay Bryan's great
,neech at Chicago. Nailed to tho crossl Nailed
20 the cross! Nailed to the cross! Here y are.
gents, William ebay Bryan's great speech
Nailed to the cross
Miss viola Pratt. a very pretty young woman
from Salt Lake City, possessed OF melodious
voice sang three or four solos, and the crowd
went fairly wild over her and presented big
bunch OF chrysanthemums to her. There was o
lot Of singing. too. by newspaper advertising
quartet They sang campaign songs The tenn
porary Chairman, In calling the meeting TO or
der, said that there were lots of speakers, and
that they were none OF them paid. Then he in
troduced John Swinton as Chairman. Mr..
Swinton said:
SPEECH OF JOHN swINToN.
This is a meeting OF patriotic American
citizens true to country, honor, and the general
wetaTs We Ssisye IN !hs American Hg and
States, in our republic. in the Federal Consti::
tuition fairly construed, in the rights Of
81 sne ryan in %e Ssere n 60f The eReaaa
platform and Bryan. We believe in law and
order and Brya We believe in sound
Independence Of 1879. which bears the name of
jefferson, and IL the declaration OF In;
Bryan. We believe In the Revolutionary fore
fathers. In the sons of the revolution, and in
the child of the revolution. William J; Bryan.
I'VE believe in our Americanism. free for
relics relic " OF barbafism. McKinleyism and cieve-
land!sm. We repudiate Carlisle and bond job
berry. anarchismi and mil militarLsn; We We repq,di, ,i
image Nebuehadnezzar set NJ. We repud.ate
fire eaters libellers demagoRues. corruption
I'VE wns oppose seo % usur
that dogma of dsspo.sm, the infaili6ili.y
who 'V changed I ii. mind ' We are are Dsa op;
BY tho unspeakable Hanna. labor's Gen. Weyler.
the butcher We are opposed 70 the repudia-
SP 81 tny to F,s
metal the power. Of which was fraud:
Contracted. We are opposed to the mil iilionairs
snob OF New York. to the New York rack-renter
We are opposed to the blow hole dynamlter OF
Homestead, the sleuthhound OF Pullman flown.
70 the shotgun and fish;hook monstrosity of the
White House. Grover Cleveland.
We proclaim our opposition to Mckinley and
Hobart and the vii lainles for which they stand:
the West. and to sewsii. who shines iiiustrous
in the East. We proclaim our devotion TO tho
Henry George came In whils Mr.. SwInton
was speaking. and he was cheered to the echo
as he arose to speak after swinton. He said In
SPEECH OF HENRY GEORGE.
II come hero to see you and to show myself.
Tho time for argument is almost over. believe
will elect William j. Bryan. and it is my opin-
ion that in that election the electoral vote of the
He % called the Chicago { Convention NJ the @ most no:
currency he Lad little to'say. He believed that
Of the Government and he was. and had been,
s,,1,nn.s. greenbacker ae vas afflicted BY the
But he. said that Federal Interference in
than the currency virtqSIly he said the
the United States shall change its form and
become desp0tism 1t was this issue that
could not be bought with money. nor could It
be forcedAby coercion. and there were shouts of
All over the country" he said. 1.-THE spirit Of
Ts revoIt is arising" There were cries Of" Yes.
He mentioned the names of Whitney and Hill
and there were groans and Kisses. Mr.. George
S"S ne WANTED TO shorten S TPeHcn pee There
81 know" said Mr.. George with charming
egot.sm, Il know you Will tell me when you
have enough. but cannot talk all night"
SPEECH or HENRY LLOYD.
Mr.. George was followed by Henry Lloyd Of
the Carpenters Union, a bald headed and
beardless youth. He said he was to speak for
attic and for the 2OO6.oOo Idle tramps in the
country, whereat there was q mighty cheer
5ds1 Hs 'ald s ths m!ns,er' and the fdgloys re,
tell them that II would take them twenty-five
years to get back.
"As Bryan said" he said. "they will have to
sit In sackrlnth and saw wood long years"
Then he took crack at Powderly and Arthur
and And Sargent, and every one OF them was hssed
de called them Judascs and traitors.
II they have gone" he said we have left
Debs"
He said the labor organizations stand as one
man against Government by Injunction. and
tne shout that went dp nearly raised the roof
Next ne doomed an income tax. Finally he said
mat II the labor men understood the Chicago
platform ne POwderlys and Arthurs and Sar-
gents would hide their heads In shame. Next he
s9id he was not Democrat. hut was Populst
Inen was another great shout
" We hOnor that second Jefferson" he said
that author OF that beautiful metaphor that
VIII 1--we as long as the English language lasts: :
fou shall not press down on labor's brow this
crown OF thorns; you shall not cruelty mankind
Wow! Whoop!" shrIeked the crowd.
hen, sad the speaker. "he shook his
shagRy name In the face OF those Bourbon
democrats and the plutocrats my heart warmed
TOWARD that young man"
Then the band began to play and whIle tbe
crowd whooped 1t up Mr.. Lloyd sat down.
ADAMS on PACKING THE SUPREME COURT
Chhrles Frederic Adams was ntrodu uced next
end talked fool talk for a few minutes After a
Mhlle ne SAID That the hi listers didn't know any
more anout the law ana the Constitution than
s .ney uid ABOUT the real Saviour OF mank ind This
.emark was IN competition with the defence of
the supreme Court by the ministers. The mem
tioh oi IN. supreme 'Ourt brought out derisiye
taughter. Adams liked to hear boots and hisses so
ne mentioned the names OF every body whom he
tnought the crowd would shout at. Among them