The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-19
"INCREASED COINAGE DOES NOT
MEAN PROSPERITY"
Attempts Of the Silver Bourbons and Populists to
Enlist Farmers in Conspiracy to Reduce
the Wages Of Workmen Cannot
Be Successful.

MADISON-SQUARE GARDEN. NEW
YORK, n. Y, Aug. 18.-The mass-meet-
ing of the Democratic Honest Money
League was held this evening under the
most favorable auspices. The weather
was all that could be desired-clear and
delightfully."- cool-and thousands upon
thousands OF persons turned out to hear
Hon. W. Bourke Cockran's reply to the
speech of William Jennings Bryan, de-
livered in the same amphitheater last
Wednesday night.
The arrangements for tbs meeting were
on a most elaborate and almost perfect
scale and the trouble and tumuIt outside
the garden, which marked the Bryan
demonstration, were entirely lacking. The
police arrangements were practically the
same as on the occasion of the Bryan
meeting. Acting Chief Courtright was
the commanding officer of the police force,
and was early on hand with fully 500 uni
formed men. 1t was not found necessary
to block the streets surrounding the gar
den, as on the former occasion, and when
the doors were thrown open the crowd as
sembled gradually and without any per-
ceptibIe confusion. The Sixty-ninth Regi-
ment band rendered number of National
airs. while the audience filed in.
Every man, woman and child who en-
tered was given a small American flag and
a leahet containing the words of the
'tStar- spangled Banner" and America. 4"
These songs were rendered by a double
quartet, in which the vast assemblage as
sisted. The small American flags played
q prominent part later in the evening,
when they were waved vigorously ana
with charming effect by the vast audience
when 1t gave vent to its enthusiasm at
some of the many points made by Mr..
Cochran in the course of his speech. The
decorations in the great hall were far more
profuse than those of the BRYAN meeting.
The platform, which was considerably
larger than that used last week, was taste
fully dressed in the National coIors, On
it, besides Major John Byrnes, president
of the Democratic Honest Money League
who called the meeting to order; Hon.
Perry Belmont, the permanent chairman
of the meeting, and Hon. w. Bourke
Cochran, the speaker of the evening, there
were a host of prominent Democrats OF
National and local renown and a large
number of the vioe-presidents of the meet
ing.
Included in the latter were the follow
ing: John T. Agnew, S. Butler, Boston
w. Bayard Cutting, John K. Cowan, Bal.
timore; Charles A. Conant, Boston; Paul
Dana, Charles A. Dana, Charles s. Fair.
child, George Gray, Wilmington, Del.
John G. Bullitt, Philadelphia; Roswell P.
Flower, E. L. Godkin, Eldridge T. Gerry,
Abram s. Hewitt, Horatio c. King, st.
Clair McKelway, Charles E. Miller, Will
liam B. Hornblower; John a. Mccall,
A. K. Mcclure, Philadelphia; Herman
Oelriches, Oswald Ottendorfer. J. Edward
simons, William M. Singerley, Philadel-
phia; J. H. Cultivate, Ohio; Wheeler
Peckham, Carl Schurz, ]. Kennedy Tod,
Spencer Trask, John Dewitt Warner,
William c. Whitney, John d. Benton,
North Dakota, and number of others.
At 7:45 the garden rapidly filled. AS
persons prominent in political and busi-
ness life came in and were recognized by
the assemblage the spectators manifested
their nthusia SIN with cheers and other
forms of applause.
Eighty-three hundred chairs had been
placed in the arena OF the great audi
torium. This arrangement swelled the
seating capacity of the building to about
1900. 1925, when Mr.. Cochran came
in, every seat was occupied With Mr..
Cochran were: General Lloyd Brice, Hon.
Perry Belmont, cx-Mayor Cooper, Horace
White, John C. Tomlinson, John Mack Jr-,
Mrs. Cooper Hewitt, Mrs. Creary and Mrs.
Brice. The party was escorted by Major
Byrne. Mr.. Cochran was received with
prolonged cheers. Major Byrne lmme-
diateIy advanced to the front OF the pat
form, and when at $3.50 order was re-
stored he called the meeting to order in
a brief speech. He was heartily ap-
plauded throughout. When he named
Hon. Perry Belmont as chairman the
cheering was renewed.
Mr.. Belmont advanced slowly to the
front of the platform, and when the ap-
plause which greeted him ceased, he began