The San Francisco call., 1896-08-29
THE PEOPLE AROUSED.

More than $4,000 people applied for ad-
mission tickets to Carnegie Hall, New
York, Thursday night to hear ex-Presi-
dent Harrison discuss the political issues
now before the country. 1t could not have
been mere curiosity to see and hear the
speaker that prompted SO many to want
to participate in the meeting, for Mr.. Har-
rison has talked to New York audiences
stranger to the people of that city. He is
good platform speaker, but not nearly so
pleasing and interesting as Depew,
Cochran and dozen other citizens of New
York. 1t must be, then, that Mr.. Har-
rison would have something to say which
the people were particularly anxious to
hear that caused so great a demand for
admission tickets.
1t was known that Mr.. Harrison would
analyZe the platform of the Bry yanites and
point out where and how it made war
upon the fundamental principles of the
Government, and how the social and in
dustrial strength of the country would be
weakened if Organism prevailed at the
November election. The people of New
York feel, as the people everywhere feel,
that the country is approaching crisis
almost as serious as the one which con-
fronted it in 1861. and it is but natural
that they would want information and
advice from such conservative and wise
statesman as Benjamin Harrison.
The ex-President is never an enthusiast,
nor is he ever blinded by prejudice. but
he is always a cool, level-headed, logical
reasoner who places the general good of
the country above everything else.
In reading Mr.. Harrison's speech the
people will know that if he sees danger to
our institutions in any of the declarations
of the Bryan party it may be taken for
granted that there is danger. If he sounds
the alarm it is not because he is an alarm
ist, but because there is cause for alarm.
II he warns the people that their institu-
tions are threatened the people may rely
upon it that they are threatened. When
it comes to an issue such as is now before
the country, Mr.. Harrison reasons along
the cold and exacting lines leading from
cause to effect, and his deductions may be
accepted as economic truths.
Perhaps no man in the United States
watched with keener interest the proceed
ings of the Chicago convention than did
clusion: "The atmosphere of the Chi
cago convention was surcharged with the
spirit of revolution. This platform was
carried and its nominations made with
accompanying incidents of frenzy that
startled the onlookers and amazed the
country.
1.-THE courts and the President were ar
raigned for enforcing the laws, and gov
ernment by the mob was given preference
over government by the law, enforced by
the court DEGREES and by executive orders.
''The spirit that exhibited itself in this
convention was so wild and strangely en-
thused that Mr.. Bryan himself hkened it
to the zeal that possessed the crusaders
when they responded to the impassioned
appeals OF Peter the Hermit to rescue the
sepulcher of our Lord from the hands of
the infdels.
His historical illustration was more
potent and more foreible than he knew,
for the zeal of the crusaders was blind
and ignorant zeal; they sought to rescue
the transient and Intellectual sepulcher
that had held the body of the Son of God,
while they trampIed upon the precepts of
love and mercy which he had left for their
guidance IN lie.
"He told US that the silver crusade had
arraigned father against son, and brother
against brother, and severed the ties of
love.
Senator Hill, watching the strange
proceedings, had to extend that brief po-
litical code from which he has gained so
much renown. He felt com PEELED to say:
4 am Democrat, but 1 am not reyolu-
tionist.'
Senator Vest, realizing that they were
inaugurating revolution, reminded the
convention that revolutions did not begin
with the rich and prosperous.
"Mr. Tillman felt that the change in
the management of public affairs was to
be so radical that he proposed sulphur
fumigation for the ship before the new
crew took possession of it,
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