The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-24
BRYADITES HISS.
A Tough Gang Tries to Break
Up q Sound Money Meet.
ing in the Horse
Shoe

The Palmer and Buckner men last night
invaded the camp of Bryanism by holding
mass meeting in st. Lucy's Hall, at
Grove and Sixteenth streets, which is in
the heart of the famous old Horseshoe"
The assemblage was a mixed one. The
principal seats We're occupied by tough
young men, who are not yet, legally, able
to vote, and who were present to create
disturbance. They would not listen
until compelled to. They would not or
could not understand the discussion, none
having arrived at sufficient stage of
intellectual development In addition to
this element there was a disturbing ele-
ment, sent to the hall, 1t is alleged, to
accomplish one purpose and that to break
up the meeting At the mention of
Bryan's name they cheered (under in.
structions) and kept up such a. racket
in the rear of the hall that the speakers
and listeners were disturbed. 1t became
necessary early in the proceedings to
eject three noisy Bryanites. The gang
in the rear of the hall soon lost heart
and sneaked out, leaving a large number
of men still in the hall. Weather con-
sidered and the fact that the locality Is
wildly enthusiastic for Bryan, the meet
ing was a great success. On the plat
form were Andrew ]. Corcoran, DR.. Leon
ard ]. Gordon, William A. Corcoran,
Rynier j. Wortendyke, Charles L. Car
rick, Lloyd H. Nettleton and Louis Frey.
William A. Corcoran was elected chair
man and he introduced as the speaker of
the evening Counsellor George L. Record.
The sound money men cheered him while
the Bryanites hissed him. Undaunted,
Mr. Record began, and from haif-past
eight O'clock until ten he talked. When
the disturbing element referred to was
gotten rid of Mr. Record was listened to
attentively and it was apparent he had
made converts.
This campaign" he said, (which is
about drawing to a close has been
singular and phenomenal one. 1t has in
terested and still interests every man in
this country. There have been hyeler
political fights, but none having so mucn
Importance attached to it. The historic
Democratic party Of which you and /
are members. has for nearly one hundred
years fought for and maintained q cer-
tain currency policy. This time, however,
a branch, supposed controlling branch.
has made a new departure and trotted out
d new SuiI6iicy putty 1HiS last dcL
dates from July last. Some men who
call themselves Democrats say the new
policy is the right one. That being the
case we must stand up and admit that
the policy we have fostered for nearly a
hundred years has been wrong Such
an idea is lunacy, lunaey Of the silver
calibre, and that is large
: We are asked, as thinking Democrats,
to support Bryanism Are we going to
do it when we know that anarchy re-
pudiation. dishonesty and communism
are linked with Bryanism? The election
Of Bryan would be terrible in its conse-
settle this fight. We should settle this
free coinage of silver question once and
for all and wipe its advocates out of ex-
istence. Until We do SO our country every
would bring disaster of kind too hor-
ribie to imagine. Business interests of
every kind would be paralyzed and hun
ger. suffering and want followed by des-
peration and desolation would result The
prices of the necessaries of life would go
up. and while wages might for a TING
remain as they are they would shortly
drop down to such level that our me-
chanics, our masses, who now live well
would be ground down to nothing For
laboring man to exc out existence under
the rule of Bryan would be a difficulty
shocking TO contemplate. Railroad men,
CT whom We have many in this locality
would suffer, and do not fear CONTRA
dietion when I say that many railroads
would be forced to the wall and thrown
into the hands of receivers. The COM
panies would not be able to raise the
prices of transportation or shipping and
the only opportunity left for retrench-
ment would be the reduction of the wages
of employees. Railroad men are paid little
enough already without casting their
votes for a man whose election means
even harder times than they are now
experiencing.
.sShould we adopt the free coinage of
ciJr tam
only its bullion value or in other words
dollar would be worth only about so
cents. That is truthful statement and
the circulation of 50 cent dollars would
soon result in those dollars being ac-
cepted for only so cents. Do you want
to be paid in silver dollars, having each
one count fer a dollar when it has only
value of 50 cents, and which would
probably in short time have a pur-
chasing power Of so cents? This silver
lunacy is something we should stamp
out SO effectually that it will never bob
up again. When we have stamped it OUT
7 want to see the members of our grand
old party united so that we may once
again take up the fight of tariff reform
That is the direction in which we must
look for relief. Our monetary system is
or should be, satisfactory to everyone
'The free coinage will not help poor
people, as Bryanites assert. 1t will benefit
a few rich men, who own mines but
there the benefit ends. I have told you
ness, smash industries, cause consterna-
tion in our great money centres and cause
a state of affairs that every one in this
great country would regret should Bryan
be elected. Our great enterprises are at
a standstill now and money is not being
| invested as it was and should be- AS
| a consequence we experience hard times.
! and we will continue to, / assert, until
! this silver lunacy is wiped out We
4 must restore confidence in the business
world so that capital may be invested.
/ Until money flows freely again we viii.
! have hard times, and just so long as our
| country's business interests are trified
! with just so long as policies are in
augurated which shake our credit raise
| question as to our honor, we will stay
! in the rut where we are.
"Otber people and other countries have
\ lost confidence In us and that confidence
must be restored. We all know that
| about one-half OF the business of the
world is done in confidence Take away
| or shake that confidence, as we have
| done by nominating man of Bryan's
! views and policy, and we throttle enter
/ prise Restore confidence in our country
| and better times win follow, better wages
will be paid and we will all be happier
/ and more prosperous Anarchy has no
| place In this free country OF ours, and
| neither should Organism. Bryan's cleo
! ton means reign OF discomfort and
| an attack upon our public Institutions
| and charge that no true patriot will
support him because he is unworthy ths
| support of any true American.
| Palmer and Buckner represent the hon
! est Democracy of this country Thez
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