The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-26
DEPEW DRAWS THE LINE
FEELS WHO IS FOR NATIONAL HON
 OR AND WHO AGAINST IT.


 Speaks Before the Largest Political Meet
 ing Ever Held in Brooklyn-Bryan ct al.
 Proclaims a Revolution, He Said-Al-
 ludes to the Hysterical Convention at
 Chicago and the Lunatical Convention at
 St. Louis-Men of Reason and Patriot
 ism, Regardless of Party, on the Repub-
 Iican Side.
 Brooklyn, Sept. 25.-The republicans of Brooklyn held a big rally at Clare mont avenue rink tonight which was attended by one of the largest throngs ever assembled in a hall in this city, Mayor Wurster presided and made a brief address on the evil effects of free coinage of silver. The chief speaker of the evening, Chauncey M. Depew, was then introduced. MT. Depew in part said:
 We are now by the seizure of the democratic organization by the popu- lists in disguise and the alliance of Chicago with the populist convention at St. Louis suddenly brought face to face with great moral and patriotic crisis. On the issues as they are made up to- day the intelligence and the industrial activities of the country have banded together; they are working harmoni- ously as they have not done since the civil war
 Every republican statesman of na- tional reputation with the exception of Senator Teller is arrayed on the one side, President Cleveland and Secretary Carlisle William c. Whitney, Bourke Cochran, E. J. Phelps, Palmer and Buckner and nearly all which repre- sents the statesmanship, the experience and the intelligence of the democratic party are on the same side.
 'It is amusing that with this over- whelming array of what constitutes American opinion and the decision of the American electorate the populistic ticket and platform should remain in existence But there are philosophical and historical reasons for this phenom- enal movement as there are historical and philosophical reasons for its utter collapse.
 Tt was the universal distress caused by hard times which drew together this hysterical convention at Chicago and the lunatical asylum at St. Louis. Bry- an and Sewall and Watson proclaim a revolution. The right of revolution Is divine, but it must have supreme jus tifcation. Under our constitution and | institutions and laws there is before us in the promises of poulistic lead CTS nothing but an invitation to em- | bark upon that sea of repudiation and dishonor which has wrecked every na- tion and every people that embarked upon it"
 | Mir Depew criticised the blanks of 1 the Chicago platform, referring to the | supreme court and bond issues. He asserted that the men who captured the 1 democratic convention at Chicago | owned the populistic convention at St. Louis, but they had cost the country tens of millions of dollars in the dis trust which they had created of our national good faith.
 1 Continuing. he said: "Mr. Bryan l says we need more money, but he per- sistently ignores. either wilfully or ig- norantly, that fact that whether the currency is restricted or redundant, whether you have silver or gold or pa per, no one can get that currency ex- cept by exchanging somehing for 1t. | It is not more currency that this coun- | try wants It has an abundance.
 But it is confidence, which starts the mills going, puts the furnace in blast, opens the mines, creates a demand for the product of the field, the forest, the mountain and the factory"
 MT. Depew attacked MT. Rryan's ar guments in favor of free coinage of sil- yer. He claimed also that MT. Bryan in his speech here last night had mis- stated Abraham Lincoln's attitude to- ward the United States supreme court. MT. Depew then referred to MT. Bry- ans expressed wish that Henry Ward Beecher were with us to champion the | rights of the people.
 Chairman Hanna was next introduced and made brief address. J. Franklin Fort of New Jersey also spoke.