New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-23
DRUMMERS HEAR HARRISON
4 UNANIMOUS CALL FOR THE EX-FRESI-
DENT

DENl
NE DID NOT GO TO THE MEETING TO STEAK. BUT
THE DEMAND FOR HIM WAS ONE NOT TO RE
RFsIsTED-GENERAL PORTER's ADDRESS.
The Commercial Travellers Sound Money
League has held a number OF successful MONDAY
meetings at Broadway and Prince-st., but the
most successful of all. thus far was the meeting
II Yesterday. Ex-President benjamin Harrison
went 10 the meeting with the understanding that
he was not to be called on to make speech. but
he was unable to resist the unanimous call of the
large audience. and he spoke for few minutes.
creating great enthusiasm and receiving ire
mendOus applause General Horace Porter also
made effective address. which kept the COM
mercial travellers roaring with laughter ap
pauding with patriotic fervor for half an hour.
over 1000 men and number Of women
IN the hail. and a crowd Of few thousand more
could not get in. The report that General Harr-
son might be at the meeting attracted many
people to the place that it necessary to have
sixty policemen there to keep order Every
person in the hall had a small American flag.
and when General Harrison appeared with Cen
eral Porter and Police Commissioner Grant all
the flags were waved wildly and everybody stood
up and cheered for nearly ten minutes Colonel
John H. Black. the president of the League. had
The band play Three Cheers for the Red. White
and Blue" and the audience waved the flags and
ioined in the song. quartet sang campaign
song to the same music. and when at length
there was comparative quiet. Colonel Black in
,roduced Commissioner Grant as the presiding
officer Of the meeting.
UNANIMOUS CALL FOR MIR. HARRISON.
Colonel Grant did not attempt to make
speech He merely thanked the commercial
travellers for the honor Of being selected to pre-
side at the meeting. and then he said that Cen
era Harrison had come to the meeting with the
understanding that he should not he compelled
tomake a speech There twinkle in Colo
mel Grants eye and smile his face as he
continued: But think you might induce him
10 say a few words
The audience rose as one man and shouted for
General Harrison to speak. General Harrison
rose. bowed. and sat down again. but the large
audience simply stood shouting and applauding
until he was forced to yield to the demand.
When he advanced to the front of the platform
and signifed his intention to speak, the audience
gave three cheers and then its most respectful
attention. General Harrison said:
My fellow-citizens gentlemen Of the Commercial
Travellers Sound Money League: ! was enFagcd
and have come to-day TO report myself here for
sound money. came. as your chairman has SAID
great pleasure of listening to speech from my
friend General Porter. and was not to be called
great many times. 1.aughtcr) l have had such
9Io di from 6obrs 6 amq ,btx har never
kept the promise in single instance ! thought
20 c0mS here tSa@y and and test tbd e coSa the
depended upon. but find that they have great
g sa same 9 nu rns, tbaf have always reached be-
fore Renewed laughter)
TRIBUTE TO THE TRAVELLERS.
I feel under obligations to the travelling men Of
the United States. They have given me more
than once expressions of their confidence and re-
gard which puts under an obligation. and |
an glad 10 be here to testify to my admiration Of
the high character. intelligence and usefulness OF
that great element in our modern commerce Your
contact with your fellow-men in al parts
90 this country brishtens you up ana nave ar, a.
ways found that the commercial traveller returning
from his trip from his contact with his Gus
TONERS and his Quiet observations OF what was
said in the hotel Hobbies, was pretty reliable po-
paign. which so peculiarly involves the countrys
business interests your interest as Sm,Sens o,,r
Interests are common interests. You are not in
ms canpaiem acEoca' Yonr ntsrest - that The
whole country from Maine to California SHAH be
prosperous. Cheers Your interest is that the
farmers Of the West shall have good crops and
get good prices for them and the man who at
misleading himself or misleading somebody else.
Your business Is good when the country merchant
Goods you have sold him and IT is mlScneHo4S
% about the, country and ATTEMPT 10 divide the
American peonle into classes 0heersl New
cumulated capital. with her great harbor and her
great shipping could not be prosperous. cannot be
nrosperOus unless the West is prosperous. CheerSD
You are waging campaien and working here IN
NewYork quite as much for the Interests OF fh05e
Appalachian Range as you are for yourselves.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
You have come to understand weights and meas
,res for most Of you sell goods by the
other of those standards. Now It happens that
the very same sentence in the Constitution OF the
United States that gives to Congress the power TO
coin money to fix the value thereof and Of foreign
coins also confers upon Congress the power 10 fix
the standard Of weights and measures Here
are two things TO be fxed-the value Of coin. the
length OF a yardstck, the cubic contents o.
hushel The dollar is measure. as the bushel
s. ndng the first reouisite Of that
measure whether 1t be coin or whether II he
sushe but VIA that f ths Whole land Would appeal
70 Congress after once exercising the power 10 hx
vardstick or the cubic contents Of a bushel ana
make that reduction apply to all nXlstlng con
,rac,s, Us there any man. however filed with en-
,hwsiasm IS there any Chcaro crusader: who
would ask that the cubic contents OF p oxft
,ng FOR The purchase Of rain should be fulfilled
~ delivering a. the smacr S,sndarn1 , n'9 ,b s.
ren,nyron nronose that every contract outstanding
FOR the payment Of money shall be paid IN SILVER
hsr ~ The standard dollar for which, YOU con,
'raced arr confident ha the nora hnre sens be 9r
sense ~ National honor. makes that thing aoso-
mtelv Impossible. Wheerso
GEN. PORTER CORDIALLY RECEIVED
The applause which followed General Harri-
sons closing remarks broke out afresh "hef
Colonel Grant said II now havA the pieasuIt
o, introducing General Horace Porter VINO "d'
member Of my fathers staff during inc "dr.
7, was some time before General Porter couu