The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-15
IN THE ROLE OF A MARTYR
GEORGE FRED WILLIAMs TELLS OF
 HIS CONVERSION,


 Breaches the Heresies of the New Faith His Auditors Mainly of the Popuiist- | Anarchist Type-He Almost Sheds Tears
 Feels That Society Will Forever Ostra- else Him.
 | Boston, July 14.-George Fred Will Hams was given an enthusiastic re- ception tonight by his friends in the silver faith, the affair taking the form of mass meeting with speeches by the beneficiary. Jeremiah T. O'Sullivan of Lawrence, his chief lieutenant, and other converts to the silver cause. l About z o'clock Mr. Williams arrived at the Park Square station from Ded- ham and found large and noisy crowd awaiting his arrival. As he passed from the train to the barouche 1 he was greeted with shouts and cheers by the throng. A tally-ho loaded with shouters bearing a large transparency and flags and from which red fire was burned followed in the wake of tho barouche, lighting up the streets through which it passed on it's way to Faneil hall. Along the route Mr. Wll- Hams received many cheers from those who recognized him and when he made his appearance in the hall the applause was terrific.
 The hall was densely packed with people of all sorts of political belief. Henry J. Jacquith, ex-president of the Hancock National bank, called the Faneuil hall meeting to order and made the opening speech. He intro- duced Timothy w. Coakley as perma- nent chairman and after a short ad- dress the latter introduced George Fred Williams. He was received with tre- mendous applause. He said: More than one hundred years ago the gathering of the good men of the town of Boston was declared by the Loyalists of that day to be the gath- ering of a mob. No sneers, no vilifica- ton were spared on the part of those l iIlel WILD lINllS uGIe III luxury QGcIilell that they partook in part of the royal privileges of governing the people and Samuel Adams, who was called a dis sembler, and hyprocite, lived to hear himself lauded as the great commoner of the colonies.
 'A A revolution was begun in this hall when Wendell Phillips stepped to this 1platform and began the real agitation for the emancipation of men from slavery and those who were with him. were called by these same self-consti- 1 tuted rulers of men crooks af1d r1obs. Now 1t may be that a new revolution has been begun--the revolution of our industrial system. Returning to Bos- lton from the performance of my duty I do not understand why I am re- ceived on the part of some of my for mer friends with abuse and most dis gusting villification.
 1T cannot believe that is because have proposed to aid merely in chang | ing our monetary system. think the feeling that is exhibited comes out of a consciousness that there is something deeper in this movement than a mere monetary question and they have fear ed that on this great wave which has started from the west the rights of the common people may override them We have as democrats been govern l ed long enough by the cliques. Our Iparty can never represent the people until the people are behind the leaders. l I do not come back here to make any apologies. have done what seemed to be right, and that is all any man can | do. I admit that my change of mind upon the money question justifies an i attack, but with my years of work it l does not justify an attack upon my honesty
 I Conscience is my own from now un- 1 til the day of doom, and when it gives me it's approval not all the abuse and | islander of my enemies can turn me to 1 the left, nor can your approving voices swerve me to the right. No one can understand it who did not pass through l the anxious days and nights that spent before I declared my position You do not know, democrats of Massa- chusetts, how earnestly I searched my conscience to find out my duty to do. It was the hardest thing of my life to determine
 T come back with no animosities. do not want to retard one single good l democrat in his course along the way ! that the democracy has now laid out. 1 Far be it from me, who exercised my | judgment to criticise other men for ex- 1 ercising theirs. They had a right to their opinion and they had their duty
 to perform. With one or two excep- tions think they did their duty con- scientiously; therefore do not desire to criticise them and trust that many of their party judgments already rem dered will be reconsidered and taken back. We have a great fight before us, and our friends must be with us, but the leaders must be loyal to their cause or retire.
 | The speaker then spoke in eulogy of | the nominees of the Chicago conven- tion and closed with strong appeal to his hearers to give the ticket their sup port in the great fight that is coming. J. H. Mellen of Worcester, Jeremiam T. | O'Sullivan of Lawrence, P. J. Doherty of Charlestown, John O'Meara of Spen- cer, Frank P Curran of Woburn, Frank
 K. Foster and George F. McNeil of l Boston also spoke.
 l NEW ENGLAND CHOPS.