The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-19

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, New
York, Aug. 1S-The mass meeting of
the democratic Honest Money League
was held this evening, under the most
favorable auspices.
The weather was all that could be
desired; clear and delightfully."- cool, and
thousands upon thousands of persons
turned out to hear Hon. W. Bouu'ke
Cockran's reply to the speech of Will
liam Jennings Bryan, delivered in the
same amphitheatre last Wednesday
evening.
The arrangements for the meeting
were on a most elaborate and almosN
perfect scale, and the trouble and, tu-
multi outside the garden which mark
ed the Bryan demonstration was en-
tirely lacking The police arrangements
were practically the same as on the
occasion of the Bryan meeting. Acting
Chief COPYRIGHT was the command
ing officer of the police force, and was
early on hand with fully 500 uniformed
men. 1t was not found necessary to
block the street surrounding the gar
den, as on the former occasion, and
when the doors were thrown open the
crowd, as before stated, assembled
gradually and without
ANY PERCEPTIBLE CONFUSION.
The Sixty-nfnth Regiment band rem
dered a number of national airs, Whhe
| the audience filed in. Every man, Wo-
man and child who entered was given
a small American flag and a leaflet
| containing the words of the Star Span
gled Banner and America" These
songs were rendered by double quar-
telcte, in which the vast assemblage as
sisted The small American flags play
ed a prominent part later in the even
! ing, when they were waved vigorously
and with charming effect by the aud
| fence, when it gave vent to its enthus-
| iasm at some of the many points made
| by Mr. Cochran in the course of his
speech.
The decorations in the great hall were
far more profuse than those at the
Bryan meeting. The platform, which
was considerably larger than that used
! last week, was tastefully dressed in the
national colors. On it, besides Major
John Byrnes. president of the Demo-
cratic Honest Money League, who call
ed the meeting to order; Hon Perry
Belmont the permanent chairman of
the meeting, and the Hon. Bourke Cock
ran. the speaker of the evening, there
were a host of prominent Democrats
of
NATIONAL AND LOCAL RENOWN,
and a large number of vice-presidents
of the meeting Included in the latter
were the following: John 7. Agnew,
Sigourney Butler, Boston; w. Bayard
Cutting, John <. Cowans Baltimore;
Charles A. Conant, Boston; Paul Dana,
Charles A. Dana, Charles S. Fairchlld,
/ George Gray, Wilmington. Del; John
u, Ito = 1f,, TO-. Gil
Flower, E. L. Godkin, Elbridge L. Ger y,
Abraham S. Hewitt, Horatio c. King,
! St Clair McKelway, Charles E. Miller,
William B. Hornblower, John A. Nc
! Call, A K. Mcclure, Philadelphia; Her
man Oelrichs, Oswald Ottendorfer, j..
| Edward Simmons, William M. Singerly,
Philadelphia; j. H. Outhwaite, Ohio;
Wheeler H. Peckham, Carl Schurz, j.
| Kenendy Tod, Spencer Trask, John De-
Wit Wit Warner. William c. Whitney, John
| D. Benton, North Dakota, and a num-
! Der of others.
AT 7:45, the garden rapidly filled AS
persons prominent in political and bust
ness life came in and were recognized
by the assemblage, the spectators man
ifested their enthusiasm with cheers
and other forms of applause.
Eighty-t three hundred chairs had been
placed in the arena of the great
| auditorium. This arrangement SWeile't
the seating capacity of the building to
about $4,000 At SIS, when Mr.. Cock
ran came in. every seat was occupied.
With Mr.. Cochran were General Lloyd
Bryce, Hon Perry Belmont, ex-Mayor
Cooper, Horace White, John C. Tom
linson. John Mack, Jr., Mrs. Cooper
Hewitt, Mrs. Creary and Mrs. Bryce.
The party was escorted by Major
Byrne.
CoCKRAN'S RECEPTION
Mr.. Cochran was received with pro-
longed cheers Mr. Byrne Immediately
advanced to the front of the stage, and
when at $50 order was restored he
called the meeting TO order in a brief
speech. He was heartily applauded
throughout When he named Hon.