The sun., 1897-10-27
BUSINESS MEN FOR TRACY.
1900 OF THEM CROWD INTO THE
FOURTH NOoNDAY MEETING.


FOURTH NOoNDAF MEETING.
They've Get Prosperity Here aud TheS Want
TO Keep u Hsrst 80 They're eiVtnE I'd
Their Luncheon to whoop n Up for Tracy
The True lssura or the Canvass set Forth.
More than 500 business men crowded into
the fourth MONDAY meeting Of the Commercial
Mems Tracy Club yesterday, and for an hour
and quarter listened to the speakers and went
into frenzy of enthusiasm every time tho
nane OF Gen. Tracy was mentioned. 1t is doubt
ful II any candidate who has carried MS cam'
paign into the business district has ever sue
ceeded In sweeping that conservative quarter
OF the city before him In the way Gen. tracy
has. In every store there is n Tracy lithoRraph.
almost every man you meet wears aTracy button,
and the shouters include youths who are going
to cast their first vote this year. ms well 40 men
who have voted in dozen or more PRESIDENTIAL
elections. When business men forcgo their
luncheon to go to political meeting 1t is sign
that they are moro than ordinarily interested In
tho success Of some candidate.
1t is pity that the club was unable to secure
larger quarters for its MONDAY meetings The
store at the southeast corner Of Broadway and
Blcecker street lie big one, and 900 people can
squeeze into II with comfort; but II 1t would seat
5000 1t would be inadequate to the demands
made upon 1t daily. Three thousand people
were obliged to stand out in the street on Friday
when Gen. Tracy and Chauncey NJ. Depcw spoke.
Any suspicion that the crowd was there only on
account OF the prominence OF tho speakers
was removed tho next day. when all
the speakers save one were business men, and
the crowd was SO great that for while 1t
b!ockod traffic on both Broadway and BleccHcr
street. Mondays meeting was n rousing ono,
too. and yesterdays was equally enthusiastic.
The rule that meetings shall last only one hour,
from noon until l o'clock, was broken yester.
day, not because tho officers OF the meeting or
tho speakers wanted it no. but because the crowd
refused to let the speak .rs stop.
G. j. Corey, who will preside al all OF tho noon.
day meetings, optued yesterdays meeting with
o brief speech Then Ii, introduced Oscar Hoif-
stadt who said:
Look at somc OF the men behind Seth Low.
There is William p. Ilornblowcr, free trader,
who was twice nominal sd b. tho President to
be Justice OF tho United States Supreme Court
and twice turned down by Congress. Then there
is Richard Watson Glider. another FREQ trader
and man who stands fer all that the Glove
. land Democrats stand for, the destruction
! OF American industries, Then there are
men NE Wheeler d. S pScEhS nIaad ana TSs9pn La
| Why. Joseph 1.arocGue is the whole Citizens
| Union. He is the head and shoulders OF a con
| spiracy of free traders and Cleveland Demo
! Gratis who are trying their level best to wreck
| the Republican party. These are the men who
: cry out Raise yourself above party! They
have raised themselves above. their party be
cause that party sank so low that they had tC
S'' To ToG another McKnley bii Ii the Dngey Tarin
| bill we owe the present prosperous condition
of the country. Republican defeat in this cam
Corey. before introducing tho next speaker
| Seth Low, you toll them that the statement Ii
false. get a batch of letters every day from
sound-money Democrats asking for Tracy litho
| graphs and campaign material. They contai
the Republican party. until their own party get
the sound money Democrats who did SO mucl
toward the election OF William Mckinley ar
@ Benjamin nF.'T F. Tracy. % Applause % @ ' right VIII
Ex.JudEo Isaac W. Lansing of Nebraska, wh'
has reputation in the West as campaign
| speaker, was the next man to address the meet
ing. He said:
II asked a man to-day who he was going t,
bet 1et YER ' boots said Whieh one an
he was stuck. He finally stammered out, VIII
sog 70 or the
the Henry George DEMOCRACY; the Paddy Glea
sS
one Democrat In the field. he said; and lef
him scratching his head and trying to figure /
This country had a bad four years under thu
Democratic administration: Icame East durn
rom all hoard rings
look very different, although there was no doub
but what tho hard times were here well a
everywhere else. / was talking with oil
farmer in the West about it when got bach
and he was very much disgusted. Why h
said: them fcllers don't know what hard time
is. Why. we've been SO poor out here that we'v
had to manure the graveyards to give the boy
strength enough to get up on resurrectio
morning.
Friends. opposed to Gen. Tracy q man ha
come forward as a candidate for Mayor In you
city who processes to be Republican. Th
fraud is apparent. because Republicans don
train with Mugwumps. Socialists, and any othe
old thing they can pick up for the deliberate pu,
pose Of defeating the grand old party. tGrea
cheering.l
"This man says that this election 10 just
little local affair. but don't you believe 1t. Don
be like the man who went hunting for prairi
hens, loaded with bird shot and met a bear. Jus
load for bear and be ready for anything you ma
happen to meet. Tho bear shot'll kill the prairi
hen just as well as the bir shot"
Congressman James s. Sherman OF Utica spok
next. He said:
Every Republican In the Union is concerne
in this election. A victory now may decide tn
Presidential election of 1900"