The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-10-21
BLISS SPEAKS FOR TRACY
SECRETARY OF THE INFERIOR DE-
LIYERS 4 NOTIBLE ADDRESS,.

Raises n Note of Warming Against Social
Raising Money for Georges Election
Governor Black Refers to Junk Money
and Wild Eyed Hybrids.
New York, Oct. 20.-General BENJAMIN
F. Tracy, candidate for mayor; Secre-
tary of the Interior Cornelius N. Bliss,
and Governor Frank Black, addressed
an audience of $500 persons at re-
publican meeting held in the Lenox Ly-
ceum tonight. Secretary Bliss after a
few Introductory remarks said:
Situated as 1 am, separated some-
what from the political activities of the
town, have had an opportunity to look
over the ground from a distance. I
have watched with solicitude the steps
taken to bring about the union of the
cities that are to comprise the Greater
New York, that is to come. / have seen
the republican party-my party and
your party-with the doors wide open
all the time to make arrangements to
give all who desire good government
a chance to combine for one great sue
cess. have seen their leaders despised
until you have risen in your majesty
and made your own nominations. In
my soul and heart 1 approve what you
have done, and / am with you and with
your noble candidate for mayor as
against all the world.
"Why should this be so? ! remember
twelve months ago when men came to
my Office with pale faces. They said:
1t is possible that Bryan business is to
succeed, that disorder, socialism, an
archism are to be the fate of this great
country People were pale. They
doubted, they feared. When election
came it was all right, but over 100000
votes were cast in support of the Chi
cago platform. That fight is not over;
that fight is continuing all over this
country, and it seems to be extending
by our sometime friends that we are to
submit and to let these people have
their way. There are two candidates
in this town standing on the Chicago
platform-one squarely, the other not
saying much about it, but standing
there just the same.
1.-The state of Kansas Is raising mon
ey for Georges campaign. A fund to
elect George is being contributed by
Kansas populists. There is but one
thing for the great republican party in
this state to do. 1t is to get behind
Benjamin f. Tracy, elect him mayor of
this great city, and guarantee for four
years honest government in every way
and concurrence with the country in
honest money and the killing of anar-
chism and everything that goes with
the Chicago platform"
He was followed by Governor Black,
who in the course of his remarks said:
Contests now are waging in many
states and cities of this country. The
same army that threatened us last fall
Is again abroad, under the same COM
manders, in the same cause, with the
same purpose, but moving in smaller
groups Every victory they win now in
separate companies, every element Of
strength you permit them to acquire
will be used against you in every con-
test hereafter, when their forces are
massed again in one complete and per-
chance victorious army. The issues
now are the issues of last year. There
has been no attempt to change them
and they are not even disguised by
phraseology In every spot where the
fight Is on 1t Is waged on the lines Of
st. Louis and Chicago. Socialism, an
archy, junk money and every wild
eyed hybrid that stared through the
Chicago platform of year ago will
gather in knots next month around the
polling places Of this republic. He who
pretends that anarchy Is dangerous
only once in four years, that repudia-
tion is dishonest only in national cleo
tions and is willing at other times to
keep them company is himself dan
gerous citizen and unworthy of it's
privileges. You cannot divorce a city
from the state, a state from the coun-
try, any more than you can divorce a
citizen from his community. All are
interviewer and dependent. A man
who does not realize this fundamental
truth does not understand the basis of
the government under which we live.
And yet in these times we are told
that political contests should be fought
upon non-political lines.