The record-union., 1898-11-03
POLITICS IN THE
EMPIRE STATE.
Big Mass Meeting of Democrats at
New York City.
Ex-senator David B. Hill the Principal
Speaker Of the Night.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Re-
publican Candidate for Govern
or, Makes a Number Of Speeches
to Long islanders, in Which He
Roasts Richard Croker and
Tammany Hall.

| NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-Every seat in
| Carnegie Hall was filled tonight soon
after the doors We're opened, and a
great crowd filled the vast hall before
| the mass-meeting of the Business
Mems Democratic Association was
called to order by Theodore w. Myers.
| formerly Comptroller of the city of
| New York
| Ex-senator David B. Hill was the
speaker of the night, and throughout
his speech was greeted with applause.
In the course of his remarks. Mr.. Hill
said:
This terrible anxiety, largely af-
fected, of our Republican friends, for
fear that the war may be renewed in
case of a Democratic victory is really
pitiful. 1t is also difficult to appreciate
the apprehension of our opponents that
the Democrats may embarass the Pres
ident in perfecting his plans for secur-
ing permanent peace.
| Senator Lodge of Massa chusetts in
speech in this city last week, in one
OF his flights of fancy, said in substance
that II his audience was not in favor of
placing the people of the Philippine
Islands back under the rule of Spanish
tyranny they should vote for the State
] ticket, canal frauds, Raines law, Force
bill and all. l beg to suggest to the
! distinguished Senator that neither he
nor anybody else knows what the policy
or the present Administration may be
| as to the Philippines. That policy has
never been declared; on the contrary.
| it has been carefully concealed. The
only expression heard from any mem
| Der of the Administration was from the
| late Secretary of State, Mr.. Day. now
one of our Peace Commissioners at
Paris, who some time ago publicly an
nounced that he did not favor the re-
tention of those islands Perhaps he
| spoke the Presidents own views. who
knows?
The truth seems to be that the
Democratic hostility which it appe-
hended springs from a Republican fear
that some unduly LIBERAL over-gener-
Gus terms of peace, involving a base
surrender of some of the conquered ter
ritory, may be approved by the Ad-
mlnlstratiOn, to which Democratic op-
position would naturally be expected.
The suspicious delay in the peace nego-
| tiations, which will undoubtedly not be
permitted to be concluded until after
election, confirms this view of the situ-
alton"
Taking up the financial question. ex-
| Senator Hill said:
1T seems to have escaped the at
| tention of the average Republican ora
| tor that in June last a bill was passed
by a Republican Congress, and ap-
proved by Republican President.
which among other things provided as
| follows:
Section 34-That the Secretary of
the Treasury is hereby authorized and
directed to coin into standard silver
| dollars as rapidly as the public inter-
ests may require, to an amount. how
! ever. of not less than one and one-haIf
millions of dollars in each month all
of the silver bullion now in the treas
ury purchased, in accordance with the
provisions of the Act, approved July
Il, 1898, entitled, etc.
The amount of the silver bullion in
question in the treasury thus required
TO be coined into alleged fifty cent dol
lars, is sufficient to occupy our mints
In coinage for the next two wears and
| there seems to be no necessity from a
practical standpoint of getting excited
over propositions for additional COINAGE
at some future date, which NAV never
materialize. Sufficient unto the day is
the good or evil thereof"
Perry Belmont also spoke.
ROOSEVELT ROASTS CROKER
NEW YORK, Nov 2.-T7heodore
Roosevelt began his speechmakino to
the Long Islanders today before tbe
business men of the city had finished
their breakfasts, and by noon he had
| addressed audiences at ten or mora
stations along the line of the LONG
Island Railroad. His principal tonic
was Richard Croker, who last NIGHT
| attacked Colonel Roosevelt's adminie-
tration of the police department dur
ing the mayorality of Mr.. Strong.
| AT southampton, for example, Colo
] mel Roosevelt said that if the Demo-
/ cratic ticket was elected in the State If
meant that every storekeeper in tbe
| State would be laid under tribute to
Tammany Hall. "Tammany." he said
already blackmails vice and collects
! tribute from those who thrive on vice
but it is now beginning to levy tribute
on honesty, where honesty is HELPLESS
and if you elect Tammany YOU will
assist in that operation"
/ The tour of the day closed with two
| big meetings, one at Flushing AT s
o'clock, and one at Long Island CITY.
At Flushing the hall was jammed TO
the doors, and Colonel Roosevelt re-
| ceived an ovation.
Colonel Roosevelt began his speech
| by asserting that his real opponent
was Mr.. Croker, and not Van Wyck.
and then proceeded to reply to the for
mer's attack upon his administrati ton
Of the police department. Colonel
| Roosevelt said in part:
/ He attacks my administration of
the police department / should be
| sorry indeed if it had merited his
praise. Mr.. Croker invoked the testi-
nony of Tweed against Judge Dalv.
and now he himself testifies against
me. Well he may. He saws in effect.
that under my administration crime
went unpunished. That statement is
simply untrue. Near the close of my
two years term of service. the presid-
| ing Judge of the month in the Co,1rt of
| General Sessions stated that crime had
! diminished until it was less than ever
l before in recent years. Mr. Croker