New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-11
MIR. DEPEW AT CHICAGO.
HE DISCUSSES THE TOPICS OF THE TIME
BEFORE THE HAMILTON CLUB.
THE AUDITORIUM CROWDED WITH LISTENERS
THE SPEAKER DESCRIBES RESULTS or
DEMOCRATIC THEORIES IN CONTRAST
WITH REPUBLICAN, RESULTS
UNDER M'KINLEY.
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Chicago Oct. 10-This has been n Republican field
day In Chicago The Inspiration for the great
paign TO be waged all through the Northwest for
the election OF members OF Congress pledged TO
sound money and Republcanism the meeting
held In the Auditorium this afternoon. The Ham,
hton Club Of this city, OF which Hope Reed Cody
is president, is sterling Republican organization
and thoroughly aggressive in its politics. II has
been the custom Of this club 20 take the initiative
In every campaign by holding a rousIng Republican
rally enlisng the services OF speakers of National
renown. and sounding the first note OF the CAM
paicn for Chicago and the Northwest. to be taken
up and fought 10 a finish by the regular organza-
ton. to which the Hamilton Club acts as valuable
and vigllant auxiliary.
The meeting this afternoon such one and
was Of tremendous volume. Chauncey VI. Depew
was the orator Of the day. and he made a telling
argument that will furnish the text for many of
the speeches to be made later in the campaign He
TOOK as his theme sound money, expansion. the
protection OF American industries and other Ma
tional issues When he mentioned the name o.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt there tremendous
cheering and cries OF "Our next PRESIDENT
His glowing picture OF a greater empire for this
Nation 10 be wrought out by Republican states
manship also evoked tremendous applause. His
speech in this Democratic stronghold in defence OF
Republicanism and sound money was received In
way that would indicate that Organism and all
the West stands ready TO support the Administra-
ton by a largely increased Republican vote and
the election of q greater number Of Republican
Congressman.
Before the introduction by President Cody ofJudge
Peter 5. Grosscup. who spoke briefly, battle songs
and National anthems given by chorus o.
two hundred voices. assisted by the United States
Band and the Auditorium organ
AT the conclusion Of Judge Grosscup's speech Mr.
Depew presented amid great applause. He
spoke in part follows.
Certainly what has transpired since November,
more; 1t astonishes even the most imaginative ana
prophetic Of them 1t was not In the power Ok the
fetal changes which would happen In twenty-fopr
months, From Industrial PARALYSIS mas come IN
ployment has come employment seeking labor, from
capita hidden and locked up and unrsmqnsraHy;
into channels which add to the strength. prosperity
and wealth OF the whole country; from COON we
in the light and from despair we are happy.
But this is not all From an isolated Nation living
within itself. seeking only the development Of ts
own resources and unknown in the politics and
policies of other countries, we have become oy a
on land OF any period great wosid
power. - ~,
ton 10 discover the of the disasters of 1888
1894 and 1895. The Democratic theorists. who had
been discussing for a generation IN an acadennc
way the problems of government, said; NOW that
have the opportunity. let us bring anout INC
millennium IA once by putting INFO practice our
theories Then came the chaos of financial suS-
cestlon and the Wilson Tariff bill
The change between 1894 and 1892 illustrates as
never before In the history OF an Industrial nation
the yawning chasm between confidence and as
trust The failure Of the Government 20 procure
revenue for its expenditures created dslrust; the
unsettng Of values by the Wilson Tariff bill Gre
ated distrllst; the rampant schemes for changing
the standard Of value, for the issue OF nat money
for impossible double standard foF giving SIT
yer a value by legislation which it did not possess
in the markets Of the world by substituting prom
ises for money not only accentuated the distrust,
but plunged business into despair
II was while we were In the midst OF these Uou-
bles that the world witnessed In our county al
extraordinary psychological exhibition Inc D.nO-
cratic party hao in 1895 attack OF hysteTa rms
is a domain which has heretofore in the pathoOSE
Of medical books and the experience OF WdhhlUu
been exclusively confined to high-strung ana ner,,
vous women. The "demonetization OF silver ana
the crime Of u freak OF the lima gina t0n'
II sohdlhed in political discussion into a WIDE
spread faith the conviction that currency based on
sixteen ounces of silver 10 one OF gold was nsht,
when in open market II took thirty-tW0 ounces or
silver TO equal In value one OF gold. The mistake
OF Colonel Bryan the mistake of all young men
who have made a discovery or promulgated a
theory OF attaching the theory 70 a fact that
demonstrates its success or their discovery to an
argument 10 demonstrate its sOundness. When
Colonel Bryan hitcned silver and wheat together
as a team that always trotted finely In double hor-
ness he knocked the wind out OF silver; when he
stated as an argument for ''l6 to T. that depreci-
ated values and poor markets always went with
the gold standard he nailed his doctrine 10 panic.