The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-28
EIGHTH HARD RALLY.
Voters Listen to Hon. N. ID. Sperry and Attorneys Goodhart and Tyner.

Attorneys GOodhart and Tyner.
 A rally of the Eighth ward republi- cans was held in Pyramid hall last evening. The fine weather brought out an audience of about 150 to hear Con- gressman N D. Sperry and Attorney Jacob P. Goodhart and Attorney Rich ard H, Tyner discuss the issues raised in this campaign. General E. s. Gree lev was the chairman of the meeting, and introduced the speakers with few appropriate remarks. A quartet rem dered several selections, which called forth hearty encores.
 Attorney Goodhart was the first speaker of the meeting He said that there was much being said by the press of the country about the general apathy that was being manifested in this can- paign. There is said to be apathy in the election in New York and there is said to be general apathy here in Con- necticut His own observation had lead him to believe that this was more or less true. When a mans home and property are at stake he takes an in- terest in election. Such was the case two years ago, when such meetings as this were crowded with interested vot- CTS and one did not see the vacant chair here and there as one does to- night. But there is another general that I believe is greater than general apathy and this is general intelligence. The canvas of two years ago satisfied the desire for instruction on the part of the people in the great issues before them. This explains the general apathy of to-day. People had their minds made up two years ago and now they are resting satisfied with what is the right solution of the problems of the day.
 MT. Goodhart then took up in detail the speeches made at the democratic rally on Wednesday evening. He took to task more especially the remarks of Homer S. Cummings. MT. Cummings remark that during his five years at Yale he imbibed something of the Yale spirit, the speaker thought must have referred to the Yale spirit one gets around the corner, and which MT. Cum mings must have been under the in- fiuence of when he made his speech.
 MT. Cummings statement that we had two men for senators who went to sleep twenty-five years ago and had not yet awakened, he denounced as false saying that Senators Platt and HaWley were awake and working for the best interests of the country be- fore that "young rooster" (Cummings) was born.
 As for the democratic talk about more equal representation, he said he had come to lean somewhat toward the idea himself, but thought voters ought to be very careful what they swallowed. The democratic cry for more equal rep resentation is insincere and not carried into practice by them. This last state nent was proven by the fact that, al- though New Haven had 23,000 voters and Hamden only 400, MT. Webb had been made the democratic candidate for congress, although representing town of only 400 voters. He said that MT. Webb was a good lawyer and his friend, though not his political friend. MT. Webb had an ambition worthy in a young man to be elected to congress, and he did not care much how.
  sneaker. He alluded feelingly to the fact that he had lived in the ward for tv-one years, and said that his old neighbors would be apt to know if he had spent his time in Washington get ting fat jobs for a few and offices for his relatives, as MT. Cummings on the evening before had asserted as true of Connecticut congressmen.
 Taking more strictly national ques- lions. the speaker said that he knew from the words of the democratic lead CTS themselves that they endeavored to force war upon the president in order that the country should be driven to the free coinage of silver and the issue ot fiat money. At that time there were onlv four rounds of cartridges on ouI ships and only ten rounds for our army of 25. 900 men. President Mckinley that lovely man, bore with patience the infamy that was heaped upon him by inc sensational journals of the country and from private individuals, who sent him boxes of sand with exhortations tC