The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-12
NEW Works. MASS MEETING.
Van Wyck Presides and Cochran Is the
Principal Orator.

AIAcipaI oTdtoI.
New York, Oct ia great mass
meeting was held in Carnegie hail to-
night to express sympathy with the
Beers in their controversy with Great
Britain. The flag of the Transvaal re-
public hung side by side on the stage
with the stars and stripes. The colors
OF the Orange Free State were also
displayed. On the platform and in the
amphitheater We're gathered men of
all shades OF political faith. Many wo-
men were present.
Augustus Van Wyck. who was the
democratic candidate for governor in
opposition to Roosevelt presided A
number Of societies were represented,
including the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, Sons of the Revolution,
Society of Colonial Danes, Order Of
the Loyal Legion, Holland society, Hol-
land Danes and the United Irish So
cieties. Among those present were
General James OBrien. who recently
was appointed representative of the
Beers in this country. The long list
of vice presidents includes Governor
Pingree, Senator Mason of Illinois,
Senator Platt of New York and Senator
Teller of Colorado.
Presiding Officer Van Wyck made a
speech in which he characterized the
pending struggle as one of the strong
against the weak
Bourke Cochran then took the plat
form and was received with a ire
mendous ovation He spoke for more
than an hour, and while the applause
was cyclonic at times. there We're
good many Interruptions on the part of
several English sympathizers, who &C.
cupied seats in the rear of the hall
and in the galleries.
Mr.. Cochran went into details on the
relations between the two contending
nations, spoke of England's rights in
the making Of treaties with the Beers,
and added: THE United States has
as much right to intervene to prevent
aggression and preserve peace as Eng.
land has for the qualification of greed
and the spoliation of territory
Continuing. Mr.. Cochran said: pres
ldent Kruger was within his rights
and believe stepped outside his duty
when he consented to discuss the ques-
ton of citizenship with any person who
should couple it with threat"
Continuing, he said: THE ostensible
reasons assigned for Mr. Chamberlain
policy are so inadequate that we are
compelled to look for the real reasons
elsewhere. Why is it that the peace
of the world is endangered on such
fimsy pretense?
"The answer is on the tongue of ev-
cry Englishman, but it suggests such
recklessness, such needless moral de-
pravity that I would not undertake to
formulate it. Let an Englishman an
sWer it and it proclaims the infamy of
their government
In all the history Of the human
race shouted MIR: Cochran, Il defy
any man to find an instance where war
has been based upon reasons so afro
cious as this"
Mr.. Cochran eulosized President Kru-
,hn ,l,a
said,' said he, that while the president
of the United States sympathizes with
the Transvaal, yet he loves England
too well to demonstrate. If this be so,
then he is ready to connive at oppres-
sion. But this. is not so.'
He declared his belief that if Eng
land goes to war with the Transvaal
the United States will forcbly advance
her claims regarding the Alaskan boun-
dairy.
These resolutions We're adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting, having
considered the difficulty which has
arisen between Great Britain and the
South African republic, and having ex-
amined the relations of these two
states, as defined by the conventions
of 1881 and 1884, is of the opinion that
Great Britain does not possess any right
of intervention in the internal affairs
of the South African republic either by
treaty or by international law.
Resolved, That this meeting is also
or the opinion that the South African
republic although not bound to comply
with any of the demands of Great Brit
ain, has shown proper and commend
able Willingness to consider the alleged
grievance and to grant reasonable priv
ileges, and that, therefore, it is the duty
Of Great Britain not to force a conflict
in South Africa, but either to accept
the offered reforms or leave the whole
matter to court of arbitration
Resolved. That a copy of these reso-
lutions be transmitted to the govern
ment of the United States, to the gov
eminent of Great Britain and to the
government of the South African re-
public
1t had been rumored around the hall
that the meeting would break up in a
seething mass of people burning
union jack. 1t was expected by the
plotters that pandemonium would
reign. At the end of the meeting a
man in the rear of the hall, with a few
followers in a body guard seized a
union jack that was hoisted there and
tore it to shreds. Then he turned to
run and was thrown out of the hall by
the police.