Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-10-04
.BOURKE COCHRAN
TAKES THE FIELD.
Eloquent New Yorker Makes His
First Speech for Bryan
lii Chicago.
COLISEUM TOO SMALL FOR CROWD
Greatest Political Meeting Mold by
Either Party So Far int Chicago
---Tclis why He ls OPP
posed to Mckinley.

posed to Mckinley.
Chicago, Oct. 2.-Morc than 500 pco-
i pie fought onr another and the goo
| policemen who guarded the COLISEUM
Saturday night in an effort to shove
their way into the building, where
| Bourke Cochran was addressing an a,l-
dience of 10000. The 200 policemen
/ We're summoned from the Harrison
street, Cottage Grove and Twenty
second street stations TO control the
/ nnrnlY mass. Their efforts We're flu
tile, the crowd packing the sidewalk
and forcing their way through the
doors In desperate endeavor to eff
| feet an entrance. Street car traffic
was impeded. Marching clubs. for
| whom sections had been reserved,
found it impossible to pass the throng.
| Hundreds of members of the Young
Democracy and the Cook County De-
mocracy Marching clubs entered the
crush only to realize the desperate
temper of the crowd, and abandoned
their attempt to get through.
While trying to shield Mr.. Cochran,
Mayor Harrison, Judge NJ. Il. Tuley
and Judge Edward II. Dunn, whom
they had escorted to the Coliseum, the
Cook County Marching club received
the brnnt of the attack. Their silk
hats We're thrown in the mud to be
Kicked hither and thither by the ex-
cited crowd or smashed with tim-
brellas and clubs.
Feature of the Campaign.
Gockran's reception was the feature
OF the campaign in Illinois up to this
time. 1t was Il more administrative
crowd than greeted Bryan upon any
of his recent visits to Chicago, and no
other speaker who has visited the city
this year had an audience which com
pared with it. 1t was Cockran's first
| speech during the campaign, and he
assigned for the first time since his
declaration that he would support
Bryan the full reasons which impelled
him to take the step. He spoke for
two hours and onehalf. Four years
ago he spoke for two hours under the
auspices of the Sound Money league
for Mckinley. He reached perora-
ton with this sentences:
Mckinley would be despot with
out amy OF the responsibilities which
come with coronation.'
| There was not a trick of the orator
which was forgotten and even the
stage properties necessary to height
EN- the effect had been supplied by the
red from the bunting.
Cockran's Address.
Mayor Harrison presided. On the
| platform with him were Judge M. r.:
Iuley, Judge Baker, Judge Edward r.
Dunn, Ex-Governor JohnP. Altgeld and
John w. Ella. In the course of his adj
dress Mr. Cochran assaulted the repub-
lican administration for its course in
| the Philippines, defended the supreme
court, condemned syndicates which
he believed had influenced President
Mckinley in many of his acts, and
prophesied lower prices for stocks III
MIR. Bryan We're elected. He avoided
any mention of Blyan's name until
almost through with his address.
when he said Bryan stands for peace
while President Mckinley stands for
war and devastation.
In the course of his address MIR.
| Cochran took occasion to explain why
he is supporting MIR. Bryan this year
when he opposed him four years ago.
He said the republican party had
failed to settle the money question
and he did not believe it ever would.
were a dozen opportunities given it,.
\ He said the Inconsistencies OF the adj
ministration, the vlcillation of Prcsi-
dent Mckinley. whom he believed sim
cere at times. but WAS influenced by
| party policy. had led him to align
| himself with Mr.. Bryan. lie believed
| If Mr.. Bryan We're elected president,
Mckinley in his last message to com
gress would recommend the establish
\ ment of Il republican form of govern
ment in the Philippines.
I'VE have Il century," said Mr.. Cock
ran, (which began with great tide
OF republicanism. now at it's close. APP
parenty witnessing it's end. We see
| just now prospective elections i'm the
two countries that have led the march
| of the democratic movements I'm one
the issue is the preservation of the
republican form of government In
the other the issue is the method of
burial OF he two republics which it
had enslaved. If those two causes
should triumph what would be the Of
feet on the human race? I trcmble
Tor the triumph of McKinlcyism and
| Observation-Disclosures, and imperialism on
| both sides of the Atlantic. know
that III this country pronounces for
liberty and for freedom it will re-
sumo its place in the prmacy of civ
ilization; that il win lead the race
to higher development of social inn
portancc and a better and freer, and
even wider, democratic government,
and with that prospect before me who
can hesitate as to he course which he
shall pursuea
Why lie is for Bryan.
Some think Mr.. Bryan's election
will endanger prosperity and L, who
opposed him four years ago, am
charged with Inconsistency because /
| support him now. Whether hay,
opposed or supported Mr.. Bryan, our
BLACKBURN ON THE WAR PAM