The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-27
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


Judging from what can be heard about
town" and particularly in Republican
quarters, the speech of the Hon. John
X Cowen. at, Music Hail. Baltimore, on
Thursday evening, in which that gentle
man, who is President of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, made a square threat
that ''if Mr. Bryan was elected the order
for 5000 steel cars would be Cancelled and
important improvements projected d.
layed," has diffused considerable salts
faction among Democrats and a czrre-
spending amount Of depression amons
Republicans To sum UP the views of
members OF that party who have dis
eussed the railway presidents speech,
they can be expressed in the almost uni
yeFsal opinion that they wish MIR. Cowen
had paid some attention to the virtue of
silence
1t is already evident that the speech
has produced a boomerang effect in the
very quarter it was intended to ledge.
Workmen in Maryland, who have a rec
ord of being among the most intelligent
classes of citizens of the State, have not
been slow to detect in Mr.. Cowen g
speech an attempt at plain practical CO.
ercfon- Many, judging from the letters
already sent by them for publication,
disgust at what one Of them terms in
his written communication to the .Balti-
more Sun as an arrogant attempt to CO.
cree the workingmen."
A strange man furnished an ill-omen for
the full dinner-paii party in Chicago yes
terday. The man, who said he was DR..
j. E. Rullison Toledo Ohio, dentist, that
he was wealthy. and that he had mission
TO bury the full dinner pail, paraded the
streets and attracted deal of attention
On a cross measuring nearly ten feet in
height two-galIon dinner pail packed to
the lid with edihies. was carried through
the downtown streets for several hours by
the man dressed In sonbre black and
streamed long ribbons of black, and on
the lid OF the pail a few flowers were laid.
All this was intended to convey the idea
that the dinner pail was dead At Madi-
son Street and Wabash Avenue, where a
new building is in course OF construction,
the bearer Of the pail headed toward a
sand pile in the street, evidently intend
ind to bury the pail but the workmen pre-
vented tie interment.
The Empire State gentleman of the gor-
ticularly conspicuous since the PhiIadeI-
phia Convention. is apparently becoming
weary of talking to the baekBoods dis
tricts of New York A despatch from
Canton, \. Y, announces that Lieutenant
Governor Woodruff is tagged out by the
arduous work OF the campaign and may
be forced to cancel some of his dates for
speaking
One CT The most extraordinary political
meetings Il the history OF New York city
was held last night and the silent advo-
Gates Of ,dr. Bryan were enthusiastic to a
degree.
With anti-imperialism and antitrust
arguments at their finger ends. deaf-mute
speIIbinders addressed several hundred OF
their constituents, representing the deaf
and dumb voters Of Greater New York, in
Jefferson Hall, Brooklyn.
Chairman John D. OsBrien gave out a
written s atement after the meeting, de-
Claring the greatest enthusiasm had been
manifested.
It was TIE first mass meeting of deaf
mutes held - this city during the present
campaign ard was announced as a Bryan
celebration. large number of RepubIi-
can deaf-muLes turned out. however. lead
eTs among whom said they were present
at the meeting in order to give their
brothers a good send-off. Despite this
showing of Republicans none of the speak
ers who attacked Mckinley as a champion
Of the trusts and declared Roosevelt and
his drunken cowboys" had. best be
placed in dime museum" were inter
rupted during their finger talks
The first speaker was Thomas w
Brown, who is deaf but an eloquent talk
er. His remarks were interpreted by
Prof. Edward T. Clarke, of the New York
Deaf and Dumb Institution
Chairman O'Brten spoke later, saying
that the silent vote in the United States
was 29,G00 strong and four ffths of this
vote would go to Bryan. During his re-
marks Prof. Clarke. who read aloud from,
the speakers manuscript for the benefit
OF those IMMERSED in the sign language