New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-11-01
ASKED TO TALK ABOUT TRUSTS.
HOT SHOT IN ONE OF BRYANs PARA
MOUNT ISSUES" FROM JUDGE COHEN.

MOUNT ISSUES" FROM JUDGE COHEN.
What do YOU want me TO talk about7' asked
sx-Iudge william y. Cohen last night as he faced
the crowd which had gathered In the Murray Hill
Lyceum. j. was the big mass meeting and rally
which Captain Goddard and his co-workers of the
East Side Republican Club had called together
There was silence for q moment Then buzz Of
conversation heard. and finally somebody
SHOUTED: Trusts"
trusts yelled half hundred more. The out
come evidently pleased the speaker for he at once
answered:
"Au right Trusts It shall be. Mr.. Bryan says
Re IS against trusts and keeps repeating. Down
with trusts. II l elected President VIII see
that there is no such thing a monopoly Now
The first thing to decide IS, what is trust. Mr.
Bryan defines II as an aggregation OF wealth In one
line of business. We Will then take his definition.
Now, when Bryan came 70 New-York, did his
behavior indicate that he was especially down
the trusts? Just take ysF, qf him at that dinner
he had at the Hoffman House on the first night OF
his arrival. On side WIS Richard Croker who
ir case Of Bryans election 10 to be, according to
the best information obtalnable, Secretary of the
Treasury (but TO the TreasurYD; Dick Croker.
the head of the biggest political octopus this coun
Try has even eeen: Dick Croker. who. when the
market down. bought all kinds Of trust stock.
but when went UP sold It. for campaign purposes.
Then there was Senator James K. Jones, who
has ali kinds OF money. and among other things is
president OF the Cotton Bale Trust And then l
must not forget our good friend Guggenheimer.
with his brewery combination. or Bourke Cochran.
of the gas companies consolidation, nor Edward
N. Shepard. counsel for the Sugar Trust"
Mark Hanna says there trusts! shouted
y FESTIVE listener the front seat.
'1f Marx Hanna means by a trust that II is
snenopoIy. Mark Hanna right" was the ready
answer.
do you remember when we used TO ride in street.
cars II this city. that dngy at night, and
which five cents every time you turned a
corner? I 60. There a lot Of small COM
panes then. Now what have We. Our company
operates the line. Millions OF dollars are expended
paper night and can ride all over town for I'VE
I'm spite E all the Democrats are saying about
their downing the trusts, they forget they have
the franchise bl of Senator Ford has done far
along this line than any Democratic legisla-
ficn ever proposed enacted in any other State
Judge W. s. Kenworthy, OF Iowa. also spoke. He
OF Mr.. Bryan. to the chief character Of paradise
'@,here were few archangeis,' ne said, who
found hat their haIos big, too heavy and
bright for them. They recommended change.
AS Consequence their chieftain and all his fol-
lowers woke up the next morning to find them
selves in he'll. such Will be the inevitable result
for those who md their prosperity great and
who want change, If they have their on
Herbert 4. Parsons the candidate for Congress
Croker that he would knock anybody down who
attempted TO interfere with honest mans bal
lot by saying that II was most plain that
Bryanism breeds rowdyism-
learned, however that Nfr. Goddard was only suf-
fering from cold. and had been advised to re-
main home by his physician.