Evening star., 1900-10-17
Bryan Addressed Monster Meetings in
New York.
EFFORT Was EIYEMP0RANEOUS
Hard to Tell What Effect His
Speeches viii Have
PROMINENCE OF TAMMANY
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
| NEW YORK, October III, 1900
Without doubt the Bryan demonstration
tonight was the greatest public political
meeting In this country, considered from the
standpoint of the number of people partici-
pating. Tonght's great outpouring was
| packed in and around Madison Square
] Garden, and the word packed is just the
| expression for it. Bryan spoke, but it was
impossible for him to be heard by such an
| immense gathering. No man has yet sue
ceeded in filling Madison Square Garden
| with his voice. and tonight the ceaseless
| hum and bubble of the audience rendered.
his tones inaudibe to all except those a
| few feet away.
1t was tired party that accompanied
| Mr.. Bryan to New York. The meetings at
| Youngstown and Cleveland had been hard
ones and everybody felt the strain. Bryan
| had tried to get as much rest as possible
! to prepare for the program here and had
| kept to his drawing room the better part Of
| the day
| How do you stand the physical strain!
| he was asked
| physically and mentally, very well, was
| the reply. There is one eXception-my
throat. You observe L am hoarse, but l
| hope with care | can speak distinctly until
| the campaign closes.
II suppose you have your notes prepared
for your speech tonight?
| Not note" exclaimed Mr.. Bryan. 81
shall talk right them and make my
| notes | go along. / do not expect to
deliver a new speech; but l expect to put
| the old points to the people in new way.
Old Ideas in New Words.
| This tells the story of the demonstration
as far as Bryans speeches are concerned.
He was strong and forceful. although
hoarse his points We're old. but he clothed
no
| impression he made was good-much better
than when he delivered a prepared speech
four years ago. The few who could hear
him applauded his ciimaxes and the vast
throng took their cue from the few. Some
| times the applause lasted too long, ana the
i orator started with the tumult still raging
in remote parts of the garden, On the
/ whole, from point of numbers and enthusf-
asm, TammanyS reception to Mr.. Bryan
was a success.
/ 1t is a question whether the colonel
| joyed that alleged $50 plate dinner which
was part of the program, for the reason
| that he dined very heartily on the train at
| half-past O'Clock in the afternoon.
/ There was one peculiar thing about the
| meeting. While Mr.. Bryan was expounding
his trust theories, Edward NJ. Shepard was
presiding Shepard is counsel for the
American Sugar Refining Company. which
! is under the ban in Mr. Bryan'S state, be-
cause II is there regarded a trust of the
most grinding" sort. Were it not for Mr..
Shepards appearance at the Madison Square
Garden meeting tonight he would have ap-
| peared in Trenton to represent the sugar
trust in action brought by Walter J.
| Trimble of Kentucky, who has brought suit
to compel the company to divide its
| plus. As soon as Mr.. Shepard completes
his strictly Bryan enga genents, he will go
TO New Jersey and try to persuade the
judges that the sugar trusts business af-
fairs should not b. meddied with.
The question was freely asked today and
tonight: "Wil this Tammany demonstra-
ton, will this cementing of the alliance be-
tween Bryan and Croker help the demo-
cratic national ticket in the state and in
| the country?
The Prominence of Tammany.
The answer is best found in the words of
a political authority, who sums up the stu
alton thus:
THE prominence of Tammany in the
campaign from the convention hall at Kan
sas City early in July to the Madison Square
| assemblage In the middle of October is a
| factor of the first importance. One hardly
realizes the extent To which the modern
press familiarZeS the Ceople OF the whole
country with the chief figure of a section or
locality until he finds how well the residents
of distant states today understand Croker
| A newspaper correspondent who accom-
panied Gov. Roosevelt for seventeen DAYS
on his western tour, from Detroit out to
| the Rocky mountain region and back into
! Nebraska, reports that wherever he went
he found people talking about Croker as
an important element in the campaign. 1t
was not republicans only who made Tam
many conspicuous Contempt for the boss
was expressed by democrats Montana
men who had sat with him In the Kansas
City convention openly denounced him
Colorado democrats expressed the hope that
| in no short time Croker would be consigned
to all kinds Of oblivion. Moreover, this OBJ
server testifies that the Croker issue is af-
| fecttng votes far away as the Rocky
| mountains, A public fear is expressed that
democratic success this year would mean
greater Croker prominence. The very fact
| that in campaign work the names of Bryan
and Croker often intermingle Is unques-
| tionably having its effect
| Whatever effect this visit of Bryan's may
have Benjamin B. Odell. the republican
candidate for governor and chairman of
the state committee on whom devolves the
| direction of the national campaign In New
York, has engaged to combat it, Wherever
Bryan will go his trip this week flaming
handbills. fifteen feet high and ten feet
wide. will confront him in staring letters
of red. These handbills will announce the
presence of Mr.. Bryan in the state. and
copious quotations from his speeches in
favor of 10 to ! Will be given. All the re-
publican campaign speakers-and there are
several hundred of them the stump al
forward the financial question and asking
the voters whether they want to change
from present business conditions and take
chances by electing Mr.. Bryan.
Climax of the Campaign.
The climax will be the trip Of Gov Roose-
| Feu tnEOuSn the rural district or the state
and his reception at Madison Square Gar
den. This affair promises to equal the
| Bryan-Croker demonstration of tonight It
will be held on October 26 and will be in
the form of a mass meeting, and from
present indications. the officers of the re-
publican county committee. who have the
affair in hand, expect that considerably
more than 100000 persons will attend.
| George Manchester, secretary to the COM
mittee, has received assurances from the
assembly district leaders that at least
60O00 good republican voters will be rep
| resented In the fourteen groups that are
| to converge at Madison Square. OF course
the garden cannot begin to contain an
| audience of that size, that it will be
necessary to hold several overflow meet
| ings. Ii possible Gov. Roosevelt will ad-
dress the open-air meetings after or dur
ing the mass meeting inside the building.
| In order to keep the crowds outside in a