The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-10-23
LAST NIGHTS GRAND RALLY
GREAT MASS MEETING OF REPUB-
LIC4Ns HELD az THE HYPERION.

GREAT MASS MEETING OF REPUB
IIClNS HELD A 4 THE HYPERION
Powerful and Convincing Address by
Postmaster General Charles Emory
smitl-Received with Great Emthusi.
asm- Congressman sperry Presides
and Makes um Address Short speech
Nv Senator Plntt-The Parade.
The republican mass meeting held last
night at the Hyperion was the occasion
of an enthusiastic demonstration by
Yale students, who massed on the cam
|pus before the meeting, and with a pa
rade In which was mixed the music
of the End. Regiment band, red fire and
hearty Yale cheers escorted the distin-
guished speaker of the evening to the
house.
Hon. Charles Emory Smith, Postmas-
ter General Of the United States, was
greeted by large and attentive audi
ence which listened throughout to a
particularly brilliant speech
A song by the Glee club was followed
by the introduction of Congressman N.
D. Sperry as president of the meeting.
In a short address Mr.. Sperry referred
to the fulfillment of pledges made by
the republicans Of this district during
his term in congress; Of the great i'm
provements made and now making in
the harbor and outlying rivers of New
Haven, under appropriations secured
by him. Amid great enthusiasm he
then introduced Attorney General
Smith, with warm eulogy upon the
career of the latter, from the time ne
was born and bred in Connecticut UNI
til his national appointment by Presi-
dent Mckinley
! Mr.. Smith spoke substantially as fol-
! lows: I am glad to meet this assem-
blage / have been in New York, In
West Virginia, in Kansas, in Wiscon-
sin, and in Lincoln, Neb. QaughterD
In Lincoln l saw Mr.. Bryan's farm, and
on 1t stood a stately and untiring wind
mill. / heard that he had not thrashed
his oats on that farm, and it begins to
look to me that he will himself get
thrashed before his oats are. (Applause)
Four years ago was the greatest educa-
tional campaign of our history We dis
cussed the issues thoroughly; at that
time we had nothing else to do but dis
cuss them Gaughter). We came to a
thorough comprehension Of the issues
of that campaign; hence we defeated
Mr.. Bryan. BY his election this year
our calamity would be even greater
than that which threatened us then, in
so much as our prosperity now is high
err than it was then. You fall from a
shed and you are in danger of break
ing your neck, but If you fall from a
skyscraper you are sure to break your
neck. This year. in the event of Mr..
Bryan's election, you would fall from
the altitude of an unparalleled prosper
ity. You must know, you must feel,
you and your wives and children, this
great growing change for the better in
the business conditions Of the nation
Are you going, then, to conffde the
destinies of your nation to the evangels
Of calamity and the prophets Of discon-
tent? When we contrast the poverty
Astounding prosperity of the last three
years and half we must remember
that at the head and forefront of this |
transformation stands William McKin- |
ley and a republican congress to ac-
count for It,
Mr.. Bryan's predictions of 1896 are |
to-day covered with confusion. His |
election to-day would be followed by |
the greatest financial crisis and panic in |
our history. We have in this campaign |
the remarkable spectacle of Carl Schurz
and Bourke Cochran advocating Bry-
ans election on the ground that Mr. |
l3ryans hands would be tied and that
Mr.. Bryan could not perform his own
pledges.
But this Is not true. A Bryan presi-
dent and Bryan secretary of the treas
ury can defy congress on the currency
question. The paramountcy of these
two alone will create financial distrust
the country and at once
a panic We are told to de-
throne an imaginary paramount I'M
| remember that in the
time of the Hawaiian troubles we We're
compelled to enthrone real tangible
Imperialism IN the person OF the queen, |
0aughter) and this ac-
1ording to the paramount duty of
Paramount Commissioner Blount.
Was there any imperialism In the sue
,essive annexations of territory under
Jackson and Jefferson and Monroe?
Then where Is it now? When Mr.. Bry-
IN wrote his letter of acceptance he no.
where in that letter defined imperial
SIN, for the reason that such definition
would have at once pricked the bubble,
The president of the United States is
lot the author, but the creature of law.
nd by law alone has he progressed in (
ur dealings with the Philippines and
With Porto Rico. Imperialism canna 1
We under republican institutions /
Where patriotism throbs as it does In Il
ne hearts of the American people there I
an be no fear Of imperialism.
Nor can there be fear of militarism
Iilitarism and imperialism, if it is pos
ble for either to invade this country,
Ill be not along our present path or \
rosperous government, but along the II
ath of disruption and anarchy thai |
lay he prOdI1ca1 nv those pTparhnrs m h