New-York tribune., 1901-10-27
JEROME'!S HARLEM TRIUMPH.
CROWDS FOLLOW HIM FROM MEETING
TO MEETING. WILDLY CHEERING.

10 MEEllN1I,
If there had been any doubt of the popularity
pf Justice Jerome in Harlem il was dispeled
last night When he appeared at Camp Seth
Low, a little late dozen men in the audience
rose with impulse and vowed their hats TO
lead the cheering that continued long after the
band had stopped playing. From Camp Seth
Low TO the Harlem Casino. two blocks away. a
crowd of men ran cheering beside the carriage
and fought for the privilege OF opening the
carriage door when the vehicle arrived at the
One-hundred- and nd-twenty-fourth-st. entrance,
then swarmed up the stairs in such wave that
the policemen stationed at the doorway of the
auditorium had difficult task TO keep them out
of the already overcrowded hall. The ride from
the Casino to Empire Hail. In One-hundred-and-
sixteenth-st near Eighth-ave.. where Justice
Jerome next spoke. a repetition of the
last, and many men ran all the way. either on
the sidewalk or beside the coach.
Several times last night in his speeches Jus
tioe Jerome intimated that the managers Of the
campaign were trying TO persuade him TO be
little more moderate in his statements, and to
allow political policy 10 dictate the tenor OF
his remarks.
But" said Justice Jerome Il ask them il
these things are the truth. When they answer
that they are, tell them that 1 viii so on say
do not know much about polcy-unless it be
lottery policy-but 1 do know about the truth
and II viii prevail
Referring 10 a remark credited 10 Mr.. Shep-
ard, Mr.. Jerome said:
1 see by an evening paper that Mr. Shepard says
he has walked through the East Side and has not
That's just the kind of lynx-eyed Mayor that
Tammany Hall is looking for. How puerile, how
rlllhs must De snch man. ana now ne must be
trihing with serious conditions Blind indeed must
to MAJ So ) Il. -pln ~ u
those people are suIIrTng ana brSht lndeed is me
prospect OF city whose chief executive has a
Mr.. Croker wants know what / Will do with
The The men zen who are now in The District f Aorneys Of
not decent and honest. and that means that ] will
man walk the plank. and / am not afraid 10 say so
now There's no Shepard in me- Moreover. / want
friends ought 70 be in Sing Sing If am elected /
may not be able TO put all of them there but I'll
The Tamnlany Han leaders are making desper-
sbst ] % 90 & n0I %9noeT E % al AZ a. ior 10 lose creams
like 10 go 10 prison myself and would make hard
pleasant place. as many Of Mr.. Croker S friends
know by experience, for they have been there
Referring to william C. whitney's indorse-
rnent OF Shepard. Justice Jerome again more
than intimated that the afilation was made
because Mr.. Shepard was a corporation lawyer
and the Metropolitan Street Railway Company
could use him If he were elected. His support
of the Tammany Hall candidate is. therefore
significant" said the speaker. ITO me ii means
that it's money is being used in this election as
1t has been in the halls of legislation in the
Board Of Aldermen and in the Common Council
with the result that the people have not re-
ceived pay for the use of the streets. Whitney
may have Endorsed Shepard for love OF his
country. but ] doubt it. Why did the under
ground railroad make sudden turn westward
ct Forty-second-st., and leave the East Side
without rapid transit? Was IL not because the
New-York Central Railroad does some local
business which would be interfered with II the
underground road paralleled its tracks,"
At Empire Hail. where Justice Jerome made
his third speech OF the evening, he dealt more
strongly than ever with the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company. He said:
There is an element that has come into this cam
paign so significant 10 my MIND that propose TO
say no word In any public place tonight except on
that very thing and must preface my remarks by
understand my position. The thing transcends the
dorsemenf OF Edward n Shepard by William c c.
Whitney. speak OF this thing. and I speak it
quietly and determinedly. because IL is very, very
significant IN this campaign
As said before, however brutal. however wrong
have been in the treatment OF honest and decent
men on the force; however much this city may
have been looted hy a corrupt organization which
controlled II. there are things which can even be
Now. want 20 illustrate my meaning by dwelling
sor moment on what happened 10 the Third
Railroad was a great corporation and for many
years IT'S stock stood very high the market, and
man who could accumulate a. little means 10 buy
few shares OF that stock felt that when he came
10 die, IL he could leave that FOR the support OF
his Td0w o,Ssa ENC children M they would be about as
same afnourt in government bonds ' ' '''
In year the wealth of that corporation was
destroyed-in one year st was looted from top &c