New-York tribune., 1901-11-02
THOUSANDS AT DURLAND'S
SENATOR DEPEW MAKES HIS FIRST
SPEECH OF THE CAMPAIGN-MR
Low AND OTHERS SPEAK.

Thirty thousand people gathered in ard
around Durlands Riding Academy, in West
Sixty -sixth-st., last night and shouted and
cheered and applauded ringing anti-Tammany
speeches until the very air was vibrant with
feeling of victory the polls Tuesday
next-victory Tuesday for the city and coun-
ty tickets. and then retrfbutfve justice for
wrongdoers after January 1 next. These sentt-
ments swayed the great throng inside and out
side the riding academy. The gathering, all in
all, was doubtless the greatest in point OF n
bers and one of the most significant Of all the
notable gatherings of the campaign The in
closure, seating seven thousand or eight thou
sand, was packed full to overfowing by Z
o'clock. and then for an hour and half men
and women and children focked up and down
Eighth and Ninth aves.. cCnvergins in Sixty
sixth-st. The speaking attractions were Sena-
tor Depew. Seth Low Charles V Fornes and
Justice Jerome
Seldom has there been such crowd at po-
ltical gathering in the history of American pol
ftics- With apathy thrown off. Republican and
Democratic men. women and children enlisted
for the night in protest against existing civic
conditions.
All the speakers seemed to be at their best
Senator Depew said that in all his forty-fve
years of campaig gning he never had taken part
in contest more vitally important to the peo-
pie of the city and State than the one now on.
WILD OVER JEROME
Seth Low took up Devery's assertion that he
would not get ou. of the Police Department no
matter who was elected and declared that it
he Uov) was elected Devery would not remain
deputy commissioner. Then followed Charles V.
Fornes. William NJ K Olcott C ". Bovee r.
NJ Linn Bruce and then Jerorae-Jerorne the
young with close knowledge Of the world
Sc -to+
last four years. and with a tongue that knows
how to tell the story. Last nights reception 70
the fighting justice one of the things that
will live long IN the memories OF those who
saw and heard IT. Not until 10:2S O'Clock did
he reach the hall. and then after speaking at
five meetings. Hs came in debonair and happy
and told stories of municipal rottenness which
he followed with promises that after January
there would be accounting for Murphy and
Devery. The Commissioner he charged with
wlfully and outrageously violating the law in
Jerome's court 10 be served by patroInen with
out permission from the superiors of the patrol
The vast audience remained until the end at
II o'clock and went away happy.
There overflow Meeting near the club
house of the West Side Republican Club IN
Broadway. between Eighty-third and Eighty
fourth SITS. and another meeting inside the
clubhouse
Late IN the evening the committee on arrange
ments made efforts TO secure St. Nicholas Rink
Sixty-sixth-st. and ColumbEs-ave-. for an over
flow meeting. The meeting was under tie
auspices of the West Side Club and Julius H
Seymour. the president of the organization. pre-
sided When he introduced Mr.. Depew hun
dreds of men and women rose and waved hats
and handkerchiefs. Cheering continued for sew
eral minutes. and just as 1t began to die down
a man the outside of the academy stuck
megaphone through a window and beloved
"H-o-o-o-r-a-a-y" This set the audience of
again. and Mr. Depew laughed heartily.
MIR. DEPEw's SPEECH
When quiet finally was restored Mr.. Depew
said in part:
in Du[land.s Riding Academy then hen, place P & about
mar the @ SIZE I II cosnorb = on OF tb & ~ o one S
York OF President Roosevelt (Applause9 ImPor-
portant. and the candidate Air- Low, is quite as
picturesque personatg @ aceT5olea ss as a i, am 10
what OF novelty for To speak purely
and surely never before was such great audience
this gathered SFssh5 from IN f pq5y gac Nbo
are gathered here and the additional thousands
sSt dh ticket '00" the
1 have been speaking IN campaIens Lor forty,
Yale two weeks. Perhaps If had known that there
ladies
told how many years IL was. But then the point IS
4 nd in nv experience 10 has always been the case
that the party out of power was attacking the
party in power. - IL, a.
But this contest Is unique. Properly speaking. II
s not party at all that is attacking the party IN
poyer 1t il rather popular uprising CApp4ause.I
MANY organizations have joined In the support OF
our ticket and although IL Is not a party contest
ticket fcbeersl the ticket headed by Seth Low and
IN W hch appears the name OF Jerome tProlonseo
Rpplause)
SOME COUNTS AGAINST TAMMAN1
Mr.. Depew then recited some OF the charges
brought against Tammany-neglect or the
streets extravaganza IN expendins puoiic
money and the encouragement OF vice ana pFO-
-sction of crime. He continued:
rhass charges have not been denied. 1 nave not
ooted In the Tammany newspapers-ior Ihere are
80 E,, T have read the speeches OF IanInany
,rs,,rs and I find answer to these grave
have read Mr.. Shepard's speech at Tam
annS H,i II was eight columns In length II was
Ill ~ rhetoric contained illusions 10 the MS
-. -. fhs Democratic party hundred years ago
~, we're alIusions to TamEany Hall In former
Us but nothing about the Tammany Han or to-
lay. -. 80 o,ba- s,aecb made IN,
- sneech by of the greatest powers in the
r,,epy party by OF the idols Of the Tam
arr leaders by one of the leaders of Tanlnlany
iau That speech short. II was crisp, but ft
pueblo only two nights from New-fork by the
rsWIYork Central Inquire Of ticket agents. 4l5 or
e1s Rroadway New-York. or 80 Fulton street,