New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-27
KINGS CHEERS CUTTING.
He Calls Mcclellan COlOrtesS-
.S7canstrOm Lduds Fusion.


In marked contrast to the Mcclellan meeting at
the Academy Of Music in Brooklyn last SaturdaS
night tho fusion rally held there last night
When Mcclellan spoke under the auspices OF tle
McCarren Democracy, it was nearly $50 ocloOh
before all the seats in the big auditorium We
filed. Last night every seat and much OF 'ie
standing the police would allow 10 O'
occupied taken before o'clock. The en'n"-
siasm that was aroused by the portraya! OF ''.e
achievements of the fusion administration, ana 81
of the iniquites of Tammany Hall clearly CAM
from an intelligent and appreciative understanding
of the issue at stake-the Ten Commandments
against Tammany Hall. as Walter NJ. Chandler put
it-rather thar from band of partisan roosers'
r. Fulton Cutting presided, and received greet
ing which was equal to that given to District AT
torney Jerome, who made the first and longest
speech OF the evening. MIR. Cutting declared tnae
the fight was for the principle of popular Sow
ereignty, and that the head of the ticket did not
have to depend upon the lustre of any ancestor be-
cause he had made reputation OF his own lhis
sentiment loudly cheered.
Jerome's appearance just as Mr.. Cutting ended
brought the audience to its feet with a bound
referring TO Mcclellan. he said that mans per-
sonal integrity consisted in something beyond not
ever having picked pocket. He asked if Grout and
Mcclellan were going to tell Mclaughlin what
Democracy was. when the latter lead the Kings
County Democracy before they were born. Grout
the speaker declared. had prostituted his character
and integrity for personal gain. The Jerome speech
will be found in another column.
The meeting was opened by Abner S Haight
vice-chairman of the Citizens Union of Brooklyn
who introduced Mr.. Cutting the man who for
four long years sustained the Citizens Union dur
ing the Van Wyck administration and who mar
shalled the hosts that the victory that elected
Seth Low for Mayor of the City Of New-York."
When the applause had subsidized, Mr.. Cutting said
in part:
Since the Brooklyn charter was passed in 1852
there has been certainly a steady and marked i'm
as have followed the example of this community
a. ana now Wv we come 70 you once more the parent
depend upon you TO pass the great upon which
we 9spe eq than anyhbng else Sr the a.
much TO establish. We are fighting really for the
Tor the redemption Of this community but the
5 oI Rhe INC OF P9pusr to move
it, and to redeem it's reputation.
young man, Colonel Mcclellan With record so
dinblsuouS. so colorless, that there is only one
that Is savish obedience to the party and under all
circumstances to put the boss between himself and
mass meetings. and somebody in the rear gets up
70 Gry our three cheers for the hero OF Antietam
are discussing the triumphs of the Civil War: but
We are discussing municipal problems in New
York City. and what confession it is Of the per-
sonal weakness Of the man who depends on his
6 On the other her hand We have another man well
occurred os to any man in this fusion campaign TO
~e fP known hs Ssen of Aba Low 5Re
his father? Certainly not And why? Because the
terms as n Pp6lG officer i 3d. the great clear lime
iI ci i 5ils enemies nave round
Republican in national politics.
Following District Attorney Jerome vas H r
Ketcham. the hustling candidate for District At
torney of Kings County. who has felt the public
pulse from Creenpoint 70 Canarse. He brought the
word that Brooklyn was Up and in arms and did
not mean 70 fail Mayor Low in this crisis Tam
many Hall has swallowed Villoughby Street he
said. but Tammany Hall has found that vii
loughby Street has given it Indigestion
Concerning non-partisanshp in city affairs Dor.
ough President J. Edward Swanstrom had the fol
lowing to say:
Nowadays find the Republican conventions
almost as a matter OF course nomina ting Demo-
leader Of this country, who for nifty years has held
ho7Ind - h, The c{io OF If qecnnng TO be
ton We find that even Tammany Hall itself. in
70 the winds and made up it's ticket. two-thrds
fusion and one-third Tammany Slowly. but sure
AFFAIRS has taken root in our potc soil nue bss
come to STAY dstasefu as it may be to many Of
than they can turn back the falling waters of Nj
fact that the business OF a city as distinguished
be transacted on purely business principles
The following made great hit with the audience
The "grafters." blackmailers and corruptionfsts
otherwise known as Tammany Hal. are simply
fighting to get control of the government and
finances Of this city for the purposes Of graft and
in order to reward the faithful. Let us not forget
tina, Tor two years now the Tiger has been starving
until he is lean and hungry-so famished was he
when this campaign. opened that he surely swat
lowed whole two of the fusion candidates and
now he is suffering from attack of indigestion
acute that he Is likely to die of il on the 81 Of
November.
The appearance of r. ". Hnrichs was the occa-
sion for another mighty outburst of applause He
devoted himself to showing how debauched the
police force had been under Tammany and on TO
what high plane il had been lifted under Mayor
Low.
f. ]. Mcclure. the Rev DIR. Lindsay Parker and
F. r. L. Gould also spoke
In the course of the meeting a messenger boy
pushed through the crowd with telegram for the
chairman of the fusion meeting at the Acadmev
of Music. The audience appreciated the point when
this message. signed by G. F. Francis No Is Alice
Court, was read:
I moved into this borough three years ago D,Ir
ing the first year my boys Il have eleven OF Them
could not go TO school, but now every one of them
is in school in business. ~