The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-31
CROWDS HEAR LOWANDJEROME
THE WEST SIDE WELCOMES THE
FUSION CANDIDATES.
I've Done Wy Best. Says the yor--.Jersn,e
on Decency. the National Issue
Mcclellan No Better Than Van wyck
Johns. Wisc's Bitter Attack On Circuit

RIDING Academy for the meeting of the
West Side Republican Club last night before
the police shut down on the crowd outside
and closed the doors because the building
could hold no more with safety.
There were just about as many people
outside quarter Of an hour before the
hour set FOR the beginning Of the meeting
as there were inside. The police herded
them away into Siyty-sixth street and
Broadway and refused to honor any tickets
OF any sort. The only people who wore
allowed to enter were the speakers and
their attendants, and most of them reached
the inside of the big hall only after q
rush as strenuous as any that is likely to
be seen on any gridiron to-day.
Inc riding hall was hung with flags until
hardly rafter in the roof or foot OF the
side galleries was visible. They were
all United States flags and streamers. The
speakers during the evening were Mayor
Low. District Attorney Jerome, Frederic
w. Hinrichs. candidate for Comptroller;
f. j. Mcclure, candidate for President OF
the Board of Aldermen: NJ. Linn Bruce.
chairman of the Republican county oom-
mittee; Ralph Trautmann, candidate for
Sheriff, and Walter M. Chandler, general
inciter OF enthusiasm for the fusion cause.
CHEERS FOR Low AND JEROME.
1t was not noisy meeting until it had
something to be noisy about 1t raised the
tanbark to the roof in its effort to make
Mayor Low understand that no was ap-
preciated. When Mr.. Bruce called on tho
people Of this city to decide who should
a oh aarip 4
next Tuesday night, the yells grew fairly
hoarse in their intensity.
District Attorney Jerome was kept
tramping nervously up and down the
Platform for three minutes before the racket
subsidized enough for him to make himself
heard. Word came into the hall ct quarter
OF o'clock that things might as well begin,
because no one else would be admitted
from the outside.
John 8. Wise. who presided. said In part:
New York is city sufficiently great and
broadmnded to believe that It makes no
dt,ersnrs whether the personality Of its
determination as to whether they are 1T to
grapple with the Tammany sy.tem Of thievery
s. Ft hsy aa s sSsy d &C. TO
abandon him because OF Ills coldness or con- ~
Seit: Cheers and lsushterl We know our
q
FApplause.l That is all we need to know
NEW NAMES FOB BoURKn COCHRAN.
Mr.. Wise referred to Tammany Hall
as a trimming hogshsad Of putrescence. 4"
To the manifest joy Of his audience he
described the Hon. w. Bourke Cochran
a that whirlins daryish Of nsatosy,. shat
human pianola, responding with mechan-
ical alaority to the last nickel dropped
into the slot"
hasmuoh as the meeting began several
minutes before the hour set none Of the can-
didates WIS present, and Walter NJ Chend-
Ter. fusion's unterrifed stop-gap, kept the
crowd cheering for some twenty minutes
until Mr.. Lows arrival. He defined the
Tammany system Of government as based on
the principle of "ths greatest graft for tho
smallest number and declared bis belief
that the Democratic party Of the nation
strongholds until Tammany Hall was killed
and buried.
Mayor Low entered the hall at half past
8 o'clock. The Republican Cleo Club
sang a song about the ramblings Of Edward
NJ. CIRCUIT which caused great rejoicing In
the audience. Then Mayor Low appeared
rose strong and loud. They died down
and started again. and kept going until
the Mayor at last, made q start exactly
two minutes from the time the audience
caught sight Of him. The Mayor said IN
part;
MT. LOWS PLEA FOR sULxBERoER.
Mr.. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW CITIZENS: The
Glee Club sang that II you did the voting,
you are bent this evening on doing Il ALL
And. indeed, that business OF voting u the
most important part. for unless you do that
that the argument OF this campaign II pretty
nearly exhausted
The thing that remains to be done 10 to
depend on him and TO make every woman
feel that her influence is necessary With
the voters to snf ba aO0ss the d Ard
campaign IN Brooklyn lady told me
that she had got twenty-five votes for me
and told her that that was twenty,one morS
the ladies' here, Applause and laughter:
ticket the man ma wi Who has undertaEen tn. hard
est fight il Mr.. Cyrus Sulzberger lapplause).
who Is rnnninF upon our TICKET as eandidsts
haitian All the rest OF US have some other
source of strength to look for than this bor-
ough. Those upon the city ticket may we'll
unless our friends are deludinn themselves
with their sangune expectations there will
come to us help perhaps from every one OF
the other borouRhs toward our election.
II our friends in Brooklyn lapplapse and
cheersl are not oversan suine there Win come
a mighty majority across the Bridge. But
the battle must be fought and won here.
Applause Nobody but a coward looka
to people to win the battle for him in other
parts OF the field. and Mr.. SulZberger is carry
Ing, on the ight where ne night Is hottest,
and | am glad 10 have this opportunity 70
coy thut not one among us all has fought
more CALAMITY,
Mi. Low rehearsed at length the record
of Tammany misdeeds in Office and the
Tammany allowed To come into Office again
honestly directed for good government.
tone in which he usually addresses his
audiences he spoke with evident emotion
and strong personal feeling, saying:
RAVE DONE MY Brsr-Low.
Ladies' and gentlemen, for two years almost
have devoted myself to the service Of the
city with absolute and exclusive sttentiOn.
Applausel Every personal interest hes
been thrown to the winds. and may fairly
say 10 you that haye done the best J gould.
been ~. waking Just as far as my power. would
20. fAppause-a ,yoic"; You couldnt have
done IL better 4. II there IL dishsp esty In the
public service now. II 10 not systematic, and
It exists, II AZ all against the utmost Influence
Of the administration who stamped 10 out
only prevented what i bad bat we have dong
many things, think from which tho city viii
benefit
! have had 10 bear the brunt Of all Tam
manys neglect Of the public schools. But
do you not see II you BOW lot Tsmmany come