The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-27
BROOKLYN CHEERS JEROME.
HIS LASH OFT FOR COCHRAN As
WELL. As CROFT.
Academy Audience Liked II when He
Called Cochran . ''Mulliean Guard
DenhOsthenes" and Circuit . Renegade
and Traitor-SwanstrOm Also l.iOnized.

Music in BROOKLYN last night. Mr. Jerome
showed traces of illness, but he made a
speech that tickled the audience. At the
close, when he asked the audience IL the
cause of good government was to he put
back this year where it would have to begin
all over again, there were cries Of "No!'
from every part Of the crowded house.
Mr.. Jerome got TO the meeting just as
Mr. Cutting, the chairman. was finishing
his Introductory speech. Mr.. Cutting also
got fine reception from the audience,
especially when he said that 1t was Brook
lyn that had pointed the way to good gov
eminent for municipalities by its charter
| Of 1882.
Every effort" said he, @is being made
by the other side to hide the issue. Every
thing in the world is put before us except
| the record Of Seth Low-all kinds Of stories
and inventions, Devery and his campaign,
dinners with Mr.. Plat, Odell and Devery
] meeting in the Fifth Avenue Hotel. any
thing under heaven except the record Of
Seth Low az Mayor. But II is on that record
that this campaign is going to be fought,
| and that is what We are going to bring home
to the people Of this city
Mr.. Cutting said that the only thing re-
manning to be done was to make a noise
in the last week. just at this moment
Mr.. jerome entered.
! As the audience caught sight Of him half
the people rose. waving canes handker-
chiefs and hats.
When | started in said Mr.. Jerome,
thought we had something to fight. l
thought there might be some rotten spots,
but not a single attack has been made which
cannot be successfully contradicted. Every
lie has been nailed as it came out OF the box,
and I'D far the only rotten spots the oppo-
sition has found have been Mr.. Cutting and
| myself
There were roars OF laughter when Mr..
jerome spoke Of Bourke Cochran as that
Mullgan Guard Demosthenes" and called
his speech at Carnegie Hall tissue Of
| lies"
-The whole Tammany administration, >
said he, tries to put everything on the back
of Devery, but Deyery comes to the front
and says he was simply obeying orders,
and those that know that system as have
known 1t for fifteen years know that he is
telling the truth"
When Mr.. Jerome asked if Brooklyn
was going TO allow Pat McCarren. Mike
Minden and Grout to set the standards OF
Democracy, when Shepard and Mclaughlin
had said it WAS a fight for their homes,
there was a burst Of applause, and the next
moment when he opened up on Circuit there
We're cries of Go for himl" He continued:
have directed toward him strong words.
words which. when you look them up IN the
dictionary. you will see match exactly the
baseness of his conduc:..
shall say nothing about Fornss. who
know where he is. But this man that be.
trayed Shepard In your Own 5orough-7what
we about s sns o ws d If W
political movement for his own personal
for these onF as mere Novice S0s
ms zee DO xrons When say he has
| prostituted his integrity and his character
to personal gain.
ton I from on Tammany Han, bsiievins and
knowing In his own heart that It would hurt
the head pr the ticket upon which ne stood.
Se cannot i be- an sAHHas's sfss wv
Mr.. Jerome challenged Mr.. Mcclellan to
name man OF the type Of Greene for Police
Commissioner. They do not exist in
Tammany Hall, said he.
-We heard at the beginning Of this cam
paign that Tammany had national orators
who were to be called in for the Demo-
cratic party. Have you seen one Of them
sneak into town at night? Laughter ]
There is not Democratic candidate through.
out this broad United States who has come
forward for Tanmany Hall. and say there
| will be none such,
He went on:
| want TO say one word to you about tho
real significance Of this campaign. In 1901
| we came to you TO save our homes In New
York. the homes Of the poor, the home OF
leaving his wife ard his little children at home
and his growing girls In crowded tene-
lnent house. and you responded nobly 70 our
practically done away, with.
| Now, II you think right and straight. you
will find that there is no politics IN this cam
| homes alone. but TO save your homes from
this impending disaster.
| Next to Mr.. jerome in popular favor at
the meeting came Borough President J.
| Edward Swanstrom. There was one cheer
J after another for him from different groups
/ of Swanstrom shouters. The man who
resurrected Brooklyn was one of the
greetings which brought down the house.
When Mr.. Swanstrom stood UP to speak
part of the house stood up to greet him.
Mr.. Swanstrom touched a popular note
when he told Of the l21 miles of asphalt
pavement laid by Commissioner Redfield
| in two years Of fusion az against thirty
eight miles laid under Van Wyck, and for
| 81 less for every square foot than Van WICK
paid.
we paid for every mile Of pavement
laid in the Tammany administration" said
| he. who got the money! Who got the
I
paving companies did not get it directly.
| The only Inference we can draw is that
the Tammany grafters got It. This La the
difference between political and business
administration. Cheers
Frederic W. Hinrichs., candidate for
Comptroller, paid particular attention to
the police and described the reforms Of
| Commissioner Greene in detail.
| Edward J. Mcclure, candidate for presi-
! dent OF the Board Of Aldermen. said that
| he was present as evidence OF the falsity
! OF the accusation that the fusion campaign
was Republican plot.
| "I am q partisan Democrat said he,
| "and up to 1898 was member of Tammany
! Hall ] was nominated without q pledge
or promise being exacted or without
! anything being said to me at all II that
be conspiracy 1t seems TO me that the Re-
publican machine has lost It's cunning
| After leaving the Academy OF Music
Mr. Jerome went to three fusion meetings
| in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, where he
practically repeated the speech he made
at the Academy and was enthusiastically
| received.
He went first to the Long Island Bust
moss College. where he paid high tribute
to Hugh Mclaughlin, saying, among other
| things, that the veteran leader never made
a practice OF commingling vice and crime
with politics.
Then Mr. Jerome went TO Turn Hall,
| 10 Meserole street, where about 1000 per
SONS, most of whom were workingmen,
were gathered. He was NOT expected,
but ne was warmly greeted, although there
we're few misses,