The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-22

Platform and a Warm Tribute to Judge
Herrick John q. Carlisle Declares for
Filipino Independence and Calls Cleye-
land Real Defender of Gold Standard.
ExPresident Cleveland made his first
appearance of the campaign in Carnegie
Hall last evening and got a reception which
can only be described as semi-delrious
in its enthusiasm.
Symptoms Of what was to come were in
evidence before Mr.. Cleveland made his
appearance. The audience was fairly fzz-
ing with pent up ardor. 1t started cheer
ing and applauding at everything and any
thing. None Of the hundred or so men on
the platform could change his seat without
an ovation.
The band was cheered and everything il
played was cheered. The audience was
so eager to get to its feet and whoop 1t up
that it sprang up when Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean, was played. There seemed
to be patriotic delusion that Columbia
was the national air And when the real
national air, The Star Spangled Banner"
some indication of what it could do. Men
and women sprang to their feet, waved
hats and handkerchiefs and broke out
nging the words of the old song so loudly
that the band was all but drowned out.
GREAT WELCOME FOR CLEVELAND.
But this was only preliminary to the real
business in the way Of cheering All OF a
sudden there was little commotion among
the people at the rear OF the stage. Then
somebody away back in the orchestra rows
of eats cried out: There he is! It's Groyeri
There Grover!"
Right there was where the audience went
sheer crazy. 1t shouted and yelled and
waved handkerchiefs, umbrellas and walk,
ing sticks and cheered and cheered and
cheered again until the whole hall was
bedlam.
Az Mr.. Cleveland, accompanied by the
temporary chairman, ex-Secretary Carlisle,
and Nathan Straus, moved down toward
the front of the stage, the roar that broke
loose must have been heard fcr out into
the 81 reefs. The women in the audience
seemed TO be rather more frantic than the
men. They waved handkerchiefs and
cheered until some of them seemed on the
verge of Mysteries.
"Oh, the dear old man! Oh, tho dear old
thing Look at him Look at him!
The dear old thing!" cried one handsomely
dressed woman well down toward the
front.
MRS CLEVELAND THERE, TOO.
Mrs. Cleveland, seated in the centre box
of the first gallery, immediately facing
the stage, looked down on the wild scene,
and seemed TO he fairly bewildered with 1t.
as, indeed, Mr.. Cleveland seemed somewhat
TO be himself He wore a closely bnttoned
black frock coat, and as he reached the
front of the stage he stood for moment.
bowling and facing the uproar as best he
could Then he sat down.
Good old Grover!' shouted somebody
in the body of the audience. Good old
Groverl You're younger than ever and you
look it,"
APPLAUSE LASTED THIRTEEN MINUTES.
1t was thirteen minutes by the clock
before the uproar died down and the
audience became sufficiently sane 20 be
talk ed to.
The meeting was held under the auspices
IF the Business Mems Parker and Davis
and in point Of genuine en-
.hlsiasm 1t probably breaks the record
1f Democratic meetings OF the campaign.
II was set for & o'clock, but an hour earlier
he streets all about Carnegie Hall began
o Ali up with people, and the long lines of
hose fortunate enough to hold tickets
If admission extended two blocks away.
The hall itself was filled to its utmost limit,
which means that more than 5000 persons
we're there.
A remarkable feature of the attendance
was the great number Of well dressed women
Many OF them w it'll tickets had
stood in line for nearly three-quarters
Of an hour before they could get in. II Is
probably safe to say that one-ffth OF the
audience were women.
The ovation to Mr.. Cleveland continued
all through his speech and all through the
evening, in fact. He and Mr.. Carlisle were
the only speakers. and when Mr., Carlisle
in the course OF his address, in touching
upon Mr. Cleveland's course with reference
to silver, said: There sits the man"
he was not permitted to finish the sentence
The audience took up the old uproar right
where it had been choked of by tho tenn.
porary chairman when the meeting opened.
and showed every indication Of keeping 1t
up for quarter of an hour longer
d. f1h1npuen hODD, tnt temporary chaH-
man introduced Mr.. Cleveland as tho per-
chairman, and Mr.. Cleveland
at once into his speech, which
follows:
MIR. Cle,elands speech.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: There are at
least two reasons why / am eratifed by tho
to participate in this occasion,
II permits me to breathe the pleasant at
mosphero of resolute and harmonious De-
mocracy; and, in addition, it allows me
TO meet face to face in such an atmosphere
those who largely represent tho business
interests of the city of New York. and who
besides are patriotic enough TO recognize
The obligation they owe to their country
- we'll a. 70 their business.
II would ne strange II did not reoall at
his moment with deep sensibility the DAYS
n the past and the previous political cam