The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
TARIFF REFORM CONTINGENT.
1T TOOK THE STATE CAMPAIGN
TO WARM THEN IP.

| OdelI Coupled With Addieks-R ebuke OF
the GOyern0r-Chairman and Resent-
ment or the Scandals He Has Brought
Upon the state Won Hearty Applause.
Cooper Union was about two-thirds
full when the Reform Club meeting was
called to order by Isidor Straus last evening.
United States Senator Augustus O. Bacon
of Georgia; the Hon. James II. Eckels. Comp
troller Of the Treasury under President
Cleveland; the Hon. Edward NJ. Shepard
and Henry George, Jr,, were down on the
programme for addresses on the club 3
specially.
Mr.. Straus introduced John De. Witt
Warner "a the permanent chairman, and
the speaker got right down to business from
the start, with Senator Bacon to lead of.
The Senator from Georgia. although it
was an ant-tarif meeting, did not say
anything about the tariff. He said he
was going to conf1ne himself to the respec-
tive qualifications of the two candidates
for the Presidency. As matter of fact
he did confine himself to what he described
as the disqualifcatons Of President Roose-
welt, limiting himself in eulogizing Judge
Parker to an enumeration OF virtues such
tombstones.
But the Senator approached the sub
ject of the Presidents dement's in much
less perfunctory spirit. He attacked Mr..
Roosevelt as a violator OF the Constitution
and of the statute laws. He cited as speci-
fications the Cuban convention. the appoint
ment Of Crum during the constructive
recess, the permission to United States
officers to draw double salaries in Cuba,
the permission to vessels under foreign
flags to trade between this country and
the Philippines and one or two othermatters.
After this the Senator used extracts from
Walter Wellman, from Ex-Governor Blacks
nominating speech, and from a speech by
Ambassador Choatc in London, which he
said were convincing testimony from Mr..
Roosevelts own friends that the President
il all aglow with the fever of war. and
is not a man of peace.
Senator Bacon's attractive style OF
speaking kept the audience pretty well
warmed up, but II was when MIR. Eckels
got in a few side whacks at the Grocery
that the enthusiasm really broke loose
Mr.. Eckels. in summarizing the dehnquin-
cies of the Republican party and its eras OF
corruption and graft. said
Il call your attention to what every
citizen OF New York knows about the Re-
publican State administration here OF
the scandals attached to it; of the loss OF
self-respect and all sense of decency ON
the part Of the Governor Of the State in
leaving his official duties unattended to in
order to become an active manager OF
party politics The Theodore Roosevelt Of
the better days is not the Theodore Roose.
welt who has clasped hands with an odell
and an Addicks.
Il call attention to Delaware. which
the Republicans have controlled these
late wears I challenge any State East or
West or North or South, to show such cor
rupton as has been produced In Delaware
public life in that State by Addicks and
his followers and yet the President Of the
United States and the Republican managers
of the campaign have struck hands with
Addicks and recognized him as the leader
of the Republican party in Delaware.
Mr. Shepard coupled the Governor
Chairman with the Secretary Chairman
and referred to Mr.. Cortelyou as a Cabinet
officer detailed to campaign work f.; o,n
nectsd with the corporations which Secretary
Cortelyou learned in his official capacity
Is the price of the checks that are flowing in
from corporations to the Republican cam
paign fund would be to go very far and do
not say it, but il Is for you all to draw your
own differences from the facts as they are.
One cause of the small audience at the
beginning was because many who had been
waiting to get in went away while COM
mitteemen and the management of the hall
were discussing specific phase OF the money
question. The hall hadn't been paid for
only an installment on the price had been
put down when the hall was engaged. The
management of the hall took the broad
general ground. NO money no hall, and
that ground it held until committee treas
urer showed up and paid the balance due.
Meantime a good proportion OF those who
were waiting had gone up to Madison So ,are
to see the Republican meeting Fireworks