New-York tribune., 1904-10-12
MOODY IN JERSEY CITY.
The attorney General addresses a
Big Gathering.

Attorney General William H. MoouS duuIesSeu
a large and enthusiastic audience last nlghI
that filled TO repletion Elks' Hail. Jersey CITY
MANY women were present, and manifested
keen interest in the addresses. The issues OF the
national campaign were presented In manner
which aroused the patriotic ardor Of the au-
dience which frequently interrupted the speak
ers with prolonged applause. The mention OF
the name OF President Roosevelt was always
erected with long sustained cheers. Prior to
the speaking the quartet OF the Eighth Ward
RepubIicap Club OF Jersey City sang campaign
songs to tunes familiar during the Civil War
and were recalled
Ex-supreme Court Justice Gilbert Collins pre-
sided at the meeting. He said in part;
There "a a peculiarity about the campaign that
baVe been connected with political interests there
Is nothing TO come back. Everything IS cohceoea,
until they have nothing but TO attack the per
sonality OF candidate. and II there IS anythns
Rooserelt is dear to the people; but It leaves the
Republican speakers virtually nothins 10 A'A
about
He then introduced Mr. Moody. who was re-
ceived with protracted applause. He told Of his
return from the New-England States. and said
he could assure the audience that each would
give a handsome majority for Roosevelt. Hs
deprecated denunciation OF the Democrats.
The Republican party. he said, appealed to the
people for a continuance In power because Of the
record II had made. He reviewed the history Of
the party since 1889, including the rulings Of
Sneaker Reed which the Democrats had char
acterized as tyrannical, but had later accepted
and adopted, and which had led. he said. to the
party success Of 1896 and 1900. We are ready
to face our record he said. land discuss 1t in
detail"
He spoke Of the organization OF the Lawyers
fv, NTarlF ana sal
should properly be called the Lawyers Parker
Club He declared that it was prejudiced court.
that had made up its mind in advance, and not
a fair tribunal before which one could plead his
cause.
Mr. Moody explained the pension act He said
that in the administration of President Harri-
son in the case OF Patrick Carroll the question
was raised and settled whether the act applied
to man deprived by infirmity of age and that
the decision that IL did sustained
in the administration of President Cleye-
land by the man who was appointed to
to the bench by President Cleveland. Judge
Lockwood. The Constitutional Club, Mr.. Moody
said. had advanced the claim that President
Cleveland did not know OF that order and he
said that he hoped that the one man who knew
and could answer that. II he spoke in the cam
p2ign, would answer It and make the fact
OF the war and upheld H.
Mr.. Moody then explained that President
Roosevelt had not acted impusively on the pio-
neer question, but had submitted It to the Cabi-
net, TO such men as Mr.. Knox and Judge Taft.
and the unanimous opinion was that it was
proper. constitutional and legal.
The constitutional disease, the speaker said.
had afflicted the Democratic party every four
years as far back as he could recollect -Four
years ago if was manifested in the claim that
Mckinley was plotting TO establish an empire.
The Republican party had not recently come out
Of asylum and did not require a certificate
that 1t was sane nor was its policy one Of ST.
lence. Parker had telegraphed that the silver
question was dead. Bryan has declared it was
not. and MIR Moody provoked laughter by the
comment. and I'll bet on Bryan"
Mr.. Moody then reviewed the attitude of the
Republican party on the financial question and
commended its action in institutng the ma
tional banks and wiping out the wildcat state
banks He applauded Il FOR preventing the re-
pudiation Of the bonds and for the economical
manner in which 1t had conducted the public
business The Republican party, he said, was
also entitled to the confidence Of the people be-
cause Of its foreign policy, and he explained that
the war with Spain had resulted in making this
country power the globe.
He told in detail the story Of the Panama
Canal and said the secession OF Panama was
due wholly to the long years of oppression by
Colombia. He defended the landing Of the
troops, which had been referred to as an in
terventiOn. ana said that twice in his term as
Secretary Of the Navy he had issued orders to
land troops under the law and treaty which
provided that an open way must be maintained
across the isthnus by power If necessary. The
speaker graphically told of the landing Of the
forty-two men at Colon from the little Eunboat
when the Colombian warship entered the har.
bor which landing had been characterized as
an act OF war, and said with emphasis:
II President Roosevelt is reelected and an