The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-15
JEROME STIRS OLNEY MEETING
SFIPS FROM THE STAGE WHILE
CROWD WHOOPS FOR HIM.
The Ex-secretary Assails the Republl.
can Foreign Policy ana Asserts That
IL Has Played Into EngIand's
Hands-Mistalte in the Philippines.

II Has Played Into EngIand's
Hands-Niis takes in the Philippines
The meeting at Cooper Union last night,
arranged by the Parker Constitution Club
to take a fall out Of President Roosevelt
and the Republican party had rather
unceremonious ending. After the Hon.
Richard Olney had used up about an hour
and half In reading his speech, James
Byrne OF the law firm of Hornblower. Byrne,
Miller d Potter was trotted out. while the
audience shouted for all they were worth
for District Attorney jerome.
Mr.. Byrne, who wasn't born yesterday,
appreciated the situation and said
Lets give our friend Jerome about ten
minutes to collect his thoughts while ex.
press mine and then, maybe, Wen have
the show to which we are now having the
curtain raiser"
Loud and long applause greeted this
statement and Mr.. Byrne went on with
his speech. He had talked fifteen minutes
perhaps, when an impolite person over on
the north side OF the hall shouted
.Say. why don't you give Jerome a
chance9"
Il think that would be a good idea, said
Mr.. Byrne. "He must have got a speech
great pleasure in making way for the
District Attorney
JEROME FLEEs TO THE WOODS.
Mr. Byrne had no sooner said this than
the audience began to whoop it up, and as
the cheering began Mr.. Jerome scooted
from the PLATFORM where he'd been sitting
as IL he was moved by a 40 horse power
dynamo The crowd shouted:
"Jeromel Jeromel Jerome!"
Joseph Larocaue, chairman of the meet
ing, looked around, apparently expecting
the District Attorney to step forth in a
moment But he didn't, nor could be be
found on the platform. Therefore Mr.
Larocque said
THE District Attorney seems to have
effected quick disappearance. The pro-
ceedings being at an end, we will therefore
take an adjournment.
As the crowd was filing out Mr.. Jerome
walked back on the stage smoking cigar
cite. He was Immediately surrounded ard
asked why he had run away. To some
inquiries he made no reply. and to others,
with broad smile on his face and his hand
to the back of his left ear, he said:
you'll have to pardon me; I'm bit hard
Of hearing"
Then he, Col. Robert Grier Monroe and
Mr. Holder. the District Attorneys, private
secretary, walked to the room at the back
Of the stage where Mr.; Olney was putting
on his coat When the ex-Secretary OF
State saw Mr.. jerome he said:
jerome, think you made a mistake.
You ought to have given EN- a speech.
That's what l think" said Mr. Byrne.
st was one of those Psychological moments
of which Mr. Olney spoke, when tn people
wanted one man. I think you ought to have
spoken.
shrugged his shoulders, and then said
well, let's all go over to the Boulevard
and have bite to eat. You orators, I'm
sure, are hungry"
Jerome, Mr. Olney, Mr.. Byrne and Col:
Monroe went away in the direction OF
Second avenue.
JAMES BRYCE ON THE PLATFORM.
Among those on the platform with Mr.
Jerome were James Bryce. author OF THE
American Commonwealth, who ls study
Of a Presidential campaign; Delaney
Nicol, Robert Grier Monroe and Perry
Belmont.
Mr.. Larocque said when he opened the
proceedings that people had been beer lnS' tha
end OF it. Mr.. Olney got a warm reception,
and with a passing word Of thanks Tor II
launched at once into his lecture. FOR II
was lecture-a long, argumentative lecture
which Mr.. Olney read in a rather monotonous
voice and in 80 low tone at times
that those in the rear Of the big Cooper
Union auditorium-whioh was filled to its
limit. by the way-must have had some
difficulty in hearing, =, IL.
oussion Of the Republican attitude on the
foreign policy. In part he said:
Speech OF Richard Olney.
Though Republicanism and the tariff are
properly discussed in connection with our
domestic policy, the vital bearing OF our
extravagantly protective system upon our
foreign relations could not escape notice.
It necessarily tends to embroil us with for,
eign peoples, to excite their luminosity and
to compel us to maintain huge military arm
aments by way either OF preventing war war
war come In addition to the tariff and
its necessary consequences, what else does
the Republican party stand for in respect
. Of our foreign policy? In considering that
the situation which makes the proper
handling OF our foreign relations OF grave
importance. Before our needless scrim-
mage with Spain over Cuba, we had no.
prejudiced our insular position or impaired
our practical invulnerability against attack
by foreign powers.
Our acquisition and retention Of the Phil
ippines has changed all uilat lhey are
1000 miles from our shores and may at
any time present us with the alternative OF
submitting to a great national humiliation
or of carrying on most onerous and
proftless war with one or more OF the great
European states. In short, without regard
b any other consideration, whether Of right
or Of wrong, Of expediency or OF inexpe-
diency, the Philippines have put us under
bonds to cherish the friendship Of al the
great civilized powers. Yet in spite of this
Obvious condition, in spite Of the manifest
necessity OF foreign policy characterized
by the utmost circumspection, the Repub-
lcan Administration, whose indorsement
and continuance in power is sought, seems
to take pains rather to court trouble than
TO avoid 1t. Its meddlesomeness, its itching
to take a hand in everything that is going
on in the world anywhere seems to be
chronic and incurable.
1t doee not hesitate to act because a sub
ject matter is in no sense international In
character II the mood serves, it boldly
proceeds to lecture foreign state upon
the management of its own internal affairs
and to call upon it to mend its ways. I'm
agine the wrath, the tempest Of rhetoric
that would be evoked II any foreign nation
retaliated in kind-should, for instance
au0Oest that lynchinps In this country