The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-27
GREAT CROWD HEARD HAY
SPEAK IN CARNEGIE HALL
Said Campaign Would Be Memorable as One of
the Quietest Ever Known

New York. Oct. 26.-The crowd at
the Republican mass meeting in Car
negie Hall tonight was so large that
the doors were locked at 1880 o'clock
AT that time all the available space
within the hall was filled and several
thousand people were crowded about
the entrances. seeking admittance.
John Hay, Secretary of State, who
made the first speech. was given an
ovation when he appeared. The band
played and flags were waved in every
part OF the house. while the audience
cheered.
Secretary Hay was introduced as
zone of the greatest living Americans
and the foremost diplomat in all the
world" Great cheering greeted the
Secretary as he arose. He said:
Secretary Hay went over the same
grounds that most of the Republican
campaign speakers have gone over.
This campaign" he said, will be
memorable in our annals as one of
the quietest ever known. Rarely in
our recollection has there been so lit
tie excitement, so slight disturbance
of the orderly course of affairs.
There is. l venture to say, no ex-
PLANTATION of this state of feeling. ex-
cept that the people of this country
have made up their minds that there
is to be for the present no change in
the principles and policies that have
proved so successful in the last eight
years.
None of us will make the mistake
OF thinking the contest OF this year
unimportant. On the contrary it goes
down to the very foundations of our
national welfare. The country can
not afford to give up the gold stand
ard and to drift on the shifting cur
rents of financial experiment and
quackery. 1t cannot afford to give up
the principle and practice of protec-
ton to American INDUSTRIES ANY rad
zeal meddling with the tariff would
throw thousand industries into con-
fusion and bring many to ruin. Sta
bihty, unity of purpose, is absolutely
necessary to the complicated and deli
cate machinery of modern business
where the change in the price of a
single by-product may vitality affect
the prosperity of a great industry and
may make all the difference between
comfort and want to thousands of
worlxingmen and their families. No
body denies that the tariff must from
time to time be revised. But it is too
evident for argument that tho revision
must be intrusted to friendly hands
to those who believe. as matter of
business and of public morals, in the
policy of cherishing American manu-
factures"
Neither can the country afford to
intrust its vast domestic interests to
those who denounce as extravagant
and unconstitutional all money spent
for the general welfare to promote
which was one of the special objects
for which the constitution was brought
into being. Do we want to give our
gallant little army to the care of those
who think 1t ought to be dsbanded,
or our navy-which under this admin
istration has carried our flag into so
many distant seas. never on a wanton
errand of hostility, but always as the
friend of American commerce and the
protector of our ctizens-do we want
it handed over to the men who say it
ought to be thrown to the scrap heap?
Do we want the Philippines abandoned
to be the victims of misrule at the
hands of their own agitators, or the