The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-22
HEAR CLEVELAND.
People Pack Carnegie Hall to Its
Utmost Capacity.
Hundreds Were Unable to Gain
an Entrance.
CHEERSLONG ANDLOUI
Demonstration on His Appear.
ance Lasted Seven Minutes.
He Was Frequently Interrupted
by Enthusiastic Applause.

the presence of Grover Cleveland,
thousands of people struggled to get
an entrance to Carnegie hall last night
where the former president of the
( United States made his first and only
speech of the campaign.
John c. Carlisle, secretary of the
treasury under Mr.. Cleveland, was also
speaker, and shared with Mr.. Cleve-
land the great burst of enthusiasm at
the meeting. Long before the doors
of the hall were opened, crowds surged
around the outside of the building and
within ten minutes after the doors had
been thrown wide to the public every
seat In the big auditorium was taken,
while corridors and aisles held their
scores. Still hundreds were unable to
gain entrance.
| This big Democratic rally was under
the auspices of. the Business Mems
Parker and Davis association.
Mr.. Cleveland arrived at the hall
shortly after o'clock and Immediate
ly upon his entrance cheers burst
forth, the demonstration lasting seven
! minutes. It died out and began again
with renewed yigor.
With Mr.. Cleveland when he en-
tered the hall were Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.
Robb and oscar S. straus When Mr..
Cleveland saw that Chairman J.
Hampden Robb's efforts were fruitless
in Quieting the house, he arose and
held I'D his hand for silence. but the
people could not be Quieted for two
full minutes afterward.
The former president was chairman
of the meeting.
During his speech Mr.. Cleveland
was loudly applauded, at times being
interrupted for several minutes. His
statement that there was no necessity
for him to apologize for his part in the
deeds of Democracy caused tremend-
Oh @E l.
ton of the name of Alton B. Parker
the audience arose as one man and
the cheering lasted several minutes
The reference to D. Cady Herrick
sion of his speech Mr. Cleveland was
greeted with cheers more enthusiastic
than at any time during the evening.
Mr.. Cleveland said in part:
There are at least two reasons why
am gratif1ed by the opportunity to
participate in this occasion. 1t permits
me to breathe the pleasant atmosphere
of resolute and harmonious Democracy;
and, in addition, it allows me to meet
face to face in such an atmosphere
those who largely represent the business
interests of the city of New York and
who. besides, are patriotic enough to
recognize the obligation they owe to
their country as well as to their busi-
ness.
1t is not for me to discuss on this oc-
casion the Democratic creed or to deal
at length with the issues involved in
the present campaign. We are here to
listen to one who stands in the front
rank of those who expound the Demo-
cratic party faith.
There are, however, in my mind to-
night some aspects and incidents of
this campaign which seem to me so
startling and SO hurniliating that they
should arrest the attention of every
thoughtful citizen and arouse the anx-
ious solicitude of every patriotic Ameri-
can. In a country like ours where par
ties contest for the direction of the
government, we must Of course expect
party advocacy and honorable personal
ambitions for political honors; but who,
among<t those indulgfng in the farthest
of political campaigns can
recall one in which the advantages OF
the present party control have been so
palpably and unblushingly used for its
perpetuation, or in which the functions
belonging to the entire American peo-
pie have been more inso1ently forced
to do partisan service? When before |
has it been so distinctly claimed that all
the virtues, all the patriotism and all |
the governing ability of our citizenship |
are found among the members of one |
political party; and when before have |
those of our citizens not among the |
chosen been so boldly considered as |
aliens in their own land who should be |
cast into outer political darkness as un- |
worthy to be fntrusted with the power |
and responsibility OF a government es- |
ia ablished by the people and for the |
people? When in all our history has
party SO presumptuously as now claim |
ed to be the donors of the gifts of the !
God or when has one so persiStently |
plumed itself upon the creation of all |
the prosperity that has fallen to our /
country's lot?
Such arrogance is not new to the |
party which now seeks at the hands of /
the people a renewal of our govern
ment's control. But it has so grown by |
what it has fed upon as now shameful
Iy to assume that the time has arrived
when popular heedlessness or dullness
will permit boasting and reckless asser-
ton to pass for truth and reason. If |
this assumption is justified there can be
no doubt that the sober and responsible
political thought and watchfu1neSS upon
our government depend are in grievous
peril. If, on the other hand, this as
sumption is viciously unwarranted, it is
an insult to American manliness which
should arouse prompt and effective re-
Al party may indulge in self-con-
graduation when it has effectively de-
tended the people in their daily life
rom the rapacity of trusts and COM
pima tions which thrive as private en-
tat as by their control of the cost
IF living, they cause the homes of our
and to grow lean; but the people will
hardly approve the vociferous pride
which claims that successful attack
lpon the merger of the stocks of GER
ain competing railroads has rescued
hem from their oppreSSors. They will
lot fail to observe that the huge COM
1inations which directly injure them
IT'LL flourish, and they may also recall
low the CONSERVATION among those
implicated in such schemes who once
cared a general pursuit was qufeted
when the soothing assurance reached
hem that the government did not in