New-York tribune., 1905-11-01
NEW JEROME QUESTION.
"Where Didn't He Get H"-WantS
No Mans Tag.

In the face Of the decision keeping his name
off the Republican ticket, District Attorney Je
told audiences at Arlington Hall,
on the East Side, and the other in the Old
Church. in West 34th-st., that he glad he
was to have no mans flag on him
II thank God that we have got the issue
straight and clear" he declared. that
vention originally indorsed me, that 1t is
clean fight between you, the people. and they.
the bosses"
For the first time since his campaign opened
Mr. Jerome's meetings were the scenes Of
demonstrations for William r. Hearst This
happened both on the East Side and on the
West Side. In both cases t, ere long Kisses
for Mayor Mcclellan, followed by tumultuous
cheering for Hearst. In both cases the audi
ence showed that there was no hostility to Je
rome in its demonstration by cheering him even
more loudly.
Varying his familiar question. Where did he
get it," which he has asked Mr.. Murphy SO
many times Mr. Jerome last night asked the
question suggested to him by Tammany dis
trtct leader-''Where didn't he get it?' In his
talk last night Mr. Jerome referred to ex-Goy-
ernor Odell more sharply than at any time since
he took the platform in this campaign I'm not
attacking him. because he seems to have gone
lame at the start" he declared at the Old
Church meeting. He seems to have picked up
q nail or punctured tire, But he Is entitled
70 all that's coming to him as the man who has
degraded his party in this State the great party
Of Lincoln. He's entitled to all that's coming TO
him; but what's the use of attacking dead
one? He seems to have passed away, with ship
building and ice and a whole lot of other things
he had to do with
BY way of variation Charles f. Murphy be-
came last night that Cram ridden puppet'
But the main burden of Mr.. Jeromes talk was
devoted to the discussion of the mystery of the
campagn-the origin of Patrick F. MCGOWAN
He said!
In Heavens name, who is this man MCGOWAN?
Everybody knew who Mcclellan was. We knew
who his father and what his training had
been. Every one knew who WINS was. and
every one knows more or less about Hearst.
This was signal to the meeting. and without
any warning men stood up and cheered. and for
several minutes there was a thoroughg0ing
Hearst demonstration. When Mr. Jerome could
be heard he walked to the edge Of the platform
and said:
We'll, I can't play any favorites in this cam
paign. 1 am not running against Mr. Hearst,
Mr.. WINS, Mr.. Mcclellan; 1 running
against Mr.. Murphy of Good Ground"
Then the audience gave Mr.. Jerome 9. hand
some demonstration to show there was no hard
feeling, and he went back to the discussion of
M. MtGoman, demanding in mock Distress
Who is he? By gracious, now come to think
tender in Stewards by the name of MCGOWAN,
and those who knew said he was good bar
tender, too. L don't know, maybe he's the man.
Maybe he's the MCGOWAN"
This last shot tickled the audience, which
came from The" McManuss district.
The meeting at the Old Church, at which the
Rev Thomas r. Slicer presided. held in the
scene of many pugilistic encounters, and the
ring still standing. At the outset of his
speech he caught the hunor of the crowd by re-
marking:
In this kaleidoscope campaign of changes it
is not surprising when one passes from the pull
pit to the prize ring in moment, and yet that
little twenty-four foot ring there, that has
meant something; 1t Is symbolical in a coarse
way some think. not others think of the
courage to make a fight against Odds"
AT the Arlington Hall speech the East Side
Mr. Jerome again denounced James w. Osborne
for attempting to make political capital out of
the Slocum disaster.
He has charged that in this case bent my
knees to great corporations and failed to protect
the people," Mr.. Jerome said. Fellow citizens.
when the day ever comes that you catch me
bending my knee to any but my God, turn
on me and rend me a wolf would" He reused
the laughter of his audience by describing j.
Sergeant Cram Murphy's little black man"
John Brooks Leayitt, who presided, found the
Hearst temper of his audience at the outset
when an attempt to review the names of the
candidates ended in a wild torrent of kissing for
Mayor Mcclellan, followed by even more en-
ergetic cheering for Hearst. In both this meet
ing and that uptown the Jerome applause ex-
ceeded that for Hearst but there was no nistak-
ing the fact that both audiences were for Hearst
and Jerome.