The sun., 1905-10-19

WIN Br Time for the District Attorney
--Gang WhIch Drmoraiircd Armitase
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Murphy for Turning Down Fuller.
Along toward o'clock last night an
undersized man, wearing gold trimmed
spectacies, his face set in grim, tired lines,
shouldered his way through a side entrancs
Of Carnegie Hall, near the stage steps.
From the floor to the roof the hall was
crowded with peope-all sorts OF people;
some of them were bankers and lawyers
and physicians and preachers some OF
them were truck drivers and bricklayers
and clerks and floorwakers,
The man with the gold spectacles and
the sharp, grim face was not two steps
| inside the door before all those people
began rising to their feet, giving way before
him. "Jeromel Get out of the way-here
comes Jerome!" The murmur grew to
shout which ran across the ground floor
seats and was caught up in the galleries
and in the boxes.
| For a second or two one could still hear
those shouts Of jerome! jerome! Jeromel"
| and then every other sound was lost in the
roar and tumult of $500 people cheering
| the man for the launching of whose cam
paign for reelection to the Office of District
/ Attorney they had come together.
! Mr.. Hinrichs of Brooklyn who had been
speaking when Mr.. Jerome was discovered
at the door, dropped back into his chair.
| The cheering roared on. Mr.. jerome
walked across the platform and shook
hands with John &. Milburn, who was pre-
siding. Neither of them attempted to
speak; they were not at arms length, but no
voice could make itself heard in that roar
ing. Mr.. Jerome walked forward and faced
! the audience. The cheering became even
! louder. Mr.. Milburn stepped out beside
| him, perhaps with the intention OF pro-
nouncing carefully prepared Introductory
speech. If 80 it was never spoken. He
laid his hand on Mr.. Jerome's shoulder
after they had stood there awhile and pushed
him forward.
| CHEERING LASTED FIVE MINUTES.
One, two, three minutes had passed.
Mr.. jerome motioned for quiet. His pro-
test was ignored. The cheering went on
and on. Many we're tired with the energy
| with which they had been shoutings and
waving their arms and hats and handker-
chiefs and sat down. Four minutes had
passed and half minute more and nearly
all the people in the hall were in their seats.
! They were still stamping and cheeringi
| but the volume Of sound had diminished
| a good deal. Mr.. Jerome was standing
with his eyes cast down and his hands
folded in front of him. His face, as those
| under the platform could sec, was very
pale.
The leader of the band had an impulse
which sometimes comes to the leaders
Of bands at the right moment. Down
through the waning cheer came the strains
of America" There was mighty rumble
as the big audience rose to its feet Then
all together four thousand voices sang
with mighty intensity the words OF the
hymn:
Ny country. It's OF thcc,
Sweet land OF liberty;
OF thee sing:
Land where my father RS died.
Land OF the Pilgrims pride.
From every mountainside
Let freedom ring.
The cheering started again; but this
time Mr.. Jeromes gesture for quiet was
peremptory and impatient. The hymn
had given him the keynote of his campaign.
He did not want to lose its inspiration.
His two or three first efforts to begin
were nothing more than clearings Of the
throat Then, in rather shaky tone and
a ghost of smile playing over his facel
he began to talk.
THE AUDIENCE MIGHTY ONE.
1t was mighty interesting audience
which he had before him. As has been
said, it filled Carnegie Hall from the floor
to the last tier Of seats under the roof.
Three thousand people were turned away
from the doors after half past o'clock
A thousand or more of them stayed to hear
speeches made by volunteer Jerome sup
porters from the steps Of the hail.
Those who had tickets emitting them to
seats on the platform but who did not enter
the hall before quarter to o'clock
were held outside except one or two who
were recognized by the police as citizens
worthy of particular consideration.
When Mr.. Jerome talked of his efforts to
be good District Attorney, of his repug-
nance to the idea that he must submit him
self to the Grocer Of Newburgh and the
Bartender of Good Ground for approval be-
fore he could ask the approval Of the people
of New York county; when he implored
them to rescue themselves or at least
to plant milestone on the road to
political freedom by rebuking these two
worthless for their arrogant setting aside
of all but personal considerations in the
selection of party candidates; when he
repeated his adjuration that this was not
his campaign, but the peoples own--the
audience was quicker and more eagerly
responsive than even a New York audience
has been in years
Give it to 'em. Billl' roared one big voice.
as Mr.. Jerome pronounced the first few
syllables OF his speech. The crowd laughed.
Mr.. Jerome shook his head rather sadly.
Then he began:
MIR. JerOmc's speech.
"This is a pretty tough proposition to put
UP to man. Laughter and applause.l
II you had not filed the house. If you had
not had the glad hand for me, | could have