The sun., 1905-11-03
JEROME WON'TTALK ON MAYOR
KEEPS TO HIS OWN CLEAR ISSUE
-GEAD HE HAS NO PARTY TAG.
No Fear That the Voter Won't Know How
to split-AskS Who Knows whether
McGowan Really Il MoGowsn-Polico
Have to Lock Ont Harlem Overflow.

At the end Of William Travers Jerome's
speech last night at Majestic Hail. 10th
street and Eighth avenue, man In his
audience asked a question apparently
meant to draw fro n Mr.. Jerome an ex-
preston Of opinion about the Mayoralty
tickets. Mr.. Jerome set the question
sternly aside. He said that he was not going
to mix up his issue of freedom from boss
nomination with the many an 1 serious
questions which had to do with the election
Of a Mayor. The audience applauded Mr.
Jerome's expression Of aloofness from the
political combat nightly Mr.. Jerome also
thanked Go that it hal been decided
that he is to run without any party tag.
"Mr. Jerome varied his arraignment OF
Charles F. Murphy last night by taking
up the case Of the jerome headquarters in
the Eighteenth Assembly district, which Is
Mr.. Murphy's own. He pointed out that
Mr. Murphys explanation Of the fact that
the Jerome headquarters in that district
we're in a moving van-because nobody
else would rent headquarters to any
anti-Murphy organization there-formed
another in the chain Of Murphy's confess
sions that he had got it."
Fifteen minutes before Mr. Jerome
reached the meeting the police closed and
locked the outside doors because there
was great danger to life and limb from over
crowding. The doors were opened after
that only for the admission Of Mr.. Jerome
and his party. Mr. Jerome said:
NO FEAR-THE VOTES WILL BE SPLIT.
"When the bosses banked in large meas
ure upon tho fact that the people Of the city
of New York would not have intelligence
enough to vote the party ticket that they
wanted to vote and split for mo If they
desired to do so, in the language of the
immortal Shakespeare they wrote them
selves down as asses. ILaughter1 have
no fear about the voters not knowing how
to vote. The voters Of this town are wise
guys, as they say down Bowery way
where l come from. They find out what
they want to do, and if they want to do
it they will find the way to do it all right;
/ have no fear about that. Applause.
And now as we are drawing near to the
end of this campaign it is difficult thing
for me to endeavor to express to you the
thoughts and feelings that come over me.
Here, only little more than two weeks
since. there was presented to you this issue
of the people against the bosses; and that
which to many seemed movement almost
hopeless has grown and grown until to-day
it is practically an overwhelming tide.
have always believed that there was no
American community 40 debauched politi-
nally that there was not vast majority
of the people in it who desired the decent,
and clean, and right thing There is talk
about this being a great metropolis with
cosmopolitan customs and all that.
But | notice when your boy comes to
grow UP you are happy if he is not so COS
mopolitan. You want him good, you don't
want him a milk2op, but you want him
good-just the ordinary old Plain Sunday
school goodness, that is what you want.
When your girl grows up and a young fellow
begins to pay court 10 her you don't want
him to be a cosmopolitan young man with
his breadths of judgment and easy morality.
Not on your life. Laughter and applause
You want young man that has faith in
something tnat trusts something, that goes
right back to those old moralities that were
taught in. our own homes and families as
children. That is what you want" Cheers
and applause.l
HOW DO YOU KNOW HE IS MGowAN?
Returning to the despotic power of the
boss Mr.. jerome said:
Perhaps the best illustration Of it is
found in this man Nc cGowau / have been
asking diligently and patiently who was
MCGOWAN? [Lauehter.l Where was Nc
Gowan? Why was McGowan? When vas
MCGOWAN? Whence was MCGOWAN? The
question remains unanswered. We do not
know who he is. Why, you remember il
the old days at the little racetrack in the
country they would go and get some old
nag that would trot in about 2:2O at Hart
ford and they would paint that nag up,
then they would take this ringer all around
and take all the purses. How do we know
this man on the platform reading these
typewriter statements is McGowan?
laughter We do not know him. The
delegates don't know him. The district
leaders had never heard of !im. Who ls
he? Laughter
IF Mcclellan should happen to he elected
Mayor and if anything should happen to
him we would have a Mayor that we have
not even known. We don't know him.
Mr. Murphy, after election, might slip
ANYBODY he pleased on U.s. We could not
tell whether it was MCGOWAN or not. PRO
longed laughter and applause. We do not
know whether he is minister or has been,
or we don't know whether he has been
bartender. We don't know whether this
Is a government OF the people, for the
people and by the people, or a government
of bartenders, for bartenders and by bar
tenders. Laughter, cheers and applause.
Il have got no thing against the honest
bartender, but If this man was a bartender,
il he was mixing drinks in Stewards, why
not come out and say so? There is nothing
to be ashamed about in that. But then
it il beautiful Illustration Of the freedom
OF the American people.
Bosss MOUTH WITH FOOT IN IT.
Now take the power of this Pantata,
this boss of ours. The boss is characterized
ever ywhere, whether Democrat or Repub-
lican, by one thing; just as steadily as
his DO wer grows. Just that steadily grows
his pile; pile-power power-pile Ilaughterl
even up all through, whether Democrat or
Republican. Applause and laughter.l
Take as a little evidence Of power just
little thing, hut it shows, We tried to get
headquarters in Mr.. Murphy's Assembly
district. Now, it was not necessary that
anybody should be told not to help us, for
they knew their job-not q vacant 1t ore that