The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-03
COCHRAN on CROKER AND MOOT.
Rings Merry Changes on Laughing Donkey
and Answers Nothing.

and Answers Nothing.
At a meeting OF the Irish American
Municipal Union held at Cooper Union
last night for the purpose OF indorsing
the Democratic State and county tickets,
Bourke Cochran made a two lot speech
in the course of which he answered Richard
Cookers recent kilograms. He also at
tackled Elihu Roots Utica speech.
In regard to Croker. Mr.. Cochran said:
Il was asked to-day what / had to say
about the suggestion teIegrsphed across
the Atlantic that my attitude toward cor
poratiOns and trusts was enough to make
a donkey laugh. Now. l am not suf-
flciently acquaintedwith the character Of the
animal, and l do not share his character
istics so extensively tina l arm qualified
to say what effect my attitude might have
upon his risibilities. But IL the message
be genuine l suppose l might answer that
il my attitude would make a donkey laugh
it was perfectly certain tina 1t had made
one do nkey bray. Once before in the
history of mankind a donkey became ar
ticulate. BE used his voice to warn Balaam
of a danger, and never, my friends, in the
history Of this country has a warning 80
significant been addressed to the American
people as this one flashed across the At
lantio yesterday. The fact hat MIR. Croker
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something which you and l ought TO ex-
anime carefully and seek the reason pa
tiently.
conjunction with Mr.. 0 was in a state Of
hostility when he charged him with having
cheated his client. a person known to fame
as William NJ. Tweed, and the New York
Tribune expressed grave apprehension
about the a~dvisability or proPriety OF
McKinley's nominee. MIR: Root, AZ Secretary
"A Va. ka1avaa ha had not anavarad md
disposed Of that charge; yet both these men
are tonight singing the same n and
both their views are published at length in
the Republican press"
Mr.. Cochran then went on to analy1e
Mr.. Roots Utica address. He declared
that this speech, heralded as the great
original contribution to the present cam
paign, was but q rehash OF the stun hat
IL being dinned into the public's ears a d
nGasedm, with one exception.
He then took up the matter OF me-. Hearst,s
responsibility for President Mckinley's
we find this charge Is based upon the
fact that Mr.. Hearst In some Of his news
papers charged Mckinley with having
tricked and deceived the American Congress
secretary Of state Of this country
before an audience and upon his own re-
sponsibility and with the authority OF the
President makes a statement OF this charac-
ter he does more than write himself down
infamous he writes down his country as
hopelessly discredited.
Conceive the significance OF that. The
Secretary Of State by the authority OF the
President charges that murder has been
dom in this country, that the murder OF a
President has been accomplished and no
one has been punished for IL. II that were
true, that tho highest in the land. IN man
embodying in himself. In the Office that he
holds, the highest governmental dignity
in our constitutional .ystem. could be shot
down and responsibility for II charged by
the President OF the United States and his
Secretary Of State upon any individual, the
fact that no has gone unwhipped or even
unchsllenRed by justice Ia a reproach to
ing It's overthrow"