The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-23
Big CROWD TO HEAR HEARST.
MURPHY NOE HIS FRIEND, HE
TELLS TEE CHEERING MOB.

nv IS0.0OO-Deudes RIA Els News
papers Are q Trust John FSnh Tangled.
Practically the entire cast of'tbs indie
pendence LeaRue-D Democratic SHOW played
90 a big house at Madison Square Garden
last night. As usual william Randolph
Hearst was the star. Nine-tenths OF the
cheering and about all the interest were
for him.
Mr.. Hearst made a short speech, but be
put into 1t more fire and spirit than has
been Characteristic OF him. When he
started on with tho positive prediction that
he would beat Mr.. Hughes by more ia
$50 900 the great crowd in the Garden rose
at him with a yell Of delight.
He was cheercd from start 70 finish by an
audience which seemingly was in entire
sympathy with tho man and his sentiments.
When he roasted Mcclellan and jerome the
audience. a. has become the fashion. groaned
and hooted. When he reviewed Ms fights
ngainst various corporations the crowd
broke out with Wild applause. Perhaps the
warmest response he evoked was when he
referred to the last municipal election and
shouted, a. he swung his fists at the audi
ence, II IL takes every dollar 1 have In the
world l will have those votes counted a
cast"
The crowd went back at him heartily
also when he compared Leader Murphy
of Tammany with Senator McCarren and
said: Il have made no more OF q deal with
Murphy than | rave With McCarren.
McCarren Ia with Mcclellan IA voice: who
let that yellow dog in2'l for political rea-
sons and Murphy is against Mcclellan for
political reasons, but neither one OF them
loves me, and neither one has reason TO
love me-"
Mr.. Hearst made his most determined
appeal on the score Of his W sincerity
and honesty. After naming various cor
poration heads that are supposed to be
against him and telling the audience that
those men at least knew he meant what he
said he swayed his body over the railing,
shook his fst at the crowd and shouted: IF
any one Of you or all Of you should think
It were best for your welfare or for the
general welfare to keep the Republican
party in power. / would not complain az
long "a when you cast your votes at least
you say: L know Hearst is an honest man
and a sincere man and whether elected
or not elected will continue to do his bert
60 serve the people,"
The meeting at the Garden last night
WA uu1OlDJtuly lDS HlONl FIN 10
well az the largest that Mr.. Hearst has ad
dressed since he opened h IL campaign.
1t 40 insisted on shouting and cheering that
It became at length nothing less than dis
orderly. Mr.. Hearst himself tried unavail-
ingly to stop the uproar, but it was only
after several Intellectual my friends" and
q deal Of sesturins hat he got a chance to
talk.
The crowd commenced to besiege the Gar
den a little after S o'clock and at Z there were
solid columns Of men four abreast which
reached from the Madison avenue entrances
20 Twenty-fourth street, jammed twenty
sixth street between Madison and Fourth
avenues and waited on Fourth avenue from
Twenty-seventh street nearly to Twenty
third. Besides, there were crowds at
Madison avenue and Twenty-seventh street,
in Madison Square Park, and nearly TO
Broadway in one or two Of the side streets.
Chief Inspector Cortright, who with
Inspectors Walsh and Titus commanded go
foot and horse oops, and handled the crowd
without much difficulty, told the reporter
tina there we're fully 5000 people who
could not gain admission andI that there
were about II, 900 in the Garden. Inspector
Cortright said that it was az big a crowd
az he ever saw outside M big building. =.
At 7O O'Clock the doors were closed
and nobody was admitted who hadn't a
box or stage ticket or a stand-in with the
notice commanders. The crowd outside
packed itself for the most part watching. a
moving picture show thrown on the south
west corner OF the Garden.
Inside the Garden the crowd, maybe
10000, maybe 1900 people, got busy from
the start cheering everything and every
body, twirling little American flags, singing
songs and stamping their feet upon the
floor. The first downright hard cheering
broke loose when Lewis Stuy vesant Chanler,
the candidate for Lieutenant-Govemor
walked on the platform at $50 O'Clock.
There were yells for Chanler, to which he
responded with a bow and a good humored
wave Of his hand.
Henry A.. Powell, who presided at the
Independence League convention, was
chairman Of last nights meeting. He
started out by. asking the crowd to quit
smoking and then the audience saw little
Mr.. Shearn come into the hall and drowned
Powell out with a roar for Shearn. Tiers
was a chorus Of Misses and groanA when
Powell declared that Jerome hadn't a friend
left except a package OF cigarettes, AND
q voice yelled, How about Mcclellan
ooh, he hasn't got even that. shouted
Powell, and there was a roar OF laughter.
a word Of warning comes to the manage.
rnent OF this meeting and | ask you to heed
H." sald Mr.. Powell. Its from a Repub-
lcan. who says,T think II IL my duty as a
citizen to inform the chairman Of the meet
ing OF a plot by an organized band VINO
cali themselves Republicans to disturb
the meeting while Mr.: Hearst IL speaking
Powell went on, MY Ir1enOS L KNOW you
will do your duty There were more cheers
when Powell shouted. The police are with
us" and somebody shouted, W know
who took the three platoon system away
from us
Suddenly cheering started up at the
Madison avenue entrance, spread all over
the house and grew to a roar. Mr.. Hearst
was entering the Garden with his wife and
eecorted by a dozen OF more policemen,
with Inspector Titus at their head.
Mr.. Hearst stepped into his box on the
south side OF the Garden In the centre anc
topped up, smiling and waving his hand
Then the police got circled around him anC
drove through the centre aisle. When ht
stepped to the front OF the platform the
hand let 20 with The Star Spangled Ban
ner." which stirred the audience to q greater
volume Of enthusiasm.
Altogether the cheering lasted eighteen
minutes, fourteen minutes OF solid, I'M
breaking applause and four minutes Of scat
terinR cheers, c~atcalls, whistles and dis.
order.
INV friends" began Mr.. Hearst. Il -haXs
iust returned from a tour up State In the
eo-called Republican counties. l want 70
make the positive prediction that we viii
carry the upstate counties and come down
20 the Harlem River with a majority. ZAP