The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
UPROAR AT HUGHES MEETING.
HEARST MEN BREAK IN on
COOPER UNION SPEAKERS.
Julius Mayer shuts Them Up and the .lter-
ruptions Cease Before the Candidate
Appears Repeats That Tie Has Made
No Pr0mise He Cannot Keep.

address before an immense audience In
Cooper Union. IL was the candidates
tenth speech Of the day.
Half an hour before the time set for tho
speaking to begin the big auditorium was
packed and hundreds clamored for ad-
mission after the entrance had been barred
by the police. There were fully 1000 per-
sons in the hall and about 2 900 outside.
A determined attempt was made by
Hearst supporters TO break up the meeting.
hat occurred before Mr.. Hughes got there.
There were fifty or seventy-fye Hearst men
scattered in small groups through the
audience and the trouble began soon after
Henry W. Taft. the lawyer and brother
Of the Secretary of War, who presided, had
started the opening speech.
Mr.. Taft was describing Hearst az a
d~emagogue, when a gray haired man near
the front shouted:
Abraham Lincoln was a demagogus
under the same principles"
A storm OF Kisses followed the interrupt
ton, then there were loud cries OF Put
him out! Put him OUT" A big police
mar warned the intsrrupter. but the gray
haired one got hot under the collar and
shouted in reply that he would be only too
glad to leave the place of his own accord.
As he started up the aisle, Mr.. Taft said:
Il hope any one who has the temerity
TO evoke that s1cred name will remain
in the audience. because | shall nave q
word to saw on that subject later
Mr.. Taft was interrupted once or twice
more by groups in different parts of the
hall and feeble attempts we're made to
cheer for the Independence Lacquer.
The speakers who followed Mr.. Taft,
Seth Low, E. r. L.. Gould. Cyrus T.. Sulz-
berger and Attorney General Mayer,
each experienced the same trouble. At
times the feeling against the interrupters
became so strong that il locke as II the
meeting might break up in a free for all
fight.
When Mr.. Low was speaking he mad
vertently mentioned Hearst's name when
he meant Hughes. 1t was an unhappy
mistake, as he was telling his audience
how to cast their ballots on election day.
The Hearst men in the place took it up
with a whoop, brs after the Kissing had
subsidized Mr.. Low came back at them in
this style:
Il observed you noticed my slip Of the
tongue. If the gentlemen in the audience
in favor Of Mr.. Hearst only correct their
mistake as quickly as l did it will be all
right on election day"
Mr.. Sulzbefger. who appeared as an old
line Democrat who had repudiated Hearst,
was interrupted with the question: How
about Nathan Straus?" Mr.. Sulzberrer
replied warmly that Mr.. Straus was a good
friend Of his and an honest gentleman, but
he, Sulz berger, refused to accept the opinion
Of any Of his friends in regard to a man so
long as the record which the man has written
himself is entirely plain.
These are only a few of the attempts that
we're made to hold up the meeting. Ths
chairman had to pound for order every
few minute h uproar among the
Hearst men was worse when Attorney
General Mayer got up than il had been
before.
Everybody on the platform was certain
that the meeting had been packed for the
purpose of giving Mr.. Hughes rs unpleas-
ant a time as possible. Looking in the
direction of the largest group of disturbers.
Mr.. Mayer said:
Il am starting on on this side of the hall
because in no meeting in this State called
for the purpose Of advocating the candi-
dacy OF Mr.. Hearst has there been a sinrIe
man supporting Mr.. Hughes SO regardless
of his American citizenship as unfairly TO
interrupt the speakers. And the CAM
paign must have fallen pretty low when a
number Of men are sent deliberately n
meetings to interrupt, A campaign is rot
an A pnnriCap ~ M m ION fbat ,lCog gkat aa-k
of thing"
A large part Of the great audience jumped
to its feet and cheered again and again.
Then the Acknowledgement challenged
any man in the crowd who had the courage
OF his convictions to stand up and ask ques-
tons. Not a one stirred, and then there
was another wave of applause.
That ended the trouble, and while Mr..
Hughes spoke there wasn't a quietcr lot
of men in the hall. II was about lo.IS
O'Clock when the candidate finally APP
peared on the platform. There was a wild
scene. Thousands jumped to their feet
and, waving hats and flags, cheered and
cheered until they had to stop from lack
of wind. Mr.. Hughes was 10 hoarse from
his exertions Of the day that his voice would
hardly carry to the far corners Of the hall.
The speech which he delivered was along
the lines that he has followed in his other
speeches. He declared that he did not
seek the Office and that it had come to him
in such a way that it left him entirely I'M
fettered to discharge the duties Of his Office
as he saw them. He did not, he said, want
to unsettle business or aim a blow at any
legitimate business interests.
We do stand. " he added, for fearless
exposure and for determined effort TO cor.
rect the evils that affiict US in business and
in political life, but we address ourselves
TO that question a~ppreciative OF what IL
good and sound and honorable in our BUSH
ness activities and DESTROYS to maintain
the prosperity Of which we are so proud"
I'VE want" said Mr.. Hughes, -our buh-
ness men who are in charge Of great enter
prises 10 be loyal to the law, TO be patriotic
citizens. to recognize their public duty.
and I believe that II is not a dream that
in the near future IL will be more clearly
apprehcnded than 1t Is at the present that
the trucst conservatism is obediense 20 the
law and in support Of just regulations OF
those matters which the public is entitled
10 regulate"