New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-02
Second Madison Square Garden
Meeting Warned No Duration
Contest with Wilson Gath
ering Is Wanted.
SPEECH MORE IN OLD FORM
Big Audience Gives Straus q
20 Minute Demonstration
Colonel and Governorship
Nominee Confne Them
selves to State Issues.

selves to State Issues.
( For the second time in fOrty-eight
/ hours the Progressives rallied at Madi-
/ son Square Garden last night, and
| though the second rally was enthusi-
astic in spots, its spontaneity was not
/ to he compared with the rip-roaring
personal welcome that Theodore Roose-
. Welt got on Wednesday night.
The crowd filed the seats of the Gar
| den-almost 1t may he that there were
/ as many persons there as on Wednes-
| day, but if so they were different
/ crowd. They lacked the punch, when
! compared TO the first rally
/ Even the colonel himself arriving at
/ 9:4j o'clock, did not get anything like
( the same reception. The whole Garden
/ rose in a mass, they cheered, they
waved their flags. but the wild personal
/ greeting TO a game man coming back to
! Che job that dominated the outburst of
/ Wednesday night was not the note one
. heard last night
! This meeting was a political meeting
"a big political meeting-but nothing
more. Hotchkiss, state chairman of the
/ Progressives, who introduced Con-
. troller Prendergast as the chairman OF
/ the meeting. and Prendergast himself
/ each took great pains to tell the crowd
/ hat Colonel Roosevelt did not want
any competition on duration Of cheering
/ with the Wilson meeting Of the night
/ before. The Controller even arranged.
! at Colonel RoOsevet's behest. he said,
a signal system by which the crowd
/ should cease cheering when Roosevelt
! entered.
/ The colonel was 10 raise his left arm
then they were to stop cheering.
Roosevelt Stops the Cheering.
When he entered they began, but IL
/ the twenty-five minutes the cheering
} kept up there were several points at
! which his voice could have been heard
( if he had spoken. Songs and hymns
cook up a good portion of tho Time the
demonstration was on, and at the end
of the twenty-five minutes the colonefs
/ first gesture ended the cheering.
oscar 5. Straus, the Progressive can
! didate for Governor, enjoyed twenty
/ minute ovation when he first essayed
70 speak that was fully as spontaneous
/ as the greeting that met T. r.
The meeting was handled in just
about the same manner AS the rally OF
! Wednesday night. There were the
/ same decorations, the same stuffed bull
moose on the dais toward Madison ave-
nue., with the same calcium light
streaming down on him and the same
| turning of the calcium on the speak
ers platform when the speaking began.
/ Yonkers contributed the only new
feature Of the preliminaries, when
| delegation from that city marched IN
with transparencies announcing who
| they were and shouting it loudly for
| those who didn't read as they ran.
! The big coliseum filled slowly, and at
! S15 o'clock, when the band and sing
/ ing leader who looked something Ike
| George w. Perkins, except for thatch
! of almost white hair, led the audience
! in The Battle Hymn Of the Republic
/ and Onward, Christian Soldiers its
seating accommodations seemed TO be
well taxed.
Mr. Straus appeared at the front OF
the speakers platform at the end or the
singing. and that started the first
united cheering. The nominee was evil
| IDENTIFY pleased as the waves Of noise
rolled around him for twenty minutes,
/ but toward the end Of the demUnsLra>
| tion he appeared TO be worrying ut
keeping up with his schedule for the
| night.
] Hotehkiss Gains Audience.
! FINALLY William II. Hotchkiss stilled
/ them with the gavel from the Progress
siye convention at Syracuse.
! We've filed this great hall again for
| the second time in forty-eight hours,
he said, "a thing no party has ever
dared 10 attempt before. Shall we take
il again tomorrow night?"
Sure, take it for week. came one
/ answer, and another, sure. Perks got
| lots take it again" There were evil
IDENTIFY some few in the hall who had
not been reborn, for the rejoinder
raised a big laugh.
Controller Prendergast introduced
! Mr.. Straus, who was followed by FRED
erick NJ Davenport. candidate Tor
Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Davenport
was still speaking when Colonel Roose-
welt arrived, and, like Johnson on
Wednesday night, he was forced to stop
practically in the middle Of sentence.
The colonel laid all his emphasis in
bis sneech ON the exhortation for votes
for the state ticket of his party, and
for good measure threw III the mint
that the Progressive party would be IN