The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-25
Prepared Speech Overshad-
owed by Bitter Attack
on Newspapers.
CROWD SHOUTS TO
"KILL" INTERRUPTER
Sinking of the Lusitania
Praised by Congressman
VOllmer of Iowa.

Tonight plead against war with
Germany. should similar circumstances
arise with France. England or Russia
would plead just as ardently against
war with any OF those countries"
, Those words were uttered last night
~ william Jennings Bryan in the course
OF his speech on National Honor at a
meeting held under the auspices of the
Friends of Peace" in Madison Square
Garden.
A. Mr.. Bryan banged his fist on the
railing OF the speakers platform, his
eyes fashing-it was different Bryan
from the sleek Secretary OF State-12,O0o
men and women in the Garden leaped
to their feet. They waved American
flags. They shouted; they whistled;
they stamped their feet and they
thrieked.
outside the Garden $4,000 more per-
sons reused by the emphatic demon
s,ration within, took up the cheering
and II rose and swelled from the throats
Q. the vast throns In the thoroughfares
b Broadway and along Madison avenue
to Twenty-third street.
Congressman vollmer Of Iowa made
q speech which, next to Mr.. Bryan's. was
the hit of the evening because he struck
ottenest at England. the arms traffic
and the subsidized press" Among
other things he praised the sinking of
the Lusitania.
Between $4,000 and 10000.
There were conservatively between
5000 and 10000 persons assembled to
voice their approval of resolutions
agalnst war. The chairman of the meet
Ing put the number at 100000; the police
Inspector In charge OF police arrange
uenis estimated it at 10000.
For minutes the crowd cheered Mr..
Bryan when ne entered the hall. They
greeted him impressively when he was
introduced and kept on cheering until he
forced them TO silence by beginning to
speak They interrupted his address
Nm vocterously. The majority of the
people present were German Americans.
With spr!nkling of members of Irish
and Scottish societies, also a few
Socialists
Butswhie Mr.. Bryan held high the
cove OF peace-and he received one with
bouquet of roses when he had finished
n mad the voice of a hungry wolf for
'he newspapers Eloauently and idealis-
Vcilly as he pleaded for universal peace,
;.s' ds emphatically he assailed the
new York newspapers, saying they never
-al been ON the side of the people In all
'e llme he has been in politics, and
'ssaiIlhs them for seeking for more than
~ years 10 assassinate him.
shows Bitterness.
u was bitter Mr.. Bryan who spoke.
u outer against the newspapers for having
-Udcked him as Secretary OF State and
4 an opponent OF President Wilson's
,eaVe programme. II also was fight
's Mr, Bryan. The lines on his face,
"e ueep set, melancholy expression
hat came across his face, showed
Na' he was fghting not only for
90 peace propaganda but to rehabilitate
I.''SeIt IN the eyes of the men who
w portfolio at such critical time.
iT"tE oout his speech he was inter-
'-peu Win side comments. with an oc-
'a'"hd' hostile remark which came at
WWtfNhls In the shape of "Iiow about
+pA''o These became SO persistent
s%. s%a voices shouted OF the interrupter.
r't uln Out" XIII him I"
u. was not until . o'clock .that Henry
"'NWtu. chairman of the meeting
d nj Ilrua
S.' SS.' "'''rNrg Col. Roosevelt. Then Mr..
''5 yam ''"ped forward to the railing
'' |"ie9 he had prepared IA formal
''ss .e spoke for fifteen minutes
%',L' Do" reached that. Mr.. Bryan said
~ FOUND II impossible to measure his
NaI' part with the standards set by
.' 'Nt uu4u.
~ '.I not require much courage to
sn No. said in referring to his
aii."HA'r rom the State Department.
g." ""ulo have required more courage
nav" remained without having vio-
'" Nhil ! believed to be the require
'.' o' duty, and | call your attention
80 "t '"' that in this separation of
""''Is there Is no personal element.
Parted as Friends.
;. N''' history writes this page II will
sa'l '.wf Two men. each doing what
"ne'"d TO be right. found 1t i'm
,.D'e 70 share the responsibility to-
e"'F tn" President could not have
"' ol'crN Sc, believing AZ he did, and
Vouid NOT have done otherwise, be-
',p Fl" J did We separated as friends
'' ~" '''l"s outside OF the Cabinet
a'N.r- H.u
II is 1u duty 10 crystallIze the senti-
"" i.' H'toc until the demand for
'''.e aiI drown the demand for war,
thutiHusd on Fourth PaOs