The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1915-07-06

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National Honor" at the mass meet
ing of the Friends of Peace, an emer-
gency organization of the German,
Irish, Austrian and Hungarian socie-
ties of New York.
Those in charge of the meeting es-
timated the crowd at 100000, and
there can be little doubt that the ca
pacity of the Garden might have been
met three times over. It's seats num-
Der 12,243 and when the former Sec
rotary of State arrived at S.25 O'Clock
8 1000 more, at least, filed such stand
ing room as could be wheedled from
the firemen on duty Not since Mr..
Bryan's appearance at the Garden
during the Presidential campaign of
| 1900 has such a tide of humanity
beat against its doors.
Crowds About the Garden.
When the doors were opened at 7
o'clock the streets surrounding the
Garden were packed almost beyond
the control of the 300 police on duty.
An hour later when enough had been
admitted to fill most of the seats,
there had been no appreciable lessen
ing of the crowd, as it looked to those
who viewed it from the streets. Lines
that thrice encircled the great build
! ing waited patiently for the chance
to take any seat that might be va
Gated.
Bands and cart-tail orators kept the
overflow in such contentment as was
possible. and at the four corners Of
the Garden organized meetings were
held, though Mr.. Bryan had no part in
them. He began to speak at $40, and
| lust an hour later he left with Mrs.
Bryan for the Holland House, going
on to Washington at midnight.
It was the old Bryan, too, that re-
turned to Washington. The outpour-
ing itself, the adulation of the audi
ence. the intensity of feeling that
found expression at every opportun-
| ity. brought back the flashing eye, the
passionate gesture, the ringing voice
lof fifteen years ago. Clasping IN his
Earms a great bunch of roses, capped
Eby a dove with outspread wings, Mr..
bryan was radiantly happy as he said
good-by.
The "Star Spangled Banner"
In enthusiasm the outpouring was
as notable as in it's numbers. APP
plause came in roars, deep-chested
and sincere, at each reference to the
two things that seemed to be the
burden of every mind-the possibility
of wart with Germany and the attl-
tude of the American newspapers.
With every roar would come waving
of American flags that blOtted out
the blue and white which forms the
Gardens summer dress. And with
each roar would come, too, bar OF
the "Star Spangled Banner" from the
bands at either end of the hall.
Mr.. Bryan's Speech.
I'm grateful" began Mr.. Bryan,
"for the more than generous words of
your chairman. 1t didn't require
much courage for me to resign. 1t
would have required more to stay.
For / could not have remained with
out having violated what believe to
be a sacred duty.
"In this separation of two officials
there is no personal element When
history writes this page It will be said
that two men. each doing what he be-
lieved to be right, found it impossible
to share responsibility together. The
President could not do otherwise than
he did, nor could l.
u Nothing was concealed. We talked
j it over as two friends should, and
parted as two friends should. And
now / am trying outside the Cabinet
| | IO ASSIST ullll. ne ID uOlHS uuly
as he sees it, and I am doing mine in
crystalizing sentiment against wal
until there can be no war.
81 am not as indignant as you over
the position of the New York press.
am more accustomed to it. l have
been in politics for more than twenty
,
FIVE years, and | tell you that | have
never yet known the New York press
to take the side of the American PEG
pie on any question
A wild burst of cheering stopped
the former Secretary as he said this
$ with emphasis that drew his lip
4 Tight and white.
: Accustomed to Burials.
"You, who are not accustomed t,
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