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Peace Meeting was Warlike. It was Called to Denounce the Cleveland Message, but End? ed in the Most Violent Belligerency. SPEAKERS INTERRUPTED. Dr. Lyman Abbott, Henry George, Ernest Crosby and Others Could Hardly be Heard. >7. Y. Herald, Dec. 24. There was a "peace meeting" last Dight at ''Cooper Union. At least it was called a "peace meeting," but a more bellicose one could cot have been gotten up by Peter Maher, "Bob" Fitz simmons or Senators Chandler and Lodge. There was no bloodshed, and it was a wonder, for the fighting meu were in the majority. Right at the beginning a bald beaded man stood np io the audience and struggled with the police, ard the latter refrained from using their clubs. This meeting, and it was a big one, the great hali being crowded to the doors, was the most remarkable one '- ever held io this place. It was re? markable in this, that the noisy and persistent interrupters of the?spea?ers were not clubbed as they would have been in the days of Alexander Wil? liams. It was strange to see the police? men actually arguing with excited men instead of breaking their heads.' Not a single free citizen was thrown out, although there were numerous sugges? tions to that effect in the course of the evening. THERE WAS PLENTY OF M?8IC. The hall was packed almost as soon ss thc doers were opened. There was no brass band, nothing to amuse the expectant audience, and the numerous police thought they were going to have a quiet time, because there was not a murmur in the audience until the 8peechmaking began. But there was noise enough after that, and it was made by both so-called peacemakers and undoubted warriors. Edwin Lawson Purdy called the meeting' to order, or, as the sequel I proved, to disorder. He began by casting a slur upon President Cleve? land and at once his voice was drowned by hisses. Then be broke off and said that the meeting was for the expression of the opinioo8 of those "grown old in common sense." He introduced a permutent chairman, Ernest Howard Cr.-.?bv. "an American Judge at Cairo." "Phis meeting," said Mr. Crosby, "has been called for the purpose of arresting that epidemic of frothing and hysteria, which seems to have captured many of our fellow citizens, that was brought about by a message of the ? President to Congress calling for the upholding of the Monroe doctrine, even at the price of war." Rounds of applause caused the speaker to pause and the warriors were beginning to assert themselves, in the middle of the hall was a big man with ! an immense shock of red hair, who I began to sing. "For he's a jolly good fellow," wheo a policeman shook his hand at him. "What is that .doctrine ?" continued Mr. Crosby. "There ts something like it ?D Europe. It is this :-The Powers of Europe do not allow anybody to steal except themselves." The audi? ence laughed. "I find that it means precisely the same thing here-that we do not allow anybody to steal except ourselves " GREETED BY HISSES. From the greater part of the hall came a storm of hisses. "Ah ! Cleveland's the stuff !" shout? ed the red headed man. "Yes, the stuff prophet," answered one of thc peaceful, and there was a laugh. "Did the Monroe doctrine," weot on Mr. Crosby, "prevent us stealing the great Stare of Texas ? Did the Monroe doctrine prevent us stealing New Mexico ?" "Yes!" "No!" "Yes!" "No!" was shouted from ail points in the hall. "We bought it !'; cried a man with a bigger voice than any other. The red headed man was swaying his head vig- j orously. ap.d bis jaws were moving, but j he could not be heard io the storm. "Did ii prevent us stealing from the Indians?" said Mr. Crosby, when he ? got a chance, but bc had to stop, for ? there were hisses and confusion. "Am I telling the truth or not ?" "Yes!" "No!" 'Tes!" "No!" "Three cheers for Cleveland !" "For he's a j oliy good fellow." be? gan the red headed one, when a police? man squelched him. A bald headed man whose face is well knowD io the republican club of the new Twentieth stood up and said he wanted tc ask a queston. A policeman J went ever to him. The bald headed mao Dersisted, and the peaceful ones shouted to put him out. Three police? man grabbed the republican Clcveland ite, but they could not move him The ! hall was in the greatest confusioo wheu a friend prevailed on him to sit down. During this episode the fiery headed fellow was saying with great glee, "For he's a jolly good fellow, and so say all of us-hoopla !" MONROE DOCTRINE DEFENDED. "The real Monroe doctrine," con? tinued the speader on the platform, when order was temporarily restored, "is that we are to prevent all aggres? sion on the soil of North and South America, except aggression of own. Why should we say to Eagh thou shalt not steal ?" Here another storm of hisses f the administration forces stopped b The peacemakers responded v cheers, and the cheers drowned the fraio of the man with the flaming loi but be made up in gestn; ? what lacked in voice. The bald hcv'ed g tleman made another effort to ge "?n feet, but friends restrained him. "Supppose we had been asked to terfere on behalf cf the Cuban ins gents," said Mr. Crosby later on. s the suggestion was received with iversal cheers, even the peacemak joining in. ''For three centuries tl have been trodden down by an unbe able tyranny. Tt would have beet blunder, but one we could tolera But there is no excuse for entering uj a quarrel with those who are inferes only in gold mines or otherwise. Pr ident Cleveland's message is an outci of that craze of militarism which 1 been spreading all over this country the past two or three years." "That is right!" cried somebody. "It wants to make our boys in t public schools feel that war is at hand A round of applause. "It wants waste our money on war ships that w never be of any use, that ougbt not be of any use, and it makes so many our citizens North and South who net smelt powder call themselves 'general .majors,' 'colonels,' captains' and soc That is not patriotism. It goes abo with a brass band to get up courage. "Ob ! oh I oh !" groaned a number the audience. WHAT 19 TRUE PATRIOTISM ? "What ?9 true patriotim ? I am much of a patriot as these gentlem; who are honoring us here to-night wi their noise." "Good ! good !" cried the peac makers. "For be's a jolly"-b the readbeaded ons was squelched i the heavy haod of a policeman. "How about his substitute?" yell? a man on the right. "It is a pity," said Mr. Crosby, " thousand pities that Mr. Cleveland di not, before he launched his warlik message, consult; his substitute." "That's right!" yelled the peae makers. *'We say to England :-'It is wron for you to go to war with Venezuel and to refuge to arbitrate,' but we addec ,Unless you do we will go to war wit you.'" Here the baldheaded man wanted t speak again, and there were cries c "Put him out!" and confusion reiguei for a few seconds. The speaker wen on, and when be mentioned Genera Miles' name there were thunders c applause, which were repeated when h said Geearal Miles wanted us to spem $80,000,000 on guns. The warrior now had all their own way, and Mr Crosby retired. The secretary rea< letters from Bishop Pottar and the Riv C. R. Storrs indorsing the "peace' movement and condemning the messagi of the President. DR. ABBOTT'S ADDRESS. The Rev. Dr. Lyman AbboU. o Brooklyn, began in a great calm comparatively speaking, far ther* were only half a dozen gent lerner threatening to punch each other's heads if the police would but allow them. "It is evident," said Dr. Abbott, "that there are many here who dc not think this is a senseless and wicked war cry. ? hope you won'i turn them out, because these are the men I want to talk to Great Britain has on this continent al most as much territory as we have, and therefore we can't take Mr. Cleveland seriously. And so, how can there be a menace to us twenty-five hun dred miles away in South America,? "The idea is absurd-it is worthy of Gilbert, of opera bouffe. Vene? zuela has been for years either under dictators or in the throes of revolution. Any one who compares Venezuela with British Guiana can? not doubt that humanity would be advantaged if Venezuela were de? creased in territory and Great Britain increased " This sentiment evoked another storm of hisses. The peacemakers tried to applaud, but were over? whelmed by their opponents. "Nor is it a question of the Mon? roe doctrine," continued the clergy? man. "Yes, it is!" fiercely shuuted a man who was seated beside a wo? man "It is characteristically un-Ameri? can," answered Dr. Abbott. "It is averse to all the spirit of American history and tradition. America is the great peace society of the globe." "Oh, Lord!" interrupted the red headed man, "fur he's a jolly good fellow-" "Then give; ns arbitration," shout ad his neighb . "Lord Salisbury does not want it," shouted a man near tho platform. Dr. Abbott proceeded : "We have been zealously cultivating the war like sp:?-:c. Wo have called our political meetings 'campaigns,' wo have drilled our boys in the public schools, our civilians put on epaulets, and now it's time to cry a halt." The audience cheered him here, and with still greater vim did the workingmen present join in when he said there was more glory in produc? ing than in destroying and that it was contractors who got all the profit out of wars. Henry George next came to the front and was not warmly greeted. : He spoke with great spirit and clo-1 quence, but when he freely expi ed hie opinions of the message met with just the same opposit He said he came there that night cause he loved the Republic, and merely because it was the land his parents. He remembered time when an American citizen not know what the word "tran meant. Since then, however, had seen all the curses of the World growing up He saw livei servants in the streets and equipa that cast into the shade the vanit of Paris and London. But the th he had been most afraid of was war cry. (Applause ) When people asserted their rights it \ the policy of the ruling classes get up a foreign war The audiei cheered him here. But it was tne fear of foreign aggression t caused ships and fortification to built-but what the government c ed "domestic insurrection." A plause again, and once more when said he was a believer of in the M roe doctrine. "It was really needed in this coi try," he said, "when France invad Mexico to put a foreign Archduke the throne. But this is not the M< roe doctrine-it is a travesty on it He was stopped by hisses* a counter applause, and two pairs disputants began mauling each otr at the back of the hall. Mr Geor said it was only a quarrel about boundary line. "And tor a point of honor," saic gentleman right in front of him "No." said the orator, "it is n for a point of honor. Before tl message how many of us knew abo British Guiana and its boundaric I ara pretty well up in geograph and I didn't know. A point; of ho or, eh 1 What is republicanism that the will of the people shall 1 consulted on important question Did Mr. Cleveland consult the pe pie ? '?Yes"-"No" - " Yes "-" No in alternate shouts from the audienc "For he's a jolly good fellow and i say all-" and two policemen threa ened to yank the read headed rm out. DON'T CONSULT THE CABINET. "I do not believe he consulted eve his Cabinet officers," said M George "Secretary Carlisle con! have told him what the Monroe do? trine was Yet out of the blue cam a bolt. This message says : 'Her is a quarrel.' We don't know abot what. 'It is the duty of the Unite States to step in and settle it, and you don't like that, if you don't thin we ought to settle it, we have ou army and navy to support us.' " The Clevelandite8 cheered thi to the echo, and again they applauder when the commission was referred tc He quoted the newspaper dispatches which 6aid that the merits of th question could be ascertained fron the archives in Mardid. '.That is where England went,' cried-the baldheaded one "That is where England went,' continued Mr George. "Let Eng land go ahead1' "No! no! no!" And hisses and ap plause went up from the body of th< hall. "Let England go ahead," he re peated. "No! no! no!'' welled up li om tin audience again: "You're wrong, Gcrge old ?nan; you're wrong!'' cried a man in th< front row. Chairman Crosby came forward anc said, "Please let Mr. George gc ahead." "I'm resting for breath," said Mr. George, laughingly, "ls it our busi ness to follow England al! around the world and undo her wrongdoing?" "Yes," boldly answered an auditor. "On this continent, yes!" shouted another. "Mind your own business!'' yelled somebody else. "Yes," rejoined the orator, "mind your own business. If we must in? terfere let it be in such a way that the masses of our people shall not be degraded to the level of others. They are playing politics " "Doesn't England play politics?'' from the audience. "Three cheers for the United States!" They were given. CHEERS FOR OLNEY. "Three cheers for Olney!" "Is that the owner of a trust," said Mr. George when the cheering ceased, "or were those cheers for Mr. Cleveland ?" "Yes, yes!" "Well, I cheered once for him" "You will do it again," from the man in front of him. "Never, never!' said Mr. George, and there was moro interruption. "I did when I believed he s::ood for freedom. I thought he stood for a great principle. Little by ?ittle he has abandoned that principle Who o.idiits by it? Tho beats in Wall Street and tho Sultan of Turkey/' Mr. George went on to speak with various interruptions. When he mentioned an evening paper which has denounced the Presidential mes? sage, the name '.vas hissed ai d yelled out. Suddenly there appeared on the stage a stoutly built, excitable, dark featured man, wearing glasses. Ile dodged Mr. George, who retired ; he dodged the chairman and secretary and kept shouting: "Here is a Cuban!7' There were cries o?' pul him out, but he continued, while dancing j about the 8tage:"If Cleveland wants war why does he not help Cuba in the name of liberty allow me to con? tinue." Chairman Crosby howled five min? utes. He was Antonio Mole?a, the grandson of a Venezuelon, so it was said. He made a red hot speech, said he wanted to fight, that Cleve? land was fighting not for honor, but for a third term, and at last got the audience to applaud him Franklin Pierce spoke next, meet? ing with like interruptions, and so did the Rev Mr, Bliss, of Boston, who described himself as a Christian socialist. NOT .AFRAID OF THE PROPHET. Charles Frederick Adams said he was not afraid of the "great stuffed prophet, Grover Cleveland.'' Some? body called out that Cleveland was better than Adams. A man stood up to ask a question and Mr. Adams told him to hire a hall and he would I meet him. "Then it will be a slaughter house,'' yelled a Clevelandite amid laughter. Mr. Adams and his audience wrangled for some time, and the place was in the greatest confusion, and the red headed man in the gayest of ? humor. Three cheers were given for Monroe and the audience then began to guy the speaker. When he stepped aside, Charles Ll. Dutton stood up in the front of the hall and asked the chairman to read a resolution he held in his hand. Mr. Crosby refused* said the Secretary had the floor, and the latter read a resolution naming the chairman and speaker a committee to create public sentiment against the result of the message. The "ayes" and "noes" were divided, but the resolution was declared carried. The hall was in an uproar and half the lights turned out when Mr. Dut? ton jumped on the platform to read his resolution. Two policemen jumped after him, and all but three of the stage lights were turned out. In a second a hundred men were struggling around Dutton and he was forced from the stage. The police behaved well, and got the audience out without bloodshed. Without there were a few little ''affairs'' that soon came to an end. In the audience were Louis Post, | George Francis Train and a large number of single taxers. The red headed man and the bald headed man joined forces outside singing, "For He's a Jolly Good, &C." Panic in a Theatre. Twenty Odd Persons Tram pied to Death. BALTIMORE, Dec. 27.- iVenty-three pc/sona were crushed and trampled to death in a panic at Front Street theatre to-night. Several other* were injured, some of whom will, it is believed, die. The United Orientai Opera and Dra- > inatio company of Boston, under the management of A. Schnogo^d and AbraruTanzman, was .billed to present j the Jewish opera "Aleuder," and the theatre was filled with a motley throng. About 2,500 persons were in the house whsu the orchestra began playing the introductory. A strong odor of gas was noticed in j the second gallery of the theatre and one of the attaches of the place was seen hunting for the leak with a lighted torch. Suddenly a jet of flame flashed out ae the torch came iu contact with the puuctured gas pipe. Cries of "fire" | were beard iu the upper galleries and in an instant the excitement became ! intense. Some one rushed to ibe gas metre and turned off the suppiy, plung- j iog the main body of the house into darkness. The stage jets alone re- j mained lighted, being fed through another metre. Instead of allaying the excitement caused by the sheet of flame from the leaking pipe, the turning off of the gas and consequent darkness only served to j add to the confusion. The audience arose en masse and made a mad rush for the exits. The actors ran down to the foot-lights and shouted "sit down, there's no danger," but the excited throng paid no heed to the advice but continued their wild scramble for the | doors. I The gas was quickly turned on at the ? metre and as the theatre agaiu became j illuminated, an indescribable scene of ; horror was presented. Men, women and I children, crazed by fear, were fighting j and struggling in the aisles and on the j stairways in their efforts to reach the I open air. Thc actors on the stage and a few cooi heads in the audience added to the tar- . moil by shouting their commands to . "6?t down" and cursing those who were ' most vigorous in their efforts to get out. 1 The struggling mase of humanity made : little, or no headway for a few minutes ; . every aisle was congested and every doorway jammed with frantic Poles and Russian Jews who mainly comprised the gathering. Strong men in the rear of the panic-stricken men climbed upon the shoulders of these in front, crushing the weaker men, women and little chil? dren to the floor to bj trampled to death by those still further io thc rear. For several minutes thc wild fight con? tinued. Then a few policeman forced a passageway to the main entrance and I began dragging forth these who were jammed iu the doors. A rushing stream of humanity flowed out on Front j . Street until all those who were able to move reached the opeo air A hurry call for policemen had been i made and a squad was upon the scene j by this time, and a fire alarm bad also [ been sent in bringing some engines to the spot. The excitement in the street was al? most as great as in the theatre, as rela? tives began searching for those from whom they had becomfi separated dur? ing the mad rush. Fathers and moth? ers rushed about lookiug for their chil? dren and attempted ro re enter the theatre io their search for missing ones. The crowd grew so great that the po? lice, fearing a riot, ordered the fire engine hose to bc turned on and in that way the struggling mass was driven back from the rheatre entrance. Meanwhile ofiicers had entered the theatre and encountered a sickening sight, in every direction were found bodies from which life had been crush? ed and trampled. A majority of the victims were young men, girls and children. At a late hour to-night there had been but 14 of the dead identified. Clieraw to Columbia. Construction of the Road Ex? pected to Begin Soon. If the information obtained from what may be considered a most reliable source yesterday is correct, Clumbia's prospects are soou to be greatly brightened by the acquisition of a new railroad linc. The information is to the effect that in the early spring work is to be commenced on the loog-talked-of railroad line from Cheraw to this city, coming here practi? cally on an air line, aod saving a good many miles on the through ru n from north to south by running up a few milee over the present roadbed to Hamlet, N. C , on the main line of the Seaboard Air Line. A?, to who the promoters of this pro? posed line are. the reasons for the con? struction of the road and the effect of its censtruction, however, it is needless to say anything here, for all those mat? tere have time and again been fully ex- \ plained. Tbe point of vital concern is j that the arrangements for constructing the road have at last been practically completed, and it is proposed to begin work in the spring. It is s?.id also that j Contractor Hardin has about concluded the preliminaries to taking the contract It is known that the surveyors have been quietly working over thc route for some time, and about a fortnight ago completed the survey of the lice into j Columbia This road, with the South Bouud will give a straight shoot across South Carolina which will bring about a considerable reduction in mileage and mooing time between the north and the south.-The State. ?S h % m w \^&y?flgk \*&:-&? s?ri?f$i*V Fort Lawn, S. C. 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