MIGHT LOSE JEWISH VOTES.
Democrats Uneasy Over Judge Wallace's
Speech -- A Mass Meeting Called.
"At a meeting held Saturday by the Bar association, one of its members, Judge Wallace, in a speech referred in such a way to a large number of our citizens as to cause many people to believe that his purpose was the inciting of religious antagonism.
"This is the Twentieth century. Possibly the judge does not know it. You are respectfully requested to attend a meeting to be held Wednesday evening at Mechanics' hall, 1226 Grand avenue, where such action will be taken as may be deemed proper in the premises."-- Call for a mass meeting being circulated to-day.
Judge W. H. Wallace has stirred up strife among his political associates. They are concerned for the effect upon the Democratic party of the speech made by the judge before the Bar association Saturday night in which he reflected on the Jews connected with the Theatrical trust.
If nothing should be done to offset it they feared there might be serious trouble for the party at the next election.
Accordingly a mass meeting -- non-partisan, of course, is to be held as a sort of counter irritant. There is no avowed sponsor for the meeting, but twenty men were circulating this morning what might be termed a combined petition and invitation to attend the meeting.
No programme of speakers has been arranged, but the men who are circulating the call for the meeting say the speeches will be worth while. The meeting is scheduled for to-morrow night in Mechanics' hall, 1226 Grand avenue.
A man in charge of one of the petitions denied this morning that it was to be a Democratic meeting. But he couldn't recall the name of any Republican circulating one of the documents.
"Everybody's for it, though," he said.
