The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-12-01
CITY PoLiTIc S.

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The NIayoralty Canvass epublican Ratio
cation Of WIN. A. Darling for MRyOr-Ad.
dresses BY the Nominee, Rufus r. Andrews,
Horace Greeley, General C0cbrano and
Others.
About ten or twelve hundred persons assembled in
mass meeting last evening At the Cooper Institute to
atify the nomination BY the republican party Of VIM.
A. Darling a. its candidate for the Office Of
Mayor OF New York at the impending election.
A solitary calcium light in Clinton place served to
relieve somewhat the dark and wintry appear.
ance Of the night in that vicinity. and beyond
this there outward display. Within the hall
few national flags suspended the OF the plat
form and front Of the speakers desk the Stars and
be band Of ssna aSmSs,
Of patriotic airs and during tho evening several ward
clubs also entered the hall accompanied by musicians
CHR, Chairman Of the Union Republican General Com
mlttee, who nominated Marshall o. Roberts as President
Of the meeting, which was unanimously adopted list
Of vice presidents numbering about hundred and
fifty names was also read and approved by the meeting
after which the following resolutions were offered by
MI WILLIAM T. RICHARDSON and unanimously adopted
Resolved That the long continued domination Of the
democratic party in the administration Of municipal
81 the people loudly demand change and elevation Of
e se s' se o
reform ,..,, j..
OF al classes Of our eommaniy ~
TAXATION %n, nss nos
has nearly disappeared.
10 their candid amp 9en
Upright CITIZEN q abandon IN the pending sisroS
lie IL
e bs s Of III
powerfully appeals good men OF all parties 70 unite in an
uon by his election
The President then introduced Horace Greeley to the
assembage it's first speaker, Who after making Q
ghnFt adj
Rufus +. Andrews. This gentlemen after few pre-.
limnay remarks said that the republican party stood
before the country stood during the and after
the defeats ut Spottsylva and the Wilderness which
however, were succeeded by permanent triumph II
form OF 1860 when Abraham Lincoln the standard
bearer Of repubcanism They were met last night in
hour o. defeat ss Tor some M OF tsa
the party which had been the means after four years
war, Of putting down the rebellion This, he said was
government Of the people, and whenever the people
said party wrong, that party must adapt s policy
TO the wish and will Of the people. The preceding
speaker had alluded to the singular position in which
the republican party had found itself in this city for
number OF years past IN which became necessary for
m s 20 n OF e vx
body, and he conceded with him in the view taken
BY him in reference to the withdrawal by
for the press they would have elected the who
president Of that meeting a. Mayor Of the city last
year. But the party had now placed In nomination for that
position man Of whose honesty and integrity
could entertain doubt, and who was better fitted fo1
the once Than any other ~ VINO mas n neia or
to tender him his support in the approaching contest
and tho division in the democratic party would enable
them to carry him successfully through the election
The speaker then alluded in q highly euogstc manner
TO the eminent individual qualifications Of the nominee
and closed his address with appeal TO the
audience for their aid in the contest for the chief civic
Office
no desired his thanks for the cordial ratca-
ton rendered him. 1t assured him that he had hold
the confidence Of the republican party and augured
f~~ oarftA IA Ho
there 70 show himself 10 them md let them know
he in earnest. and had no doubt Of tbs fidelity
in their candidate for the Mayoralty. The fact
| that such a large assembage was brought TO-
h ;n', Il. e or a Hson ,nsn
bills or posters said in itself that The republicans
In the power OF the republican party OF this city
elect Mayor Tuesday ns1t, md be had yet to find
Of his candidate. 1t would be an insult 70
a republican 10 think that there were any
such, and that when there was no disadection
in the party they going TO support cot Of men
whose teachings and principles they abhorred The can
that paorm they had both 70 explain
70 the public how much litter each OF them was for tho
Office than the other. They had both exhausted the
either OF them. They had both done good service for
the republican candidate and II he could have chosen
q plan Of campaign for himself he could not have done
better to both Of those gentlemen to do pre-
cisey as they had done. He wanted TO encourage his
H ana no, the % Iss n nor ne oDner
Of republican party In New York and bear IL aloft
70 victory. Why was Il not possible for them, as they
had before elect their candidate through the d.
visions Of their opponcntsY He vas satisfied that In this
city there could be polled republican vote Of at esst
candidate and there we're al eas. twelve
fifteen thousand republican vots that were not poed
at oil a. the last election, and this would give their
other candidates could overcome. He had not been
Idle; no had spared no efort. on his part TO bring
one half for him OF what he would do for them n
elected they would be successful He bad spoken In
four the previous night 70 large bodies OF men,
not all or them republicans or course but all OF them
Darling men, honest working men, whose sympahes
and ter - were WITH the republican party and Who
republicans who had been 70 some extent alenated BY
events from the party, would come together again and
which, they inherit they would Dc found side By eide
With IL And II his friends wouh have free and purc
spay Al the cid ac thy should ey ns
tate they could elect man on their behalf In whose
TIER ana ns pm w &c
Of the republican party in New York which nj stake
IN this issue the eyes Of the republican party through
out the country nxed anxiously upon New York,
and the resuli Of The Presidential campaign would bs
largely Dependent upon her vndcaon and assertion OF
up voice that would secrry the whole republican
party, and show them that here In this metropolis there
asy The Inc and
breadth OF the land This was subject that should
commend itself to every wen meaning. citizen and
patriot who loves his country, and upon The
Tuesday next would 10 . great measure depend
the subsequent success Of the party. tAppiause)
General JOIN CocHRASx was introduced a. the next
speaker and in his opening remarks said that IL was
singular spectacle that eatpoical party which o.
dnary has been successfu In The cou'cs should meet
within those walls asserting doubt whether they could
overcome enemy, or deal him an erectual blow for
the supremacy II was, in fact shame. In speaking
OF the democratic candidates he branded them both
blsck traitors and denounced yernaodc Wood a. the
incarnation Of and the embodiment or trca-
son. The respectable gentleman, Hoffman," wos "a
copperhead traitor" 40 man could not % otherwise
who IN mes1nG at the g. Nicholas
Hotel during the war would raise hts voice
ia the suggestion, mot another dollar orr another
man for this war" The politics OF New York We're Of q
very singular complexion, indeed he did not know that
they deserved the name OF politics They had degenc
rated from great political principles into rings and anti.
rings. Those rings composed In part OF Tammany
men and Mozart men, and some Of the elect mot the
clectedJ were included within these rings who bad