The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-13
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Iron ADDrrroSAL LOCAL ITEMS SEE OUTSIDE rAeDs.l

The DEMOCRATIC RATIFICATION MEETING
The ratification meeting, which had been an,
nounced in all the papers, aud on an the 1ead
walls OF the city, came OIL on SATURDAY hlgnt IN
front OF Independence Hall.
The following eminent speakers were am
nouDced TO speak, but few appeared MAJOR
General F. p, BLAIR Major General William A.
Richardson, Major General Thomas Ewing Jr.,
Hon. D. w. Voorhees,. Hon. William Beler,
Hon. Thomas b. Florence, Maior.Geuelal al George
O. Morgan, Hon. Hester Clymer, Hon M. Q.
Kerr, don. samuel j. Randall, Hon. James b;
Nicholson, Hon, Francis W. Hughes, 9 3neral
William McCandless, Hon. william A. Wallace,
Hon. Daniel Nj. Fox, Hon.erbomas O. Mellow
ell Furmau Sheppard, ESQ.,, William L. Hirst,
Esq. John OByrDc, Esq, Thomas j. Barger,
ESQ, Charles w. Brooke, ESQ, and Others.
The meeting was organized a, 8 O'Clock, Hon.
Richard Vaux presiding. He made one OF his
Characteristic speeches, in which he claimed
the first practical evidence of the power of prin-
cipes to re establish the government Of the
Constitution. He referred TO Seymour as wise
statesman, and to Mr. Blair as II good soldier.
Mr.. Hemphill, chairman on town meetings,
then read eight or ten names of vice presidents
for tue meeting and concluded by saying, and
fifty others. OF course they we're all elected, as
were also the secretaries. ,
Resolutions denouncing the Republicans as
usurpers; claiming that the Democracy ls the
party of the Union; ladJing seymour aud Blalr,
and endorsing Andrew Johnson, and the city
and county ticket, were declared unanimously
adopted without taking the nega'ivs vote.
As none ofthe prominent epea akels on the long
list cons ,dered the meeting worthy their atten-
ton, the committee was in q dilemma. FOrJu-
natey for the aforesaid committee one of their
plumber found among the Gro Y near the stand
Governor Swami, the friend and standar rd-bearer
of the Rebels OF Maryland. He was hurried to
the front, and just as he WAS introduced the
band struck up au appropriate Rebel tune OF
"Muryland, my Maryland" Both this aud the
Governor we're received with great cheering.
He gave the crowd to understand that the con.
vention had glorifed itself by nominating Sey-
mour and Blair After compl meuting the cam
dIoates as well as he knew how, be continued
his remarks by chargng Stevens, Kelley, aud
Sumner with being disuniouists, cDndemnlng
the Freedmen's Bureau aud the Congress aud
Senate OF the Uuied States.
Colonel Thomas b. Florence was the next
speaker, aud the onl one announced on the list.
He Jumped about in his usual crlckety manner,
causing much uneasiuess to those in front of the
platform, who seemed TO tear that he would leap
upon them. The Colonel talked so freely about
himself and what he intended to do when
elected, that the Committee on Town Meetings
were much displeased for his ate npt to thro "
Seymour and Blair in the shade to satiate his
own personal ambition. He gratide the assem-
blage, which was exceedingly boisterous during
his speech, by predicting 10000 majority Tor the
Democratic ticket IN November aud after recit
ing a short poem and eulogy on Andrew
Johnson, he retired.
Colonel Mcdowell of Harrisburg, was next
trot ed out. Alter denOunclng the radicals, the
'nIceer'' and Bill Kelley, he engaged in d
rambling conversation with the audience aad
was finally given strong hint by Que OF the
committee to quit, which he did, and was loudly
CheeIeo for doing SO.
James B Nicholson, aspiraut for Congress
siopal honors in the Fourth District. was theI
introduced. He based his claims on the GROUND
that he is in favor OF the workingmen, ans
areued that the party was wi him.
Dennis MahoDey and Rev. Mr.. TharIn, not OF
the list, made the concluding speeches, and the
meeting adjourned.