The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-10-20
THE DEMOCRATIC MEETING LAST NIGHT.
ALMOST A FIZZLE.
4 Young Mechanic Prates of Respectability-
Goodness.

We Law before our readers an account of
the proceedings ofthe grand Democratic raj
ly last night, which came off in front of the
City Halh This was the second attempt to
cali together the respectables, the first haY-
ing fizzled for reasons unknown to us.
The meeting was not near so largely at
tended as was the Republican meeting,.
held at the same place few nights before,
and we doubt very much if there were
many more white persons present than at
the one held by our party.
About Z o'clock last night squad of
about twenty hirelings of the party moved
to the City fall, and commenced arranging
for the grand affair, such as erecting stands,
hanging lamps, and swallowing an immense
quantity of bad whiskey.
After all the preliminary arrangements
had been completed and the hurrahers had
taken on sufficient quantity of benzine to
get up their courage, Judge W. W. Crump
was introduced, who excused himself from
making lengthy speech, owing to his ina
bility to speak in the open air. The burthen
of his song was that there was great fear OF
the defeat of the present ticket, because OF
the unpopularity of several of the gentle
men who were on it he therefore urged
extra exertion in order to carry SO unpopu-
lar ticket.
lie was followed by the Grand Cyclops
of Klu-Kluxism, II. L. Daniel, Esq, who
heads the legislative ticket-or rather who
has slipped from the tail to the head he
having been chosen only after the declen-
sion Of Judge Meredith.
lie too, chmed in with Judge Crump,
and acknowledged the fact that great dis
satisfaction existed with the ticket because
of the dislike of the people of several indi-
yiduals who are upon it. He spoke OF
what he knew in this respect, for no man
in. Richmond knows better than himself
how unpopular the ticket is--he having
been there himself. lie is one Of the
heaviest loads that ever Democracy at
tempted to carry, but his anxiety to try
himself just once was so great, the party
found it impossible to get rid of him. Ger
tainly, they need not have had fears of his
deserving the party, as we know Of no 9TH
er that would be willing to cucumber it.
self with him. His remarks were but the
rehash of old, stale dead matters, lending
out little interest to his speech. II there
had been anything good i'll 'em, it would
have been destroyed by the untimely
cheers Of the hirelings, who were totally
regardless of the proper time to come in
with their huzzas. The proximity Of one
or two bar-rooms accounts for this mistake.
An occasional sly-rocket was flung high
in the heavens, adding by their blue light
fearful look to the sober and Respondent
countenances Of the wise men of the party
who were present.
The sky-rockets seemed more interesting
to the crowd than the stale remarks oil the
great Tycoon.
His efforts to prove the negro an inferior
creature, were as weak as the rest of his
speech. The crowd present was soon con-
vlnced that Mr.. Daniel was doing battle in
hopeless effort to succeed, unless fraud IS
made the means Of carrying the election.
1t is hopeless without cheatery.
Mr.. Gilman, another one OF the candl-
dates, was then introduced, who made de-
cidedly the best speech of the evening.
Among other things, he paraded before the
public the part. he had taken in deceivng
the people of the State in the Walker cam
paign, but failed to tell them whether or
not it was necessary to wear two faces
nosc, as it was when Senator Lewis charged
him and Walker with falsifying the real
intent, and original purposes of the Walker
| Movement.
| Mr.. Gilman is the most popular man on
the ticket, but number OF his friends
think he over-rates his own ability, nd
that he is mistaken in the idea which has
seized him-that Gilman moves the uni
! verse.
The 7th Of November will be likely to
deprive him of such vain opinions, and will
I ,.,fr ha 10, nathan y,,.c5,hlt n
a Sampson.
Mr.. Brown, an honest young mechanic
of this city, had his ''put in and of course
charged that the contest was between in
telligence and respectabllity on one
side and ignorance and deprayity on the
other. "Put beggar on horse," &c.
Mr.. Brown is in peculiarly fitting posi-.
ton to talk respectability, when his OWL
experience has taught him that mechanics
occupy the highest positions of respecta
| bility q among those with whom he is now
associated. lie is going up like a sky
rocket, and will come down like stick.
Messrs. Dooley and Loyenstein made ;
few plain remarks, neither of whom made
any marked impression on the crowd
Sky-rocllets failed to fly as thick or higi
as when the Grand Sanhcdrim was on TIN
stand. No necessity for it, of course, a
they were Of less importance.
James Mcdowell Darlington, Esq, an
other professed champion of Democracy
was on hand, and aided by his eloquenc,
the dissemination of Democratic ideas.
A number of our country friends will re
cognize in Mr.. Darlington, one of that no
ble family OF people, who were no soone
taught to speak than they learned to de
spise Democracy.
There are some Old Line Wings who cal
afford to affiliate with Democracy, but it i
impossible for us to concede that Caring
ton or Virginia Preston can afford it,
Their antecedents deny their sincerity, an,
while we regret to see one Of this nobl
stock in such unfit companionship, the,
must all finally come back to the fold Q
which they.were once so proud.
Array Major Darlington on the sid
where he properly belongs, and that
against Democracy, and Virginia woul
: soon resound with the eloquencc and cari
! on notes of rare talent, as she did in year
long gone by. As he is now situated, hi
! voice and soul is stilled by the remembrance
, of the glorious past of noble ancestry.
So many of the faithful having grow
; weary, and one by one dropping Off, tn
speakers were left in such majority as il
duced them to suddenly adjourn their meet