The New York herald., 1872-09-20
KINGS COUNTY RATIFICATION.
Tremendous Popular Outburst and Endorse
o. msnt Of tho Coalition Ticket. er
Maas Meetings at the Academy Of Music,
Brooklyn Hall and on tho Streets.
spseshss Of Francis Herman, General Fitzpatrick
y, Chauncey Depew and Others

Ine E1eh OF Kings county VINO nave panooo W
sether and pledged their determination to move
sorward upon the rampartss Of the administration
under the standard OF the Ghappaqua woodcnopper,
the self.styled candidate OF universal amnesty"
marshalled In vast numbers In Brooklyn last night
The political managers OF the regular democratic
and liberal republican general organizations
NUT forward their united strength In this their first
Grand EFFORT to impress the non-of1ce- seeking and
non-o1ice- holding community that this s an issue
Of principle, in which all honest men favorable to
good government and opposed to 1.-THE present cor
rupt administration" should at once enroll them
selves under the coalition Greeley and Herman
nag. The sight presented to the view OF the close
observer Of political lines in Kings county was
certainly in keeping with the sentiments of the
white-hatted candidate for the White House, who
'believes that parties ought to rse nourish decay
and pass away" Never before within the memory
Of the most green -mouldy resident Of Brooklyn
have 30 many prominent agitat0rs OF adverse
political doctrines met to shake hands across tn Q
sanguiuary chasm, which may be said to have been
fairly bridged by the engineers who drove the
spiles which support the Cincinnati platform. Life
long party opponents were to be seen exerting
their utmost power to promote the same end, to
reach the same goal In November next, nghting
shoulder to shoulder in, one grand cause, from
which Farmer Greeley, the renowned agricultural
8utnOIlty, unQ rTanClS herman, tne uemOCratlC
candidate, are supposed to derive the benefits
which they, In turn, viii distribute among their
iaithfu followers. Certain it is that the repubi-
cans who fell, not from grace, but from Grant, We'd
with their Balnmorean anti Bourbon democratic
fellow-citzens upon this long-to-beremembered
occasion In lo0senng their purse strings to defray
the cost OF the grand, noisy and enthusiastic de-
m0nstration which took place In the City OF
Churches last night
The doors OF the Academy Of Music were thrown
open shortly after seven O'Clock, which was the
signa for grand rush Of the unterrified, who as
sembed even at that early hour without. Pell-mell
down the aisle rushed the advanced guard or the
vast audience, which subsequently thrOnged the fine
building literally nom pit to dome. The front seats
were secured by the early birds, among whom were
afew OF the gentler The Twenty third Regiment
Band In the orchestra then proceeded to hammer
away with might and main upon kettle and bass
drums and to blow their wind instruments until
those who were nearest them fairly groaned he
meath the fearful tax or strain produced upon the
organs OF sound Upon the stage were seated the
vice presidents and secretaries of the mass meet
tng-men OF might and selfimportance, who
are supposed to carry great weight with them upon
all such public local occasions. The scenery was
arranged so as to represent the Chappaqua farm,
In which trees, with branches artstically cropped
were the most prominent feature. In the back
ground stood forth in gilt letters the mOtt0:- -
Ju M n INNI