The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-11-07
GREAT CONSERVATIVE DEMON.
STRATION LAST NIGHT.
TEN OR TWELVE THOUSAND
PEOPLE PRESENT.
REJoICINGs OVER THE ELECTIONS
Speeches by a7essrs, Johnson, Doug
loss, Walker, Guy, Rerkeley,
Berry, Wise, and others.
CONGRATULATORY TELEGRAMs.

The hearts of our people have been filled
! with gladness since the day utter the elec
tion, when the greatness and extent of Their
victory in Virginia and other States begun
| to be realized and appreciated. There has
been hopefu'hess and buoyaBcv pervadint
the community the like of which has long
been stranger, and the good effect has beer
seen in increased business activity, in gene.
| raj cheerfulness, and in plans for the future
indicating renewal of hope and brighter
prospects. The City Conservative Commit.
tee, desiring that an opportunity should be
given for fitting expression Of the popular
| rejoicing, arranged a great mass-meeting
and invited a number Of distinguished
speakers to be present and make addresses
suitable to the joyous occasion.
THE CLUBS.
The meeting took place last night or
Broad street in front of Ford's Hotel
Early in the evening the Kemper kampaisr
klub put its artillery to work, and with one
gun stationed on Ninth street opposite the
Valentine House., and another planted or
| the walkway in front of the Capitol portico,
| aWOke the echoes Of our seven or eight hills
with repeated salutes. Later they assembled
| at their headquarters on Bank street, formed
in line, and, headed by band Of music
marched down to the rooms of the Old Do.
minion Club, near the Old Market, where the
two clubs and the German Club formed o
procession and marched up to Harmony
Hall, on Broad near Seventh street
where the Excelsior Club fell into
line, and the procession moved down
Broad to Ninth, down Ninth to
Bank, down Bank to Twelfth, up Twelfth
to Franklin, down Franklin to Fourteenth
down Fourteenth to Main, up Main again
and thence by way of Broad street to the
place of meeting. There were probably
four or five hundred men in ranks including
those who "volunteered" for the evening
Everywhere the pavements were crowded
with men, women, and children, and the
eager faces seen in windows and on porticos
aud the cheers, freely given, betrayed the
interest and enthusiasm excited.
| THE TRANsPARENCIEs.
| The transparencies of the Excelsior Club
received general attention. This organiza
ton did splendid work in the late campaign
though less known than its Older brothers
the Old Dominion, the German Conserva.
tive, and the Kemper Kampaign Clubs
Their transparencies bore likenesses of Con
gresham Walker, Senator McRae, and Colo.
mel W. G. Darlington, their president, and
the following Inscriptions:
"The day of redemption not far. Til.den
we know how to wait"
-"New York. Old Dix is gone. Young
Dixie come"
"Good-bye, third term"
"Butler killed by Thompson with a 2.
Massachusetts, goes for the termeite."
Massachusetts 5000 for Gaston."
"Butler bottled forever picture of the
Beast bottled)
THE MEETING.
! The crowd assembled at Ford's Hotel
was largely increased by the arrival of the
clubs and the hundreds who came along
with them. When at its height il was un-
doubtedly the largest public meeting ever
seen in Richmond. To say that it numbered
ten or twelve thousand would probably un.
derstate it. There was one solid mass of peo.
ple from the portico of the hotel to the fence
on the opposite side of Broad street, while
considerable portion Of the crowd occu.
| pied Eleventh street in front Of the old City
| Hall building, oyerran the steps of the hotel,
and filled the rotunda, and found other
places wherever it was possible to hear the
voices of the speakers.
The number Of ladies present was quite
notable. 1t has been many years since as
many attended political demonstration in
Richmond.
The stand for the speakers was in the por'
| tico near the street corner. There were
handsome decorations made by the display
| of flags of all nations, and rows Of colored
| lanterns bearing patriotic devices and in
scrptions.
THE TRIUMPHs OF TUESDAY.
| General Bradley L. johnson, as chairman
| of the City Conservative Committee, under
whose auspices the demonstration was got.
ten up, called the people to order. He elo'
ouenty congratulated his hearers upon the
| result of the recent elections. Alter nine
wears of darkness we now see, he SAID, The
day breaking and the country about TO re-
| turn to the hands Of honest men and lovers
Of right and constitutional liberty. The
triumphs of Tuesday, he believed, were bu'
the forerunners of another one IN 1919, When
we would elect Chief Executive pledged
TO carry out the wise and beneGcent measures
q Democratic Congress would propose. The
| General briefly but very forcibly and effec'
lively recited the wrongs inflicted upon the
Union. and especially upon the South, by
the Radical party, and feryently expressed
gratitude to God that it was about TO depar'
from mower and to become ineffective fol
avil. When the hearts of the brayest were
most tried and most respondent the people
he saw before him were true to themselye:
and to the traditions of their fathers. Wher
troops filled their streets, and military gov
ernment would have held them down, they
nprose and yindicated their honor, and saVet
their State from the disasters and trouole
| that have afflicted others. So he thought n'
had q right to congratulate them upon TIL
tnnrisipg. which was on national scale VIVA
the Virginia movement was for the STATE
II was after conyuisions like this we appre
ciate courage aud conStancy. Ihere wer'
In the crowd many who stood with hln
with their backs t. the Blue Ridge and thel
fronts to Pope's army, when they were Sc |,
narated with Jackson's corps from Lee
army. and the little band stood ,forty.elgn b
hours in a storm of incessant shot anu shell
! Ahout the dusk of evening they heard tn
cannon of Lee coming up the Warrentol
| pike. and they knew that the Dattle had oeel
Won for the reinforcements were coming
The reIn(orcements are coming to the rescu
. of constitutional liberty, and the Donds Q
the neople are nearly over. Victory IS sure
1 After referring to the mighty TALL OF tn
Ra dical party, General johnson presented a.
the first speaker
HON. B. B. DOUGLASS.
Mr.. Douglass was greeted with tremen
dolls cheers as he advanced to the stand.
Was several minutes before the applaus
subsided sufficiently for him TO proceed
/ thongh his voice was as clear and sonorou
AZ though he had not spoken in the air neari
avery day during the late campaign. he de
cIared thst in the days of his boy hood, Wnel
he trayersed these streets attending scnoo
i here. it never entered by conception Q