Los Angeles daily herald., 1875-09-09
ESPECIAL TO THE HERALD !
Serious Riot at Clinton, Miss.
Five Hundred Negroes
Killed.
Large Meeting In Union Hall-Res-
oIutiOns and Speeches.
PACIFIC COAST.
,eeches at Union Hall Last Night.

the friends of RalStcn the BULleti1
and Call offices were strongly guarded
by large force of policemen.
Fifteen thousand people were in and
about Union Hall tonight to partici-
pate in the meeting to eulogize the
late VIM. c. Ralston, and to denounce
the Bulletin and Callfor their SANDER
GUS attacks upon him while living,
and the infamous article published
while 10000 people were attending his
funeral. The immense Hall was
crowded long before eight o'clock and
the street was packed for a whole
block with people. Addresses were
made from two or three platforms out
side of the Hall.
The inside meeting was jammed, the
seats having been removed to make
room. The meeting was organized
with a President and ninety Vice
Presidents, composed of leading capi-
talists and merchants, as we'll as law
yers and clergymen. Among them
were the newly elected mayor Bryant,
VIM. T. Coleman, General John Hews-
ton, Peter Donohue, Judges Dwinelle
and Heydenfeldt, Isaac Friedlander,
Louis Sloss, Rev. A. l.. Stone and Rev.
John Hemphill. Prayer was offered
by Rev. w. III. Platt.
Colonel Barnes delivered an elo-
quent eulogy, followed by Hon. Thos.
Fitch, who denounced the Bulletin
and Call for their unrighteous, unjust
and unmanly attacks on deceased;
said his defamers are execrated as
having disgraced the honorable call
ing of journalists, and unworthy of
recognition among men. Mr.. Fitch
carried the entire assemblage, from
the touching eulogy to the bitter re-
proach and plain but terrible express
sions in such manner as only Fitch
can express himself. The meeting
passed off without any disturbance,
and the resolutions were adopted with
tremendous shout and showing Of
hands by the whole mass. The last
resolution was passed at one of the
platforms on the street.
Resolutions Passed at the Meeting I'm
Union Hall Last Night.
SAN FRANCISCO, September Sth.-
The following resolutions were passed
at the meeting held in Union Hall
this evening:
WHEREAS, The citizens of San
Francisco have here assembled to de.
clare their solemn sense of the irrepar-
able loss the city has sustained in the
untimely death of VIM. G. Ralston,
and to express their heartfelt sympa-
thy with those bound to him by ties
of blood and family connection in their
aff1iction, and to record in unmistak-
able language their utter condemna-
ton and adherence of the savage bru-
tality and cruelty of certain of the
daily newspapers of this city for the
course they have unrelentingly and
unjustifiedly pursued toward his name
and memory since his decease; there
fore be it
RESOLVED, That in reviewing the life
OF VIM. G. Ralston, deceased, we rec
ognize one of the first citizens of San
Francisco, the master spirit of her in
dustrial enterprises, the most bounte-
Gus giver to her charities, the founder
of her financial credit, and the warm
supporter of every public and private
effort to augment her prosperity and
welfare; that to his sagacity, activity
and enterprise San Francisco owes
much of her present material prosper
ity, and in his death has sustained an
irrrparable loss; that in his business
conceptions he was giant, in social
life an answering friend, and in all
the attributes of his character he was
man worthy of love and trust.
RESOLVED, That the citizens of San
Francisco, without distinction of party,
caste or class, in public council now
assembled, tender to the widow and
family of our lamented benefactor aud
friend our tenderost sympathies for
their and our great loss.
Resotved-That the coarse, brutal
and unjustifiable attacks of the Daily
Evening Bulletin and Daily Morning
Cati, upon the personal character Of
Mr.. Ralston, which did not cease even
while his remains were being follow
ed to the grave by his grief stricken
family and friends, merit the severest
censure, and we renounce the course
of both journals as being in violation
of decency, and their assertions we
brand as Infamous libels upon the
dead, and we declare that the perpetra-
tors of them have disgraced civiliza-
ton and humanity everywhere.
Resotued-That with calm, thor
ough and profound conviction Of the
deep Importance of our action, we re-
commend and urge upon our fellow
citizens, from this time henceforth,
to withdraw their advertising patron
age from and cease their subscription
to, and no longer sustain or encourage
either the San Francisco Daily Even
ing Bulletin or the Daily Morning Call,
and by all lawful means to convince
the world that the people of this CITY