New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-12
THE MEETING.

.r,r CROWDS IN TIE HALL-PEoMINENT rkRsoNs
ppgsFNr-cOMMENrs UPON TIE ADDRESS.
Il IL no cxaegeTation to say bat the meet
as the largest Cooper Institute las seen since The
lnr M; merely he main la, seatng probably two
snusand persona With Standing room for Eve hundred
oc was filed but tho wide corridor OH Jhht-ave tho
,apco hall Oh IssLth-st, and every eonnittee-room
- h,eb his voice cold roach, though the speaker was
- were crowded in fact literally packed lIalf an
- hsfore the hour named for the organization OF the
st,r admission to the body OF the nall MAS Almost
,ss,lle ard selected officers and the speaker OF the
a-snny himself had to beg their way to the platform.
letter was as painfully crowded with invited guests
1,dv Of the bah aud iugress was impossible after
a. s,e,ker begen, AMI egress VAS almost as d'lcUt
-. 20 the pressure 10 the cOmmiitec-ro0nl, through
which tho platform is approaehed
~, olv IN numbers alpne but in the prominence OF
.ho rersons present the meeting impressive De
.ides tito usual largc quota OF active ~htic'ns always
SOC, AZ such meetings. there were seen numbers 81 ed
,n merchants, Gnanyicrs, and lawyers Of Hcw-fork'
officials not Ony of tho city hut thu state and
r,topsl governments. and fair sprinblg OF ladies
Iopy chose OF commercial and professional leputat'on'
,o gured also as officers of the meeting, Were George
oDdvEe who presided, MaTshall o. Ro6er's, JOIN X.
Porter Edward Solomon, SGniel r. Russles traStds u
peneaiet Elliott f. Shepard, F. d. TaIpen Theodore
" dwight. Henry NJ. Rugslcs, John A. G. Gray c. P.
Iytington Edgar Kctcium. Robert L. Kennedy. Joseph
noliemap a. p Iowery j. K SiuyYesant and many
shsrs secretaries Chandler aud Tyner. Of President
S-opts staff and ex-Gov. Robinson of Ncw-Yos, we're
tosntly pointed OHt as distinguished persons Ch the
n,att,rm Among others observed we're Collector
Arthur Surveyor Sharpe. DiSriCt-AroIney Phelps,
sa,eu, H. Wales George Bliss, Alderman Hess +. T.
Howe and many others known as active CasIom-houso
Yolitieians uniting in harmonious approval ana ap
nansc OF the sentiments OF such leading Liberals aud
Iude,eudent Republicans as Benjamin T. Manienc, John
coehrape Thomas f. stewart. and ElwOOd T. Inorne'
There WAS also large number OF those city officers who
have been recognized conservative Republicans such
"a Police Commissioners Wheeler and E.hardt aud not
few Democrats OF long standing including Col Cava-
naueh and Gen. Bartlett both formerly Democratic
Congressman who shortly " take the stump Tor the
Republican nominees
The speech was nearly hours in length, but as the
Interruptions frequent, in6ced almost continuous
n seemed very short and when Mr. Ingersol concluded
his FIRE OF opigrams loud calls and appeals to
him TO go on. There suggestions by some OF the
managers OF other speakers who might follow him. but
the prcsdng officer wisely dec led to submit other
ordinary speaker to the too test of scaSns on
the came occasion with Mr.. mgerS0ll. The uuverssi
aggression was that tue effort OF the best stump
speecbes ever delivered in this city. ChaUncey N.
Depew in leaving the hall remarked thai 1t wa' the
greatest speech had heard, and numbers OF ola
canpaigners we're equally enthusiastic at its con
cluson the reception which Mr.. Ingerso held ON tic
platform LASTED over half hour, and when, Hnay,
Commissioner Wheeler PilOtcd hm through lie crowd
% his coach four hundred of tue auGoncs fol
lowed. aud gave him lusty cheers as he drove OF.