New-York tribune., 1877-01-09
AN uL-ADyIsED MEETING.

,-rv DEMOCRATIC MASS MEETING IN WASHINGTON
,uscUFvors IN ITS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
NEssEs MERlICK. wATTERsON, AND PULITZER
DANGEROUS APPEAL 70 PAss!ON-A HUGE MASS
MEETING OS TIE I4TH OF FEBRUARY THREAT
ENED.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUSE.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The influence of the
Democratic meeting held this afternoon at Fords
opera House cannot be good may be very mschiev-
an. There never a time when II more the duty
~ ALI public men 10 divest themselves Of partisan preu-
dice and consider the complicated questions oi po-
hcal crisis with judicial calmness There arc honest
aarcnccs opinion TO be met with at every step; dis
sreruents AS to the result OF the late election when
bopestv and legally ascertsned differences a. TO the
legal and constitutional method OF counting the vote;
anus a. 10 The effect OF count when IL has been
made y w the Republican party an organization has
taken position in regard to these questions some IN
dydu members Of that party have declared 1t 10 De
their opinion that the President OF the Senate Is a-
by the Constitution 10 count the electoral votes
but neither the Senate other body which has
authority 10 speak the Republican party has yetpub
rely declared itself in Of that. and the prODaDi-
ties nov that any course is determined upon Dy the
Republicans before the l4h Of February 1t Will not De
,ne that contempates placing that power III the hands
O. the acting Vice-President
- far therefore, or two OF the orators al the
opegghouse to-day worked themselves into passion
over the assumption unwarranted power by the Piesi-
erut Of tic senate by the Senate ITSELF they we're
nrltug IN of straw. The speech or k l. MefTick,
the chairman the meeting on the whole calm ana
ueac,ae in it, tone ana Henry Waterson, who followed
him only once OF became warke in the tenor OF
IN, remarks His rather that OF alarm than OF
defiance though predicted with much feeling lhat the
people would submit 10 any unusual or questionable
proceedings In connection with the counting OF the eec
ora vote The striking thing III WattersOns whole
peech was his declaration that 100000 unarned Amer
lean citizens will assemble at the Capital on the l4h Oh
February 10 person the fight OF peutoh 10
Congress guaranteed ,hem by the Constitution, and 10
demand hat the shah be coanted as II always mas
been FMS annOunceme has caused many TO ask To-
day n IL i part Of the Democratic programme TO hoio
mass meeting IN Washington the 14th Uf February
for the purpose mtmdatng the senate or Congress
Jos Pulitzer the German orator from the West, VINO
FOL owed Waterson, extremely mceDdary ana reNo-
lusuIry IN the of his speech He considered the
otoue now raised Of greater Importance than those
involved n SOL when, he told the audience he went
into the Federal army and fought for the Union Ihis
declaration fair specimen Of the most OF ms speech
one calculated 70 the passions OF his audience
snl 10 cause disturbance rather than TO auay excite
menf The remaining speeches were more moderate III
then tone especially those ~ Mr.. TarbOx aud Gen
Hooker Of Mississippi The meeting may not have done
much barn. but IL certainly mas done no good.