The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-13
UNION LEAGUE CLUB.

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING AND ELECTION OF
THE MORTON TICKET ON NOMINATING COM
M1TTEE.
The regular monthly meeting Of the Union League
Club held last night and attracted full house.
as the election Of the Nominating Committee formed
a portion of the programme Of the evening. The
hall of the club was packed with gentlemen election.
eerlng for their respective candidates, and as the
members entered the door they at once button.
holed and handed copies Of the different tickets
1t is not often that there is SO much feeling dis
played in a club election, but last night everybody
seemed to working IL the interests of the coun-
try at stake. colored youth in pages livery
was one OF the most active parties the floor, he
kept mp almost incessant ringing OF hand bell,
occasionally stopping for a moment to rcadjust the
tongue, which was once or twice slung on the hoor
through the violence of his gymnastics.
TICKETS.
The following tickets were in the field
H:% $;:s s.; &C..
j. VI. Goddard. George Jones. George Jones'
j. d. Lyon. Dr.TM.Checscman- II. L. Rowland
The inspectors and canvassers, W. H. Hurlbut
David Milliken Jr, were the same on each ticket.
VARIOUS OPINIONS.
There appeared to be quite diversity of opinion
among the members TO the of the opposition
to the Morton ticket One gentleman said II was .
c0nklng nght, ana another was equally cOnQdent
that the fight was made in order to defeat
gentleman who had made himself very prominent
in support OF the Morton ticket. One of the young
members. a supporter OF the Morgan ticket. said
there was really no very great Importance to be
attached to the matter There was certainly strong
feeling among a number of the young members OF
the club that 1t would be better to pay less
attention to politics. In the war times 1t
was all right. as every member was then
of the same opinion but the club had changed very
much since then and he believed IL vote were cast
to-day one-haf Of the club would vote against Hayes
IL had always been customary election day for the
club TO hang out banner, and that something
to which q number of the members objected.
The canvassing for votes was actively kept up
until ten +. NJ when the polls closed and the ma
iority of the members sat down to liberal free lunch
provided by the club.
THE MEETING.
The meeting was held in the theatre. and President
George Cabot Ward delivered address to the menu
bcrs, this the last meeting of the year. Mr..
Wards remarks for the most part confined to
the financial legislation of the past year.
resolution framed expressing the gratitude
and thanks of the members of the club to Mr.. Ward
for his various services in connection with the club
since its organization.
MoRroN's TICKET ELECTED.
In the meantime the tellcrs were hard Mt work
counting the votes and shortly after eleven p. M
Montague, 800; ii. T.. Rowland. ZIG; L. r. Norton
sos; William Dowd, 303: J. Warren Goddard, 800;
Henry &. Ward 232; John d. Lyon, 23g; DR.. L. NJ
Cheeseman, 1j4; Ex-Governor Il. ID. Morgan, $50;
George Jones, 147; John Sloane. 107. and Alexander
Mel Agnew, 100 The result OF the election was re-
ceived with great applause, and the regular ticket
headed by Mr.. Levi r. Morton, declared duly elected