Morning journal and courier., 1880-08-18


 without number were set off from the stand at the flag staff. When the show of rockets was first opened the young gentlemen having them in charge were little careless, and the sparks from an exploded one set several of them of at once and there was a general bobbing of heads to escape the flying, hissing rockets, which went perambulating among the crowd to the great dismay of those who had assembled to witness the fireworks. And then when the fireworks were exhaustedtand the Democratic orators had exhausted their supply of wind, the crowd turned their faces homeward with a fixed determination to vote for Garfield and Arthur and Bigelow and Bulkeley.
 Alexander Troup opened the meeting at the central stand by announcing the list of off cers as follows
 The Officers.
 Stand No. l.
 PRESIDENT:
 Hon. H. G. Lewis
 PRESIDENTS:
 John H. Leeds E. M Reed,
 D. Cady Eaton, Hilton E. Doolittle, D. L. Carpenter, Charles R. Ruickholdt, James Reynolds, E. M Graves,
 Frederick Mallory Maier Zunder,
 L. N. Blydenburgh, George Rockwell. Colin M Ingersoll, H. P. Frost Geo. A. Basserman, Curtiss F. Evarts, Alexander Troup, Geo. M. Grant.
 T. J. Sliney, Samuel Toles-
 SECRETARIES
 ". w. Stow, Col. John G. Healey A. Heaton Robertson Thomas c. IngersoI, Edmund zacher, pr. Charles Ruickoldt, Richard w. Meigs Dr. A. B. Fuller
 G. Edward Osborn, John F. Shannahan, C. T. Driscol Burton Mansfield.
 Mir. Troup then introduced Hon. Henry G. Lewis, who said that ex-Governor Ingerson had been selected to speak, but his absence from the city necessitated the selection of another presiding officer at this stand. He had been notified that he was to preside at the last moment and would not make an ex- | l.J IL Io coI cheers for Hancock and English, which were given.
 Greene Kendrick, of Waterbury, was then introduced. He commenced his address by referring to the military career of General Hancock He said that there was no need to- day of military strife, yet we were on the eve of great political battle. The question to be decided in the coming election was vital one and was to settle the question whether there was to be hereafter free bal lot The Democracy had nothing to fear in this contest The hero of Gettysburg com mands us, and we have nothing to fear under such a victorious leader. In opposition to the principles of the Democracy we find all there is left of the Republican party. We find banded together against a band of fanatics who ask us to look at parties and not at men. The speaker then entered into a tirade of abuse against General Garfield, and confined by saying that the past twenty years had seen this country in the hands of these different factions of the Republicans. lie paid 8 passing glance at Lincoln's admins I tration as one which was guided by military power, and then talked about the frauds of | the succeeding administrations, which he | said had been a disgrace to the coun- | try at large. CNo cheers). After 8 continued tirade of abuse against ! the Republican candidates the speaker | eulogized the Democratic candidates, and pronounced Hancock a statesman well as \ soldier. He thought the Democratic party was to meet an enemy in this campaign that was interruptions in all their acts. He said I the only arguments of the Republican party | was Sherman's march to sea and Phil. Sheri- 1 dans gallant ride down the Shenandoah val 1 ley. The speaker then eulogized the soldiers I and glorifed the results of the war, and urged | drawing the veil over the past and the North and South uniting on @ common basis for the perpetuity of the Union. On the conclusion of MT. Hendricks address he was greeted l with cheers.
 1 Hon. James H. Olmstead, of Stamford, ex- State attorney of Fairfield county, was the | next speaker. He said he came here as 8 delegate to the Democratic convention and to help nominate the next Governor of the l State of Connecticut. He inquired why MT. l Bigelow was nominated for Governor, and answered it by saying that he was nominated l because the Democratic party had been dl- vided in New Haven, and because they were | SO divided MT. Bigelow had been elected Mayor l and hence they think that they can elect him 1 Governor. tell you, said the speaker, that we will nominate a man tomorrow whom l you have always delighted to honor, and he I will be elected. The speaker then paid his | respects to General Hancock and set him up as second Washington on account of his | letter to General Sherman. He then paid his Y respects to the returning board of Louisiana | and tried to get up enthusiasm on the De | Golyer and Credit Mobilier contracts, but | with apparent poor success. In closing he | said he left the platform for one whom they loved and whom they would delight to hear. l Then the band played.
 l After the band had subsided Secretary Stow read letter from ex-Go7ernor H Hub- | bard in which he expressed his regret that he could not be present. The Governor in his letter paid glowing tribute to General | Hancock.
 l Wallace A. Miles, of Meriden, was next in- l troduced. Like the speakers who had pre- | ceded him, he arraigned General Garfield l and eulogized General Hancock, but just as
 he commenced to speak the fire alarm bells commenced to ring, and 1t was with the great | est difficulty that he could be heard by those nearest to him. He kept on speaking, how ever, and when the bells had ceased ringing he was heard to say something about General l Garfield writing his resignation on the field | of battle to accept 8 nomination for Con- gross. He said that scalping time was almost | | Hayes the Republican candidate would soon be scalped. The speaker then talked about 1 General Hancock at Gettysburg, and quoted | a worn out piece of poetry regarding that 1 great battle and the part that Hancock took | in it. He called upon the soldiers to ''choose | this day whom they would serve, and march | on to victory under the Hancock banner. | (No cheers.)
 | Senator William w. Eaton was next intro duced He said he did not come to New Ha- ven for the purpose of addressing compa- | ny of his fellow citizens, but came to do | work preliminary to convention that was | to place man in nomination on the morrow ! that would carry the State in November. He | said he had been buIldozed into speaking, but 1 he had very little to say. He thought it was l little too early for such a meeting as this. The State ticket should be placed in nomina- tion, and then we should ratify both the Ma tional and State tickets While he had noth- I ing to say against Mir. Bigelow, yet he thought | he was not a statesman like Hubbard or In gerson. The speaker then referred to what l he was pleased to term the electoral fraud, /" | and gloried in the point he took in opposing | it. He said there would be no counting out l in the coming election. He urged on the Democracy of New Haven to give their full | vote at the November election, and if they | did New Haven would poll 5000 majority | for the Democratic ticket, and the man whom the Democrats would nominate for Governor on the morrow would be elected by at least | 5000 majority.
 | When Senator Eaton had concluded Presi- dent Lewis made two or three intellectual ef | forts to find MT. Troup, but being unsuc- cessful he declared the meeting adjourned. Stand No. Q. The stand designated as No. 2, situated on 1 the Chapel street side of the Green, was pre- sided over by Caleb B. Bowers and the fol- lowing officers:
 PRESIDENTS. John c. Byxbee, Luzon B. Morris, A. c. Wilcox Jonathan Ingersoll, T. J. Fox, Charles Atwater,
 Andrew L. Kidston, Edward Heaton,
 Adam Miller Francis Donnelly,
 Joseph c. Joyce, William Parsons,
 William B. Catlin, Philip Hugo,
 Patrick McAveney, P B. Futile,
 John Reynolds Joseph J. Sweeney, George Faulhsber, Ernest Klenke,
 H. D. Phillips.
 SECRETARIES.