The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-17

and was accorded a rousinS welcome. His audi
ence were entirely with him when he said;
Il am satisfied that the people of this coun-
try can safely intrust to Governor Cleveland
all the best interests of the land, for he possesses
courage, honesty. and ability to perform every
| function of the presidential Office rs it ought to
be performed. l see in mems faces" he con-
| tluued, ''the same conviction which feel my
self, and that is. that the msn behind me fGov-
ernor Cleveland win be the next President of
the United States The cheering hero was most
Vociferous.
1t was expected that Mr. Hendricks the Dem
ocrane candidate for the vice presidency would
| be present to share the welcome given Mr..
Cleveland, but he did not come. There were
four other stands from which addresses were to
be delivered, each of which had II definite pro
gralnme assigned 1t, but the demonstration was
so vast that the programme got beyond control
OF the committee. All the stands were in use at
one time or another, but many of the speakers
announced before hand were missing For
instance, Edward M. Shepard was chairman at
stand No. 4, and the speakers assigned were
Congressman Samuel j. Randall Governor
Robert Biclane of Maryland, John p.
Stockton OF New Jersey, William Wal
lace, OF Pennsylvania, B. T. Jones of louisiana,
and General Il. B. BaInum When MIR. Shep-
nerd as chairman, had finished his opening adj
dress, there was not one of the above mentioned
speakers on hand they were in or about the
park somewhere but they were lost to the chair
man and 70 the meeting at the stand. Z. Booker
lead, OF Louisville, KY, came to the rescue, and
was followed by Governor Leon Abbot of New
Jersey. who had just come around in search of
stand No. 3 to which he had been assigned.
Among the speakers at the other stands we're
Governor Wallor, Of Connecticut, and Governor
Pattison, of Pennsylvania. 1t would seem that
some of the orators looked upon the speaking as
secondary consideration, and certain 1t Is that
many non-orators looked upon the matter in that
light
The barbecue was held at the further end of
the park. Three wooden Enclosures had been
erected, and within them, on gigantic splits,
three oxen were stretched over glowing Goals.
The three carcasses weighed in the aggregate
g. 700 pounds. The first one had been put on
the spit at midnight and was done to turn by
III o'clock. The other two had been put on at
In the morning and were done in time to
follow the fate OF the first. AS the meat
ready it was carved off the bones in great
chunks and taken into a bowling alley and
placed on long tables, whore it was
cut up into sandwiches and distributed
in neat wooden boxes. Ii cost
the police great efforts to keep the eager, surg
ing mass in line. and each person passed by
the open places the side Of the bowling
aIey he received his box of sandwich. There
was, naturally, soma confusion, aud at one time
one of the wooden Enclosures was broken down
by the excited crowd; but everybody was served
with thick chunk Of bread and meat as long as
1t held out which was till nearly O'Clock in the
afternoon. The barbecue WAS a great success,
and was productive of much fun as well as phys
ipal satisfa off