The state journal. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1883-1885, 1884-10-25
MR., BLAINE ENDORSED
BY BUSY BUSINESS MEN OF
GOTHAM,
onstratfon of the Kind Ever Held In
Wall Street-Many Distinguished
Men Present--Thousands of
Business Men on Parade-&c.

VI. Dldlle IOT Lu6 1I6sluCuCJ, noo thC
heartiest and most enthusiastic meeting
of the sort ever held in this city for such
purpose. The meeting was an i'm
mense success. People who were sur
prised at the size of the gathering on
the occasion of the Democratic
demonstration in Wall street some days
ago, were utterly bewildered yesterday
when confronted by the mass of people
which thronged Wall street from Broad
way to William street, and overlooked
on Broad street from the sub Treasury
steps to the Custom House. No CON-
parison between the two meetings can be
made for while there were admittedly
not over 1000 people at the Democratic
demonstration, fully 10000 thronged the
streets named yesterday afternoon. 1t
was The original Intention to have all the
speakers address the meeting from the
snb-Treasury steps, at the corner OF Wall
and Nassau streets, but early yesterday
it was evident that the crowd would be
too large, and it was decided to have
three speaking Sandstone from the sub
Treasury steps, another from the Custom
House steps and another from platform
erected at the corner Of William and Wall
streets.
The Speakers and the Officers of tho Meet
@ ing. tEle iss
The list of the speakers included Sec
retary Gresham, Senators Hale, of Maine,
and HaWley, of Connecticut; Stewart L..
Woodford, George S. Boutwell,, Sherman
S. Rogers, Alexander Sullivan and State
Senator Dennis p. Mccarthy. ~~6
The list of presidents included the
names of $50 leading merchants and
bankers of this city, while among the
secretaries were about the same number
Of representatives of similar interests.
Great Outpouring of Business Men. u
All tlay long in commercial circles the
usual talk of business interests gave way
to discussion about the afternoons
demonstration. In innumerable trading
houses along the line CT march flags and
bunting were profusely displayed, and
| immense portraits of Blaine and Logan
were hung in windows. The first Or
ganization to prepare for the demonstra-
ton was the Dry Goods association, which,
headed by the 7th Regiment band,
marched 2, 500 strong, down Broadway.
At Reade street the West Side Merchants
association fell in line. with 300 men, and
at Chambers street 200 hardware mer-
chants Joined, and also the jewelers. zoe
strong, and The Stock Exchange Blaine
and Logan legion. The latter body took
the head of the procession, with its full
| 1000 men.
| From Worth street down the crowds
were dense, and increased in size until at
the Produce Exchange building nothing
but mass of black could be seen where
| the streets usually are. At the Produce
| Exchange building the organization from
| that exchange took Its place in the parade,
Grand Marshal Sabin leading 1000 men.
| The delegation from the Petroleum eX-
changes, 500 strong, the lower Wall
Street Merchants Club, 250 strong, and
| the Cotton and Metal exchanges, count
ing 200 men, also fell into the procession.
As the procession was seen advan cling
up Broad street by the assembled multi
tude they broke into tnmultuous ap-
plause. The men in line answered by
shouting: "O-O-O-H-I-O. jay
Jay, B-L-A-I-N-E."
Many Ladies Witness the Demonstration.
At $50, the time for the meeting, the
streets around the three speaking stands
were one mass of people, and the win
dows in the banking houses were radiant
with the wives and daughters of their
owners. Standing on the steps of the
sub Treasury the view presented mass
of people packed together like sardines,
with enthusiasm without bounds as the
various clubs marched by with banners
flying and cries of "Blaine, Blaine,
James G. Blaine, filling the air.
The Orators and Their Orations.
Secretary Gresham was the orator of
the occasion. He confined himself to a
discussion of the finances of the country,
and a refutation OF the assertion by Hen
bricks that the balance of money in the
Treasury should be paid out Immediately
for the public debt.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell,, who has al
ready spoken in twelve Presidential cleo
tions, was speaking from the Custom
House steps during Secretary Gresham's
Grafton. He said
''In 1872 some men were too good to
walk beneath the banner of the Republi.
can party, and they went away. They
thought they were numerous. They
overestimated their numbers and they
exaggerated their importance After
| abiding to the disappointment and defeat
of the Democratic party and the death of
Mr.. Greeley, stricken under the weight
of the self convicted odium that he had
| deserted his friends and his principles,
and allied himself to his personal enemies
and the enemies of the Republic, !"
he concluded: "And there is in that Ca
reer warning for the men of to-day.
| dom name them. They imagine that
they are numerous. They, too, eXagger-
ated their importance. As Pennsylvania
in 1872 wrote on the wall the doom Of the
Independents and their allies, the Demo
cratic party, so now, in 1884. Ohio writes
on the wall the doom of the Independents
and the Democratic party"
Senator Hale, Stewart Z. Woodford and
Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo, addressed
that portion of the multitude gathered
around the Custom house steps, while the
other speakers were divided between the
platforms at Wall and William streets
Mr.. Levi p Morton, minister to France,
was present and made short speech.
The Address.
An address was read by General Coils
and unanimously adopted. 1t expresses
the views of the business men, and con-
tains the two following paragraphs:
We continue to view with alarm and
regret the fact that the great commercial
issues now before the people do not suf-
ficiently interest our fellow citizens Of
the Southern States, to justify them in an
effort to break the phalanx of 153 cleo
toral votes which are perpetual menace
to the North of "Solid South, " thus
fostering political arrangement and keep
ing unhealed the wounds of civil war.
Until disposition is manifested by our
Southern brethren to discuss living issues,
rather than to revive those which have
been determined by war Ito the great
glory or our common country it would
be madness to try the experiment of
Democratic rule.
Whatever may have been our views or
n.ofororcoc heretnfcre we now recnpniZa