The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-11-14
ELECTION UPROAR.
Terrific Scenes of Excitement in
New York,
Graphic Description of a Night at
Madison Square.

ment Around Printing House square, where
the leading newspapers have their ola
ces, and in the vicinity of Mad
ison Square, where the headquarters OF
both political parties were situated, dense
crowds of excited men surged to and fro all
day long, shouting, hurrahing and grooming
according as the returns received were favor
able or unfavorable to their candidates. We
quote from the Suns account of the scenes
witnessed on the Thursday night following
the election when the excitement seemed to
have reached climax:
A swollen tide of humanity choked Mali-
son square last night. 1t swept to and fro
with hoarse and continuous roar Recur-
ring bursts of excitement set thousands of
hats swaying over the black and white ex-
panse of hats and faces. broker of hercu-
lean frame, with big beaver whose lustrous
polish reflected the electric glare of the square
stepped out of the crush into Fifth avenue at
z o'clock, and shouldered a brand-new broom
like musket. The Seventh Regiment band,
sent from the Democratic headquarters,
formed in ranks behind him, and blew into
the trumpets till their eyes bulged and
thumped the drums till the air shook with the
boom. Then the Wall street Hercules
twirled his broom with the dazzling intricacy
of a trained drum ma and shouted, Fall
in for Cleveland
Wel-dressed men shouldered other brooms
and walking sticks quick as lightning, and by
the time the band had marched half a block
there were more than twenty ranks of twenty
files front tramping in the roadway When
the procession had made just one circuit of
the square there were more than 1000 men
in line, and new lines formed every minute.
Big portraits of Cleveland were spiked on the
canes and tied to the brooms. No torchlight
procession ever awakened the uproar that
greeted the paraders The big throng cheered
in sections Of 100 as it tramped, and shouted
in time with the tremendous melody of the
band various couplets.
The procession wheeled right into the midst
of the throng that swayed before the Repub-
lican national committee. Burning paper
cracked in the wind like blazing pine knots
over the heads of the processionists, and 5000
lungs made the air vociferous with the shout:
'Burn, burn burn this letter"
LEFT, left, Jim Blaine is left"
Slken flags waved over the heads of the
loyal Republican masses, and thousand
Blaine men sent back this answer with / 200
tung-power enthusiasm:
"Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine.
We give three cheers for President Blaine"
The uproar on the sidewalk never let up in
the face of the wild roar in the roadways
Portraits of Cleveland fell down on the crowd
from the house tops like snow storm. Every
body yelled for Cleveland and Blaine till his
voice gave out, and then used up the rest of
his wasted breath in laughing at the nlmble
newsboys who industriously sowed seeds of
uncertainty in the wind with real shouts of
Extra-Clevcland elected sure
" Extra-Blaine carries New y ork"
By 10 o'clock the crowd had shouted so con-
stantly that its lungs refused to respond to
Cleveland returns on the stereopticon. Presi-
dent Arthur stepped into his carriage and
drove away unnoticed, because everybody in
the neighborhood had his ewes riveted ON the
canvas transparency.
All the crowd in Union square had drifted
up around Madison square and lost itself in
the ocean. When Chairman Germans pro-
camation that the United States had elected
Cleveland and Hendricks big pictures of
Cleveland and legends of victory had been
hung all over the front of the national COM
mittee,s headquarters and brooms sprouted
from the window stills. There was an instant
of silence as the proclamation was read aloud.
The next instant Bloomingdae, in its widest
moments, would have been Concord School
of Philosophy calm compared with Madison
square. Cheers swept all along the line and
into the hotel, and the entire throng took up
the shout:
cts all right! It's all right"
"No, no. no 'seventy-six."
The procession swept along with fresh
blare of trumpets, and thousands on the side
walk Joined in the campaign song of the
marching thousands:
ooh, keep those bells a-ringing,
While he climbs up the White House stairs.n
When the crowd behind the band had
swelled to 5000 the enthusiasm at its
height, and the crowd sang the popular airs
while the musicians played them, and the
crowd that lined the sidewalks yelled in time
with the swing of the leaders staff When
it seemed as though it were to be an all-night
affair, things came to q sudden close Thirty
policemen with drawn clubs faced the head
of the procession. 1t wanted to keep right on,
but the leader was led away by an officer three
quarters his height, and upon this the band
disbanded. The crowd behind resisted for a
while, but no violence was attempted, and
while those out of reach of clubs groaned at
the policemen, those within armswing did not
think of it, They had no permit to arade, the
police said
When the ranks were finally broken up. the
crowd went on in the usual tenor of its way,
shouting and yelling, and applauding every
one who got up n new cry. Five hundred
men gathered opposite the Young Mems
Democratic club on Twenty fourth street and
did some energetic grooming Under the lead
of a powerful lunged young man they
groaned for nearly everything.
BY this time it was II o'clock and the
stereopticon managed by the World was be-
ginning to get the crowd excited. The fol-
lowing was flashed on the canvass repeat
eddy,
Are Democratic professions allowed in
this city ~
They are not-not without permits But
the taunt soon had the desired effect and
second procession was soon organized.
1t was not as large as its predecessor, but it
was more excited Five to eight hundred
men, all well dres @ l, formed in line outside
the Democratic club and started up Fifth
avenue, where Jay Gould lives, all yelling
together:
Hang, hang,
Hang Jay Could"
or singing:
"Well hang Jay Gou d on a sour apple tree "
They had got only two blocks up the ave
nue., however when the polio, headed by
Sergeant King, made for them again, and
succeeded in once more breaking them up, al
though with more difficulty than at first. A
number of excited Germans cursed the police
roundly in German and English and fight
seemed imminent when twenty young fell
lows gathered around and gave three cheers
for Sergeant King. That turned popular
opinion his way, and the procession dispersed
peaceably.
The sergeant and Captain Williams, under
whose orders he acted, said the professions