St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-21
Fifty Celebrates the Victory Which
She Snatched from the Republican
Hand of Corruption.
Thomas A. Hendricks, in Mastery Address,
Discusses Some Of the Great Issues
Before the People.
The Impression Growing That Gov. Cleve
land is "a Civil Service Reformer of
Pronounced Type.
Conkti'lg Doesn't Gant the Senatorship-
The NeIc York Count All Right
Minor Politics.

of people filled the Brooklyn rink this even
ing for the purpose Of jubilation upon the
election of Cleveland and Hendricks, and To
listen to speeches from their vice president
elect and from Rev. Henry War6 Beecher.
The rink, well as the buildings in the
vicinity, were Illuminated, and bunting was
employed to attest the political sentiment Of
some near by dwellers. At O'Clock a
band took its position on the front steps of
The rink. The doors were opened and half
an hour later every sitting place was occu-
pied. Benches were brought in from a
neighboring prayer meeting room, and they
were filed as fast as produced. The aisles
were rapidly filed and the open space before
the platform was taken possession of by
ladies unable TO find chairs. Shortly before
O'Clock the band entered the building, and
its place was supplied by pyrotechnics and
burning tar and soap barrels
The atmosphere, which otherwise was
raw and inhospitabie, became mellow
and more endurable as it was
warmed by the steadily increasing throng.
No prominent Democrat in Brooklyn was
missing from the rank and there were many
prominent citizens present who are not
within the Democratic fold
The hour of come and was passed. The
crowd inside had increased to nearly A. 900
people, but it was $3.50 p. m. when the clap
of one pair of hands near the rear doors was
taken up by another and another pair of
hands until at length a storm of cheers
swept over the audience. Vice Presi-
dent Hendricks had entered the hall,
and by those near the door had been
recognized. Soon he commenced mounting
the steps to the stage upon the arm of Judge
Wycke. AS Mr.. Hendricks stopped upon
the platform where he could be seen bv all in
the building, the audience was on its feet by
common impulse Men cheered and waved
their hats, ladies waved their hands and
handkerchiefs, and the band joined in the
general welcome.
Judge VanWycke, at S:35, called the
meeting TO order. and in brief terms intro
duced ex-Mayor John w. Hunter, who was
received with cheers. He closed his remarks
with a warm compliment to Indiania and
Thomas A. Hendricks, and then amid tumul-
tous cheers he presented that gentleman,
who advanced and spoke as follows:
Ladies and Gentlemen: On this occasion
Of mutual congratulaton you will permit me,
will you not, to speak briefly of Indiana.
(Cheers. Indiana, sends greeting to the
Democracy of New York, and very specially
TO the Democracy of Brooklyn and Kings
county, checrs, and begs to assure them of
her sympathy in the great cause in which
they have fought together. Indiana and
New York to-day join hands, and it is to be
regretted that it has to be over two great
states, Pennsylvania and Ohio 1t is no slight
matter to you, men of New York, you
the people OF the sea shore, that so great
state as Indiana, so rich, so populous, situate
midway among the states; as firmly fixed in
favor Of the great principles of free govern
and perpetual union. What shall l say of
the general result, after speaking of indi-
ana. Let me first finish about Indiana She
has elected the electors for president and
vice president of the United States. She
has chosen a Democratic governor, nine
congressman out of thirteen, a large
majority in each branch of
the egislature-unusually large-securing
the return to the United States senate OF our
faithful representative, Daniel w. Voorhees,
She has elected the entire state ticket, and
attached to the Democratic cause many coun-
ties OF the state so that the great state of In
diana to-day and for the future is Demo-
cratic. do not join you tonight for any
purpose of rejoicing over the fall of our op-
ponents. 1t is enough to know they have
fallen. Laughter and cheers. join you
TO rejoice not tnat their Hag
has been trailed in the dust, but
that ours flies in triumph over the land. Not
that they suffer the pangs of disappointment
and defeat but that we the representatives
of the Democratic parties of the people, are
successful. This is no ordinary triumph. It
is specially great. We have overcome not
only the voters that opposed us in politics
but we have overcome the influence and the
power of the largest official organization al
most ever known in the world. hundred
and twenty regiments of Office holders
have been in the field in
this political contest and they, too, have
been insufficient to carry the day in favor of
their party. / rejoice with you, my country
men of Brooklyn, because a party has come
into power at last in favor of the peoples
government. l rejoice with you that there
has been found party attached and held
together alone by their love Tor liberty for
twenty-five years. Cheers. One quarter
of century the Democratic party has
suffered only defeat, and after
that long period Of constant defeat
it has achieved the greatest battle of its ex-
istenee (cheers). Such a party cannot be
otherwise than useful to the country. So de-
voted to what it believes to be right and true
it cannot fail to be of some service to this
great country-in the future. And, my
countrymen, to you men of Brooklyn it is a
consideration of great importance that the
respon sibility rests largely upon you,
as upon us out in the west, that this party
shall bear itself in its period of
triumph and success, whether it shall be as
grand in the day of success as it has
been patient and wise and faithful in the
hours of its defeat. [Great cheering.l 1t
is to me source of the greatest pleasure to
meet YOU, my fellow citizens of Brooklyn,
who'like Connecticut and Massachusetts have
followed the teachings of Thomas Jefferson
and the great Democratic party. But ! am
also sorry that after the result an attempt has
been made to infuse into the minds of
our colored voters that the success
of the Democratic party meant the
destruction of the rights and privileges of
our colored voters. This is a great wrong,
NY fellow citizens. AS free and indepen-
dent voter the colored voter entered the
Democratic ranks, and as free and inde-
pendent voter he will remain under Its
broad banner and principles. We have for
nearly the last quarter of century suffering
with great patience the rebuffs OF the party ID
power, with the statement that we were
not fit to be trusted, but on the