Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-10-16

Once more we copy, from the Poplar
Bluff Citizen, a paragraph which we
are sure will be of interest to our read
ers. 1t is from the pen of one ofits ed
itors, who was present when Gov.
Cleveland visited his old home on the
I'd inst:
Yesterday attended the ovation ten
dered Governor Cleveland in Buffalo.
/ never witnessed more enthusiastic
demonstration. The Governor did not
arrive in Buffalo until $50 O'Clock in the
evening. Seventeen excursion trains
from various adjacent towns preceded
him. On an average they contained
twelve cars each, all OF which were
crowded to their utmost capacity with
jubilant Democrats, probably half'of
which were uniformed and carried
torches, AS these trains deposited
their loads of glittering. uniformed hu-
mainly during the afternoon and even
ing of the day, and as they formed in
line with lighted torches making gilt
tering frey mass miles in length the
spectacle was one which once seen
could never be forgotten. Each squad
or company bore banner giving their
name and locality, besides various APP
propriate devices, such as "Cleveland
and Reform, "Hendricks and Revenge"
TELL the Truth, ""Turn the Boy over,".
"Welcome Home, Governor" 1.-The
Man who can Successfully Govern our
Great State is Qualified to fill the Pres
idential Chair" and scores OF others
equally as appropriate. There were
ten thousand jostllng, crowding, push
ing, people outside the Exchange street
depot when the Governors train pull
ed in. The almost superhuman efforts
of an hundred extra police were requirs
ed to hold the crowd back and keep
the passage open between the train and
the street where the carriage for con-
veying him to the Genesee House was
stationed. The Mayor of Buffalo es-
corted the Governor from the carriage,
which was drawn by six snowywhite
horses. AS he stepped off the train
the crowd fell in behind him and it was
with much difficulty that he was en-
abled to reach the carriage. A mo-
ment before the train arrived q liveried
page stood at the barouche to open the
door and lower the top providing the
rain ceased falling. In the scirmmage
that followed his arrival the page was
separated from the carriage and the
crowd was so dense that he was uu-
able to get back and open the door and
remove the top. The Mayor stepped
up and pulled at the door. 1t did not
yield. Governor Cleveland grasped
the knob and jerked it terrifically. The
! door did not open. No one within
reach of the cab understood the fasterI-
ings, and for fully two minutes the par
ty stood there nonplussed before the
door could he opened and the top re-
moved. MEANWHILE took advantage
of the delay and took good sur vey of
the man who will, 1 believe, be our
next president of the United States.
AS the Governor entered the carriage
he raised to his feet, lifted his hat, and
gracefully bowed his acknowledgements
to the admiring crowd. AS the car
riage moved off it was almost lifted
bodily from the ground by jubilant ad-
mirers who fell in on all sides. The
Governor Is the picture Of health and
strength. l should judge he would
weigh upwards oftwo hundred pounds;
his frame is firmly knit, and he is well
proportional. AS the carriage moved
off a flood of red and white light fash
eA from either side of the street and
met and dissolved in the air over the
carriage containing the honored guest,
and hundreds of r man candles and
skyrockets flashed from the windows
and doors opposite the carriage as it
passed up the street, proceeded by a
procession of enthusiastic uniformed,
torch bearing Democrats which reach
ed as far as the eye could see. It was
a gorgeous sight, a superb spectacle, n
grand ovation rendered to deserving
man, who had returned to his own
home among his own people who had
known and honored and loved him for
years.