Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-10
THE CAMPAIGN.

killed. A number are entombed in the mine | and then fate is not yet learned.
 THE CAMPAIGN.
 A Democratic Meeting on the New |
 York stock Exchange.
 NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The meeting this af- 1 ternoon at the steps of the sub-treasury | was a success as far as numbers are con | cerned and it was essentially meeting of | business men, For more than an hour before | the time of calling the meeting to order | crowds began to assemble before the stand which had been erected at the northwest cor ner of the treasury steps. The front ot the | stand was decorated with bunting and with | 1ife-sized portraits of Cleveland and Hen dricks. The sounding board at the back of I the stand was decorated with alternate stripes | of red, white and blue, with stars. The l New York Stock Exchange Cleveland and l Hendricks banner was the first presented and | was set up at the front of the historic statue l of Washington. There was a large number l of presidents taken from the Stock Exchange, the Produce and Maritime Exchange, the l Cotton Exchange and from the Independents. At 3:35 o'clock Henry M. Stead stepped to the front and introduced Roswell P. Flower, who reviewed the course of the Republicans in failing to reduce taxation and he charged on the Republican Congress the failure to reduce the tax levy and made his point by comparing the national taxation with the local tariff In speaking of Blaine, he said Blaine claimed the revenue could well be ap- piled to the payment of the debts, There was a simpler method of doing this and that was by leaving the money in the hands of fit people What ought to have been done in 1889 had got to be done in 1885. He be- ieved in paying the debt of the country, but $24, ,000, 900 per year would pay it in propor- tion We should elect President who would examine the departments of Washington without fear of hurting his cousins or his uncles or his aunts, and such 8 man was Gro yer Cleveland, who had been an honest May
 or, sheriff and Governor. (Applause.)
 Ex-Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer was then introduced and greeted with great ap- plause He said that of all remarkable meet ings he had seen this was the greatest. Mr. Dorsheimer then discussed the debt question, critic1sing sharply the policy of the Republican administration in the past. The first point in any honest policy, he said, was the reduction of taxation. It was not in human nature to resist the temptation of S100, 100000 of extra funds in the treasury. The Blair bill for distribution of the sur plus among the States was next dis cussed and the speaker claimed that would have gone through the House if it could have been presented there. The speaker was interrupted in his endeavor to tell what Blaine proposed to do by calls from the crowd, which he turned well by roffa,r info oh h after he got through. The proposition to divide among the States the surplus, he said, would bring to New York State between eight and nine millions of dollars, and all we needed last year was between SIX and nine millions. In other words, perhaps,
 with his financial ability (derisive cheers) he proposed a way to get away with the lit tie surplus" How long would State gov
 ernment last with apolicy that provided that whatever was not used would disappear. He posed to set into operation methods which proposed to set at defiance the powers of the States In closing his speech MT. Dorsheimer spoke pointedly about the fact that ninety-six years ago Washington took his. oath of office from the steps where he stood and compared Washing
 ton with Blaine. Washington was promi- nent not for intellectual faculties. but
 through and through he was an honest man, and his fame was secured because there were no letters or documents to cast a suspicion upon it. Cleveland's rec ord was then recounted as an exempH- feation of honesty and there were strong cheers of appreciation. Let us show that the American people will not have it that the character of the candidate shall be compromised on the question of hon estyn (Great cheering.)
 Ex-Governor Soloman of Wisconsin, an Independent, Algernon S. Sullivan, D. A. Boody and Mayor Grace also made speech | es The meeting was closed by cheers for Cleveland and Hendricks led by MT. Flower. Twenty-Five Thousand Torch Bearers. l NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The great parade and
 mass meeting to ratify the nominations of l Cleveland and Hendricks for which such l elaborate preparations have for some time
 been in progress took place tonight and proved a great success. Meetings at which ] speakers addressed thousands of spectators 1 were held in the Academy of Music, Irving | Hall and from four stands in Union Square | The parade was without doubt one of the most
 brilliant and imposing political pageants ever l witnessed in this city. It was estimated that 1 fully twenty-five thousand uniformed men | carrying torches lanterns and banners and l headed by numerous bands of music took part in the several processions. The ren- | dezvous for the processionists was in and
 around the four grand stands that had been | erected on the four corners of the square.
 The various clubs and companies marched
 amid the display of fireworks in front of the
 plaza, where they were reviewed by Grand
 Marshal General McMahon. The excitement
 as company after company wheeled past the
 reviewing stand was extreme and the cheer
 ing from the vast multitude of spectators
 was of the most enth husiastic character. The | principal meeting was at the Academy of
 Music, which had heen tastefully decorated
 with flags and banners. In front of the stage, surrounded by the Stars and Stripes
 were suspended portraits of the Democratic nominees. The building packed to overfowing. The Hon. Abram s. Hewitt
 presided and his opening address was de
 signed for the enlightenment of those who
 could see no difference between the two parties
 ''The fundamental principle of the Democrat
 ic tree is faith he said, and there was 1ouc
 and long cheering, Gin it's people, in theil honesty and in their intelligence. The fun 7 damental principle of the Republican tree ii that the people are not for self-governmen 1 and that some special classes have the divine right to rule' MT. Hewitt said the Republi : can party did not like men in office who hang T | murderers, or who imprison thieves, and MT Cleveland was going to be elected by ma 5 iority so large that the American people can l not be again cheated out of their choice.
 After long list of vice presidents ant
 secretaries had been presented letters of re
 gret were read from Samuel J. Randall, O : Pennsylvania, and Hon. J. Randolph Tucker |. l Ex-Senator William W. Eaton, of Connecti l. cut, was then introduced and spoke to thi z effect After saying that New York was no | the only pivotal State in this campaign h. q concurred with the editor of the New Yorl h 1 World in the fact that this is not contes ! l between the Republican party and thu t Democratic party, but between the ringster and corruptionists of the Republican part. t ! and the republic itself. This idea was re
 ceived with tuInultuous admiration. Tn
 Senator further said that he had not come t.
 cast mud upon James G. Blaine as he was al f ready covered with it, but to promise that hi d party would if elected to power reduce tn = 1 taxes and put in offices of trust honest ant Il 1 honorable men. Illusions of humorou