Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-20
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. GETTING INTO LINE, The Republicans RaIIying
 Their Forces AND BOOMING THE TICKET. A Big Ratification Meeting
 at Washington. MALONE AMONG THE SPEAKERS. Logan Leaves the Pine
 Tree State.
POLITICAL.

Blaine and LOgan-A Great Ratification
 Nesting at WashtnRton-Senator Ma-
 hone Promises 8 Majority from Old
 Virginia.
 WASHINGTON, June 19.-Great prepara- tions were made to-day for Republican rati- fcstion meeting to be held at the City Hall tonight. The south front of the sscourt house was handsomely decorated with bunt- ing on white field interwoven with garlands of green. At the tops of each upright was an American eagle with widespread wings and over all hoated the American flag. Back on the apex of the main entrance, surmeunt ing the columns, was a shield with the rising sun coming up from behind and topping both the scrolls, ''Ths peo- ple's Choice for 1885," Strings of stream CTS ran from the east and west wings to the center entrance forming almost complete canopy for those who sat be- meath. The great Lincoln was not forgotten. His statue, which is directly opposite the speakers stand, being appropriately deoo- rated, was in keeping with it's surroundings. About half-psst o'clock about two thousand people were on the scene and at later hour the crowd reached about three thousand five hundred persons. The meeting was called to order by Hon. A. II. Copp, of the Dis trict of CoIunbia, who presented series of resolutions which were unanimously adopted with great enthusiasm. They endorse and ratify the nomination of James G. Blaine; declare his election will elevate to the presi- dency profound statesman of large experi- ence and great ability, an able, eloquent and unhinching advocate and defender of those principles and measures which saved our re- public in the years of it's greatest peril, an advocate of emancipation, an earnest and unfinchipg advocate of those finan- ciaI measures which carried US safely through great wal: They cordially invite the cooperation of the men who labor in factories, at forges, in mines and those in all other pursuits to support the nominee. The resolutions also ratify the nomination of John A. Logan as the candidate for Vice President, recognizing in him 8 sol dier whose courage and fidelity have never been doubted. They endorse the platform of principles adopted by the national Repub- lican convention at Chicago and close with an expression of gratitude and thanks of the nation to President Arthur for his conserva- tive, patriotic and successful administration and for the cordial support which he has generously pledged in favor of the cleo ton of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan. Speeches were made by Senators Conger and Malone, Representatives Bel ford, Horr. Dingley, Miller of Pennsylvania, Golf, and by Messrs. Fred Douglass, O'Hara, and g number of others. General Malone after greeting the audience gave his assur- ance that every Republican of the old com- monwealth would stand with heroic devotion to the nominees. It was the high ambition of Virginia, he said, to swell the Republican majority by figures sufficient to insure the election of Blaine and Logan