Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-10-23
A GRAND RECEPTION.
Cleveland's Visit to New
York and Brooklyn.


SfUSffc CStfSenS---P5-Ocessi0
Receptions. Spee6Hes
and a Bas-eecite.
The enthusiastic reception accorded to
Governor Cleveland during his visit to
New York and Brooklyn is vividly de-
scribed below in accounts taken from the
metropolitan papers
THE ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK
Forty-second street, New York, was
choked with people when tie citv's
guest emerged into the open air from
the cars and great shout marked their
feelings as they surged about him. Nor
did he escape at once after entering his
carriage. The crowd pressed around,
cheering for him and groaning for Mr..
Blaine with a will, whicn showed
their hearts were In their cries. Twice
the informal procession halted to give
the multitude an opportunity to relieve
Its pcnt up feelings Many people fol-
lowed the carriages all the way to The
Fifth Avenue hotel.
If the Governor had expected to spend
a quiet day in the big hostelry recuper.
ating foG the evening reception, he found
before nightfall that he had decidedly
rechoned without his host Commencing
with quiet Interchange of social pleas
antries with personal and political
friends, the day bloss0med out into a
grand popular ovation, all the more
striking because it was informal and
spontaneous in its character. There was
at first gentle stream Of callers, then
torrent and finally food. Merchants,
bankers, clergymen, professional men,
students and ladies from all parts Of the
country focked to this shrine of efficfal
honesty and paid their need Of praise to
the incorruptible standard bearer. whom
the best men of all parties are glad to
honor. At five o'clock, when the weary
governor retired for brief rest, he had
courteouslv shaken hands with over
thousand people, and the hotel people
were ready to acknowledge that the
Blaine reception was an infant in COM
parison.
After luncheon New York took pos
session of its guest in earnest. The
governor took up position in the mid.
die of the big parlor and was kept busy
from 2 to in entertaining a constantly
increasing stream Of callers. Ladies from
the South and West. as well as from the
city, came to wish him God speed in the
presidential race. Little girls brought
flowers and charming sentiments, and
Den of various conditions came and put
their best foot foremost.
THE MASS MEETING AT NIGHT.
The night will be memorable in the
history of New York for one of the
greatest popular demonstrations ever
known in the city's politics. This was
the great mass meeting of the business
men of the metropolis, without distinc-
ton Of party, to rebuke official corrup-
tion in the person of James G. Blaine,
and to indorse the representative of re-
form and the peoples candidate, Grover
Cleveland
The place of meeting was the Academy
of Music, and the organizers of the meet
ing were the Cleveland and Hendricks
clubs of the Stock Exchange, the Pro-
duce Exchange, the Maritime, the Cot
ton, the Coffee, the Mercantile, the Pc
troleum and the Mining boards, and the
i Dry Goods Merchants club.
But the Academy of Music was no more
able to contain all the merchants and
business men Of New~York who indorse
the candidacy of Grover Cleveland than
the organizations under whose auspices
the meeting was called were able to EN-
brace all the substantial men of the finan-
cial and commercial community who will
vote for Grover Cleveland in November.
To say that the meeting was a success
does not describe it. 1t was a most en-
thusiastic demonstration, and an over
whelming and convincing proof that the
solid men of New York are for the Demo-
cratic candidates
/, 1t seemed as though all New York had
tried to push itself into the Academy
( of Music, had failed and had overHowed
into the surrounding thoroughfares.
/ People all those streets with men
cheering for Cleveland, and with gay
| professions that seemed to have no end,
with men in showy uniforms; fill them
with the blare OF brass bands playing in
spring music, with red fire. the glitter
of calcium lights, the fash of rockets
and with waving bunting, and one may
form some conception of the wonderful
/ spectacle.
All the principal Democratic campaign
| >..o -, So. :: AZ : 80 l. 4 -. ;.,;.S,
- ~ 10y naa Dsen ~, i'e.'
~ snI Duslness neu ?, ooluinl''ee - ~
snd sTnu torohi;shta one EeJr mi'4 us un.aoins
haforo e ,o tha tn anu AL afs F;fth ~ 1ens
Hatel hafoTs M tbe ,oeet;n Il ~ sbonld ha ovor
Tha tn o,,bs s conc mo of nanrsa St. = -,as ~ 80, -,
possible for any of them to go into the
Acauelny, - lney l1aiolleu anu counter
.nareleu lnlousn .ne cromas III rour-
% .Jonsn r; s.iee', ril.eensn ~ s.aeI., irving
piace' onion y uare anu Droauway'
AT O'Clock the prominent mem
Ders OF tne business exchanges on the
reception be.a, 10 oonmitlee arrived AT IN ,ne
nose1 70 esGUle tne governor 70 tne
hcauehy- Wnen tne party reacned tne