Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1884-11-14

letIn was displayed from one OF the win
doWs:
2:45 z. M.-New York and Kings coun-
I ty, with l SAT other precincts. giving l.
| 1870, 1855 total. have given Cleveland a plu-
ralIty of 597. 169 other precincts, which
have not yet been beard from, gave Gar
field 2 AS plurality in 1880.
| After this other bulletins came out in
favor Of Blaine, and o statement that the
Republican National Committee claimed
his election by 1000. This encouraged
| the supporters of Mr.. Blaine, and they
swarmed into Printing House Square, and
the roaring, shouting, cheering crowd OF
men and boys that had made it a Bedlam
! for two days was there again. The voices
we're as strong and the cheers as earnest
as before, but the good nature which had
marked the other gatherings was gone.
Two men would come together and strike
a blow or two, and then the crowd, like
great wave, would undulate toward them
and they would be swept away.
Cleveland's shouters at this time were
very much dlsheartened, and the general
talk was that Cleveland had carried the
State, but that the Republicans were
counting him cu5. One of the Cleveland
bulletins ran out this in immense letters
Trying to steal the State. Suspicious
Republican rascality. Jay Gould suspec.
ted.''
AS dusk came on the Blaine bulletins
grew favorable and more favorable to
Blaine's chances, and it was announced
that he was 615 ahead of Cleveland, with
| hfty-seyen precincts to hear from, and
that most of these precincts were strongly
Republican. Tnen a bulletin was run out
| which said that the Republican National
Committee had issued an address in which
they said that the latest returns war
ranted it in announcing the Triumphant
election of Blaine and Logan" All this
gave fresh courage to the Blaine men, and
they shouted and yelled until they grew
! hCarse.
To offset this the Cleveland bulletins
announced that Cleveland had surely car
ried the State, and the Cleveland crowd
| did not brace up until this was shown
:" Daniel Manning telegraphs that the
State has given safe and sure majority
| for Cleveland that cannot Oe changed
Then they shouted and roared their
| cheers out with vim that frightened the
car horses.
THEY RUN AGAINST THE POLICE.
| A sooty-faced man with shovel, on
which was c1alked Cleveland elected
| 5,000!' assumed the leadership OF the
crowd il front of the Federal Building.
1t was then composed principally OF
| young fellows from the First, Fourth and
| Seventh wards. They lit more newspa-
| pers as they marched down Park row
again. The young fellow holding the
rIgnt lower end of the big banner carried
rope in three nooses in his left hand.
AS the crowd sang
Well hang jim Blaine on the sour apple tree.
The young fellow swung the noosed
rope around his head. Nobody seemed
to have any idea rs to whereshe was GO
| Ly,th gov w. y i
| to be the only thing th t helast the crowd
together. Only few personsin it seemed
| to be acquainted. 1t stopped in front of
the AsEor House, and the man with the
chalked shovel held it aloft while all
| roared, Three cheers for Cleveland -
| A short, thick set man with German
accent, directed the movements of the
| crowd after it left the Astor House. He
wore thick brown oveTcoat and q brown
! Derby hat, and seemed more enthusiastic
than anybody. The crowd went westward
through Vesey street to Washington, and
| southwark to Day. The man in the
brown oyeTcoat shouted as he held fam
ing newspaper above his head, " Let's 90
TO the Western Union building and burn
It'll" Tue crowd turned into Day street,
over 500 strong, beating tin pans and
shouting.
AS it crossed Church street the tin pans
suddenly CEASED and the shouting turned
to yells OF dismay. Forty policemen I'M
der Capt Berghold ard Sergeant Mint
had burst cut OF Church street. The
banner bearers dropped their banner and
ran. Clubs were used on the legs OF the
runners. In ten minutes there was not
parader to be seen except the man in the
brown overcoat.
At 81 o'clock the Sun put out this bull.
letin:
The SUMS returns Indicate that Cleve-
land has carried the STATE by l 800 plural
ity."
Soon after the Times ran out bulletin
making the same statement. The crowd,
which had now become Cleveland crowd,
roared Its approval until Printing House
square rang. The Tribune ceased putting
out bulletins at 10 O'Clock, and most of
the Blaine men went home. At mjdnight
there wasn't one TO be found IN the viciu-
i5y of City Hall.
MADISON SQUARE GONE WILD.
A swollen tide of humanity choked
Madison square last night. 1t swept to
and fro with hoarse and continuous
roar. Recurring bursts of excitement set
thousands OF hats SWaying over the black
and white expanse Of hats aud faces. A
broker Of herculean frame, with big
beaver whose lustrous polish reflected the
electric glare of the square, stepped out
of the crush into Fifth avenue at 7 O'CLOCK
and shOuldered brand-neW broom like a
musket. Tee Seventh Regiment band.
sent from the Democratic headquarters,
formed in ranks behind him, and blew
into the trumpets TIL their eyes bulged.
and thumped the drums till the air shook
with the boom. Then the Wall street
Hercules twirled his broom with The daz-
zllng intricacy Of a trained drum major
and shouted Fall in for Cleveland.''
Wel-dressed men shouldered other
brooms and walking sticks quick as light
ming, and by the time the band had
marched half a block there were more
than twenty ranks of twenty flies front
tramping in the roadway. When the
procession had made just one circuit Of
the square there were more than 1000 men
in line, and new lines formed every min
ute. Big portraits of Cleveland were
spiked on the canes and tied to the brooms.
No torchlight procession ever awakened
the uproar that greeted the paraders.--
The square gradually stood up on end
until the clerk of the Fifth Avenue said
that If the excitement grew any worse the
houses would begin to slide off the alarm
ing incline. The big throng eheered in
sections of 100 as it trarped. and shouted
in time with the tremendous melody of
the band these couplets:
Ma. MAJ where's my pa
Gone to the White House, hai ha! ha!
Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine
The biggest liar in the State of Maine
Soap, soap, Jay Gouds SOAP
Can't buy New York OF keep up hope.
The procession wheeled right into the
midst of the throng that swayed before
the Republican National Committee
Building. paper cracked in the wind like
blazing pine knots over the heads Of the
pr ccessionists, and 5000 lungs made the
air vOciferous with the shout :
Burn, burn, burn this letter,
Left, left Jim Blaine is left.
Silken q aos WAVED auar tha hoo de- of tho