Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-23


 Speechmaking.
 ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. $. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 The election news was received at three places in Atlanta; at the headquarters of the Capital City club, at the custom house and in front of the Constitution office. Of course the returns were fullest at the last-named place, and the interest accordingly centered there. During the day six special wires were run into the Constitution building. One of these ran to New York direct, where MT. Clark Howell, one of the Constitution edi- tors, was stationed with staff of assistants, prepared to forward the news as fast as it was known in New York. One touched at Indianapolis, where P. J. Moran, of the Con- stitution staff, was stationed. One connect- ed with Chicago, one with Washington, and the remaining two with the Associated Press office in New York.
 At seven o'clock in the evening, provided myself with camp chair and started for the Constitution office. There was 6 crowd of perhaps four thousand people in Alabama street opposite the big screen upon which the returns were to be buIletined by the electric light process, and all the available store win dows and doorways on the south side of the street were peopled. Fully four-fifths of the crowd consisted of white people. The ne- groes were massed together at the west end of the Constitution building. The day had been more than usually warm,-of the two it had been hot; and now that the grateful cool of evening had come on there was noth- ing left to be desired in the way ot weather. For time the news was indefinite and conflicting. The negroes did not venture te cheer any bulletin of Republican gains, and the cheering of the whites when Democratic successes were announced was but faint. Once New York Sun bulletin announced that New York State was without & doubt Democratic, and the cheering was quite wig orous A man at my elbow remarked com placently:
 Well, if the Sun says so that settles it," Presently dispatch was displayed resd- | ing:
 .'New York, New Jersey and Connecticut certainly Democratic. c. HOWELL" A great cheer went up from the whites at l this, and murmur of anxiety from the | blacks. ''C. Howell' didn't peep again after | that dispatch. The news grew stronger and stronger in favor of Harrison, and the crowd \ grew thinner and thinner as one after anoth- CT the "chivalry" of Atlanta stole away to | their homes. The negroes remained till the | last, and grew more and more vociferous as | the ranks of the whites were decimated. At | ten minutes before twelve o'clock the follow l ing dispatch was flashed upon the canvas: "Harrison has certainly carried New York State!"
 The cheers which greeted this bulletin 1 were deafening.
 ! "Glory, gloryI" yelled the colored people, throwing up their hats and slapping each other on the shoulders.
 'tDe yoke am lifted at las'!' shouted an | enthusiastic brother.
 'Praise de Lodi" added another.
 The crowd did not disperse till three | o'clock, and as the negroes were greatly in
 the majority, they jolli6ed to their hearts ! content unmolested.
 At nine o'clock the Evening Journal had l issued special edition, claiming everything l North and South for the democracy. This
 announcement of the result was so palpably ! premature that few people invested in the extra. The first official resume of the result
 was given in an early special edition of the Constitution this mornings very mournfu l and watery-eyed issue of that usually fip- pant journal The day has been one of quie lTejoieing among the negroes all over the city
 and general jollihcation is talked of fol ! tonight If the demonstration is oarrieo out will give your readers the particular l in & special letter tomorrow. The rest o I the present l6tG6r VIII De OeYOt0Q 10 an 8c I count of little celebration gotten up thi l morning by the colored students of Atlanti ! university.
 l The celebration was quite an impromptr
 affair and 8 delightful surprise to me.
 happened to be in the vicinity of the univer 1 sity grounds as the students issued iron North Hall at half-past seven o'clock afte | breakfast. A rush was made for South Hal and Stone Hall. Soon one hundred and if ty students were all armed with brooms umbrellas and long handled window brushes
 marching back and forth in front of th : buildings and producing an unesrthly din , The attention of the teachers and the girl was attracted, and the whole institution wa
 soon gathered OF the lawn in front of Ston
 Hall. The boys indulged in some neat evo . 1utions on the campus, singing patrioti songs as they did 80, and the girls wayet
 their handkerchiefs and cheered.
 Presently Miss Kate Ware appeared on tn
 balcony of South Hall waving magni6cen silk flag, the property of the institution Atonce there was a rush toward the hall and moment later the rich, sweet voices o the students raised mighty tide of melody
 'The starspanggled g banner 1eg bring ta hither;
 May the wreaths they have never wither Or the stars cease to shine OCT the brave" t The words, thus skilfully paraphrased o
 the spur of the moment. possessed specia propriety as sung under the folds of tn 3 great waving banner.
 A few minutes later the flag WAS nailed t the tower of Stone Hall, and it's beautifr . red and white stripes stood out in bold relic r against the pale blue of the smiling heavens . Then the speech-making mania seized th l crowd. One after another dozen of tE :. students in the higher classes were elevate s on the shoulders of their comrades, and SUI - ported on all sides by brooms, while the $ lifted their voices in rejoicing at the resu l of the election. As | have been associate with the eolored people intimately for sever t years, go that know their characteristics, - was sure that rich treat was now in stor la No race on earth can compete in political o !. atoryra as verify believe, with the freed sol '' of Africa in our southern States. But tl st speeches which followed were revelatis ,- even to me. There was not one of ths