The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-07
KNEW No BOUNDS.
The Enthusiasm at Gotham's Great
Republican Meeting.
POLICE STOPPED THE CHEERS TO
GIVE MIR. REED A CHANCE.

1t Was Twenty Minutes Before the Maine
Man Could Begin His Speech, and Mr..
Depew Had About the Same Expert
ence-The Crowd Filled Cooper Union
Hall and the Streets Outside.
NEW YORK, November 6.-The Repub
Hcan mass meeting addressed by Hon
Thomas B. Reed and Hon. Chauncey M.
Depew last evening, was about the largs
est and most enthusiastic of the CAM
paign. Speaking of it, this mornings
Herald says:
When burly Thomas B. Reed, ex-
Speaker of the House of Representatives
is forced to stand for nearly 20 minutes
before political meeting without being
able to make himself heard it can be inn
agined that the crowd is boisterous in
the extreme. That was just what Mr..
Reed had to do last night in the great
hall of Cooper Union at one Of the 1arg-
est and liveliest Republican mass meet
ings ever held in the building. He and
Chauncey M. Depew were the speakers,
and the enthusiasm with which they
were greeted was effusive almost to the
point of violence.
The meeting was under the auspices
of the Republican Club, and James A.
Blanchard, president OF the club, pre-
sided. Among those on the platform
were Sex-Judge James w. Hawes, Ed
ward Z. Bartlett, Floyd Clarkson, John
S. Smith, A. o. Beebe, Henry Gleason,
James Talcott, Seth M. Milliken, Francis
E. Laimbeer, William I. Martin, Colonel
William NJ. Strong, w. NJ. Z. Olcott, Ell
lis Ell. Roberts, Henry R. Davis, Edward
A. Newell, E. B. Harper, Z. 3. Chitten-
den and J. Seaver Page.
The doors were to be opened at Z
o'clock. Before that hour a crowd
greater in numbers than were the seats
within had assembled in the square,
thronged the broad corridors in the rear,
and the sides of the hall were filled.
Meanwhile the platform also had be-
come crowded to its utmost capacity,
and entrance to any part of the hall was
out of the question. Further crowds
came pressing upon those already with
in, and the crush was SO great that the
wonder is more persons did not faint
An unusually large number of women
were present.
1t was with great difficulty and after
much delay Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Depew
gained entrance to the hall. Their APP
pearance was greeted with tremendous
applause, the whole great audience ris-
ing, and canes, hats and handkerchlefS
waved.
Chairman Blanchard advanced to tho
front of the platform, and in words that
were inaudible ten feet distant intro
duced Mr.. Reed. Cheers resonnded
throughout the hall, and those in the
rear who could neither see nor hear any
thing that was being done or said,
cheered most wildly.
Mr.. Reed began his speech at the top
of his naturally robust voice, but as far
as the great body of those present were
concerned his gestures were mere PAN
tomime.
After half dozen vain efforts to go
on, occupying nearly 20 minutes, he
abandoned the ATTEMPT. Those in the
rear of the hall and in the corridor with
out did not know that he was speaking
and kept up cheering and singing that
drowned his voice.
Mr.. Depew and Mr.. Blanchard stood
together on the platform and held con.
sultation. Apparently they were in De-
spair of holding any meeting at all. u
seemed to be case of being killed BY
too much friendship.
Finally Inspector Williams cams 10
their relief. He came from the rear Of
the platform, whispered word or two
to them, leaped down into the audito-
rum, signalled to the police in the aislea
and forged his way to the rear of the
hall. Rallying the police force present
he cleared the corridors of all there,
forced them out to the street, had the
gates closed and stationed policemen at
them, and gave orders that no more
should be admitted.
Mr.. Reed then delivered his speech,
which was received with tumultuous ap,
plause. When Mr.. Depew tried to begin
his speech after Mr.. Reed had finished
there was another season of wild uproar,
He said, when he could finally make
himself heard, that he had made 81
speeches in the first four days of this
week. He had been all over New York
state, and the people were simply wild
with enthusiasm. Mr.. Depew talked
about the tariff, the currency, reciproci-
ty and other issues on much the ;1lme
lines as those followed by other Republi-
can speakers during the campaign. OF
course he told the usual pumber Of sto-
ries at which the crowd roared.
The Way They DO 1t Abroad,