The sun., 1894-10-26
WORKNEN WILD OVER HILL.
Once More His Audience Sweeps
Away Police Barriers.
MEN SEEM TO LIKE A FIGHTER.

an Nnpmrnbetea SrSet1nC from the Good
Iooktnw " Plain People," ORGANISED ans
UnorEa.izea-"It Look. s- if the People
Were R.nuing This Campaign" said the
Senator 60 the Vast House that Rose
ut Him and shouted Itseir Hoarse.
Labor, organized and unOrganized. greeted
Senator Hill at Cooper Union last night. What
the business men had said to him on the pre-
Nious night in Carnegie Hall, the worKingmen
repeated that they would fight with him and for
him to the last breath, and they said Il with q
vim. 1t was welcome too wild for words, and
1t died away only when sheer physical exhaus-
tion supcrvened. Senator Hill was the only
speaker. lie was all the audience wanted.
A few men had succeeded in getting into the
hall before o'clock BY the platform door, but
when the doors opened long lines of waiting
men and women pressed close to the outside
walls for partial shelter from the driving rain.
Fully 1900 persons we're pressing on the doors
when the hall thrown open. At each en-
trance appeared black mass OF people cons
pressed 40 tight that for moment the lines
held. wcdged In the narrow aisles Like tho
sudden bursting Of n rocket that transforms .
solid tRll Of fire into thousand flashes, the
wedge hurst and spread and scattered. All the
seats lay open to them except those few that
had heen rreemptcd and the first five
rows, which we're reserved for ladies and
their escorts. AZ fast as the line pushed
In fresh accessions from without kept the doors
blocked. and for three minutes the air was
thunderous With the rush of tramping feet.
Then every available seat was filled. and tho
later comers massed in the asles. Within
five min"tes Of the first stampede for seats ID
seemed impossible that space could be found for
another living being In the packed and jammed
rear Gises. Yet the constant moving and waver-
ing and leaving Of the mass showed that It was
steadily augmented from without. Meantime.
the first five rows had been captured by the wo-
men and their escorts. and there was a goodly
representation of pretty faces on the platform.
No sooner had motion become impossible to
the crowd than sound took its place. Every
thing was cheered-a fresh arrival on the plat
form, lady standing up to take of her coat,
the venders of campaign buttons as they made
their rounds. the playing of the band-snything
that gave the slightest excuse for an outlet to
the bubblng enthusiasm of the audience. IL
was splendid gathering of men. No finer, more
stalwart, more intelligent looking, or more self
respecting crowd Of men than the workingmen
who filed the hall to overhowing ever gathered
In this city
After he audience had been applauding and
cheering for some minutes, with no particular
purpose except safety valve, u clamor with
q more definite meaning arose from the far
northwest corner and spread all through that
section Of the house. The others were silent In
eager anticipation. Not even the cry of Tires
cheers for David Bennett Hill" could distract
their attention. A commotion on the stage next
occurred. Men were standing up and cram
ing their necks TO see over the heads OF
their neighbors. The cheering In the north
west corner and the hallway beyond
had given way to frantic yelling. Then a man
burst through the crowd at the back of the
stage and was followed by three more, who
stood In line. A policeman next appeared.
forcing passage for some one following him.
1t was senator Hill. The sound that greeted
him was a vocal explosion. There WAS no con-
certed hurrahing The sole object and pur-
pose In life OF every individual in the audience
was to combine every possibility OF noise and
action In welcome 10 the leader. They jumped
on the chairs, waved aloft their hats on UNI
brellas and canes, howled and shrieked and
yelled with a vigor which seemed TO increase as
II proceeded.
owen J. Kindelon. Chairman OF the Commit
tee of Arrangements was at the front OF tho
stage wsvng his hand for quiet. 1t was good
exercise for his arm, but that is all it amounted
tn. The more lie waved the more frenned he
came the crowd. Senator Hill, who had takena
seat. began to smile in spite OF himself, and,
comprehending somewhat tardily the wishes OF
the audience. he arose, went forward, and
roof 10 rise with the increase of clamor.
1t was three minutes before when the leader
appeared on the stage. II was after o'clock
when Mr.. KindelOn went from gestures to
speech. and was promptly cheered into silence.
He is POSSESSED OF very powerful voice but not
until his fourth attempt could he make II heard
by any one more than three yards away. Then
he called the meeting to order, which provoked
another wild outburst. Finally he astonished
his hearers by saying;
1t Is very pleasant duty TO call you To order
to- night, and"
Here there was another break Of wild and fer
vid yels. and Mr.. Kindelon had TO per form that
very pleasant duty all over again. Al length he
got a hearing long enough to nominate John
Phillips, President OF the WOrkingmen's ASSEM-
bly, OF the state OF New York, in "A speech in
which he said:
Let me express the hope that this meeting 10
an index To the feelings Of every wOrkingman
in New York State, and that from now on tho
triumph OF our great Democratic leader shall
know no ceasing until the guns boom out his
victory an the 18th OF November. tCheers.l We
nominate TO- night Chairman from Brooklyn,
Mr. John Phillips, and | do so with the hope that
IL the Greater New York ever becomes an ac-
fact, the hand that signs the bill
making it 50 will be the hand OF David Bennett
Hin. prolonged cheers
MIR. fhllllIs nominated TOT SecTtlafJ MI Juhh
Tasker, who read the list that will be found be-
low of Vice Presidents and Secretaries reDTe-
senting labor organizations. Al the conclusion
Of this reading the crowd at the northwest
corner burst through the police guards and
crowded down the aisles clear 20 the platform.
Mr. burke OF Richmond county then presented
TO the meeting a series of resolutions. which
were quickly put and carried. Here there was a
delay of five minutes, caused hY an irresistible
rush of the crowd banked in the rear, down the
two centre aisles. The police were tossed aside.
nnd fought helIlesslY against the onslaught
and the two centre rAdiating aisles vert iammed
fun. When quiet was restored Chairman Phii-
lips said:
The sooner we get down to business the bet
ter will We all be suited. 70 say will introduce
senator Hin To you would be a misnomeT. for
Dayi Is. Hill needs no Introduction % the work
inglrcn. Let me. then, present h. you the man
"a no Las stood by through thick and thin,
Through good and evil report, In sunshine and In