Huntsville gazette., 1894-10-27
PRAISE F0R GROVER.
Senator Hill Is Glad He Was
Elected President.
BR0oKLYN's DEMOCRACY SHOUTS.

Enthusiastic People
New YORK, Oct. 25.---It is just calm
statement of fact 70 say that Brooklyn
never before saw sach Democratic
meeting i'll state canvass as that which
greeted Senator Hill in the Academy Of
Music in Montague street.
To begin with, the Academy of Music
was literally packed until there was not
room for even a midget in any OF its re-
cesses. The actual seating capacity OF
the academy is $500. Imagine the
aisles, the spaces III the rows Of seats IN
front of those who were sitting down,
every inch of room on the stage, the gal
leries mp to their utmost physical limit,
the private boxes, the semicircular pas
sageways mt the real of the seats, the
doorways and even the vestibule from
which they open---imagine all those
stuffed, packed. jammed with solid
mass of human beings, and you will
have some faint idea of what Senator
Hill saw when he took his seat on the
platform 1t is quite within bounds to
the hall than its utmost seating capacity
could accommodate.
But this really was but drop in the
bucket compared with those who packed
Montague street from o'clock in the
evening until nearly Ii O'Clock at night,
or who swarmed up TO the outskirts OF
this throng, took one hopeless look at
the solid wall of humanity, and turned
I, lur
flow meetings could have been gathered
at any moment between o'clock and
1890 within three blocks of the academy
from the disappointed people who had
come i'll the expectation OF getting
within doors and hearing the senator
speak. 1t was a colossus of "a meeting
one which long will be historic in the
annals of Brooklyn's political cam
paigns-
An extraordinary feature Of the gath
ering was not only the great numbers
of women who were present, but the
persistence with which they held the
places which they had won or which
had been won for them by their escorts.
Scores of them stood in the closely
| packed aisles from the beginning Of the
meeting 10 the end, all chance of getting
q seat being beyond hoLe.
When Mr. Hill was introduced the
cheers tasted for five solid minutes. Mr..
Hill never looked more vigorous or more
| masterful and self possessed on public
platform. He eyed the tumultuous au-
dience of men ane women, waving hats,
handkerchjefs and canes and shouting
and roaring themselves hoarse in his
honor with quiet meditatiye eve, and
only showed by the slight flush on his
cheeks that the enthusiasm was moving
his blood out Of its usual calm flow
Much, indeed all that he said was re-
ceiyed with the widest enthusiasm, but
his closing sentences were such rs to
work the audience up to the highest
pitch Of excitement, and when his words
of praise and approval of the admins
tration We're uttered the climax was
reached.
In reference to the president. Senator
Hill said:
1t is not necessary that ] should enter
into any defense of the administration of
President Cleveland (cheers). | believe
there is not one Of US that regrets the vic
tory that placed Cleveland and Stevenson
in power in 1892 (Applause.) His ad-
ministration has been able honest and
economical and il will compare favorably
with any of his predecessors in the histo-
ry of the government. Neither need say
word in defense of the administration of
our own state government for the past 10
or II years in Democratic hands. nor say
word for that pains taking, hard work
ing and able governor of your state, Ros
well 2. Flower. tApplause.)
Personally. | am largely Indifferent as
to the result of this election. | want to
remind you that it is as much your con-
test as mine; il will be your victory if we
| win, and not mine; 1t will be our common
defeat If we lose. i have no words of un-
Kindness to express for those gentlemen
who think that they cannot consistently
| or conscientiously support me- in this
| campaign while ] can only say that if
| that be their deliberate Judgment have
! no malice towards Them. | simply hope
| that they can see their way clear to sup
| port my hoDOred associates upon the tick
| et--Messrs. lockwood and Brown, tAp-
| plause)
know little Of your local situation here
| and perhaps ] am not competent to advise.
/ simply can suggest this, that trnst that
| everything possible will be done to effect a
| local union 81 your members of assembly
and your congressman. If there must be
a division upon my own name. let it be so,
but let us have union wherever we can
upon any other Democratic candidate that
| may be presented for the suffrages of the
people. 1t is an hour for the sinking of
personal preindices. it is an hour for the
putting away of bitterness and unneces-
sary strife, it is a time which tries mems
souls, which tests the true Democracy of
men.
express to the people of Kings county
my gratitude for the magnificent support
which they have always given me AsT
| said at Syracuse in my opening speech. so
l repeat here, ! have no money to use or to
lavish in NY eAndidsey. eave ~ b,rIin;
houses to draw upon, either il London or
New York Uaughter1 have 10 means of
obtaining funds except BY a-t honorable
and fair and open canvass bef re my fellow
citizens in the state (Applausa.) | have
no secret organizations to aid me- have
no mlionaires' influence at MY hack aid
ing my candidacy here i ,impI, ap peal to
the plain people OF the state Of New York,
whom / have never appealed to i'm vain in
the past. (App!ause.) For the sake of the
cause, and not for myself personally, am
sure that Kings county this fall will re
deem this old Democratic county and
bring her back into the Democratic fold
When Senator Hill had finished his
speech he was Immediately surrcunded
by those on the platform, WHO sou ght b