The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-23
HOBARTS WELC0ME.
All Paterson Turns Out to
Do the Candidate
Honor.
STRICTLY bipartisan AFFAIR
Democrats Join Republicans in
Yelling, Cheering and Burning
Red Fire.
Special TO The Jcrscu City Eeics.
PATERSON. June %. 1ss

doubt;
All bedlam. or Paterson. is let out.
with apologies to Pope.)
Words can convey but a feeble idea of
the wild, tumultuoas ovation which Pat
erson paid to her favorite son. Garret A.
Hobart, last night The public buildings
were Illuminated, the streets lit up with
red fire. and everything pyrotechnic
which would make noise or vivid
light was scattered abroad with lavish
hand. In fact, so lavish were they that
some one set off a whole wagon load Of
fireworks, which brought the Fire De-
partment out with a whirl bang, clatter
and vim which made everyone think that
the entire city. including the. Falls, was
burning up.
Paterson wanted to keep this reception
all to herself, and for. that reason no.
effort was made to get outsiders here.
Still few filtered through, including the
Toffey Light Guard of Jersey City. The
consequence was that every man, woman
and child almost in the city, irrespective
of their political faith. turned out to
honor Mr.. Hobart, not SO much as the
nominee of the Republican party for the
second highest office in the land, but as
a Patersonian who had brought signal
honor upon the city of which they were
all proud.
The gathering of the crowd was some
thing remarkable. AT seven o'clock two
men from out of town walked up Market
street, the thoroughfare leading from
the Erie station to the City Hall. Hardly
anyone was on the street and it looked
as though the great demonstration would
be a fizzle. A few minutes afterward
a drum and fife were heard and then
another, and, like magic, the people be-
gan to pour forth from the side streets,
and before eight o'clock, where scarcely
an hour before there was hardly anyone
abroad, the street was so congested with
the crowds that the trolley cars were
absolutely blocked. As the day darkened
into night. the buildings began to light
up and the red fire to get It's lurid work
in with such success that glare hung
distance gave the idea that vast con-
fiagration was raging somewhere.
The first event in the demonstration
was the parade, which was nothing out
side of the ordinary political torchlight
parade. It was big, enthusiastic and
noisy and plentifully sprinkled with bands
and drum corps, whose sole mission in
life appeared to be to make more noise
than the other fellow While this was
forming and marching through the main
streets to the big Armory of the Second
Regiment, the populaee was gathering at
the Armory. The gallery at one end of
the building was reserved for the lion
of the occasion and the prominent citi-
zens, while those on the other three
sides were filed with women and chill
dren. and very pretty sight they made,
too; for. if Paterson is noted for any
thing outside her willy politicians, it is
her handsome women and pretty girls.
Mr.. Hobart, with Governor Griggs,
drove up quickly to the building and
were almost inside before he was rec.
ognized. But when ne was what a yell
went up to Heaven! The procession
marched on to the drill floor. around the
three sides of the hall, and together with
the citizens that poured into the Ar
mory massed themselves in front of the
gallery from which the speeches were to
be made 1t was a grand sight to look
down from the gallery upon that mass
Of upturned faces, looking like sstne
pebbles on a gravel walk as Governor
Griggs expressed it. Almost the entire
floor was covered, and, taken with the
galleries, there must have been at least
1900 people under the roof. They were
not all Republicans. There were as many
Democrats in the throng, for it must be
remembered that it was distinctly under
stood that the demonstration was
strictly non-partisan one, and was to TIo-
bart, the Patersonian, and not Hobart
the Republican. To further demonstrate
this, Judge Hopper. a Democrat of Dem
ocrats who once defeated Mrs. Hobart's
father old Socrates Tuttle, for State
Senator right in that very county of
Passaic, opened the meeting and pre-
sented Mayor Braun, another Democrat.
who presided. the Mayor said:--aAs /
understand It, this is not "a political meet
ing. Without regard to politics we meet
here to show our esteem and love for
our old friend and neigta5or, Garret A.
Hobart. We are all glad that such an
honor has fallen on one of cur Paterson
citizens. / have the pleasure Of intro
ducing to you the speaker of the even
1tees tAtS4 t-1>SfitcifElsf sIJN6TlOf JOln w.
sGriggs. OF New Jersey.
GavernoT Griggs had to wait for pro-
sl9Iged burst OF applause to subside be-
fore he could speak Then he said
When the Wis. ter to st. Paul's Church
inquiries for the monument of Sir Chris
topher Wren, ne is told to look around
II any expression Is wanted of the es-
feem in which our distinguished friend
and. fellow citizen is held by his friends
and nesghbGrs OF Paterson, look around
you. This great gathering. composed of
men of all parties, varying in their no
Htieal faith and in their political hope,
are unanimous in doing honor to Garre.
A. Hobart. Such universal demonstra-
tiors of regard are often reserved until
the objects of them are dead and be-
You'd the capacity of appreciation. Happy
fortune fer our friend that now in 1hs
meridian of his life he commands tic
affecfanate favor of his fellow towns
meti
For thirty years he has lived and
wrought among us, working out his les-
tiny in quiet, una ssuming modesty Four
times before this the people of this
county have called Illm to their service.
which he has performed with an ability
ard distinction that have reelected credit
upon hts constituents Now q great po-
htical party has raised him to pc sition
~ wcrldF wide interest and placed his
name alongside those Of other great Jer-
seyn1ers Theodore FrednghuySen and
William T. Dayton, as worthy of being
called the heir apparen Of the Presi-