Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Immense Democratic Meeting in New York. [ARTICLE]

Immense Democratic Meeting in New York.

Tammany’s ratification meeting in New York, on the evening of Sept. 23, was the most imposing political demonstration ever held in this country. Union Square and all adjacent streets were packed, while several large halls were filled to their utmost capacity. The enthusiasm of the people was of the wildest character. Speeches were made by August Belmont, Senators Bayard, Hill, and Hampton, Speaker Randall, Daniel Dougherty, and others. In the procession of Democratic ward organizations there were 50,000 torch-bearers. A dispatch from New York says of this great meeting: “Half of New York turned out to see the demonstration, and from 2 o’clock until after midnight the streets were densely thronged. In the immensity of the crowd, the brilliancy of the display, the length of the procession, and the noisy enthusiasm of all the participants, it is within bounds to say that so great an out-of-door demonstration has not been seen here for years.” Another dispatch says that “ the demonstration was the greatest political display ever witnessed in the United States. Fifty thousand uniformed men were in line, bearing torches, drawing the Goddess of Liberty, engines, boats, etc., all trades being represented. The number of spectators around Tammany and Irving Halls and Union Square was not less than 200,000.” In coining $20,000,000 in silver and $22,000,000 in gold at the San Francisco mint in 1878, there was lost- only $29. The carpet, which had been down five years, was taken up last spring, cut up in small pieces, and burned in pans. The debris was put through the same process as the mining dust, and there was got from the old carpet $2,500. That carpet would be hard to beat.— Bulletin. ■ > ■ • ■