The Meat of the Battle.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 526, 1 November 1890, Page 2

The Meat of the Battle.

ELECTION’ ROWDYISM. (special to the standard ) WbbtjTngijoN'. Thmwdav. Mi? Dut.hie addvessed-a crowded political meeting last night, but for the first ten minutes he could not he heard for the cheers and counter cheers and other interruptions. After a lull he to refer tn Mr F'sher, when hooting?; yelling*, and groaning stopped the speaker, and the Chairman also was howled down. There was a perfect babel for a time, citizens unavailinslv ascending? the platform and trying? to get. Mr Duthie a hearing, and one section of the audience filled in the time bv singing rollicking choruses such as Rule Brittania, while the other side tried to get the mastery bv cheering and clapping. There wag no cessation until nine o’clock, when the Chairman declared the meeting closed. A etill more exciting time ensued. Numbers of Mr Duthie’s committee mounted the platform, rent the air with vociferous cheers, waved their hats and handkerchiefs, and exhibited their enthusiasm, while those seated below rose in a surging muss and replied to the efforts, of those on the platform. This con'inuod for five minutes, when the stage curtain was lowered and the audience began to disperse. As the curtain was coming down Mr Duthie was mounted on a chair on the shoulders of several of his supporters. The papers are unanimous in condemning the rowdyism»