Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-10-21
THE REPUBLICAN, PARAD I
GRANT NOT HERE.
BLAINE NOT H E L Z {.
THE PHILADELPHIA ISV1SCIBLEs
NOT HERE.


\ Big OutpourlnS OF inc So""'J HOn'
to-day is gala day in Lancaster, ant
the town presents q very brilliant and al
mated appearance. For weeks past prep
arations have been making by the Repub
Iican managers for 4 grand :: old fashion
ed county convention," to rival those hel,
in the days of rippecanoe and lyle
too" Money has been poured out iiis
water: equipments and flags and banner
and fireworks have been bought AMI dis
tributcd among the faithful in every sec
ton of the county; district meetings hav
been held everywhere, and the one grea
appeal has been, come up and help IL
in Lancaster on October 21st." The news
papers were full o: it. and they contidentl,
promised their readers that Grant, Blaine
C0nkling, HOyt and all the other big gun.
Of the Republican party would be prescn
at the show.
OF course these appeals had the desired
effect. The city Republicans made ample
preparations to receive their country
cousins. and astonish them with the pro
fusion of the decorations. The news
paper offices, hotels, restaurants, stores,
Offices and dwellings, Of Republicans are
generally trimmed with flags, streamers and
portraits of their candidates, some Of the
decorations being very elaborate and in
good taste, anc some otherwise.
Early this morning the clans began to
assemble and the town was soon well filled
with concourso OF country people. -Four
excursion trains were announced on tine
Pennsylvania railroad, one of them being
from Phi!adCiphi.., one from York and
Hanover, ono iro.m Harrisburg via Mount
Joy, and the other from Harrisburg rio
Columbia There were also excursion
trains on the Reading, Lancaster & Quar-
ryvillc road both from the north and south
and these came well filled. Then came
delegations afoot, On horseback, in car
riaacs, wagons, olnnibuses and stage
coaches from all sections OF the county.
Many of the clubs Wore campaign equip
snents, and these were of all the colOrs OF
:he rainbow. Many of the delegations
carried flags and banners containing the
usual ciap-trap campaign legends, but it
was remarked that most of the delegations
were uncypcc culy small, and in all OF
them were boys.
The marsha! and his assistants and aids.
had 4 terrible time in getting the uudrilled
delegations into anything like order. and
it was Ion. after the time announced for
the starting of the parade that it finally
get into motion. and even then therc We're
frequent stoppagcs along the line, caused
Gy misunderstanding nf the chief mar
shal< general orders.
There we've not many points E tl:c parade
@o,thy of special notice. There WAS the
usual amount of bunting, caps, capeS,
torches, men, boys. girls, horses, mules
and wagons; but there were very few
prominent features calculated to attract
special attention. The trades were very
poorly represented, indeed, there being in
line only i few wagons containing men at
work, and there were the sewing machine
agents, patent right agents and few forGes,
blackgmiths, wheelwrigi.ts, stone cut
ters, and coinb- makers. One wagon load
ed with tobacco boxes and gaily trimmed
with iiags attracted a good deal of atten-
tion. Mr.. 5. L. Balls display of orna-
mental grasses WAS pretty: J. B. Martin $
display or paper hangings looked well, AMI
the dog power chuin created some merri-
ment along the linz.
John Cessna's mules and canal boat;
formed !. feature for those simpletons who
vote through their eyes. The humnr-
Gus legends on the banners related almost
exclusively TO Indiana, Ohio, Salt River
and the same old coon and The arguments
displayed were to the effect that a reve-
nue. tariff means raupcrism' and we
won't pay rebel c'aims.' Some Of the
country wagons were tasteiully decorated
with cvcrgreens and loaded up with bonn-
cling country girls, but many Of them on
the other hand were dirty, unwashed
worn out vehicles. filled with rude and
rough looking men and drawn 10y srav-
ined mules and horses.
1t was noticeable that many OF the dele
cations were very small. numbering only
from 90 to 80 men. 4 few delegations
were large and looked well, the Young
Mems club OF Harrisburg, numbering
about 80 men, 4 club in Continental uni
form, numbering 30, and a Marietta club,
numbering about 30 white men and 90
blacks. being among the best looking in
the line.
The very small number of the members
of city clubs in line was Il cause OF cOnsid-
cradle remark. some OF the clubs being
scarcely represented at all and the others
turning cut less than half the number they
had ut the recent city parade.
The head OF the column passed Centre
Square ut ten minutes past IL o'clock and
the rear of it passed at exactly 12 O'Clock.
noon. So that it was exactly fifty minutes
in passing. The head Of the column re-
in Centre Square ut ten minutes
before one o'clock, and the rear passed the
same point at twenty-fo;.r minutes past
one.
Instead OF marching eight abreast. as
the chief marshal had requested, none of
the foot delegations marched more than
four abreast, and many uf them only two
abreast.
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much smaller than was anticipated, and
for the purpose Of stringing out the line to
rs great 4 length as possible they rode two
abreast. The Republicans account for the
small number 10y saying their horses are
afflicted with the epizooty!
The music in line was cool, bad and in
bands and drum corps and several others
but MUSICAL.
Points of the Parade
The Eden township club, as it stacked
,rms for two hours in front of tho INTEL
ILGENcEH Office this morning, consisted of
one man from Drumore, thirteen voters
from Eden, and eight little boys who will
hardly be Of age to vote for Grant in 1884.
There was some excellent spelling on
some Of the banners. One had California
spelt ''Callifornia' and another hal the
word ''rcbcls" without an ''T'.
Grant and Blaine were promised, bat the
speakers turned out to be koon,z. Lear
and Matthews.
A good many people inquired about the
that was in the line Of parade and
wanted to know who it belonged to and
where it came feOm. So far rs we can learn
LII 20 rt,fr
state arsenal at Harrisburg, but on what
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