St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-24
THE GRAND CELEBRATION.
st. Paul to Have the Most Attractive
Street Parade Ever Witnessed
i'm the State.

There seems now but one thing yet re-
naming to be solved to make the demonstra-
ton in honor OF the election OF Cleveland
and Hendricks Wednesday evening next the
most successful and notable event of the
kind ever witnessed in Minnesota. The
vindictive boast of the bidding Dispatch that
the demon stratlon was bound to be failure
for the reason that the money decided nee
esssry TO make 1t q success could not be
raised-one thousand dollars-has been re-
futed in a most striking manner; in fact,
the money item has proven the least difficult
to solve Of the many that enter into the de-
tails of such an undertaking, the prompt and
liberal response of our leading Democrats in
this direction giving the committee Of ar
rangements more than the amount
asked, thus removing all doubts on this
score. Backed up and encouraged by this
hberality the committee Of arrangements
with the several ward auxiliaries have gone
forward with the necessary details with q
method and energy which win unquestiona-
bly, result in one of the best organized and
most attractive street parades ever given in
the state. There will be fully three thousand
torch bearers in line, hundreds of horsemen
with banners, hundreds Of men bearing ap-
propriate transparencics and cartoons, huge
cartoons drawn on wheels, music by numer-
Gus bands, ringing of bells, footing of horns,
painting the city red by means of a bewil6er-
ing display Of fireworks, aud many other
features not necessary to mention.
This alone will be worth travelling many
miles TO see. But it is not enough. To
make the affair the notable success 1t should
be, our business men and citizens generally
OF the Democratic faith, have duty to per-
form, in the contamination Of which they
can find a good example set them by thei=
brethren of Minneapolis. The Democrats Of
Minneapolis had their demonstration Satur-
day evening last, and notwithstanding the
very disagTeeable weather-the wind blowing
a gale and filing the air with the newly fallen
snow, pinehing the ears and noses and
chilling the feet Of the marchers-was q
grand success, much more credItable to those
engaged in it, and the city at large, than one
would be led to suppose from the newspaper
reports. In this case one needed to partici-
pate in the parade to be able TO appreciate
the many attractions and excellencies Of the
display. 1t vas not alone the large number
Of torch bearers, the many transparencies,
the inspiriting music and the brilliancy Of
the fireworks that made the demonstration
the SUCCESS il was. That was achieved very
largely through the interest shown by large
numbers Of citizens in most brilliantly illu-
minating their places Of business aid private
residences. in the display Of transpareueles
including a number Of large sized portraits
OF Cleveland and Hendricks in greeting
the procession with handsome display Of
fire works from the lawns in front of their
residences and from the roofs of their bust
ness houses, and last, though by no means
least, in the bright smiles, waving Of hand
kerchiefs and flags by hundreds OF ladies,
who braved the weather to show their sym