New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-02-26
AN Ty4UG URATION PROGRA nMf.

We arc sincerely an xous that the Inauguration OF
Mr. Cleveland shall be great poetic anu artistic
success, and we have no sympathy WIN thoso
sodden Democrats. II any there be. VINO cry out
against making that event gorgeous spectacle
RECOGNIZING the interest which all good cltlzehs
of the country should take in the inauguration OF
ITS President we venture to suggest to the com
mittce IN charge programme which we DOUBT not
will commend itself to all true Democrats. 1t may
possibly be improved in some of ITS details, but we
think that as it stands it is almost perfect.
On the morning of the inauguration all the Demo
crafts who want an Office will gather at Washington.
OF coursc the city will not begin TO hold them. but
th.y can mass around it by States In solid platoons
When the time for the ceremony draws near u
mammoth procession will foIm near the Whito
Uouse and will advance to the Capitol In tho
following order:
Tho Presdent-ecct ON n milk-white charger,
,receJed Inv a small boy bearing banner on which
ia inscribed, " This is Jeilersonian Simplicity
yice-Presidenteec Hendricks carried on the
shoulders OF one hundred Hoosers. preceded by II
transparency inscribed. "Why should you fear
You carry one greater than Cesar
A squad OF Bourbon Democrats, gnawing some Old
6,cs Of The Times Motto: slough. Tough 50
Tough"
Chairman Barnum driving seven trick mules and
holding alOlt ~ transparency "''''"' -'-'
Greatest Show on Earth
O,e hundred assorted statesmen who feel it In
their bones that Cabnetlghtnng will strike them
nreceded by a chorus of small tigers singing,
&. Patriots Are We.'
Ex-senator Doolittle drawing veil over his
lacerated feelings.
t;eorge William Curtis, Carl Schurz and Henry
Ward Beecher in their great tableau scene. The
Mugwumps' Revenge"
Delegations from every State and Territory
representing the applicants for post-oices. 10000
strong preceded by banner inscribed: Turn the
Republican Rascals Out; Turn Us ln.'
Dan Manning. II. o. Thompson and Carter Harri-
son. carrying an oil painting of the Augean stables
Motto: 1--WE Have Cleaned Them Out"
Henry Watterson and s. j. Randall carrying %
Sheknah inscribed Democratic Iarii foicy-
The Great What Is It."
TLe man who expects to be Collector of the Port of
New.York. 800 strong Motto: /" Let me but collect
tho customs of tho country, and l care not who
make its laws" -
The Editor OF The World in the act of writing his
celebrated article. mo Flummery," followed by
100 sandwich men bearing on their backs state
ment of Tho Worlds circulation.
The Southern chivalry in the saddle 10000
strong Many bands playing Dixie. Notices :
We Rule by Right Divine" and The Niggahs, by
cad, sab, have taken to the woods"
Several deadly parallel columns OF The Ercnins
Post on foot and limping badly. Motto: 1--WE are
Little, but Oh, Myp
A regiment of Mugwumps on foot preceded by
band playing Q dirge. Transparencies inscribed {:
We Kick at Everything" and I" We really couldn't
take an Office"
Democratic workers. Motto: "We want Reform.
but where do We como inT
One hundred picked Tammany braves wearing
Grape on thor left arms preceded by transparency
inscribed, Z" Ichsbod."
Mira Belvs A. Lockwood. one strong. on . fifty.