Wichita eagle., 1888-11-09

peatedly bowling. The air was thick with
smoKe from countless rockets and Roman
candles. The pressing crowd moved bach
| Cumberland bali to roll by midst deafen-
ing cheers. As the great sphere which
had travelled SO far arrived opposite Gen
eral Harrison it stopped as though to sa-
lutte and the general uncovered. The ball
was escorted by 468 torch bearers. Per
haps the finest display in the Republican
procession pro- es was made by the RailGoad club
ana the Porter Columbian club. Thes rail.
road men all carried lanterns and fired
Roman candles. but it was their
big realistic locomotive drawn by six
horses that captured the crowd. The Por-
ter Columbians numbered 40, carrying
long poles with illuminated balloons.
Among the other leading organizations
were the umbrella brigade; the Car Works
ciubs, Wanamaker escort tile workers
and Irish clubs in line numbering by
actual count 4, 700 men. The Republicans
had but half a dozen bands. and then
they were compelled to send to the country
and bring them in. The Democrats got
ahead of them and hired every band in
the oity. The column was one hour and
twenty minutes in passing the review bal
conY. General Hnrrison remained through
out the parade and was handed a dozen
kilograms, while reviewing the procession.
They proved TO be from his friends in New
York. Here are two of them:
NEW YORK, Nov. 8.
General Benjamin Harrison:
1.-THE greatest political procession ever
seen in New York has been passing the
Fifth Avenue hotel for four hours and
seems endless.
tSignedl JAMES G. BLAINE"
NEW Y0PE Nov z
General Harrison:
Never in forty years have seen suoh
an immense crowd of business men in
procession as today. Congratulations.
EiSignedl HENRY G. BOWEN"
At the conclusion of the parade General
Harrison was presented with a
large glass globe nineteen inches in
diameter and thirty-six inches high
by Frank Skunk, an employe of Covers
glass works at Muncie; also two handsome
glass canes. Skunk stated that he made
the articles himself this morning.
Other gifts reaching the general today
were a hansomely mounted caligraph
from the Condo implement works, of this
city, and paving brick from Urbana, O.,
with note from the donor stating that
he subscribed toward replacing the gen.
erals sidewalk
The Democratic demonstration was
usually as creditable as the Republican
less the novelties, such as the locomotive
and the big ball. 1t was shortly after
O'Clock when the booming cannon an
nounced that the Democratic hosts were
under way moving northward on Illinois
street, thence west on Washington to
West street, counter marching on Wash
ington to Noble, again by counter march
to Pennsylvania and north no Market
Around the grand hotel on Illinois street
the jam was as great as on Pennsylvania
avenue and enthusiasm ran very high. 1t
seemed the population of the city, as by
impulse. observed the division of
territory set aside to each procession by
the authorities and the friends of each
side, massed themselves along their
lines of march Thus
it happened that while the thousands
around the Grand hotel all cheered
Justly for Cleveland and the 'Old
Roman" no discordant cheers disturbed
the masses about the New Denison. Only
q big bandana foated from one of the
silently telling that at least one guest
was Democrat. From the balcony of the
Grand Chairman Jewett and number of
other distinguished Democrats reviewed
the passing host. The column was composed
Of five divisions under command of Chief
Marshal Robbins. From the balconies
along the route red fire Illuminated the
streets until from a distanN housetop it
looked, when both columns were in mo-
ton, as though the city was on fire in q
hundred places. To this brilliant illumi-
nation, assisted by natural gas, addel to
The thousands Of kissing rockets,
lhe roar Of distant cannon,
-he thousands of moving torches
md the roar of two marching armies and
The reader gets glimpse of indianapolis
and the tumult of the night. AT the head
Of the Democratic column was tia Old
Mems Democratic club. They preceded
even the chief marshal. Including the
township clubs there were about
sixty different organizations repre-
;ented in the Democratic column,
including an unusual number of mounted
men. The Democratic railroad club made
/ fine display, numbering about 500 with
anterns and torches.