Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-11-12
Yanktan Ahlazs With Pyro-
techrics and Entliu-
sis snf.
Celebrating the Republican Success
ses in the States and tbs Terri
tories.
The City Given Over to Jollifca-
ton Which Snrpasses all Pre-
vious Efforts.

in the national and congressional con-
tests, Yankton turned itself loose last
Saturday night and succeeded 10 con-
vincing Itself that its republicans are
intensely satisfied with the results OF
the campaign. Our city has been the
of many demonstrations OF a poll
tical AMI patriotic nature, but there wss
never before anything which approached
the aft air OF Saturday night in dimen.
sions and spectacular details. For two
hours the entire city was aglow. There
we're blazing bonfires on the hillsides and
on the streets, residences and business
were brilliantly Illuminated and
air was filled with showers from burning
fireworks, to which was added the con-
slant glare of red lights. l. this sea OF
the national colols hoated from
many Dag stats aud decorative designs
in red, white and blue embellishel the
of residences and business places.
To the spectacular display was added
the din of gun powder explosions, the
ringing of bells and lusty shouts from
Thousand OF throats, mingled with the
music of bands and the songs of exultant
%victors.
The celebration Was as unanimous as
it was spontaneous. 1t spread all over
Yankton and sprung mp In unexpected
places. IL ragged from limit to limit and
was tempered only by the ability OF
the participants TO show the earnes.
vlgor of their JOY. 1t was a carnival
Of exultation which spent itself only
when the forces were exhausted. II
there were any on-participating demo
Gratis in the city Saturday evening
they were SO very few thai
their presence ven unnoted in the
wild delirlum of the hour. The com
mittees which planned and executed the
details of the demonstration fulfilled
we'll their several tasks. They made the
affair as successful as limited time anG
scarce facilities would permit and wen
far beyond public expectation. Thei
efforts were most ably seconded by thu
citizens in general, who entered into thu
spirit of the occasion and material,
augmented the magnitude of the exhi5s
tion. The illumination Of private resi-
dences and public places was general
hundreds of houses along the route O
the procession and off the route OF th,
procession exhibiting brilliantly lighted
windows throughout the period of re
IoIcinR.
THE PROCESSION
formed on Broadway at seven O'Clock il
the evening IL the lighs of blazing bon,
fires and torches, and a half an hon,
lster the head OF the column moved
down Third street headed by the Yank
ton cornet bend In full uniform. AS thu
cavslcade slowly unwound itself tn,
briliispoy of the display evoked the wild
est enthusiasm from thousands OF specta
tors along the walks and IN the windows
OF buildings. Stretching from Broadway
to Capitol and around the cor er ant
northwsrd on Capitol there was a hal
mile of moving column ablsze will
torches, fireworks, colored lights ant
transparencles, vending it's way be,
tween two walls OF illumination and un,
der q canopy of fame and sparks ant
smoke from burning fireworks.
The order of the procession placed th.
Yankton cornst. band in tht
lead, followed by a body 20
mounted torch beerers. Behind thes,
was q broom brigade and torch bearers
and in their wake stretched the Ions
column OF torch bearers, wagons carry.
ing mammoth trsnsparencies and va.
rioua unique designs. At proper inter
walls were two other handsome q fife anc
drum corps and the other the Knight,
Templar cornet band.
AZoG CABIN.
An interesting feature of the displs,
was q log cabin mounted on wheels an,
drawn by four horses. This cabin we
constructed from Dakota logs by Will
liam Box and was a complete aft
veretable log cabin with q single roo
and doors and windows. A coon ski
YVES nailed unde, the gable of the struc.
ture and in the doorway was i barrel Q
cider, with tin drinking cups on a pin
table. Within the cabin rode Rev. [
B. Nichols. j. w. O. Morrison, O. n
Tyler. Barney Mohap, DR.. Van Ostrant
D. O. Gill and 81. L. Briggs. veteran n
publieans who voted for Grandfathe
Harrison. This party was chaperoned b
Colonel Mic Morgan, who did not vot
for Grandfather Harrison, becaus
he lacked some three years
being old enough, but he pounded
drum all through the Tippecanoe cam
paign and shouted for Harrison. TT
log cabin was q great success, and al
traoted much attention.
THE TRANsPARENcIEs.
There were numerous Transparent,
scattered throughout tine processio
several OF them occupying each an 81
tire wagon. This department WI
under charge of Ell Palmer. who ga,
his entire attention TO the constructic
OF illuminated sentiments.
0ne o. the large wagon Transparent,
represented q pair OF stations engage
in a fierce combat. One was label.
Free Trade" and the other "P Protection
Az accompanying sketch showed the fr,
trade horse down aud the ~protectio