Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-07-20
PlNoREE LEAVES DETROIT
With Eight Hundred Enthusiastic Sup
portcrs.

With Eight Hundred Enthusiastic Sup
porers.
DETROIT, July l9.-The Pingree hosts
started for Saginaw at s:45 O'Clock this
morning. They were 500 strong and
filled ten cars of the Flint & Pere Mar
quette railroad train. They were y
happy looking crowd. They thought
with Mayor Plngree that they would DO
able 20 show the RGu men q trick or
Two before the Saginaw convention
should adjourn.
All the party leaders were on deck.
ID. Augustus Straker. the well-kuown
colored lawyer, WAS there In all the
glory OF conscious rectitude. lie was
accompanied by young preacher,
the Rev. John Smailwood, who hailed.
from Virginia. There we're also p. NJ,
Coffin, Lou Burt, ex-Mayor Grummond
John B. Coriss, Col. J. NJ. Farland.
Edgar Weeks, Elder Blades, Alex /.
Macleod, Aldermen Seeiy, Coots, Beck,
Roster, Buhrer, Judge JennisOn, and,
of course, the MAYOR himself.
"Oh. yes" said Mr.. Pingree, cit be-
gins to look as If L Was in II"
Edgar Weeks was very confident Of
success. He spoke his mind concern
ing Rich, who, he said, Was backed by
the came sort OF machine that IN 1882
egged Folger on to defeat In New York
state.
YES" be added, "there are few
democrats on this train who are Pin
gree's friends, and they will vote for
him il he is nominated. Did you ask
il l am farmer? Well. Sir, have
raised the finest crop of currant worms
this summer that you ever saw"
The train accommodations were not
OF the best. Some Of the cars smelled
like . third class boarding house. One
of the delegates wondered where in
the ID they could have raked them
up" They looked IS though they
would hardly hold together.
At $50 the Pingree u Smith brass
band headed . procession of the Pin
gree employees, some 800 strong. to the
train.
Each of the msrchers was attired in
linen busters and straw hats. A cane
Was also q part Of the paraphernslia.
There were few tin horns and kazOOs
which gave the mayor . somewhat dis
cordant serenade.
A later train carried still further re-
Inducements of the Pingree hosts, and
1t 10 probable that at least 800 Detroit
ers Will invade Saginaw today. In the
crowd was noticed about 100 ladies.
The Pingree men have decided to
sing . song when they reach Saginaw.
II 10 set TO the tune of Marching
Through Georgia" and extols Pingree's
gubernatorial qualities.
what is the parting word?" was
asked Of Alex |. Mcleod.
1--WE are going to get there-that is
the parting word" he replied. "They
won't dare TO nominate a man who
would be defeated. We are gong
there to convert large number of re-.
pubIcans to the belief that ours il the
best man for q candidate. We have I00,-
600 documents ofsvarious kinds TO put
into the hands of the delegates. These
will show Mayor Pingree's strength
with the soldier vote where Bich il
weak. They will show the mayors
popularity in Wayne county where
Rich is weak. Lastly. they will show
Pingree's strength with the so-cslled
labor vote and all who dislike corpora
ton rule. We are going TO appeal to
the good sense OF the delegates not to
nominate q mao who can be pricked
full of holes IN the campaign by the
enemy. tell you we are gong to sue
ceed."