New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-06
III WAS a MISERABLE PARADE.
WHERE WERE THE DEMOCRATIC BUSINESS
MEN?


AND THE AIR BEACING. BUT INSTEAD
OF THE PREDICTED $1,000 NOT
10000 MEN MARCHED.
1t q cold day for the Democracy yesterday
Even the weather combined with the forces OF
National prosperity and the logic of Republican
arguments 70 freeze the calamity party out in
this campaign. ABOUT 10000 business men and
Office boys paraded the streets of the city
for several hours in the afternoon. and shouted
variations Of the current Democratic slogans.
The voters Of New-Yorl, however, stayed at
home with great unanimity and allowed the mis-
guided paraders to tramp the streets between
two thin and ragged fringes Of floating citizens
who stood moment on tho curbstone to gaze
and then went on about their business.
1t was In reality a fine day for marching, the
day being clear and tho air crisp and bracing. The
wind was keen and sharp, to bc sure bat If there
were any real, warm enthusiasm for Cleveland and
! Stevenson in The business community little thing
like a brisk autumn wind would not chill it, The
parade was fat. dismal fiure d u ting & Dem
ocrats, but q source of rejoicing to Republicans.
showing, as It did, the utter lack of interest among
real business men in the political fortunes Of Gro
yer Cleveland. The Democrats had predicted that
A., 600 men would march. With the weather really
in their favor they succeeded in getting out less
than 10000 Their predictions in regard to next
Tuesday will be found equally exact.
Up In the gran1 stand erected at Madison Square
stood w. Cleveland with heroic little band of
supporters, an1 smilcd upon the Struggling ranks
| Of the passing procession Tho stand on
the east side Of Flfth-ave., and the cruel west
wind froze The old Je Icrsonian spirit in the veins
| II the few hundred Democrats who stood upon the
fist three of chairs and looked and shivered.
| The opposite side of the avenue had n crowd of
q scant thousand, bnt the police force provided
10 keep the route clear had practically nothing
70 do Inspector McAvoy, who struggled so
valiantly with tile mutitudcs Of the Columbus
raradcs, looked at the punY crowds moment and
then sauntered of 10 find sheltered corner from
which 70 watch IN" parade. With Mr.. Cleveland.
cnvcloped in winter oycrcoa's, were J. Edward
/ Simmons, Mayor Grart Mr. Groy and Controller
Myers. Marshal McNIahon joined the party after
the head OF the procession had passed the stand.
As is frequently the case with typical Demo
crats the most prominent feature of the average
parader yesterday was his yawp. Many of the
cries were amusing Some Of them were witty. All
OF them were weak. As a socmn-looking specta-
tor remarked upon some Of the outbursfs Of
youthful enthusiasm There seems 70 be more wit
than voters in this parade"
| Huly Gee, Who are wep We out for
Grover 60 shouted a platoon of youths with
wholesale dryGoods badges on their coats They
| might have been merchants but they looked more
! like S3a-weck crrand boys.
Here are We. Here are We! Cleveland
Democrats you see.r shouted another club
| Whcreat the straight-out Tammany Democrats
| the stand tirned yellower than ever with the
! cold and their disgust for anti-snappcrsH of
every kind Similar expressions of pain passed
the faces Of the thirty s.f-important negroes
who constituted the Afro-American Democratic
! Club the wind waited back from the mjrc
advanced portion e the column the words: "No!
No, No Forcc Bl.' and again: We arc down
on the Force bill. Cause il thwartrd the pco-
pies will"
Tho most frequent emblem was the little
chocra-yellow tiger. which crouch"d on every HIT
and cunI 10 every lapel Dr. Jenkins who stood
H. tho front row of the rcvicwing-s'anl was with
dinicuty restrained by tho newspaper men from
ordering the whole parade back & lower quarln-
tinc as cholera suspects. on seeing this color
cmhcmatic of the pest. The procession fairly
| rovellel in this sckly hue Of death. When the
supply Of yellow tigers gave ont the men wore
yellow chrysanthcmumA in their button-hclc'.
Tho prevalence of these squat little tigers. with
their twisted tails, the Juccr looking birds on
tho hats Of other paradcrs and The curious spec
mems of humanity In the ranks Of business De-
mocracy, produced general impression which
only needed the presence Of the press agent of the
"Grcqtcst Show on Earth opening wine in somc
convenient Broadway hotel. and tho spectacle (
the Goddess Of Liberty on n cilacd chariot 10
convince the beholdcr that, though Barnum's boly
might lie a-mouldcring in the grave his soul was
still marching on at the head of his annual circus
parade.
Banners There few, and many of them were
from four TO eight years old The graves of the
dead past hnd been robbed, and the legend Cleve
land and Thurman" or Cleveland and Hendricks"
met tho startled eye of the bchodcr in miraculous
resurrection with dingy lettering AMI faded silk
these ancient political battlc-rags cast a gloom
over the frozen surface of the occasion.
4 schism among one littlo group Of on
lockers at Twenty thlrdst over the cholera tigers.
One party maintained that they were genuine
cmblems Of Tamniany fcalty and consequent OPP
POSITION to Mr.. Cleveland Tho other party
enormously insisted that they were allcgorcal of
the "wdcat' money plank in the Democratic
PLATFORM and typilcd the good feeling existing
between the Democratic party and wildcat
schemes and ideas of all kinds.
One company created much mcrriment by in
Guiding a rcd-hcadcd girl in it's ranks. Shouts Of
inquiry as to the usual white horse were raised
all along the line when this fery-tippcd daughter
Of the regiment came in view
Somc of the pands played the lugubrious
melody OF "Auld Lang Syne" Others wrestlcd
with the highly appropriate tune Of the baby song
in Wang In cass the musicians lips
and fingers were so stifTcncd with the cold that
it was difficult to tell what they We're playing.
Altogether, Il WIS most melancholy.
Some of the organizations were lsmcntob bly,
weak. The students of the College Of the City
Of Ncw-lorll hid ahOrt seventeen men in line.
Columbia College had only about twice that
number and several of the semi professional clubs.
snch rs the insurance men, were poorly repre-
rented. The Lawyers Club and the Stock EA-
change both made ine showngs Frederic X
Coudcrf marched In the front rank OF the former