The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-06
DEMOCRACY'S BIG EFFORT
That "Great Demonstration" They Have
Advertised for Many Weeks.
Republicans Now Sure Of victory-An I'm
promptu Parade-Buncoed with Voorhees,
Drunk and Riotous.

strated last night, and demonstrated
with q plentitude Of tin-horn blowing
yelling. fireworks and fre-wster. The
procession preceding, formed on Tonnes
see and Washington streets. and moved off
just q half hour late. The alleged COM
mercisl travellers marched at the head of
the line of clubs. and had just thrty-seven
genuine Indiana commercial travellers in
line. There were in line with the CONNER
cial travellers delegations from all over
she State, with all the friends they
could induce to accompany. The largest
of these was from Terre Haute, which
place sent over sixty men labeled CONNER
cial travellers" After the RUNNERS came
Q number of local clubs with ranks veil
filed. Peru sent down her little Cleve-
land Club to swell the mob, and they
marched directly in front of our own little
Gray Club. Next came the railroad men.
and here was a study. Something like one
thousand badges, upon which were stamped
the picture of locomotive and word
ing bearing the information that
the wearer was railroader. had
willing to fall in line. wearing the badge
and carry a lantern. About 10 per cent.
of the persons In the ranks were Don-
voters, and fully 20 per cent of the remain
der never saw an hours work for railroad
in any capacity. crowd of young men
employed In the stock-pens at the stock
yards were pressed into service and
trudged along the march, vainly endeay-
oring 70 get o railroad swing on their
The independent colored Democracy"
was represented by K. Z. Cooper, A. l..
Manning and three companions in misery,
who brought mp the extreme rear of the
Sterling T. Holt Club AS far as mum bers
were concerned the parade was success
and 1t was witnessed by immense crowds
assembled all along the line. who gave
them q hearty greeting as they appeared.
The lavish expenditure of candidates was
made apparent by the number of inebri-
sted In line. This was especially so in the
ranks OF the alleged old soldiers, and. with
their usual reckless disregard for the old
soldier and of his good name. the Democ-
racy had supplied ali corners with Grand
Army uniforms and sent them into
the. line. The genuine old soldier
could easily be distinguished from
The counterfeit by their bearing.
The parade contained q superabundance of
transparencies. and o grave mistake was
made in not having appointed some one to
20 into the line. Had this been done sew
oral would undoubtedly have been thrown
out as containing too much Republican ar
gument. One. in particular. bearing the
inscription, Call Out the Militia. Frick."
would have been hustled into the darkest
alley, when the inspector. had he been ap-
pointed. recalled that Prick was Q
Oem0crab as was the man VINO COIL
manded the militia. and Governor Pattison.
who ordered them out 1t was every body's
parade; men. women and children were
given room. and plenty Of It Some twen-
tv-fve or moro wagons, filled with boys
and girls and gayly decorated with flags
and bunting. were hauled along the line.
which was broken ever and anon, presum-
ably to occupy space and time In passing.
The Democrats had a good,sized parade.
but 10 required weeks Of hustling to be got
ten together, and then it was not as
big as the Republican demonstration for
Reid and Depew. Aftor il had been dis
solved the Marion Club drum corps started
down the street with man behind 1t bear
ing on pole picture of President Harri-
son. One by one the Republican voters be-
gan falling in line back of it until 1t
stretched away for squares. and the cries
of Harrison! Harrison! Harrison kept
time to the marching feet. Every few
minutes q fragment of the Democratic
parade would be met, and their feeble
cries would be drowned in grand hurrah
for BENNY This Republican parade was
fully four squares long. and 1t marched all
over the business streets, spreading Repub-
ican enthusiasm in Its wake. Dark win
dows, IN which pictures of the President
could dimly be seen. were suddenly lighted,
and ger faces were thrust out. while hands
gladly waved handkerchiefs and flags.
1t was not al entirely Democratic evening.
and though there will be some hoarse Re-
publican voices this morning. no one will
regret that impromptu parade. Local Re-
publicans, after viewing the size OF the
Democratic demonstration, feel satisfied
that they viii carry Marion county.
Meeting Was a Fizzie.
The meeting at Tomlinson Hall was O
fat failure considering the claims made for
&c. The crowd taken altogether did not
number many more than the list of vice
presidents printed in the Sentinel. and
what few were in attendance were called
out by Misrepresentation. Henry Waiter
son and w. p. Breckenridge were adver-
tised TO speak. but neither were present or
over intended to be, and the audience was
inflicted with more than an hour of Daniel
Webster Voorhees, who gave a repetition of
his late Vincennes speech. 1t was tissue of
misre presentatIonsf from beginning to end.
At o'clock about third of the seats
In the lower part of the ball were occupied
while the galleries looked gloomy in their
loneliness. 1t was 9:45 O'clock when the
parade reached the hall To show the
spirit of the meeting it is only necessary to
say that the seventeen Democratic
commercial travellers under whose
auspices the meeting was held, the
Peru Club ana the Gray Club
were the only organizations that entered
the hall. though there were plenty of seats
waiting for them. The rest of the parade
Rt once adjourned to nelghboring saloons
and an immense drunk was inaaQurated,
which lasted far into the night. In opening
his speech Senator Voorhees, gently re-
ferred to the empty seats. He said he
hardly knew on what line to talk. The
streets were alive with people, and the
time for speeches had passed; the time of
action had come. The entire speech was
devoted TO vilifying the Mckinley blll.
I'm the fear of my Maker" said he, "in
whose presence i stand tonight. l pro-
nounce this the Mckinley bill the most
baleful legislation ever endured by any
free people" He also accused Senator John
Sherman of having been bought and sold.
compared Labor Commissioners Peck to
Judas IscarIot, and climaxed his dis
graceful and In many cases I'M
truthful utterances by this sacrIieglous
declaration: IF Christ walked the face
of the earth to-day he would rot be allowed
place on Repu blican platform"
At one point In his address he told story
of young man Who went TO Texas. and,
after having been absent some time wrote
20 his father telling him he was exceed
lngly prosperous, and concluding with these
words: Il will be home on q certain day.
Meet me on the outskirts of town with a
shirt and pair of drawers-I have hat"
And he then had the audacity TO accuse
Chauncey NJ. Depew of vulgarity In his
recent remarks IN this city.
Drunkenness aud Brawls.
Excitement ran high on the streets of
indianapolis last night and far into the
hours of the morning. Nature has her linn
Its. and lungs likewise, and when the DEM