The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-11-14
THE SKY RED.
While the Air Was Filled With
Ear Splitting Noise
AT THE REPUBLICAN JUBILEE

"a Long Parade ana a Pleasing FInm-
beau DispIny-Th or specta-
tors
Shawnee county people who hadn't
cotton IN their ears last night can hear
the dull roaring of the conch shell IN
them this morning.
The Republicans were happy last even
ing and they opened their hearts and
pocketbooks and mouths and sent sky
ward a noise and glare that might nave
drowned the wailing and intensified the
red of the inferno itself
1t was wildly Joyous night and every
string on human acts and deeds was tenn
porarily looseued and the public given
III understand that the town WAS Its.
And it took it almost without saying
thank you.
1t took it and toyed with it in a way
that seemed to mean destruction. 1t ls
good that the pavement was well
dropped for it would surely otherwise
have gone down with the surging, strug-
Cling sea of people that rolled from side
to side Of Kansas avenue in long Vienna
rolls aud yelled until the windows Wav-
cred before the waves of sound.
Oh. what a night it wasl Kansas has
never seen one like before and
had it not been for the i'm toxicating joy
of her redemption she would have cen
shocked at her own drunk-lke impe tu-
ousity.
Turned herself loose" That's what
a man said about it last night and if you
will say it yourself with a long breath
aud an emphatic accent you will say
more than you could IN volumes Of weak
grammatical English.
The comm otiOn began to let folks know
il was there early in the afternoon and
when you went home to supper you felt
quite sure somehow, that the anxiOusIy
waited Republican night had arrived
Kansas avenue looked like day old
battlefield this morning with dead re-
moved and people who were out last
night trying to behave and hear sons
thing felt a sort Of tiendlsh joy in giving
a parting kick to the broken Instruments
Of torture that lay scattered along the
street aud made L look like a wrecked
tin shop. The boys were out early look
ing for fireworks that missed ire last
night
Immediately after supper last evening
Ia lsas avenue WAS swarning with peO
pie waiting for the big parade and fam
beau display. BY half past it was only
with difficulty you could get along the
q rect at all. III you had conversation
You wanted to carry on with anyone you
yelled it into his ear or else took him out
t1 the edge Of town. If you wanted to
got anyw here you took the middle Of the
street and lodged along as if you were
b lllist it would have been good but
rather severe training for you
Every BODY seemed to be on Kansas
avenue last night, although many con-
tend that the crowd was not so large nor
3D. DO sterous as on the Saturday evening
before the election
Every possible noise on earth seemed
to be there. There were half dozen
bands in the parade and the public en-
joTed their gymnastic performances i'm
mensely. If they were playing nobody
knew gnything about it. The small boy
with the tin cans and the generally pref
ty girlwith herlip stretched and swelIed
over the mouthpiece Of tin horn. were
there, and did the best they could to IN
spire terror in nervous people.
The parade did not get good start till
8 o'clock, but was a dandy when it did
come. and the crowd yelled itself almost
black in the face At each Of the floats"
Most of the floats" were very good
There was some little dissatisfaction
among the more squeamIsh people be-
cause the leading band-MarshaIl's-
played a funeral dirge and cotfi was
carried behind it, Perhaps these people
did not know that the entire affair was
advertised as the funeral Of Popalism,"
ana the printed Invitations read that
way
The first parade was more than half an
hour in passing and contained five
bands, nearly fifty floats and several
hambeau clubs.
At about o'clock the Topeka Flam-
beau club of 100 men discharging tire
works came up the street and made
things look like they had designs
against the sky. They were followed by
the marching clubs with fam beaux
Considering the crowd there were very
fewaccIdents and very little drunkenness.
The multitude was universally well be-
haved, considering its rather tumultuous
a fnsar rr1n
from distance on excursion trains to
see the biggest ratification ever had,
went home tired out but in love with To-
peka and her method of entertaining.