The Topeka state journal., 1896-07-13
COVERED WITH GLORY.
The FIambeaU Club Returns
Shouting For Bryan.
The Boys Have the JOlliest
Time of Their Lives.
Make Chicago Say %oh,' "Ah," With
Fireworks in the Sky and Have
Lots of Adventures.

Lots of Adventures.
The Democratic hambeau club re-
turned from Chicago yesterday tired
and footsore, but happy.
There are just 81 Of them, not one hav-
ing been lost, and they were met by
some Of the members of their organi-
cation that stayed at home and nick
named themselves the home guards.
r. 3. Kepley. Robert Bloom, w J.
McGarry, w J Hanley, E J. herWlck,
Edward Mulhau. c. H Perkins, Mike
Heery, z. J. Early. Thomas Brandon,
Andy Hartwick, George Bighan, Dan
Fry, Charley Small, A. K. Benson, Jas
Wall and A Vogel were the home
guards" and escorted the fiambeau
club from the depot to the clubs rooms
at 210 Kansas avenue, where a very in
formal but highly enthusiastic recep-
tiOn was held.
Gormley's band of 30 pieces, which
accompanied the club, came back the
To say that the Topeka contingent
covered Kansas and Topeka with glory
at the convention, would be no more
than strictly true.
It was greeted with delighted ap-
plause everywhere from the time it left
Topeka early Sunday morning OF the
5th to the time of its return.
The club first made itself felt at
Kansas City where it was met at the
depot by a committee from the Bland
club and taken to the Savoy. Later
In the day It gave parade headed by
the band on Main street, Kansas City,
and attracted a large crowd. At the
pOstofHce the band gave a street con-
cert and was applauded.
The Topeka and Kansas City peO-
pie went to Chicago together by spe-
cial train over the c. & A. and with
eight cars made the run in the sur
prising time of 1919 hours.
The run was made in the night time
and the 300 enthusiasts on that train
kept Missouri and Illinois awake for
once Not many stops were made but
at every one the 800 piled out on the
depot platform and gave their yells.
"HO, ha, hee,
Who are we2
We are the Bland club
OF K. G.
We're hot stuff;
That's no bluff:
Vote for silver
And wen all have stuff"
Was one of them. The yell was print
ed on cards and every man had plenty
Another yeH that BIissourians and
1llinOisans viii remember was:
Missouri and Kansas
Go hand in hand
Shouting for silver
And honest Dick Bland"
The train arrived in Chicago Mon
day morning and Immediately the Kan
sas men began to make themselves
heard and felt.
Every one wore a white Bland hat
and carried on his breast a big sun
flower made of felt. These two un-
Znistakable emblems admitted their
Wearers everywhere.
The Topeka club. headed by its band
ana 1olloWed by the Kansas City and
St Louis fellows, marched directly to
the Palmer I 8 use where the band
played and then went to the Auditor
sum. where a short concert was given
in the annex.
Along the way the club was greeted
with cheers and followed by crowd.
The big show of the week for the
Kansas and Missouri men was Tues
day night when the hundreds of Dem
ocrats following them and cheering the
Topeka band and hambeau club.
marched through street after street for
Two hours, playing and giving a fire
works display. The parade lasted over
two hours and was witnessed by 800, coo
people, thousands of them running
along on the sidewalk to keep up.
The boys almost got into trouble in
front of the Palmer House. It ap-
pears that it is against the dfgnitya of
the city of Chicago to shoot fire works
in some parts and the police appeared
just as the club was getting ready to
make its grandest display and made
them quit threatening to arrest the
entire club.
AS the club marched up to the Pal
mer house from the south operating
the fire works. a, stiff north breeze was
blowing and good deal of the fire in
stead OF going straight up. blew back
Into the faces of those behind burning
holes in many of the boys suits and
setting Bob Kneisler's whiskers on fire
several times.
The club marched four abreast and
the crowd found a good deal of fun at
times in 'guyfng'' Jake Long w. I,
Haven, George Lord and John Schmidt
who were in a row together and each
of whom is fat enough to kill They
were called the fat four
The Topeka fambeau club was the
only one in Chicago and fairly cap
tured the town.
The club was quartered in a sleeping
car in the Harrison street yards of the
Alton and ate wherever its Individual
CRY.
After the parade Tuesday evening.
the. club made no effort to keep to
gether.
It had been purposed to give another
Dig demonstration in case Bland was
nominated but as he was not the Kan
sas City fellows did not feel like spend
ing any more money on fireworks.
one OF the returned Topeka men said
today:
The Missouri fellows were too sore
TO speak a pleasant word for two davs
The Kansas men didn't feel so bad and
10 minutes after Bryan's nomination
not Bland badge was visible on a
Kansas breast
Tuesday was the only day on which
the club attended the convention in a
BODY. They took seats together and
Senator Martin introduced them to the
convention as The only drilled Demo
cratic Flambeau club in the TTnita5
States" and the convention cheered
The club as it appeared at Chicago
''in line
G. Max Claudy was captain. 7
O,Connor was first lieutenant and J. s.
stevenson was second lieutenant. The