The San Francisco call., 1896-10-25
BUSINESS MEN
WILL PARADE
All the Trades and Fac
tories Will Be There
Represented.
Colonel Stone Will Be Grand
Marshal of the Whole
Affair.
a MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY.
EMPLOYERS. Commercial MN, Profss.
MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY.
Employers, Commercial MN. Profss.
sional Men and Laborers Will
March Side by Side.

The merchants and manufacturers OF
San Francisco yesterday showed their in
terest in the issue for protection by filling
the Chamber of Commerce to its utmost
ca paclty. The Chamber of Commerce
cannot afford seats for regiment, but in
the matter of that quality which goes to
make prosperity, the quality being energy,
industry, enterprise and brains, it can
hold its own witn the Coliseum in Rome
in the palmy days when the downward
pointing of.the thumb meant death to the
bleeding gladiator. os
Nathaniel Stone called the meeting 10
order, and introduced Colonel Sumner as
chairman of the meeting. Tne colonel is
also chairman of the parade committee OF
the National Republican League. T.
Carey Friedlander was selected as secre-
tary of th- meeting.
The chairman announced that the
parade committee had decided to have
the parade in the afternoon, because
Thomas B. Reed of NJ aine was to speak in
Woodwards Garden Pavilion in the even
ing, and a night procession would inter-
fere with the meeting. In the evening
there would be a torchllght parade. he
said, of the uniformed clubs to escort Mr..
Reed to the pavilion. The chairman sug-
gested that the proprietors of business
firms and factories should marcn at the
head of their departments.
M. II. de Young. ex-member of the Re-
publican National Committee. moved that
a committee of three should be appointed
from each branch of industry, which COM
mittee should appoint its own grand mar
shall, and conduct its own end of the
parade in a separate division as nom
partisan affair.
The chairman informed Mr.. de Young
that Grand Marshal Stone had charge OF
the whole parade.
General John F. Sheehan asked whether
he understood rightly that Mr.. de Young
desired to have two separate parades on
the same day. 81 don't see how you can
have two parades and two committees" +"
he added.
Before Mr. de Young had an opportu-
nifty OF answering the question, it was an
nounced that 400 commercial travellers,
most of whom were Democrats, would
turn out in the procession as Mckinley
men.
Charles NJ. Shortridge suggested that
Mr.. de Young's motion that committee
of three should be appointed to represent
each branch of industry should be
adopted.
l. J. Truman moved as an amendment
that each trade be called out and that
each trade select three committeeman to
work with the parade committee. The
motion was carried unanimously.
Colonel Stone, grand marshal of the
committee, did not think that Mr.. de
Young's proposition of two separate COM
mittees would be practicable. They would
bring about considerable confusion.
1t was suggested also, in reply to Mr..
de Young's suggestion, that there were
many sound money Democrats who
wished to turn out and who would object
to forming part of Republican process
sion.
Charles NJ. Shortridge said he held
Democratic merchants in the highest es-
TEEN who would turn out and vote for
Mckinley. For his part he proposed to
parade on that day as Republican, but
it would be asking too much of him and
OF every other Republican to take down
the banner of Republicanism and to hoist
in It's stead the banner of the merchants,
especially since the Republican State Gen.
tral Committee had given the matter its
support, when Republicans from all the
outlying precincts were to take part and
when every Republican club and every
merchant and every boy that could carry
flag were to march elbow to elbow for
sound money and protection. 1t seemed
to him that the sacrifice would be too
great.
M. de Young renewed his motion to the
effect that the representatives ofthe trades
have their own marshal.
Mr.. Murdoch moved that the represen-
tatives OF the trades be selected by the
general committee of thirty, and that they
cooperate with the parade committee and
report to Grand Marshal Stone-