The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
A BIG DEMONSTRATION.
A Number of Old Soldiers March
in the TorChlight Pro-
CeSSion.
Congressman MCCleary Talks on
Sound Money at the
COnrt House.

Under a taming sheet OF lire, with
myriads of richly hued balls of red
white and blue bursting in the air.
with Kissing, snorting and kicking
sky rockets passing through. space to
explore the atmospheric regions, with
pounds of red fire, blue fire, green
fire, burning at every turn of the street
the Republican hosts of this section
marched onward towards victory last
Thursday evening.
All afternoon the sky was murky
and frequent predictions of rain before
evening were made. The wind blew
a tremendous gale from the east and
added to the unpropitious sign. This
threatening of the elements undoubt-
edly kept good many farmers and
others intending to participate in the
parade at home, but one of the largest
crowds ever assembled in Redwood
Falls for political purposes showed up
just the same.
At six o'clock coffee and sandwich
es were served free of charge by the
Republican ladies of the city in the
building recently vacated by j. M
Dunnington on the corner of Second
and Washington. Shortly afterwards
the local band commenced tuning up
for the demonstration and the crowd
began to gather. Then the wagon
carrying the torches appeared at the
county Jail and by seven o'clock the
whole neighborhood in the vicinity OF
the Jail was as light as day. A few
minutes later the Morton band, at the
head of vast multitude of Morton
citizens, steamed into town. They
we're given time to partake of the re-
freshments at the lunch counter, dur
ing which time the Delhi band follow
ed by stiff representation of Delhi
and Belview citizens, came into town
under full steam.
The procession started at 7:3O o.
clock sharp. It was headed by G.. L.
Parkhill, Jos. Tyson and others. 1t
was practically impossible to get any
order out of the big crowd. They
marched three and four abreast, &C.
cording to their own sweet will, and
consequently what might have been a
procession ten blocks long was kept in
four blocks. The second feature of
the procession was the carrying of an
immense National flag by old soldiers,
who followed the flag in 1861 to 1865
They we're given the place Of honor
Way down in the center of the parade
was Caswell's ice wagon decorated in
Republican art. Every now aud then
it was illuminated with red and blue
fire presenting a superb political
spectacle. There we're Is or 20 trans
parencies, rugged up in the finest style
and with great credit to the committee
on transparencies, The head trans.
parency was composed of pictures OF
the Republican Presidential candi-
dates. Down at the end was the fus-
ion emblem, the mule and whiskers of
the Popocratic party, the mule driven
by Frank Hubbard, and the cart car
rying prototypes of Altgeld, Debs
Pitchfork Tillman, while Coxy was led
by string attached to cart.
The procession passed down Second
street, firing off Roman candles. II
marched to Mill, down Mill to Third
Third to Minnesota and up Minnesota
to Broadway. At Fourth and MINI.
esota it was greeted with volley o1
sky rockets. It passed down Broad.
way to Lincoln and received a volley
of rockets at Mill and Broadway. Go
ing down Lincoln to Second it was
given another volley at the corner oi
Second and Lincoln. Passing down
Second it went to Washington where
it turned up to the court house, receiv.