The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-28

Gratis" was one of the responses. We'll
II that's the case we're whipped"
someone replied, but the humor of the
remark was made apparent In the
cheering that continued for over an
hour on the avenue below and which
came from none other than lusty Re-
publican throats. The crowd got home
in much the same discomfort as 1t
came. 1t stampeded for all the outgo-
ing cars, each of which made picture
that might be likened to a piece of
fiy-paper in hot weather.
Perhaps no better place for watching
the great crowds-or the parade. for
| that matter. If ones eyes were placed
| many feet above the pavement-was
on Lackawanna avenue, that popular
thoroughfare where nearly everybody
| goes when anything like that of last
night takes place. Fully ten or twelve
thousand persons were there between
Washington and Franklin avenues 1t
| was too dense throng to contine itself
to the broad sidewalks. but spread it
self into and across the avenue in
three blocks of solid humanity, before
the head of the procession appeared.
PASSAGE FOR THE MARCHERS.
How the parade would be able to
get through the crowd was a problem
the police tried to solve by pushing,
hauling pleading and threatening but
to no avail. The problem solved itself
when the first Of the line OF marchers
came into view. Then those in the mid
ale of the street surged back and
forced others toward the curbs and
these in turn crowded the more unfor-
fortunate spectators over the side
walks and up against the side of the
buildings and into the street intersec-
tions. The crowd itself did what no or
dinary number of blue coats with all
their authority and clubs could have
done. But the only space left to the
paraders was that covered by the
car tracks with a few feet on either
side, and down through this living pas
sage. the marchers marched and hur-
| rahed. the bands played and up into the
air above ii spouted the fiery and
| many -colored contents of hundreds of
roman candles. 1t was splendid sight
as viewed by the hundreds from points
of vantage in the windows.
In other parts of the business dis
trict the sight and the conditions We're
much the same-the police powerlesS
and the crowds unrestrained. But the
latter We're dhumored just the
| same. The spectators pushed, backed,
| struggled and pulled themselves as
| near to the paraders as possible. They
| came out of it all with buttons miss
Ing, mats ueIteu, ClOtnlnS TORN anu
| hair disheveled but took their pun
ishment as something to be expected
| and rushed to head off the procession at
some farther point and to again un-
dergo the crushing.
William COnnell, the congressional
| candidate, was the central figure on
| the reviewing balcony at the Wyoming
House. 1t was not generally known to
the paraders that there would be a re-
via ,f .Nf;t a
not know before the parade began
where the review would take place.
! The large flag which drapod the bal
| cony railing and the group behind it
attracted most of the marchers, how
| ever and nearly every club that passed
| gave a cheer of recognition and in re-
| turn received from Mr. Connell and the
other candidates raising of hats or a
| clapping of hands. The crowd was
densest near the Wyoming House and
| was not slow to realize the presence of
| the reviewing party and to enter into
| the continuous cheers and counter
cheers which prevailed at that point.
PLENTY OF COLORED FIRE.
In the residence section the thrOng
| that lined the streets was spread in
| two walls along the whole route. There
was scarcely house but what con-
| tained on the porch and in windows its
| large quota of applauding witnesses.
| There was not block along the whole
| line of houses that did not display it's
colored fire or something more elabor-
ate in the way of fireworks and ilum-
| ination.
The thousand Wilkes -Barreans-
there were ten clubs of them-who
| headed the parade We're amply repaid
| for their part. Their fine equipment
| and manouvering earned them con-
| tinuous ring of applause from the time
| the parade started until ranks We're
| broken. Their divisions was to have
| been in command of Colonel Asher
Miner. but late in the afternoon he
| found he could not be present and Cap
| tain T. G. Parker appeared in the
| others place. The Wilkes Barre con-
| tingent came in a train of twelve Della
ware and Hudson cars over the Lehigh
Valley and Lackawanna railroads, ac-
| Companied by three bands and two
Ldrum corps. They reached here at SIS
O'Clock and left at II o'clock.
noticeable feature of any given Sec
ti6n of the parade was the large num-
| Der Of workingmen it contained. Their
| cheering and ardor certainly did not
give color to the charges of coercion
| which have recently been cmanating
from the Democratic national COM
mittee. Especially in the division con-
| tanning the clubs of railroad employees
was this apparent. Many of those
sturdy fellows appeared in overalls and
| jumpers which they had not the time
to discard on leaving their trains.
| A picture of William Connell was
thrown on the stereopticon screen at
the corner of Linden street and Wash
ington avenue while the parader was
coming up the latter thoroughfare and
| winding itself around court house
| square, preparatory to dismissal. The
| likeness displayed was recognized by
the marchers and drew forth continu-