The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
DRIVEN HOME
AND CL|NCHED
How Alameda County Rati-
fled the Election of
Mckinley.
The Republican Banner Arrived
From Los Angeles and Was
in the Parade.
SOME FAREWELL oRAT0RY
The Banner County Closes the Cam.
paign With Tumutu1us p Ptgeantry
and Mass.Meeting.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANc1sco CALL,

OAKLAND OFFICE SAN FRANcIsco CALI
908 Broadway, Nov Z.
! The nail driven home last Tuesday in
Alameda County was clinched tonight.
! There was ratification such as Oakland
never before witnessed and it was by no
means confined to the Republicans.
Visitors can always afford to be mag
nanimous and it would be cruel to place
in cold type the names of those who, even
since Tuesday night, have decided that it
is more sensible and certainly more agree
able to get In out of the wet than to shiyer
In the falling snow.
To great extent the parade of tonight
resembled that of last. Monday in it's
salient features, but the spirit OF the
paraders was vastly different.
1t was patriotic love feast. Labor and
capital marched side by side and each evil
IDENTIFY knew and was eager to demonstia ate
the fact that it depended entirely on the
other. The most careful search failed TO
reveal the footprints OF Mark Hanna on
the laborer's brow. The ''coerced' en-
ployes from West Oakland took into the
parade the finest float that was in line. 1t
consisted of an artistic locomotive and
coach, gayly decorated and suitably let
tered.
Behind it marched quite an army of
men, who did not appear TO have been
whipped into line or to have marched
from any other motive than that of gen.
uine exuberance over Republicanism's 8
victory.
Oakland has never known a noisier
night. The nearest approach to this even
ing's demonstration is that of last Mon
day, but on that occasion there was
naturally an element of uncertainty which
no longer exists. Every body was intent
on making noise, and the unhappiest
boy in town was little fellow who sat on
doorstep on Broadway and cried as if
his heart would break because 81 amt got
no horp." Solid business men made
valiant efforts to blow their lungs through
horns, but the most successful effort in
this direction was that OF little company
that had built horn for the occasion. IL
was 10 feet long and in the nature OF
speaking-trumpet. 1t was placed at a
street corner, and when leather-iuneed
individual yelled into the small end
whats the matter with Mckinley? He's
all right" the volume of sound that came
from the other end could be heard several
blocks.
And the roostersl The ordinary rooster
dain, and nothing less than Iife-size was
au fait. The most common EN- blem of
victory was life-size rooster built on
paper hat, and nearly everybody in the
parade carried some kind of an artificial
Grower.
Then the fireworks! The committee of
ten who were appointed two days ago to
collect subscriptions for the parade did
their work well and proved such excellent
canvassers that their names should be
carefully preserved for use on future oc
casions. They inaugurated a new method
OF collecting money for patriotic pur-
poses. They made up their list before
they went on the street, then started out.
notified the leading citizens how much
they were expected to contribute and
waited until they received it. Before mid
night everybody in the county was aware
OF the result of their Iabors.
That grand old body, the Army ans
Navy League, presented a very imposing
front. During the whole of the campaign
attempts have been made to show that
the veterans were disloyal to the party of
Lincoln, and certain silver Army and
Navy League was organized by one Dut-
ton, who claimed that he had 1863 mem
bers. Although they paraded nearly