The record-union., 1896-11-08
RATIFICATION REJOICINGS.
Big Parade In Honor Of MCKinley's
Election.
The Horns Hooted and theE Bells
Banged and Lusty Throats
Sent Up a Shout.

While there was no display of ora
tory, florid, turgid or otherwise, last
night, and while there was no roaring
of cannon, nor bowling for any candi-
date, Sacramento and his wife turned
cut in mass to see and participate IN
the grand demonstration and street pa
rade in honor of the election of McKin-
ley TO the Presidency.
Still, though no guns doomed, every
one was armed. Scarcely a man, either
in the parade or upon the street, but
had wind to expend, and manfully did
he go about it. The man who had tin
horns for sale reaped a harvest, and
had some farsighted financier cornered
the article early in the day he would
now be rolling in the lap of luxury. Tin
horns footed and sQuawked and below
ed and snorted in everyone'S ears and to
protect himself the man who was not
provided for borrowed a nickel from a
friend he had never seen before and was
soon "heeled.''
And though the crowds which lined
the streets did their best, and though
even the smallest toddler blew with
might and main, their self-inflicted pam
demonium took a back seat when it
came in contact with the paraders-
those men who had worn out shoe
leather for Mckinley and the cause be
fore the day of election.
To begin with, the veteran campaign
er, Thomas II. Berkey, marshaled the
clans and made the journey on foot, and
he was assisted by William Sayre.
mounted ON a charger that had become
hardened to everything, from red fire
to cow bells. The aids were O. w. Erie
wine William NJ Sims, David Reese, E.
W. Hale, F. c. Yoerk, William Hanlon
and J. M. Henderson, Jr.
Harry Rogers marshaled the first di
Vision and gave orders by blasts upon
an overgrown rooter'S horn. The Cap
itaI City Drum Corps led the van and
thumped away manfully in the attempt
TO be heard, but the tumult was too hor
rid and for the first time in a year the
beaterS were forced to admit themselves
Teaten.
Then came the members of the Army
and Navy League, with nothing to show
for their order except red, white and
blue decorations for their hats. The
flags they had carried throughout the
campaign We're absent, but each veteran
lad a death grip on a tin horn and a
cow bell and probably for the first
The Resolutes came next, preceded by
a dozen men bearing a Big Betsy"
horn, twenty feet long, into one end of
which a resolute Resolute breathed, and
out of the other eI.d Of which proceeded
sound too unearthly to be described.
Gabriel might make a bigger show
with his much advertised horn, but he
would have to spread himself to equal
the sounds produced.
Then the boys from the State Capitol
marched and made night hideous. Their
horns had a peculiarly rasping squawk,
and their bells had an unmusical jingle
that would have put first-class Chi
nose band to the blush.
Then came the well-known transpar-
ency, bearing the legend, Keep your
eye on Florin,'' and those who took
the precaution TO do so saw a great
white rooster. six feet high, which one
could see at a glance had never been
wore on yer hat" Then the Florin
boys came and they were tin horned and
cow belled and made a great deal OF
noise.
The BOYS from Perkins Station were
also in line and in the way of noise pro-
ducing instruments played second horn
10 none. not even the old and reliable
United Republican Club, who outdid
themselves, and whose white plug hats
were in many instances wildly disfig-
ured by their enthusiastic comrades.
Then in the second division came sec
tions Of the several Railroad Shops
Sound Money Clubs, and among the in
struments of torture borne by them was
a locomotive engine bell carried on four
brawny pairs of shoulders, while a
fifth man did nothing but pull the cord
but it kept him busy.
Then came a transparency that
proved a mirth-ma<er. IT was a bar
rel, and was placarded Examiner"
Upon one end were the words "It Still
Crows" and beneath it a bedraggled
bird of uncertain species reared its head
for a final effort, but upon the reverse
end was a sad story. Here appeared the
words, 'rToo Much is 70 l" and beneath
1t the very sickest bird that even Dem
ocrat suffering from NAL de mer could
imagine, which was straining itself to
disgorge silver dollars that We're bat
tered and beaten almost beyond recog-
nition.
z. J.. Reguin was Marshal of the sec
ond division and n. n. Denton of the
third, which was led by the fife and
GTuffl corps. men the 4NafitA " dIu re
publican Club came, with the usual
flourish Of trumpets. and then Young
America loomed up 300 strong. Prob
ably the most enthusiastic company in
lire was that of the shavers They were
cut for noise and made it, and the motto
on the single transparency they bore
created much merriment. 1t merely
said I'VE Are the People!"
The Second Ward Republican Club
came next replete with horns and bells
and white hats. and just behind them
came a carriage hung with national
colors and crowded with horns and bells
behind which were ruddy faces. A
glance told the story. 1t was the ern-
ployes of the State Printing Office out to
celebrate the victory they had helped to
win.
Last In line came another tally no,
glorious in noise, flags and white hats.
Every man in ii created all the dis
turbance possible. and it was said on
the street that Pap Beckley split one