Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-11-08
COUNCIL BLUFFS CELEBRATES
General Notification Over Election Of Will
liam Mckinley,
NOISE OF EVERY IMAGINABLE KIND
Torchllght Parade Accompanied by
Displays of CoIorcd Fire, Hinsts of
steam whistles and brilliant
Displays of Fireworks.
Use or EVERY IMAGINABLE KIND

W lllldlu MChlulty as pTtslutut VI tue
United States with a monster demonstra-
ton last night. The cold weather had but
little effect on the enthusiasm of the i'm
mensc crowds that turned out to joliify,
though 1t kept many OF the delegations
from the surrounding towns at home and
materially reduced the size of the parade
As II was, however, the demonstration was
one OF the largest in the history of the
city.
There had beer but few days for prep
aration, but they proved ample to get an
immense consignment of fireworks from st.
Louis and pass the word around for all to
turn out and join in The general rejoicing.
Omaha sent over a largo contingent headed
by the John l.. Webster Flambeau club
and the seventh Ward Military band Keg
Creek township brought in a mounted com
pany Of over fifty and good sized delega-
tions came in on all the evening trains.
Long before the hour of starting the blow
ing OF horns and discharge OF firearms pro-
claimed the opening slSirmish. Washington
avenue from Eighth street east soon be-
came damned with n mass of men, horses
and wagons The traction engines kept up
a chorus of shrll screeches, the Massillon
Harvester company having a dozen gradu-
ated whistles attached to the boiler of its
engine.
From the tangled mass long line was
formed and shortly before S o'clock the
parade was started. About a hundred
wheelmen, captained by II. k Smith, led
| the parade. The wheels were decorated
with lanterns and the riders kept UP n
bombardment with revolvers They were
also decorated with wide sashes of yellow
which was the predominating color of the
| parade. Following the wheelmen came
| Colonel Daley marshal and about fifty
mounted aids. a company of about 100
horsemen helped to swell this advance
| guard of the cavalry. Dalbey's band headed
| a detachment of the Travelling Mems Sound
| Money club and the Mckinley Marching
| club Perhaps no organization in line pre-
scented a better appearance than the ColoreG
Voters Sound Money club.
Next came several hundred youthful re-
| publicans, the Mckinley Junior Guard They
were all in uniform, carrying torches. Fifty
| of the last youngsters held to long rope
at the end of which several hundred ole
| tin boilers, cans and sheet iron of all
shapes and sizes had been attached. This
produced a magnificent chorus of cam
paign harmony.
As a direct refutation of the coercion"
cry of the campaign the presence Of hun
dreds of railroad employees was noticeable.
They carried an abundance of Transparent
cies. among which were the following:
There is No Coercion with U.s." Gold
Paper, Silver, All Sound;' I'VE Were Co
| creed. Nit.'
To equalize the youngsters in front an
other large company followed this delega-
tion of the railroad men They had rare
collection Of COW bells. horns and tin cans
and did their share to keep up the bed
lam. Then followed the McFadden Drum
corps, the Old Soldiers Sound Money club,
the Mckinley Guards with shotguns,
company of mounted horsemen from Keg
Creek and a large number of citizens on
foot carrying torches.
All along the line OF march the crowds
greeted the parade with the widest en-
thusiasm. Coming up Main street and
countermarching on Broadway the parade
was but one glare of fireworks. The pa
| rade disbanded at the corner of Pearl and
Broadway, though many OF the marchers
were forced to leave before the finish on
account OF the cold. The crowds then filled
the Bryan and Mckinley headquarters,
where rousing ratification speeches were
made.
1t was after o'clock when the tumultu-
GUS crowds on the streets began pouring into
the headquarters building. The Mckinley
headquarters which are commodious enough
to seat 1000 people, was quickly filed to the
doors. 1t was the irony OF fate that sug-
gested the occupancy OF the Bryan head
! quarters in the other portion of the build.
ing. Ii had been opened and lighted and
used by several hundred people as vantage
point from which to view the procession as
1t passed. At the conclusion of the parade
the Omaha band and the John l.. Webster
guards entered the Bryan room, and within
n rev MINUTES the room was nlled to over
flowing. John n. Baldwin and C. G. Saun-
ders were the speakers. 1t was expected that
John l.. Webster and Congressman Hager
would be present and address the crowd in
the Mckinley headquarters and the room
was filled before the parade had ceased
marching. President Harl of the Mckinley
club presided. and in the din of booming
shotguns cannon frecrackers and scream
ing tin whistles announced that Hager and
Webster had been obliged to dsappoint
them. Hager could not reach the city in
time and Webster was laid up with a sore
throat and hoarseness that made ii i'm
possible for him to speak. Mr.. Harl read
kilograms from Mckinley and Mark Hanna
thanking the club members for the great
work they had accomplished Continuing
Mr.. Harl said that Bryan had asked the
people to study the silver question. The
result of Tuesday indicated that they had
studied it and had given an answer that was
out the fact that already more than % 900
men had been called from the ranks OF the
unemployed and given work in the reopened
factories and mills.
Emmett FINLEY the bright young demo-
crat who helped to lead the revolt that car
ried SO much of the best brain and heart of
the western Iowa democratic party into the
ranks Of the McKinleyltes, and Judge Nc
Gee another democrat who had placed ma
tional honor and national prosperity above
party considerations, also spoke.
Fashions.
Fashions for November is a number that
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