The San Francisco call., 1896-11-01
GOLDEN CHRYSANTHEMUMS
BLOOMED BESIDE THE FLAG.
Honest Workingmen Demand the Honest Dollar
and Protection for Products Made
at Home

Yesterdays monster procession was i'm
pressive as the earnest voice of thousands
In acclaim for just cause, and the parade
itself was as beautiful a movement for lib
erty as was ever witnessed on American
soil, an orderly, yet enthusiastic protest
against the party of shadows and an ear
nest turning toward the light.
To the most casual observer the i'm
pressive feature was the absence of party
bitterness and the presence OF evidences
that thousands of citizens can cast aside
party for country when the flag of their
native land is assailed by the hosts of
error.
Thousands of Democrats we're in line,
marching shoulder To shoulder with men
whom they had fought on political battles
fields for lifetime-united at last in the
glorious fight for National honor and the
general welfare of the people.
The procession was nothing less than a
spontaneous outpouring of the lovers of
liberty irrespective of party. Men of all
ranks and conditions in life were in the
lines, employer with employe, capitalist
with laborer. protectionist with free
trader-aII in accord on the one PROPOSE
ton that the election OF Mckinley and
Hobart is the common duty of patriots
| this year.
From every quarter of the City. and
from scores of cities and towns adjacent,
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cause of progress and to witness the most
| imposing parade ever seen in California.
| When uniformed buglers and musicians
| poured forth the melodies of old, patriotic
| airs they touched responsive chord in
the hearts of the thousands who marched
and of thousands more who watched.
| As the legions passed, hour after hour
brave men and gentle women cheered the
band and drum corps and divisions oi
patriotic marchers, reioiced when the
voices of silver throated buglers awoke the
| Citv and stirred patriotism as in the day:
of old.
Before noon the City was astir, as j
moved by some strange spell. and two
hours later the streets We're lined witt
countless thousands, while every window
and balcony was alive with human inter
est.
By2 o'clock the clouds that threatened
an hour before had melted. SO that th'
buelers and blowers of horns and beater
OF drums stood confidently and faced th'
nurpling sky, waiting to the anxious ear
of expectant thousands and in tri
umphant notes message OF peace anC
goodwill to patriots everywhere.
There we're cheers as the eyes of thou
| sands viewed the flags of coming battal
ions of brave marchers for the right
Then came a muff1ed sound of feet. Flags
which had dropped listlessly in the morn
) ing rain, undulated proudly in the breeze
, Then came crash of trumpets; riffs G
! cleaning banners; colors dip and rise
the streets echo to the tramp of steed an
men and sound of marching bands. Thil
' ty-fve thousand men in badges marche
, behind banners, all carrying flags, a
J wearing badges. Within the City 10000
: citizens debouched upon the streets,
y countless throng invading every availab
view point for miles. Thousands
Y guests were stirring, too. to cheer as il
spiring strains of music echoed throug
I the streets. The City was wilderness
d banners and flags, the October sky, afian
with blue and golden tints, brooding ov,
: all.
e Amid these stirring scenes but tv
n names were spoken. Only two nam,
J were inscribed upon the banners of tt
h men of all beliefs who marched for the
q country. Those names were McKInis
and Hobart, symbols of prosperity. Tho
+ names and the sentiment they stand fl
r were blazoned high upon the floats az
: echoed in the tramp of thousands, voice
alike in the rumbIing of chariot whee