The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-10
AY ATTIRE
ALARGE PRO
ERDAY.
ing the Review
Said to be Com
Gates of the Gold
statement May be
rs Of the Crowd
to Mckinley ut

Chicago, Oct. D.--Four years ago to-day
the greatest parade the West had ever
seen passed through the streets of Chi
cago as Il portion of the celebration of the
dedication of the buildings Of the Column
bia Exposition. That parade was, how
ever, surpassed to-day by the purely par
tisan march of the men who uphold the
gold standard in questions of finance and
in politics.
The estimates of the different parties
vary widely as to the number OF men in
line, but 80, 900 is Just half way between
the number claimed by the Republicans
AMI the count given ont by the national
committee headquarters of the Rcpubli-
can party. All street traffic was stopped
and the route of the parade. which was
through the principal down town streets,
was given up exclusively to the marchcrs
and spectators. The day was perfect and
the start was made promptly nj 10 Il. m
General Stockton was chief marshal The
retrieving stand fov the Republican M.
tional committee was erected Just in
front of the building of the Union League
Club or jackson street. Here Mark
Hanna, Senator Cullom. and various
members of the committee took the stand
Ii was exactly ! | O'Clock when the head
of the parade turned into jackson street.
From that moment until Il few minutes
after i o'clock Mr.. Hanna, with the ex-
ccption of II brief interval, was standing
with hat in hand, bowling his acknowl-
edgcments of the cheers of the marching
column.
From Il stand erected on level with
the entrance of the Palmer House. Gen
John NJ. Palmer and Gen. S. b. Buckner
reviewed the parade. AS the columns
came up thousands of hats came off in
homage to the venerable men and all
through the hours which the parade re-
quircd to pass chat point, the cheering
was constant. There We're III floats in
the parade, many of them exceedingly
handsome.
A unique feature of the parade was the
use made by the long distance telephone
to carry the sound of the cheers of the
parade to other cities of the country
Across Washington street, in front of
the telephone exchange, was stretched Il
banner bearing the inscription: ''Your
cheers here will be heard throughout the
nation" If they were not it was no fault
OF the men in the street. AS zach detach-
mcnt came toward the banner every man
would take IL long pull mt the atmosphere
to prepare himself for the double iointed
whoop he emitted as he marched beneath
the banner
Major Mckinley in his library at Can.
ton heard it, and Mr.. Hobart in his home
in Paterson, \. J.. also received the as
surance of the shoutcrs. The crowd that
witnessed the parade was tremendous. Ii
filled every sidewalk from the wall of
the buildings to the curbstone, and every
window that possessed view of the line
of march was iummcd full of heads.
1t is estimated that 100000 people
Witnessed the parade
THE DEMOCRATIC INNINGS.
Chicago, Oct. 9.-Thc Democracy had
possession of the streets tonight and I'M
proved its opportunity to the utmost. As
early as & o'clock, within an hour after
Michigan avenue had cleared up after
the marching Republicans, the leading
organizations of the Democratic parade
began to appear for their torchlight
demonstrations They poured in rapidly
and by o'clock the street was packed
again. n high wind ros elm the evening
ana made IL matter of some difficulty
10 keep the torches lighted The cold
winds and the fatigue OF the early part
of the day had its effect upon great
number of the people. However, the
Bryan men in the parade and those on
the sidewalk showed no deficiency of en-.
thusasm during the march. Cheers went
up necessarily, ana rs about every other
man in the line possessed himself of a
tin horn the volume of noise was dcafen-
ing.
The Democratic campaign managers
expressed themselves It's more than salts
hed with the parade, and were greatly
pleased with the showing made.
Three thousand people attended the
afternoon meeting given under the
auspices of the silver men ut Tattcrsall's.
The principal attraction, Senator Henry
VI. Teller, of Colorado, did not speak,
owing to II throat an,iction the result of
his ardous campaign lahors.. He was
present on the stage. however
The audience did not lack in cnthu-
Siasm and chcercd yociieronsly ut the
mention of Bryan's name and the more
salient points made by the several
speakers, Senator Cannon, of Utah; Con-
gresham Hartman, of Montana, and
others.
NO. DIS NOW IN ORDER.