Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-11-01
NEVER WAS THERE SUCH A PARADE
IN GOTHAM BEFORE.
SOUND MONEY MEN MARCHED.
THE MONSTER PROCESSION WAS
EIGHT HOURS IN PASSING.
Lawyers Marched With Porters and
Merchant Princes With Truck
men-Busincss Mems Parade
-H1.dreds of Thou
sands of Spectators.


of the tens of thousands of feet will echo
through history. Republicans and gold
standard Democrats united to form the
greatest procession that has ever been w.t.
messed in the city of New York. There was
no glitter of FURNISHED helmets, no flashing
of bayonets, NJ clank of swords; its only
arms were a hundrd thousand fiaSs-the
stars and stripes. the red, white and blue.
On its banners were Sound Money, NC
Kinley and Hobart
>The great army of voters, variously es-
timated from 200 to 10000 was composed
of men in almost every walk Of life. The
procession began to move somewhere in
the vicinity of 10 o'clock a. m, and without
a rapid pace, it was not until about eight
hours later that the end had passed the
reviewing stand. That army marched past
hundreds of thousands Of persons who
gathered on the sidewalks, stairways, at
back windows, on stands-everywhere they
could get a place which commanded a
view. The paraders were filled with ear
nest enthusiasm. Their banners proclaimed
their principles. .-..4
The sound money army was made up
country to the other. Lawyers who are the
leaders in their profession marched with
the porters in the buildings where their
offices are. The merchant prince tramped
with his truckman. The great bankers
and. their messengers were in the same
rank. 1t was truly a business mems pa
rade. 1t moved with that precision which
is the great law in business. 1t was formed
without confusion. 1t moved on time and
without interruption.
1t disbanded without disorder. The pro-
cession moved forward at times at the rate
of 20.000 men an hour. The head of the
procession passed the reviewing stand, on
which We're Vice Presidential Candidate
Garrett A. Hobart and Governor Morton,
at 1855. 1t was exactly seven hours and
thirty minutes in passing that point
In point of numbers, the Wholesale Dry
Goods Republican Club was far in the
lead, having q 900 men in line. The Gen.
trail Dry Goods Mckinley and Hobart As
sociation had 5000 and the paper and as
sociated trades 1000 more. The colleges
were represented by some 5000 students,
while fully as many as thirty-five or forty
industries were each represented by thou
sands of men.
Tonight the town is illuminated and the
streets crowded with the tens of thousands
whose enthusiasm was not checked by their
efforts of the day.
Practically no business was done in the
mercantile establishments OF the city to-
day, the interest in the demonstration
obliging even those not in sympathy with
the Republican cause to suspend operations
for the day. Hours before there was any
chance of the advance guard of the great
parade appearing the sidewalks on either
side, OF the streets named in the line Of
march were scarcely passable, Street cars
were stopped early and drivers of wagons
found that they had to make lengthy de-
tours to reach their destinations Along
Broadway and the streets that stretched
east and west from it the press was great
est.
Along the route Of the parade from the
Battery to Fortieth street, there was a re-
markable display of flags and bunting. On
Broadway and Fifth avenue were myriads
of American flags of all sizes and thou-
sands of yards of bunting. At short inter-
walls huge flags bearing the names Of Nc
kinley and Hobart, and. in some instances,
campaign notices, stretched across the
street. One large flag dealer estimated that
not less than $4,000 had been spent by the
business men of New York in decorating
their establishments, and it is figured that
10000 flags are waving to-day. At the
marble Collegiate church, at the corner of
Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth street, over
the main entrance were draped. two silk
flags. .
An estimate of the list Of men in line fol-
lows, but the number was probably aug
mented by at least 5000: Wholesale Dry
Goods Club 2o.c00; Central Dry Goods Nc
Kinley and Hobart Association. 5000: Mer-
chant Tailors' Sound Money League, LOGO;
Railway and Steamboat Sound Money Club.
5000; paper and associate trades, 5000; Coal
Trade Sound Money Club. GOO: Wine and
Spirits Trades Society. 500: Produce Ex-
change Sound Money Club. 1000; architect
ural division. $50: Cotton Exchange Sound
Money Club. 500; Coffee Exchange and Low
N-,fI IIaho
Money Club. 1000: Customs House Brokers'
Sound Money Club. 500: Leaf Tobacco
Trades Sound Money Club, loo: Bankers
and Brokers' Republican Club, 5000; Law
yers' Sound Money Campaign Club. 900:
Insurance Sound Money Club, 1850: Real
| Estate Sound Money League, 100: New
York Protective Machinery, Railway and
| Metal Supply Association, 500: Publishers
and Advertisers Sound Money Club, 2,0c0:
| jewelers. Mckinley and Hobart Club, 5000:
| drug. chemical. paint and oil trades. 1000:
Manufacturers and Dealers In Supplies for
| Steam. Water and Gas Club, 1000: Whole
| sale Fish Dealers Sound Money Club. 800:
| Crockery Board of Trade Association, ! 200;
| Hide and Leather Sound Money Associa-
ton. 1.5oo; Boot and Shoe Sound Money AS
| sociation, 1000; West Side Sound Money
! Club. 1900: saddlery and harness trade, 500;
| millinery division, 5000: Hardware Trade
| Sound Money League. 100: Clothiers'
Legion. 1900; Hatters' Sound Money Club
| 1000; cloak and suit industry of New York,
| 900; West Side Retail Dealers Republican
Sound Money Club, 500; United Italian Bust
ness Mems League. 500: Wholesale Furni-
ture Trade Sound Money Club, 200: An,eri-
| can Authors Guild %: New York cycle
| board of trade, 500; John Steph enson Com
rany, 1876; Rubber Trades Sound Money
| Club. 3O0; students of the New York homeo.
pathic college. 100; Cloak and Suit Trade
| Sound Money Club, 500; Photographic sec
| ton. 200; Wool exchange 400; Jackson iron
| works, 500: Roumanian-Amcrican Sound
| Money League, 200. Total, 10000
The mounted escort to Grand Marshal
| General Horace X. Porter was imposing
All were mounted on magnificent horses.
| Among the aides to the grand marsha
wers the Rev. DIR. David Fl. Greer. Simon
| j. Drake, the Rev. Abott Brown, Freder.
| ick T. James. Charles H. Flint, Theodore
II. Price, r. c. Hollins. Henry Swords
| William and II. c. Beatileston. Samuel c
Blasden, Jr.. DR.. Beach Emmett, William
IIeowf Henry Bull. Richard Lawrence Rob
Walter G.. Peck, Samuel Walter Taylor
William A. Jamison. f. H. Barles, E. w
Little Colonel E. b. Parsons and Charlie.
Strothers.
There were no distinctive uniforms. hu
there was no club or body but had it:
distinctive mark, sometimes in hats bu
more frequently in badges and banners
Yellow flowers were Worn by many of th
downtown organizations and silk flags wer
carried. The Columbia college boys. mum
bering about 5O0 wore white sweaters, Oh
each of which was a light blue letter ar
ranged so that each line of the compan,
spelled Columbia University Sound None.
Club" One hundred students of the Uni
versity of New York also paraded in thei
mortarboard caps and college gowns
White badges. on which appeared picture
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