The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-13
More Men i'm Line than Were Turn ID
Out by the Popocrnts the Day
Bryan Wns Here.
DR.. EVERETT'S SOUND SPEECH
ABOUT 500 PEOPLE UNABLE TO GET
IN THE; HALL WHERE HE SPOKE.
The Various CIabs in Line-FirewOrks
All Along the ROute-HOw Trans
parencies Read.

Sloppy weather did not interfere bit
with the National Democrats of Indian
apois, who gave their first demonstration
of strength last night in honor of DIR. Will
lam Everett, of Massachusetts,. The demon
stration was made under the auspices of
the Russell Club, the sound-money organi-
zation of the city, and it was an eye-opener
for the Popocrats. street parade was
given, with 1,667 men in line. OF these LOO
were in uniform and four hundred carried
red torches. The parade was larger than
that which greeted Bryan. Three wagons
headed various divisions of the procession
and kept UP a continuous stream of fire.
works. The parade was under the direction
of Samuel J. Murray as chief marshal, aid
ed by the following chiefs of division:
Paul Krauss. Louis Howland Joseph J.
Sharpe, jr., August Kuhn, Frank Miller.
Charles Mayer, Edward Dunmyer W. A.
Sullivan, Albert Lieber and James Dow
ding.
Every man in the procession had signed
an agreement stating that he was Demo-
crat had voted for Cleveland in 1892 and
was going to vote against Bryan this year.
James l.. Keach, president of the Russell
Club, turned away over five hundred men
yesterday who made application for places
in the parade, but We're not willing to sign
this paper He remarked that this is the
nest Independent political organization on
EARTH for it's candidate was likely to be
elected or defeated by such heavy major
ity that few hundred votes would not
cut any figure. The procession was headed
by the first division of the When Band.
followed by the Russell Club. Next came
the second division of the band, followed
by the Democrats of the Wholesale Dis
trict Employees League. Following this di-
vision came delegations of Panhandle, Big
Four and c., II. & d. Democratic employees.
headed by the East End Drum Corps. Next
were the Third Ward Palmer Club, and the
Atlas Works First Ward Sound-money
Democratic Club, led by the Third Ward
Drum Corps.
Four hundred of the marchers carried
torches of red fire that gave a lurid glow
to the sea of faces along the lire. The pa
rade formed Meridian and Maryland
streets, where the hosts began to gather AT
Z O'Clock. Though there was much en-
thusiasm and noise. perfect order was
maintained, and the excellent arrangements
were carried out without a hitch. large
ere wd had gathered at tie point of forma-
ton and dense crowds lined the streets
along the line of march. That curiosity
On the part of the Popocrats had mad much
to do with bringing out these crowds was
shown by the fact that the cheering that
greeted the parade along the line was fire.
quently interspersed with a wild yell for
Bryan, let go by some angry supporter OF
the Chicago nominee Among the banners
and transparencies the American flag large
ly predominated. Among the Transparent
cies were: Vote for Bryan and Low Wa
ges," jefferson Was a Bigger Man than
w. j. Bryan They Turned Clevelands S
Picture to the WALL" and ''An Honest
Dollar for Honest Work.
The parade moved south to Georgia. west
to Illinois, north to Washington, east to
Alabama, north to Market and west to
Cyclorama Hall. Before the rear had
turned from Illinois upon Washington
street the front rank was turning off Ala
bama upon Market, showing a length of
over five blocks. 1t was a continuous ova-
ticn along the line and apparently the only
people who did not enjoy it were the Popo-
cratic leaders, who viewed it from the
Grand Hotel. They commented upon it
a turnout of hired men and boys" and
ccntented themselves with declaring that
they had been able to count less than
thousand men in line, half of whom they
belev ed to be Republicans.
When the parade reached Cyclorama Hall
it was found to be already comfortably
filled and for fifteen minutes there was a
jam that kept the large force of police on
hand extremely busy However, the police
formed the people into double line and
they soon packed the hall to it's utmost
capacity. Had the managers of the meet
ing had any idea of the size of the crowd
and had a speaker on hand they might
have held an overflow meeting with about
800 people who could not get in. The hall
contains 2,272 chairs. All these were filled
and the people were packed around the
sides until $500 is a fair estimate of the
people who We're able to hear the address:
The hall had been elaborately decorated
and it's acoustic properties much improved
by the erection of rostrum and the
stringing of bunting from the center of the
ROOF to the sides of the octagonal struc-
ture.
Dr. Everett, at Harvard, presided and in
troduced the speaker in brief, but grace
full speech. Dr. Everett was given an Ova-
tion upon his appearance and throughout
his address he was listened to attentively
and his strong points were punctuated with
enthusiastic applause. The crowd was in
such high spirits over the unexpected mag
nitude of the demonstration that it was
in the mood to display it's enthusiasm