Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-10

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However, and the 9ryan March
ers and Spectators Were Wildly
Enthusiastio-A Greas Meeting at
Tattersau's Concluded the Days
Programme Democratic Mana
gers More Than Satisfied.
Chicago, October 9.-The Democracy
held possession of the streets tonight,
and it improved its opportunity to the
utmost.
As early as 6 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 torch
/ light demonstration. They poured in
rapidly, and by o'clock the street was
packed again.
One division formed on Michigan ave-
nue. and as soon 2s it had passed Wash
I ington street, the second wheeled in be-
| hind. The West Side column formed n
Haymarket Square and it poured over
Randolph street bridge, joining the
main procession at the corner OF Ran
/ dOlph and Market streets.
/ a nigh wind arose in the course of
| the evening. and made ii a matter Of
some difficulty to keep torches and
/ transparencies a,ight. Several Of tho
| latter caught fire and had to be thrown
/ to one s.de.
The commanding officers of the pa
rade had decided against the presence
of floats in the line, and consequently
the parade was composed very largely
OF men On foot.
! The parade. after being fully formed
at Market and Randolph streets, march
/ cd south 10 Jackson s,I,e., a-tu .4eI
turned sou,l on Michigan avenue to
. Sixteenth street, along which it marched
10 TGttersais where the silver meeting
was in progress.
At this p0nt it disbanded.
The cold wind and the faJigues Of The
+ early part of the day had their effect on
/ the number of spectators, and the night
I parade was not witnessed by the large
/ crowds Of he morning and afternoon.
However. the Bryan men in The pa
| rade and those on the sidewalk showed
no deficiency of enthusiasm during the
march. The yells and cheers went up
| constantly, and as about every other
man in the line had possessed himself OF
a tn horn. the volume of noise was deai-
enirg. TIE slowly decreasing mum Der
of t0rch-Fgnts IN the parade was fully
+ COMPENSATED for by the great number Oh
calcium LIGHTS carried. There were ful-
" fifty of these and they made the
/ streets as light as day.
The Democrats campaign managers
/ express themselves as more than satls-
fed with the parade and we're greatly
/ rIeased over -h showing made. No at
tempt was made to review uhe process
sion and j. was carried through in an
/ energetic manner. The parade was ov-
T er an hour and half in passing a given
/ point
A gr-at mass meeting Of the silver
I Democracy was held al Tattars3lls to-
nigh The Meeting hep70 ohCU- ha't
hour before the head Of the parade mad
arrived and as soon as the marchers
were on the spot they poured into the
building in great numbers.
The chief speaker OF the evening was
/ Congrcssman Towna. Of Minnesota. Col.
! II. IT. Eddy. Of Colorado, followed him,
and p. Watt Hardin. Of Kentucky, and
Robert Lindblom. Of Chicago. also spoke.
In th1 afternoon a largely attended
meeting was held. az which j. Chandler,
of Washington. D. c.: James Mckenzie
and II. F. Bar,ine, of Chicago, spoke.
Senator Teller was unable to speak.
Four years ago to-day the greatest
parade the West had ever seen pass
| through the streets of Chicago as a pOr-
zion of the celebration of the dedic- ION
of the buildings of he Columbian Ex-
position. That parade was. hOwav6r.
surpassed to-day. National committee
headquarters Of TIE Democratic party
credit 10000 Republicans in line.
TIE day was all that could be desired
A crisp, coo, wind blew off Lake Mich
igan in jus, sufficient force TO keep the
thousands of fgs in a lively hutter. The
reviewing stand for the Republican Ma
tiOnal Comm ttee was erected on jack
son street. Here Mark Hanna Senator
Cu.,om and the various members Of the
committee reviewed The parade.
There were III floats in the parade,
many of them exceedingly handsome,
and all layshly decorated.
An UNIQUE feature was the use made
by the long distance ,e,ephone 10 carry
the sound Of the cheers that rose from
the parade 10 The other large cities Of
the country
Across Washington street, in front Of
the telephone exchange, was stretched
banner bearing The inscription: your
cheers here will be heard throughout the
nation" As each detachment came to-
ward the banner. every man would pre-
pare himself for the double j0inted
whoop he emitted as he marched beneath
the banner. In many places along the
route great "m0uth-pieces fixed above
the street by numbers Of guy ropes. con-
centrated the sound waves upon the dia-
phraghms and sent the cheers to every
waiting ear Many smaller mouth
pieces" which are-eally tunnels five feet
long. were attached to long distance
phones n various attitudes. These
helped to swell the noise in distant re-
ce,vers. Major Mckinley. in his library
at Canton. heard IL. and Alr. Hobart. in
his home at Patterson \. j., also re-
ceived the assurances Of the shouts.
The number in town, based upon the
statements of railroad AID street car
companies. regarding the fares collect
ed. was 100000. Considering the size
of the crowd. there was very few acc
dents. A. C. Walker who had en-
Unused on whisky. created a panic by
firing several shots into crowd. For
tunatelv he hin nothing but a brick wall
and he was suppressed with such vigor
mat il took a doctor thirty minutes to