The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-10-10
.CHIGAGO'S MONSTER PARADE
Monster Demonstration by Gold Standard
Advocates
NEARLY A MILLION SPECTATORS
view the Great Parade Of seventy-fve
Thousand Men, Which Occupied Five
Hours in Passing Secretary Morton
and Mr.. Depew Deliver Speeches.

over Stbu phSSeu luTOuHu Iut SlIttIS Nl
Chicago, as n portion of the celebration of
the dedication of the buildings Of the Co
lumbar exposition. That parade was,
however, surpassed yesterday by the purely
partisan march Of the men who uphold
the gold standard in questions Of finance
and in politics. The estimates Of the diff.
ferent parties vary widely as to the mum.
Der of mon in line, but 1000 is just hall
way between the number claimed by the
| Republicans and the count given out by
| the national committee headquarters OF
| the Republican party.
After o'clock in the morning not q
street car, not single wagon save those
carrying the United States mail and po.
| lice ambulances, were allowed 20 cross the
river from the west and north sides, and
| all those coming from the south were
| turned back at Van Buren, street. Every
street between Van Buren, on the south,
the river on the north, the lake on the east
and the river on the west was absolutely
free from all impedimcnt to the marching
column. Eighteen hundred policemen
| lined the route of the parade and the dense
thronR of people who packed the walks
was kept firmly back to the curb, The
entire street belonged to the marchcrs,
| from first to last. For five hours the parade
swept the streets from curb to curb, well
closed up and marching rapidly.
The reviewing stand was erected just
in front of the building of the Union
| League club, on jackson street Here
Mark Hanna, Senator Cullom and vari-
| GUS members Of the committee took the
stand to review the parade. At II o'clock
Mr., Hanna stepped from the window OF
the club house upon the stand. He was
! just in time to return the salute Of Mayor
Swift who mounted on a black horse,
came past. From that moment until a
few minutes after o'clock Mr.. Hanna,
with the exception OF , brief interval, was
standing with hat in hand bowling his
Acknowledgements of the cheers.
From u stand erected at the entrance of
! the Palmer House General John NJ
| Palmer and General :. b Buckner re.
viewed the parade The two white haired
veterans, as they stood side by side with
their heads barred, were recognized by the
marchers and were cheered. As the col.
umns came up thousands Of hats came of
in homage to the venerable men. and all
through the hours which the parade re-
| quired to pass that point the cheering was
constant Tho gold standard clubs Of the
great down town business houses were cs-
pecially enthusiastic as they passed the
hotel.
There were III floats in the parade, many
| of them exceedingly handsome and all
lavishly decorated \ string of carriages
bearing the white haired members Of the
old Tippecanoe club, composed Of men
who voted for William Henry Harrison,
evoked loud cheers, as did a number Of
crippled veterans of the war, who bore
above their first carriage I'VE fought
with Grant, and we stand with Mckin'
ley"
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
Major Mckinley in his library at Canton
heard it, and Mr., Hobart at Republican
headquarters in New York received the
assurances of the shouts
The total number of people who saw the
parade, based upon the statements OF
railroads and street car companies regard
ing the fares collected, was 100000 Con
sidering the size of the crowd, there We're
very few accidents.
Secretary of Agriculture Sterling Nor
ton spoke at the Auditorium last night
under the auspices of the Sound Money
league The hall was filled TO the extent
of its seating capacity and when secretary
Morton appeared upon the platform hC
was greeted with loud and enthusiastic
cheers. He was introduced by David b
Jones, Of the Sound Money league, who
paid llattering tribute to the secretary
as politician and man. Before begin,
ming his address Secretary Morton an
nounced that an invitation had been sent
to President Cleveland requesting hi,
| presence at the meeting
Mr., Morton then read the president,
letter of regret at his inability to be pres
ent, which was In part as follows:
81 am SO much interested i'm the worl
which the American Honest Money
league has undertaken that | would b,
glad to do anything | consistently coult
TO aid its efforts. regret therefore tha
l must decline your invitation to ad lrcs
the league on some date previous to tn,
approaching election. Even if the pres
sure of official duty did not prevent,
should hardly deem it consistent Will
strict propriety 20 mingle actively in tn
pending campaign.
"While it is impossible that any Of m,
fellow citizens should have the least doub
as TO my sentiments on the vital question
which at this time absOrbs so largely tn
attention Of our people, the work of ad
vancing sound financial ideas and the labo
Of enforcing the lessons of public and pri
vate honesty and morality, l feel must b
prosecuted without such participation OF
my part
. Chauncey NJ. Depew spoke last night a
the Coliseum, to "a large audience, He wa
escorted from his hotel To the building b
large number of wheclmen, there bein
about 900 bicycles in advance Of his car
riage during the drive down Michiga
nvepuo
At Breen's RiaIto Cafe.