The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-31
DEMOCRATS IN PARADE
THE GOLD STANDARD MEN SHOW
OVER 5000 IN LINE.
Enthusiastic Meeting at Tomiinson
Hall Addressed by Evans WoOlIen,
Rufus SIaEee and others.

The sound-money Democratic parade last
night was decided success. A very con-
servative estimate of the number partici-
pating is 3,0OO and the line was thirty min
utes in passing the corner of Pennsylvania
and Washington streets. Early in the even
ing crowds of people began filling Washing
ton street, and by o'clock the police had
all they could do to keep a passage open
for the street cars. The omnipresent tin
horn sounded on all sides, and everybody
stood on tiptoes. eagerly looking east on
Washington street, expectantly awaiting
the procession. AT $40 o'clock the squad of
police in advance of the sound-money Dem
ocrats began blowing through the assem-
bled multitude. and a deafening cheer
arose. The. horses in the marshars staff
became .frfghtened just as the Vance-block
corner was reached and one bolted into the
crowd. For a moment it seemed certain
that some onlooker would be hurt, but the
horse quickly controlled and in a few
moments they were all lined up again, and
the procession proceeded.
The Russell Club followed the marshars
staff. Each member carried a red-fire can
de- One Of the transparencies carried read,
IF Bryan gets $50, 900 a year you will get
in the parade, and they kept the atmos-
phere we'll stirred up. A number of the
marching divisions did not carry banners
with their club names inscribed, and it was
Atlas Engine-works Eastward Sound-mon-
ey Club turned out good and strong,
numbering over one hundred members.
The soundmoney employees of the Indian
apolis Brewing Company rode the delivery
wagon horses and presented a fine appear
ance. There We're forty of them. Follow
hon he r. t-ir1cy
Company Sound-money Club, carrying a
beautiful silk banner bearing its name.
and each man carried a torch and had
small flag fastened in his coat. The Key
stone Sound-money Club was led by a drum
ard bugle corps, and numbered altogether
about seventy-five members. When the IN
dianapolis Brewing Company Club and the
keystone Club We're passing. number of
bystanders began shouting in derision at
different men marching. calling. them by
name and shouting tScab.' at them. The
turedly The P. & E. Sound money Club
was one of the largest in the parade. They
carried number Of transparencies, and
each man made 1T his duty to shout for
sound money. The procession ended with
the sound-money employees of H. Lieber &
Co., numbering over fifty.
Those who had assembled on the street
expecting to see a parade which would not
amount to much went away greatly sur
near the corner of Meridian and Wash
ington streets vented their disappointment
at the success of the parade in their own
peculiarly emphatic way. One Republican,
who was being shaved in a barber shop
near the corner of Washington and Merid-
ian streets before the parade was so con-
fident that the parade would be a big one
and surpass the free-silver parade tonight
that he bet s25 on his opinion. 1t was some
time. before the bet was taken, and then
the Popocrat who did take it was almost
forced into it.
AT ToMLINsoN HALL.
Chairman s. o. Pickens, of the National
Democratic State committee, called the
Tomlinson Hall meeting to order at 9:05
o'clock last night after waiting nearly
half hour for the hundreds of sound-money
Democrats to file into the hall from the
ranks of the big parade. Mr.. Pickens took
time before introducing the chairman of
the meeting to congratulate the true Dem
ocrats on the magnificent exhibition they
had made in the parade. He expressed a
hope that they would keep up the organi-
cation long enough to teach a lesson to
the repudiationists and those who had be-
troduced Evans Woollen, candidate for
Congress on the National Democratic tick
ct, who presided during last nights meet
ing.
Mr.. Woollen was greeted with magnifi-
cent ovation, which he said he accepted as
a manifestation of the devotion of those
present to the Democracy of Cleveland. He
said he had heard a great deal about reg
ularity, but advised that it was not neces-
uiarity. Regularity. he said. did not re-
quire that &, Democrat vote for a fusionist
who in 1892 had bolted Grover Cleveland.
The difference was that bryan. bolted a
Democrat and voted for Populst, while
the National Democrats will bolt Pop
ulist and vote for Democrat.
Judge John c. Nelson. of Logansport, was
then introduced and spoke of several rea-
sens why true Democrat could not sup
port Bryan. He said that his city, though |
Usually safely Democratic, would not be SO
this tine, He was glad to say, however,
Jeffersonian, Jackson-C cleveland Democrats |
70 hold the organization together and give |
hence. He then denounced the Chicago |
platform, showing the undemocratic doc |
-rines which 1t advocated. His speech was |
not different from that recently made in |
Logansport and published in the Journal. |
He closed by complmenting the Democ- |
'acy of this city in being able, in these try
showing as was made in the parade.
Rufus Magee of LogansJport was the |
Democrat who has recently announced his |
to swallow the Chicago plat |
orm and Organism. The last straw in his |
.ase was the fusion with the Populists. |
He said he was present at last nights |
meeting as drafted Democrat. not as |
;oerced one. He said it had been charged |
hat his party had honored him he |
vas traitor to leave 1T now. 1t might as |
we'll be urged. he said. that his party had a |
mortgage on his conscience and wanted to |
oreclose it Nov. :. He said he had no hope |
II electing the sound-money Democratic |
for President and Vice Presi- |
lent, and advised that Democrats vote for |
he Republican candidates. for. he said
was better to trust the Republicans for /
our years than TO turn the country over |
o the Popocrats- He was opposed to Bry- /
IN because Bryan has demonstrated that /
lie is unfit TO intrust with the reins of gov |
The meeting closed with an address from
ohn c. Robinson. of Spencer. His re- |
marks We're eagerly listened to by those
Who remained in the hall during their de-
VERY. 1t was late when he began and
many persons had gone home There was
ONE present who expected to hear Bynum
II Breckenridge, and who left when ii was
earned that neither of these gentlemen
we're present Withal, however. the meet
ng was an enthusiastic one and the Ma
ional Democrats fee. encouraged by the
Autumn Leaves.