The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-25
indianapolis Clubs, Bands and Drum
Corps Form No Small Part of the
Assembled ThropE.
5000 HEARD BROOKS'S SPEECH
WILD CHEERS WHEN THE CHARGE
OF COERCION WAS RIDICULED.
Gov. Matthew's Tri-County Meeting
at StOut's Mill Was n Frost-Owen
Speaks nt Seymour.
pecial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Sept. 24.-Visiting
railroad men with the large Terre Haute
contingent provided enough lanterns to-
night to light the city if Russell Harrison's
electric-lighting company had met with a
misfortune The occasion was the rally OF
the railroad mems sound-money clubs from
cities which had direct railroad connection
with Terre Haute. Not less than 5000
railroad men were brought in by special
trains. The Vandalia from Indianapolis,
Ladoga, Lafayette, East st. Louis, DECATUR
and as far as st. Joe, Mich, ran excur-
sions. The Chicago e. Eastern Illinois
brought load from Danvile H., the
Evansville & Terre Haute unloaded a dele
cation from Evansville, the Indianapolis &c
ST. Louis ran an excursion from Mattoon.
and the Evansville & indianapolis brought
one from Washington, Ind
Ten days ago the local Railroad Mems
Sound-money Club began arranging for
meeting to be addressed by j. Il. Brooks,
one of the vice presidents of the Pennsyl-
vania system, and 1t was then expected
that perhaps three thousand railroad men
from outside Terre Haute might be present,
but each day advices sweled the number
until this morning an aggregate of eight
thousand was placed in the hands of tha
local committee Tonight 1t is known that
a thousand more would have come could
the railroad companies have supplied ths
coaches. BY o'clock trains of from ten
to sixteen coaches were arriving at the
depot and at 7:30 clock, the schedule time
for the beginning of the parade, all were
not in the depot. Several thousand men
found their way through the streets to
various points along the route OF the pro-
cession, and for that reason perhaps thira
of the number of visiting railroad employees
were not in the line of march, Yet it was
the largest political parade ever witnessed
in Terre Haute The men marched six and
eight abreast and so close together tnar
they trod on one another's heels as they
forced their way through the crowded
streets Never before were so many persons
congregateJ on the main thoroughfares or
the city. and tonight all Terre Haute Is
impressed with the belief that Mckinley
will be elected.
UNCLE BILLY'S" ENGINE.
JTnder the supervision of w. r. Mckeen.
ir. foreman of the Vandalia shops, loco
motive after the Pittsburg pattern had
been built on top of trolley car. III hau
steam boiler, air brakes, dynamo ana a
PYLE electric headlight. 1t led the process
sion along the main line of President Rus-
| sell Harrison's street railway, giving the
| locomotive 'Uncle Billy Baugh, the vet
| eran of the yandalia who was at the throt-
| tie of the locomotive (which hauled the first
| train between here and Indianapolis, in
| 1881 was in the cab. The Terre Haute
Sound-money Club of Railroad Men, six
| hundred strong and headed by band, foi-
| lowed the engine. The trainmen carried
lanterns and clerks and officials paraded
with Roman candles. Owing to the coinci-
| dent arrival of delegations from many
| places on the several roads 1t was impos-
! sible to form them in line In accordance
| with their bands of music and banners. buc
| in the hearty good will and enthusiasm
of the occasion they found places as best
| they could. There were a dozen bands or
| music and as many drum corps, while
! scores of transparencies expressed the sem
! timents of the men. Throughout the pro-
! cession were wagons and street cars from
| which pyrotechnic displays were made.
| Forty handcars, each with a full compile
ment of men working the levers, added to
! the realistic effect. There was a life-size1
! caboose, whose side was illuminated with
! incandescent lamps making the letters 'E.
| S T. H." and from it many men, as
| could cling were setting off fireworks. An
! other feature of the parade was switch
| mans watch house. In front of the Terre
! Haute House the Big -Four Company nau
! erected complete watch tower and from
| it bells were set ringing at intersecting
streets where the large signboard Rail-
/ road crossing had been placed.
Among the visitors present were railroad
! mems clubs from the Illinois Central, the
/ Monon and the Louisville az Nashville. La
/ fayette sent three hundred and with them
| there was band and drum corps. The
! c., H. & d. Club was behind Transparent
! cy reading:
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