The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-16

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zion prevailed in the down town streets OF
st. Louis at midnight tonight. Bands OF
every variety paraded the streets, leadlhS
enthusiastic Republican Cubs from al
most Every state III the Union. They
played every sort of tune, or tried to, from
White Wings to classic selections from the
operas. They marched ana cOuntermarch-
cd from hotel to hotel. They pafaded
through the corridors and into the offlces
of the local newspapers. There were
scores and scores of them, and it IS doubt
full if the oldest inhabitant OF this city
ever saw such a proceeding on Sunday.
1t began in mild way at dawn and nouf
by hour continued at tbs rate OF geomet-
rical progression until midnight, when the
climax of the fury was reached.
During the afternoon, volunteer corps OF
the Salvation Army added materially TO the
volume of uproarious and discordant mel
ody, To use a steamboat phrase, they had
on a ''full head of steam They sang WIG
and enthusiastically the peculiar hymns OF
their religion. They stopped at the street
crossings and in front of the big hotels
and exhorted sinners great and small to
mend their ways and flee from the wrath
to come Mingled with the songs of the
Salvationists could be heard campaign
songs setting forth the virtues of the Re
publican party or some favorite son aspir-
ing to presidential honors But with all
the wild hurrah and confusion there was
no lawleSsneSS
A monster Mckinley parade that has been
arranged for Wednesday night intended
to be the largest demonstration of the KIND
that has ever been seen. The parade VIII
be reviewed by prominent men from the
balcony of the Southern hotel. 1t will be
in twelve divisions under direction of Gen.
Jas G. Howe of Kenton, Ohio. IN the pa
rade will be clubs, many of them uni
formed, from every state and territory, and
all the Republicans in st. Louis have been
invited to take part.
English Government in Hot Water.
Copyright, 1896, by Associated Press
London, June livery little has oc-
Cured during the past week to ruff1e the
surface of the British political pond, which
would have been stagnant but for the rip
pie of interest evoked by the efforts of
the ministers to extricate their party from
the maze in which it finds itself tangled up
by the hopeless condition of public bust
ness and unexpected concessions. A. j.
Balfour, the Conservative leader and first
lord of the treasury, in order to expedite
the Irish land bill, is summoning a meet
ing of the government adherents for Mon
day at the foreign Office. This is q signal
of distress upon the part of the government
which is suffering from the effects of IA
surpusage of election promises and finds
it necessary to call a conference with the
view of attempting to reconcile its fol-
lowers to the sacrifice of some of their
hopes. 1t is generally recognized that the
government will be forced to modify the
education and Irish land bills if an autumn
session is to be avoided.
In foreign politics, the topic of moment
is Marquis of Salisbury's declaration in
the house of lords last evening of the poll
cy of the government in Egypt. 1t is re-
garded as clear exposition of British in
tentions as to the Soudan and the OppOsi-
ton is preparing to condemn the exped1-
ton by Introducing a formal motion OF CEN
sure. The progress of the SOudan eXpedl-
ton is followed with the lvelieSt interest.
Military experts point out that while the
successes have had an excellent effect upon
the morals of the Egyptians, they will also
show the khalifa and his friends their dan
ger and serve to consolidate them.
Further, it is pointed out that, contrary
to the usual conditions of Soudanese war
fare, the Egyptians in the fight at Fireket
outnumbered the Dervishes two to one and
acted on the offensive, whereas the re-
verse is usually the ease In spite of these
a fight that they lost 1900 men in two
hours. The deduction is that the Dervishes
have lost rome of their fighting power and
there is no conclusive proof that under
equal circumstances the Egyptians would
hold their own. The killing of a thousand
or two fighting men at Fireket, 1T is
claimed, will not cause the submiSSiO0 of
the fierce tribes of the Central Soudan,
and while it may place DongOla at Sir Her
bert Kitcheners mercy, it will have to be
supplemented by harder fights before he
takes Khartoum or even Berber.