The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-19
Philadelphia Quiet Is Driven to the
Winds and Party Enthusiasm
Captures the Quaker City.
FINE APPEARANCE OF THE LINE
CAKE WALK AN INNOVATION TO THE
sTAID PENNsYLvANIANs.
Two Violations of Ban Laid on ANTI
Civil Service Demonstrations
Parade Boom for DOlIiver.

miles of clubs, mounted, on foot, on
coaches. floats and in carriages. inter-
spersed with music, red fire and cake
walk, is the shortest way of describing the
turnout of the visiting and local political
clubs in this city tonight.
Those who have been complaining for the
past two days of the unusual quietude pre-
ceding the meeting of a national conven-
ton must have reflected tonight that they
criticised too soon. Those who have at
tended previous demonstrations in connec-
ton with similar occasions liken that Of to-
night to the great turnout of clubs in Chi
cago that was reviewed by Blaine and
Logan preceding the election in 1884
The police had prepared for the demon
stration of tonight by roping Broad street
early in the afternoon, carrying out the
Washington idea of clearing Pennsylvania
avenue for parade purposes. 1t was wise
forethought, for before dusk Philadelphia's
appropriately named thoroughfare was a
mass of humanity which tugged at the
cables like an ocean liner. The entire line
of march was a crush but that section of
the street between the City Hall and the
Hotel Walton was conspicuously animated
1t was in this section that there was the
greatest and most artistic arrangement and
display of electric lights. The south facade
of the City Hall was outlined by strings of
incandescent bulbs which looked like il
Illuminated beads. Rows of light extended
from either side of the building to the
summit of the lofty dome terminating at
the base of the Penn statue.
For an hour before the head of the col
umn came in view at the variant point of
a a M
VINO lined either side of Broad street and
who occupied every window from the
ground TO the top waited patiently. In
part this was due to their control by the
police. 1t has been many years since the
police of Philadelphia have been called on
to handle so many people as 1t confronted
tonight Before the column came in sight
the street cars on the various intersecting
lines were permitted to break though the
lines every fifteen minutes. To do this the
police had to unfasten the ropes at these
points. In opening the way the populace
persisted in holding the cable taut until the
police forced the grip upon 1t. When the
way was opened groups of humanity made
PUSHES to cross the street and In some in
stances succeeded. 1t was here that the
police showed their firmness. and In finally
controlling the impatient crush they did it
without hitting a head OF causing any
feeling of resentment. Visitors from cities
where the police have crowds to handle
were profuse in praise of Philadelphia's
police tonight. An amusing feature of the
parade and. by the way, an innovation, was
an interlarded cake walk in the column.
The characters were colored men and wom-
and children attired in costume made
the more attractive by torches of red fire.
In the prearrangements of to-night's
parade 1T had been decided, in spite of
expressed sentiment by many OF the clubs,
TO permit nothing in the line antagonistic
to civil service. AT one time a determine
ton by some of the clubs to accentuate
anti-civil service threatened to breed bad
feeling. and the committee in charge sue
ceeded in eliminating what 1t considered an
Objectionable feature. There were, how
ever, two violations of the order On one
transparency. mounted on wagon was this
motto:
1.-The civil service law disqualifes all over
the age of forty-five years"
ON another car was this: eve are op-
posed to the civil service law because it is
un-American.
The only demonstration in the line in be-
half of vice presidential candidate was
the display by one club of twenty stream
ers, on which ''Dolliver" was painted in big
letters.
The parade was in eight divisions. in
which there were more than eighty local
clubs and about twenty visiting political
organiza tons. The out-of-town clubs were
scattered through eight sections and were
escorted by the club which was assigned
to entertain the visiting clubmen. The I'm
conditional Club, of Albany, n. Y. was the
only visiting organization in the first divi-
sion. and was escorted by the Twenty-tirst
The famous Cook County Republican
Marching Club, of Chicago. the Young
Mems Republican Tariff Club, of Pit.sburg,
the William j. Sewell Association. of Cam
den, N. j.. and the Atlantic City IN. j.
Club occupied positions in the second divi-
sion. The first visiting club in the third
division was the Westchester Club, of
westchester, Pa. In this division also was
the Union League Of Delaware county,
Pennsylvania.
The William r. Leeds Club of this city.
escorted the Young Mems Blaine Club, of
Cincinnati, at the head of the fifth division.
in which also were the Young Mems Re-
publican Club, of Wilmington, Del, and the
ro-American League, of Delaware.
In the sixth division were the Hamilton
Club, of Chicago, escorted by the Young
Republican Club, of this city; the McKin-
ley Neignbors, from Canton, o., and the
Louis p. Scott Third Ward Republican Club
of Atlantic City, n. j.: the Blaine Invinci-
bles of Washington the w. Clavin-Chase
Club. of Washington; the l.. M. Parker
Club, of Washington, and the George H.
Harrison Association. of Atlantic City,
n. j.
The j. Edward Addicks Club. of Whining
ton, Del, the Cameron County Club, of
Emporium, Pa, led the seventh division.
The well-known Tippecanoe Club, of Cleve-
land, was also in this division.
The eighth division was the Colorado
Philadelphia Club. of Denver. headed by
the CaorCa w q Cook fife and drum, cornS