The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-03
RAINED ON them.
Sound Money Marchers in New
York Walk Through Mud.
Gov. Roosevelt Arrives Early
and Reviews Parade.
DRY GOODS MEN LEAD.
Claim to Have Larger Number
Than ANY Other Business.
Democrats Flaunt ssTrust'' Ban
ners in Faces of Participants.

New York, Nov. S-Much to the dis
appointment of all interested in the pa
rade held under the auspices of the
Business Mems Republican and Sound
Money association, todays weather was
very unpleasant. The early morning
opened with cold rain falling and the
streets were in bad condition for the
marchers
Governor Roosevelt, the reviewer of
the parade arrived in New York at 8
o'clock on an Erie railroad ferry boat
He went Immediately to the Lawyers
club. where he breal1fasted.
The streets along the line of march
were beautifully decorated. The down
town section of Broadway was a blaze
of color from the enormous number of
flags displayed. In some of the sky
scrapers each window displayed the
stars and stripes. ard in each block from
the battery to Fourteenth street there
was a large flag bearing the names of
Mckinley and Roosevelt.
At different points along the line of
feet in height, erected by the Democrats,
on which trere were such sentences as
the following:
THE trusts can make you march, but
they cannot make you vote against Bry-
This is a trust parade and not a Re-
publican parade"
On some of these poles were portraits
OF Bryan and stevenson. Each of these
poles was guarded by a policeman.
After breakfasting Governor Roosevelt
went to the Produce Exchange, where he
was given a reception. He was met there
by Gen. McCook, the grand marshal of
the parade and his staff and at the close
of the reception the line started up
Broadway only few minutes behind
scheduled time. The route was up
Broadway to Waverly Place, to Fifth
avenue, to Fortieth street. The review
ing stand was at Madison Square. The
formation of the parade consisted of sin
gle platoons of 10 files front, including
right and left guides, and each platoon
was commanded by a captain.
The first business organization in the
line was the wholesale dry goods Re
publicans which marched in Is sections
They We're followed by representatives
OF the clothiers, merchant tailors, retail
dry goOdSmen, the HaberdasherS, milli-
ners, hatters, florists, builders, the paper
trade, the coal trade, the shoe trade, the
cotton and coffee exchanges, the tobac-
co trade, the furniture trade, the hide
and leather trade, the bankers and bro
kerS Republican and sound money club
and in fact representatives of practically
every branch of industry in the city. IN
Guiding the marchers was a large di-
vision from Brooklyn.
The honor of having the largest num-
Der of men iE line was claimed by the
wholesale dry goods trade, their marshal
men.
When Governor Roosevelt arrived at
the Battery there was prolonged cheer
ing. He was accompanied by First Vice
President Charles F. Homer, Second
Vice President Frank Rrainard and Sec
retary f. A. Drake, of the committee
which had arranged today's demonstra-
ton The governor seemed to be in
excellent spirits and bowed repea tedIy
in acknowledgment of the applause
Inside the Produce Exchange while
Mr.. Roosevelt was shaking hands with
the brokers' there We're repeated calls
for a speech, to which he responded as
follows:
Gentlemen: I shall not attempt to
make speech. I shall merely say how
glad 1 am to see you. In this contest
we appeal to all good citizens and not
to party lines That is our idea through
OUT
After about fifteen minutes of delay
the head of the line started with the
candidate for vice president in an open
barouche- 1t was suggested to him that
it would be advisable to raise the hood
the barouche, but the governor de-
c1ined to shield himself from the rain,
saying that he could stand it as well
and better than the thousands who were
to march in the parade.
As the borauche started off, surround
ed by an escort and led by mounted pO-
lice, the governor stood up to acknoWI-
edge the applause of the crowd.
TT seems to take something worse
than an ordinary rain storm to dampen
a sound money crowd" he said as the
procession started away from the eS-
change at 9:35. just 25 minutes behind
schedule time.
The number of patrolmen guarding the
line Of march for today was 1888; of
this number SIS were around the review
ing stand. These men will be in COM
mand of six inspectors, and all the dep
uty chiefs were along the line of march.
The immense crowd which was expected
to gather in and around the reviewing
stand in Madison square early in the
morning had not appeared at $3.50
O'Clock. The drizzling rain which had
fallen for hours had soaked the seats
in the stands and gave the decorations a
dedraggled appearance The committee
In charge of the arrangements, hopeful
of fine weather, had made no prepara-
tions for adverse conditions, and in con-
sequence there was no means at had
of erecting a shelteTfng canopy over the
seats.
Platoons of police in charge of cap
tains and inspectors were early on the
scene. The first persons to take seats
in the reviewing stands were women.
the east wind and arrived shortly before
o'clock and took seats under the shelter
of a. tree around which the stand was
constructed.
Within less than a block of the spot
where the governor was to take his
seat as reviewing officer was stretched
one Of the many strips of muslin put up
by Tammany Hall and bearing the
words: They make me parade, but
they can't make me vote against
Bryan"
This was stretched across Fifth ave
nue. at Twenty-sixth street, and like
all the others, was guarded by a police
man instructed to keep any one from
damaging it or tearing it down.
AT 10;4 the SOUNDS OF music We're
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