The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-07
IN FRONT OF THE JOURNAL
THE BULLETINS WERE CHEERED AS
FAST As PUT UP.
s>andemonium Reigned When 1t Was
known Republicans Had
Swept Country.


thronged the streets and yelled for their
favorite candidates By the time the first
bulletin was flashed upon the canvas at
the many bulletin boards hundreds were
packed closely about to get tho first init
nation of the result of yesterdays vote.
On Washington street for one square
street car service was abandoned, the
cars taking a roundabout way to avoid
the crowd. The largest crowd, perhaps.
was in front of the Journal office. Here
there was a better point of vantage to
view the bulletins and the crowd was
packed back onto the monument lawn.
steps and walks.
The crowd was demonstrative in the
extreme and women as well men cried
themselves hoarse. Many had mega
phones in order that they might be more
distinctly heard, while others did their
shouting with tin horns. The plentiful dis
tribution of bulletin boards kept
these masses of humanity surgins
about the streets in restless
manner. stopping here and there TO watch
"a few returns and then pushing on to an
other stopping place. Young and old took
part in the demonstration, and as the num-
Der of returns increased the enthusiasm
correspondingly grew in intensity. The
women especially seemed TO be interested
and pitted their voices against the meg
aphone or powerful lungs of the enthusiast
VINO tried TO tell all of Indianapolis that
he was for Mckinley or Bryan.
SCENES AT s O'CLOCK
About o'clock the spectacle was beyond
anything heretofore seen on the streets
oil al 0rh
election. The streets were swaying null
titude. almost impossible. and the tall
buildings echoed the shouts of the thou
sands until there was a long continuous
roar of yells, trumpet blasts and vocal
strains. BY perseverance and the exer-
else of muscular strength only was passage
made through the crowd. Bands of ten
or a dozen, madly shouting for their fav-
orite candidate. elbowed their way into the
edges of the crowds. an then holding fast
TO each other with heads bent forward,
would start TO combat with the apparently
impenetrable mass. Gradually they would
make an inroad and the single individual
who CHANGED to think there was an open
ing for him would crowd forward only to
be almost crushed between the two forces
they closed together behind the persist
ent marcheTs. So the night was spent,
people pushing, showing and hallooing with
a spirit that seemed TO come from patriot
ism.
If anything the Democrats were louder
in their fervor notwithstanding the fact
that adverse returns were received from
the very beginning. Only at one place wera
front of the Sentinel office. There the
crowd was in unison politically, and needed
no bolstering I'D TO offset the Republican
enthusiasm. They tried to get encourage
tho ssroos cib In
the canvas, but IL was no use. Each sue
ceeding return made it darker. Then a
detachment would break loose from the
crowd. make its way to Washington street
and set up a shout for Bryan.
The Republicans received the returns
with enthusiasm, but yet were modest
was regarded as a reward for the conf
dence that had been maintained all
through the campaign that Mckinley and
Roosevelt would be elected
AT STATE HEADQUARTERS
At Republican State committee headquar-
tiers telegraph instrument busily clicked
off the result of the election and a half
dozen telephones with as many different
operators with receivers fastened to their
ears noted down results as they came in
from various precincts of the city and
parts of the State. In Chairman Hernly's
private Office was long table. Chairman
Hernly sat at his desk and around the table
were newspaper men and several prominent
members of the party. Senator Beveridge
sat at the table with the newspaper men
and carefully took down every return on
his tablet. Joseph Healing, district chair
man, was also at the press table. All the
rooms were crowded but quiet prevailed.
the men seldom speaking above their usual
tone. Occasionally, when exceptionally
good news was received, the quiet was
broken by applause, and then the crowd
! demeanor. This same conservatism was
manifest by Republicans in all parts of the
| city where election returns were received.
There was little at Democratic head
| quarters to encourage the members of the
| committee and others who had gathered
| there TO wait for the announcements of the
results. Here a telegraph instrument told
| the same story as the one at the Repub-
encouraged, but in the face of the returns,
| 1t was an uphill matter. Yet they were I'M
willing to make any concessions. Chair
| man Martin sat at his desk. Mayor Tag
| CART was also present at State committee
headquarters.
| At the Marion and Columbia Clubs re-
| turns were received. The Marion Club
| had bulletin on the outside, and many
| availed themselves of this opportunity and
| incidentally TO avoid the crowd on the
down town streets. At the Columbia Club
| side.
AT THE THEATERs.
| The theaters were also sources of in
formation the people sought Election re-
| turns were announced at each of the thea
| tiers and they were all crowded. This gave
the people an opportunity to be comfort
able, see play and keep informed as to
| the result of the days election besides
The persistancy with which the crowd re-
manned on the streets was feature which
marked the event. At o'clock the crowd
| had even increased. The wild shouting
/ went on and 10 o'clock came. yet il was
the same demonstrative mass. However,
/ the uproar began TO break. Sometimes al
most silence prevailed. then the noise would
suddenly be renewed with increased in
| tensity as IL the pause had only been 10
/ prepare for a louder exclamation. These
outbursts OF enthusiasm gradually became
farther and farther apart, and the people
/ began 10 start for home. The larger
4 crowds slowly diminished and the little
ones began to disband until two or three
made themselves conspicuous by footing
/ horns as IL to renew the enthusiasm in the
| early part of the evening. At length even
| these began TO give out and the normal
quiet OF The streets was gradually restored
| with the exception OF an occasional out
/ break Of few who did not wish TO go home
! at all. In front of the Journal office a big
| crowd fingered until late hour
|
Boys Walked All the Way.
/ Lester and Vernon Folsom. aged twelve