The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-02
DAVIS
LEADS.
Intrepid Leader Marches
at the Head Of the
Great Democrat
ic Parade.
THOUSANDS IN LINE
Enthusiastic Crowds Cheer
the Marching Hosts
as They Pass
Along.
NAGNIFICENT ILLUMINA1lONS
Red Fire and Brilliant Pyro-
technics Mark the Route
of the Procession.
CHEERS FOR LOCAL TICKET
Hoboken and North Hud-
son Make an Excellent
Showing.

The Democratic parade of last night
opened the eyes of Republicans who have
been shouting themselves hoarse over
their great demonstration Of last week.
The Republicans made splendid demon
stration with large delegations from Bay
onne, Hoboken, North Hudson and Pater-
SON 1t was also noticeable in the Rspub-
ucan parade that there were many kids
and young men who have not yet ar
rived at the voting age. Nevertheless
observing Democrats conceded that the
Republicans surprised them in the.
demonstration which they put forward.
But they said to them
Just you wait until next Thursday
nighti
Republicans looked aghast at last
nights political demonstration. Old in
habitants say they never before saw such
a one in this city. 1t is conceded by the
most conservative Republicans that so far
as point of numbers of voters in both re-
cent parades is concerned the Democrats
outnumbered them more than two to one
and they didn't have to depend on Pater-
son and Bayonne to help them.
The Republicans had a fair night on
which to parade. Last night it was foggy,
loyal Democratic voters stood for hours
in the damp atmosphere patiently await
ing orders to move forward that they
might show their marching strength. The
handling of such an immense crowd, made
up of scores and scores of organizations
large and small, and properly organizing
them into parade that would move in
order over a long route was slow and
Eel q H.
serted the parade. In the vicinity of
Hamilton Park, where the parade was
organized through the gloom and mist,
occasionally illumined by seas of red fire,
search and calcium lights arriving on the
scene with the various ward organiza-
tions, the marching of these various
bodies to positions in the distance
designa led them in line reminded one Of
descriptions of the various bodies of a
grand. army preparing in the night for
great battle on the morrow. 1t was slow
and tedious, as above stated, but at last
the great body advanced and there were
no halts from the beginning to the end
of the the parade. Through miles Of
streets lined with spectators the great
body moved.
How many were there in line? That IS
question upon which experts differ
Some Republicans claimed that in their
parade there were 5000. A great many
people actually believed this. Conserva-
tive men estimated it at 1900. After last
nights parade there were many discus
sions between friendly Democrats and Re-
publicans as to the number of voters who
really turned out.
1t may be interesting to those who wit
messed last nights parade to know that
while Chief Of Police Murphy, an uncom-
promising Republican, but a fair man,
and one who is an expert in estimating
the numerical strength of military and
police bodies in marching order, declared
by close calculation, even to counting,
that there were five thousand men in line.
Democrats were claiming there were any
where from six to ten thousand in the
parade.
While the Chief claimed that there were
only five thousand, he admitted that
according to his own system of
calculating or counting, the Re-
publican parade of last week had
or,y twenty-one hundred men in line. An
unbiased reporter, trained and expert
enced, declared in the argument that by
his system Of calculation there were sew
enty-two hundred men in line.
So much as to a comparison of the
number of men in line. The route was
long one and passed through sections
hitherto never traversed by big parades
of any kind. 1t passed over blocks of
tenement sections in the slower section.
1t cannot be said that there was any Wild
enthusiasm displayed in that section,