Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
MARCH IN THE RAIN
Great Enthusiasm Among Partlci-
pants in Sound Money Parade.
REVIEWED BY GOV. ROOSEVELT
In Spite of Bad Weather, Crowd
Was Tremendous.
T TAMMANY' B A D B r b A X
Special From STAFF Correspondent.

Special From Star Correspondent.
NEW YORK November 3.-The enthu-
siasm that can withstand the discourage
ment of a day like this, either to parade or
to stand in the rain and watch one, is OF a
high order At the hour the sound money
parade started the rain was coming down
in that persistent soaking way that is most
wetting and irritating, yet it was manifest
even much earlier in the day that there
were many people in New York who We're
ready to defy any sort of wether, and the
enthusiasm shown under such circum-
stances leaves a fair inference as to what
the demonstration would have been in falr
weather.
AT quite an early hour before the parade
had even formed there was an average of
about a hundred people to the square on
thirteen squares over which l walked from
23d street down town, standing in the rain
to secure advantageous points of view
while the sidewalks on both sides were
pretty well occupied by people moving to
meet the parade. The people scattered along
the line of march would have made an i'm
mense crowd If assembled in a mass, as
they have been at the speaking and fire
works demonstrations.
The regiments of marchers were out In
good force, waiting to fall in at their places
as the parade came by. The decora atoms
along the route were brilliant, even in the
rain, the red, white and blue standing out
boldly against the leaden gray of the at
mosphere Nearly every building dec
GRATED, even church near the corner Of
10th street and 9TH avenue having large
. flag above its Gothic entrance.
Tammany's Vulgar Methods.
The vulgarity of the Tammany methods
again evidenced. In nearly every
square along the route white cotton stream
ers were stretched across the street. with
such inscriptions these: They can
make you march. but they can't make you
vote against Bryan"
"A Mckinley button is on my coat but
Bryan is near my heart, God bless him.
This is trust parade, not a republican pa
rade.'
The violence done public sentiment by
these streamers is evidenced by the fact
that property owners would not permit
them TO be hung across from their build
1ngs. and they were hung from poles erect
ed at the curbs on either side of the street.
These poles were planted during the night
and a permit had to be secured from the
city government for their erection.
Mr.. Croker will probably find that he has
overdone the thing and hurt the cause
which he is trying to serve by this often
sive display and his talk about men being
coerced to march 1t is offensive to those
who march, to those who assemble to see
the parade and 10 proper-minded people
generally. And the talk of coercion Is like
ly to give alarm to the employed, which
they have not been made to feel by any
thing said by their employers or by the re-
publican managers.
Notwithstanding the miserable day the
line of marchers in the parade is full of en-
thUSiaSm. and the parade is impressive.
They are compact and marching rapidly,
which is clear indication that the man.
ayers are not afraid of deficiency in num-
bers, and there is an unusua! spirit of en-
ergy about the demonstration. J. z. NJ.