The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-11-02
The Morgans Did the Honors to
Several Thousand Repub-
licans at Alliance.
CITY D0NNED HER BEST
And the Morgan Celebration Went Of
With Lots of Noise.
PARADE WAS BIG BUT MIX f

Douy unu GoOd Tffnc, AnyhOW-Ihe
Girls Couldn't Resist the Temp
tation To March with tho
Canton Boys.
The Morgan Engineering Co., of AL,
lance, boasted they, would break tins
record for Stark county Republican
demonstrations for this campaign at
Monday nights meeting, and they prob
ably did it. The Republicans of tsre
east end city worked like Trojans, the
Morgans put up big sum for expenses,
and then the town stood and gaped in
open-mouthed wonder at the celebration
that resulted.
The Morgans took this means of dedi-
eating the immense new foundry just
completed. They covered the town with
bunting and electric lights and paper
lanterns and turned the big shell of a
building into large auditorium. The
meeting was held there with Stewart
l.. Woodford, minister to Spain just
prior to the war of '9S, and Congressman
r. w. Tayler as the speakers. The
parade was big one, and proved the
chief feature of the demonstration. II
was so late starting that the meeting
was cut short an hour and half. The
speaking occupied all told a little less
than an hour. There were In line in the
parade, exclusive of the bands, little
more than 1900 men. The temporary
auditorium at the Morgan works would,
1t was declared by the Alliance people,
seat 10000 people. The benches ran back
clear to the walls, and the building Is
over 1900 feet long. That $4,000 tale Is
pipe dream, however; for the struc-
ture, when comfortably filled Monday
night, held probably $500 people. The
speeches We're, short, and at the con-
clusion a message of congratulation was
read from the president, at Canton, to
the people of Alliance and the Morgan
company.
ue CANTON IN EVIDENCE.
Three sections of the Alliance special
ran from Canton and one from Massil-
Ion. The Canton specials carried, all
told. about 2,4oO people. The first left
at $3.50; the last few minutes past I.
The crush at the Fort Wayne depot dur
ing this time was something terrific.
About 1000 people wanted tickets at the
game time. with the inevitable result.
Finally, when the railroad people ran
aboard the train without them. There
were two thousand mon -combatants'
at the Fort Wayne to see the trains
depart. and the thirty coaches went
loaded to the guards.
The second section, on which Travelled
the Canton Republican clubs and the
Grand Army and Thayer bands, arrived
at Alliance at 7:40. The train stopped
west of the station, the bands and the
delegations piled off In the darkness,
and everybody proceeded to get lost, the
bands included. Half the crowd
scrambled up a steep bank through the
back yard of a livery stable and landed
on Main. street. where twenty marshals
with red sashes were galloping franti-
cally about. shouting orders. The Cam
tonians took their orders from four diff
ferent aides before they finally found
their position and formed for attack.
Then there was a vafy dreary wait for
Youngstown, Salem. Massillon and
other struggling delegations.
Meantime, Main stEeet was jammed.
Alliance people "a
DIDN'T KNOW THEIR TOWN.
There was noise enough-no question
Gl.tn
lavish scale. The selectrical decorations
extended even to private houses. There
were miles of bunting along Main street
and paper lanterns We're strung all
along the route of parade. The front
of the Keplnger house was studded with
great red, white and blue lights and
further up the street was the name
Mckinley" stretched over the heads
of the marchers In ihoahdescent lights.
Near the Morgan works was an cleo
trical arch. and aty the plant was a
tower of colored lights. Further up
town were great, blazing natural gas
jets that roared like so many furnaces
All these extras cost money, but the
Morgans We're paying the bill.
4 The politics of the Inhabitants could
be told at glance, all along the line OF
march. Here a house would be brill
liantJy lighted, decorated with flags ami
buntings and lanterns Next door the
domicile OF a Democratic citizen nestled
in the shadows, not light twinkling.
There were many such. But everybody
was good natured, AMI there were plenty
of noisy fellows, andsthe everlasting tin
horn got in its work ill almost dawn,
DELAYED IN STARTING.
Finally at s:S5 the. parade moved. It
should, Of course. have been headed by
a Canton musical organization, and that
was.the programme. No parade arourd
these parts is ever cofhplete without 4
Canton band in the van, and that was
the arrangement atrAlliance; but the
twenty smarshals and eighty adjutants
quereedsthe deal. Alliance had prepared
for parade of about asdozen blocks Of
Ave, anil when the delegations hurled
themselves pell-mell into Main street,
the Alliance marshaR lost their heads
The chntonians marched around ana
lost themselves, but were finally dis
covered, and two pr three bands dis
ARReafsd tam xisix. FINALLY when