The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-30
Six Hours and a Half Pass
ing Reviewing Stand.
GREAT CHICAGO DEMONSTRATION
Business Practically Suspended TO Enable
Trade 10 Jein In the Prosperity Parade
Reviewed by senator Hanna and His
Committee Csileagues-A Lively Clash
with Bryan shouIers-Line of March.


half to-day workingmen from every
branch of industry in Chicago; lawyers,
merchants, railroad men, financiers
marched through the downtown districts
of the city in the parade of Republican
voters. which was planned as the culmina-
ton of the national campaign in Chicago.
Between two solid lines of spectators
stretched from the starting point of the
long march On Michigan avenue to its
disbanding place on Jackson Boulevard.
near the river. and underneath thousands
of flags and banners, stretched between
the big Office buildings and waving from
the windows and roofs. the paraders
tramped from 10 In the morning until
half past in the afternoon.
The day was practically a holiday In
Chicago. The Beard of Trade, the banks.
and many of the big downtown stores
were closed, and the residence districts
We're partly deserted for hours. while the
people massed themselves along the miles
of the tOrtuous line of march and applaud
ed to their hearts content.
The day was a perfect one. Hardly a
cloud fecked the sky, while a cool breeze
from Lake Michigan tempered the warm
rays Of the sun and kept fluttering the
line Of march, ard lifted high in the air
the scores of immense kites, from which
were suspended Mckinley and Prosper
ity'' banners.
Along the Line Of March.
Promptly at 10 o'clock the head Of the
parade, composed Of double line OF po-
lice. and followed by Col. E. C. Young
and staff, chief marshal, moved from the
starting point at Seventh avenue and
Randolph street, and from that time the
marchers. with scores of bands playing
all kinds of music good, bad, and indif-
ferent, tramped steadily over the granite
pavements past the reviewing stand, on
Jackson boulevard, to Jackson and Mar
ket streets, where they disbanded
At nearly every point along the line Of
parade the marchers, cheering, waving
flags. blowing horns, and singing cam
paign songs, as they filed by, were cheer
ed in turn by the densely packed masses
on the sidewalks, but here and there a
counter demonstration in favor of Bryan
was made by the throngs, and in one in
stance almost a riot took place in con-
sequence. In front of the City Hall, on
Washington street, were gathered
crowd of enthusiastic Bryan shouters, all
waving pictures of the Democratic Presi-
Dental candidate. Some one in the crowd
on the sidewalk threw potato into the
ranks of a West Side marching club 60
ing by The potato hit marcher in the
eve. and forced him to leave the ranks
Another marcher plunged into the crowd
and forced his way to the thrower. In an
instant there was a free-for-all fight
Three companies OF the marehers broke
ranks. and with uplifted canes. rushed
into the struggling, shouting mass on the
sidewalk
II took vigorous work by over thirty po-
licemen before things were quieted down,
and in the meantime black eyes and CORY
noses had accumulated to an alarming de-
gree.
Features of the Display.
The parade was replete with unique
features Well up toward the head of the
parade. and preceding the members of the
Marquette Club, who were in tally-hos,
two elephants numbered along bearing on
their huge sides banners inscribed: &c. o.
P" These were the contribution of the
Marquette Club Close behind the ele-
phants came a diminutive donkey. This
was labeled ~ Am a Sound Money Don
kew" The Hamilton Club contributed a
float bearing a stuffed elephant appropri
ately decorated and bearing various leg
ends. Furnaces in full blast with rows
of perspiring workmen caught the fancy
of the crowd, as did an enormous dinner
pail mounted on trucks and festoOned
with canvased hams and lOaves of bread.
The Chicago and Alton Railway en-
ployes escorted a float representing par
lor chair car. Near the center of the pa
rade, borne aloft on poles by hundred
men, was a huge banner, a block In
length. inscribed Mckinley and ROose-
welt and Four Years More of Prosperity"
A sixty-foot plank, gilded and properly
inscribed, was borne on the shoulders of
fifty uniformed men.
The parade was reviewed by Senator'S
Hanna, Mason, and CullOm, National
Committeeman Henry C. Payne, Perry
Heath. and others from the balcony of the
Grand Pacific Hotel, and around this point
the greatest enthusiasm Of the parade was
shown Senator Hanna was cheered by
the marchers, and was kept busy respond
ing TO the salutations.
Many out-of-town organizations were
represented In the parade. The most
prominent was a delegation OF $50 from
the Americas Club, of Pittsburg, Pa, who
were guests of the Hamilton Club. Big
marching clubs were also present from
Kenosha, Wis; Rockford, Dixon, and
Deering. Ill. and from many OF the near
nv suburban towns