The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-04
BRYAN 5 TOUR IS qOS[D
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE RE-
VIEWED A MONSTER PROCESS
SION IN CHICAGO
THEY MARCHED FOR HOURS
1t Was the Biggest Turnout of DEM
Gratis Recorded in the History
of Cook County,
Illinois.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3.-With four ad-
dresses in Chicago and one at Harvey,
w. j. Bryan today practically closed his
long campaign in the struggle for the
presidency. Tonight, from in front Of
the Union League club, on Jackson
boulevard, Mr.. Bryan reviewed amid a
din Of cannon and glare of fireworks,
an immense parade of Democrats, which
marked the close of the campaign in Chi
cago, and late tonight he leaves over the
Burlington road for his home in Lincoln,
where, with his family he will receive
election returns next Tuesday Today,
the third of Mr.. Bryan's speech making
m Chicago, was marked by tremendous
crowds at each of the five meetings ad-
dressed by him, and parades developed
into one long ovation, cheering for the
presidential candidate being almost in
cessant from the time he stepped onto
the reviewing stand until weary from his
arduous work of the last three days he
stepped into his carriage and was
driven to the union station.
When Mr.. Bryan stepped down tonight
from the reviewing stand at the intersec-
ton of Plymouth place and Jackson
boulevard. from which he had witnessed
tonights Democratic parade and left for
his home in Lincoln, the Democratic
campaign in Chicago, Cook county, and
the state of Illinois was practically over
-Four hours after Mr.. Bryan lad gone
the cheering thousands swept down the
boulevard, for it was a great parade
the greatest and most successful affair
OF the kind ever managed by the local
Democracy.
1t would be difficult to tell which cheer
ed the more, the crowd Of marchers or
the crowd of onIookers, but while the
parade was in progress the streets gave
forth one continuous
ROAR OF HUMAN VOICES.
punctuated with shrill blasts from tin
horns and the crash of music from the
bands. Upon the reviewing stand stood
Mr.. Bryan, Senator James K Jones,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee; Samuel Alschuler. candidate
of the party for governor of Illinois;
Mayor Harrison and a number of lesser
lights Of the Democracy. The greetings
extended to the Democratic candidate by
the men in the line of march were en-
thusiastic in the extreme
The parade was divided into three army
corps-the first corps, which held the
right of line, being composed of men from
the West side Of the city under the lead
ership of Alderman John Powers, of the
Nineteenth ward, title assumed also by
John S. Cooper who commanded the
second cOrps-the men from the North
side, and NJ. c. Mcdonald, who led the
third cOrps-the voters from the South
side. The three crops We're given, pre-
cedence in the line of march according
to the number of men they were able TO
bring into line, and as the West side is
as large as both the North and South
sides combined, the corps of Mai Gen
Powers easily secured the post of he
or, directly behind the commander of the
first corps came DeBaugh's band Of fifty
pieces and then the Cook County Demo-
cratic Marching club, an organization
that always presents a magnificent ap-
pearance. 1t was given the first round
Of cheers and from it's first appearance
until the rear of the third corps had
passed the cheering was without cessa-
ton.