Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1900-11-04
BUSINESS men MARCH;
THOUSANDS IN Line
Great Republican Demonstra-
ton In New York.
BRYAN AND STEVENSON
Their Portraits Dotted the Line of
March, While Democratic Banners
Were Conspicuous-Every Line of
Business Represented In Parade.

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Were Conspicuous-Every Line of
Business Represented In Parade.
New YORK, Nov. 8. - Much to the
disappointment of all interested in the
parade held under the auspices of the
Business Mems Republican and Sound
Money association, today's weather was
very unpleasant The early morning
opened with cold rain falling and the
streets were in bad condition for the
marchers. The rain also caused little
delay in starting.
| Governor Roosevelt, the reviewer of
the parade, arrived In New York at S
O'Clock on an Erie railroad ferryboat.
He went Immediately to the Lawyers
club, where he breakfasted
The streets along the line of march
were beautifully decorated. The down
town section of Broadway was a blaze
of color from the enormous number of
| flags displayed. In some of the sky
scrapers each window displayed the
stars and stripes, and in each block from
the battery to Fourteenth street there
was large flag bearing the name of
At different points along the line of
march were wooden poles about % or 80
feet in height, erected by the Demo
Gratis, on which there were such SEN
fences as the following:
"The trusts can make you march, but
they cannot make you vote against
Bryan"
"This is trust parade, and not Re-
publican prrade."
On some of these poles were portraits
of Bryan and Stevenson. Each Of these
poles was guarded by policeman.
Formation of the Line.
After breakfasting, Governor Roose-
welt went to the Produce Exchange,
where he was given a reception. He was
met there by General McCook, the grand
marshal of the parade, and his staff, and
at the close of the reception the line
started up Broadway only few min
utes behind the schedule time. The
route was up Broadway to Waverly
place, to Fifth avenue, to Fortieth street.
The reviewing stand was at Madison
Square.
The formation of the parade consisted
of single platoons of 16 files front, in
Guiding right and left guides, and each
Dl1bOOu
The first business organization in the
line was the wholesale dry goods Re-
publicans, which marched in 16 sections
They were followed by representatives
of the clothiers, merchant tailors, retail
dry goods men, the haberdashers, MILL
ners matters, florists, builders, the paper
trade, the coal trade, lumbermen, the
furniture trade, the hide and leather
trade, the shoe trade, the cotton and
coffee exchanges, the tobacco trade, the
Bankers and Brokers Republican and
Sound Money! club, and in fact the rep
resentatives of practically every branch
of business in the city. Included in the
marchers was large division from
Brooklyn.
Roosevelt Leads Procession.
After about Is minutes delay the head
of the line started, with the candidate
for the vice presidency in an open ba-
rouche. AS the barouche started off,
surrounded by an escort and led by
mounted police, the governor stood up
to acknowledge the applause of the
crowd
The men who filed past the stand in a
quickstep barred their heads despite the
dripping rain and the governor in COM
pliment did the same.
The continuous cheering, mingled
with the music Of the bands, made din
at the reviewing stand that drowned all
other sounds A few of the paraders
carried umbrellas and these were gen.
orally lowered when the governors box
was being passed. The comparatively
narrow opening in the Dewey arch dis
organized many of the companies and
some of the lines were thrown out of
alignment. Each parader wore in his
buttonhole carnation, out Of compli-
ment to President Mckinley, whose IA
vorite flower it is. Some of the saluta-
tions that greeted the governor amused
him immensely and he invariably an
swered the men in line with a hearty
response.