Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-12
TOOK NO STOCK IN IT.
Some Employers Did Not Ask Aen to
 Join in Last Night Parade.

The republican parade which took place last night was good one, but It was small affair compared with some of the political parades held in
 Waterbury during the past fifteen or twenty years. With the exception of the Scoyill Manufacturing Co, the Wa terbury Clock Go and the Waterbury Brass Co. the factories took little stock ill 1t, some of them not being repre-. sented at all and others hardly so that you could notice, Benedict X Burn hams, one of the largest plants, if not the largest, ill Waterbury, not having over dozen men ill line. But there was lots of music, an abundance O. red fire and everything else that goes to make great demonstration with the exception of the necessary enthusi- asm on the part of he bulk of the marching force to enable them to look the throngs of people on the walks squarely in the face and hurrah with an abandon which showed that they were volunteers. not drafted men. To be sure the gallant officers on horse back made stunning appearance, and the gentlemen i'll carriages looked radi- ant and happy and didn't care how much had been added to the line of march as originally announced; but the fellows on foot felt 1t and most or them dropped out without going the full rounds
 The management didn't think of q police escort, but Chief Egan thought it a proper thing and headed the pro- cession followed by platoon of pa trolmen.
 The Waterbury Brass Co followed and cut quite dash, all wearing tall hats of brass which prompted many to remark that this was the reason why business Is rushing in that shop. The Scovill Manufacturing Co; the Waterbury Lumber and Coal Co; the New England Watch Co, and several other corporations had floats, in some cases the freight consisting of beyy. of girls who appeared to- be making the most of the opportunity to have good time. Besides the local bands the Hatch band of Hartford and the Ansonia band were in attendance. They were entertained by the Aba gadasset club after the parade.
 The reporters of the republican pal pers rode i'll Il carriage and made as much noise as any of their neighbors.
 The democrats crowded into the cen ter from all parts of the town and viewed the procession with feeling which seemed to say 1t is your turn today but it will be ours later on. IL is safe to state that if they had gone to the polls Tuesday iii as large num- CTS as what crowded onto the curb stones last night the result would have been different and the republicans would be watching q parade instead of one, although some cad who has not lived here long enough to get his name in the city directory says there were not so many demo- crats about last night as there were on the occasion of the riot If the an- thor of that statement knew what he was talking about he would have recol- lected that the political creed of the parties taken into custody during the riot was not democratic nor their places of abode in the democratic dis tricts. But that's another matter. On the whole the parade was Il success and the principal kick heard about it is that the line of march did not i'll, clude every street in town.