Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-21
POLITICIANS IN LINE.
Inaugural Committee Com
pletes Plans.
PENNSYLVANIA LEADS
SIX LONG, LANKY FIDDLERs
FEATURE OF THE PARADE.
Members of Tennessee Legislature
Coming in Special Train-Other
Organizations Booked.

The committee in charge of the Inaugural
| ton of President Roosevelt has about COM
! pleted the list of political organizations
| that Will participate in the parade March 4.
| Nearly 10000 good republicans will fall in
| line to honor the man they have elected
| to lead them through another administra-
| ton. And among this number there will
| be politicians of all sorts, ward bosses,
stump speakers, men whose names are on
| the roll of honor" of the republican ma
tonal committees finance department, men
| who worked quietly during the campaign,
| and finally, men who exercised the simple
| prerogative of the American citizen by cast
| ing their vote. In fact, the only persons
| barred from the parade will be prohibition
| lists, populists and democrats
| Considerable excitement was furnished
| few days ago when it was announced that
| the inaugural committee had received a
| letter from the chief of New York's Tam
many Hall, requesting place in line for
about a thousand stalwart Tammany
braves. All Washington was in a Juror
over the prospect of Tammany marching
In honor of President Roosevelt, and one
| sage official suggested that a corps of in
| sanity experts should be sent to the metrop-
oils Immediately to conduct a wholesale
| examination of the members of New York's
| iedulHB democratic organization. 1t turned
| out, however, that one enthusiastic
| democrat up in New York had written to
| the committee suggesting that Tam
| many delegation in the inaugural parade
| would add to the general attractiveness of
| the show. This suggestion was laughed to
| scorn, even by the inaugural officials, who
are looking for unique and novel features.
| But Tammany marching in a republican
procession too ridiculous.
Pennsylvania takes the lead in sending
political clubs for participation in the fes-
| tivities, having representation of twelve
| distinct organizations. New York is sec
| ond with eight, and Ohio third with seven.
| Maryland will send five clubs for the pa
| rade, and New Jersey four, while Mime
sofa and the District of Columbia split
even with three each. Massachusetts Della
| ware, West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois
will send one organization each, which
makes grand total to date of forty-seven.
added, bringing the total up to approx
| mately sixty.
Independent Parties.
Besides these regularly organized politi-
cal clubs there will be several independent
parties, not strictly political, whose mem
bers want to march just for the fun of the
thing, and to do what they can to add to
the success of the day First among this
class may be mentioned the members of
the Tennessee legislature, who have char
tered a special train and will swoop down
on Washington zen masse'' the even
ing of March 8. Gov. Mcmillan was invited
to join, but respectfully declined. This will
be the first time in the history of the coun-
try that state legislature has attended an
| Inaugural ton.
| Tennessee also will be represented by six
'long, lean musicians" as they describe
themselves, who will march up Pennsyl-
vania avenue keeping step with their own
music, played on six violins, each over 300
| n Or differ
ence this will make to the inauguration, no
one seems to know, but at least, 1t will add
to the vaudeville.
OF Pennsylvania twelve political organi-
cations which will be in Washington on the
eventful day, perhaps the most renowned Is
the Americas Club, from Pittsburg. The
members are all supposed to be wealthy,
and as they have leased an entire floor In
one of the leading hotels for inaugural ton
week, the suspicion may be well founded.
They will come down 200 strong with a
band They will be in command of Maj.
H. w. Mcintosh, and with their red, white
and blue umbrellas, are bound to attract
} more than their share of attention. Other
Pennsylvania organizations will be the
Young Mems Republican Tariff Club, also
of Pittsburg; the Union Republican Club of
Philadelphia the Citizens Republican Club
of the same city, the Carlisle Indians from
: Carlisle and 80 students from Grove City
, College. Besides these there will be the
following Philadelphia marching clubs, Pc
f ter E Smith, Israel W. Durham % and
L
/ Horatio B. Hackett
t Coming From New York.
From New York the largest organization
will be the New York City Republican Club,
t led by B. B. Odell, jr., and composed OF
900 marchers. There will be the Conk-
ling JJnconditionals, from Utica, who were
g to have had the right of line in the civic
division, but who relinquished that honor
to the New York City Republicans. The
Urconditionals will be the escort of honor,
3 | nevertheless, and as such Will lead the
e civic parade Two Italian clubs are COM
ing-the Italo-American Republicans and
the Central Italian Republicans. They will
I be followed by the Hungarian "Hussars
d in Kossuth hats, from New York city. and
q the Burgesses, from Albany. The Ulster
county and Hamilton republicans also Will
| be in line.
e Ohio will be represented by the famous
f | Railsplitters of the Lincoln Club, at To-
ledo. But there will be others, including
4 | the Tippecanoe Club of Cleveland, the
t Buckeye and Republican Glee clubs of Co
s lumbus, the Knights of Maccabees, the olo
e Guards of the G. o. P. and the Flelschman
| Republican Club of Cincinnati.
J.; Minnesota comes in from the lonesome
o | west with three organizations, and is show
ing more enthusiasm than many OF mel
| eastern neighbors The Flambeau Club
| III Mexican uniforms will come from Min
| neapois, and the Original Roosevelt Club
| will come from 81. fdui. L lie ISoooeNC l'
O | Club of Minneapolis will come with 15l
members and drum fife and bugle corps
New Jersey will have in line the Ere
: linghuysen Lancers of Newark, with q
: band of thirty-five pieces; the Union
= County Republicans and the Phelps
n Guards from Patterson, with a band OF
= | twenty pieces. The Carrot A. Hobart Re-
publican Club of Newark also has sgnihe6
it's intention to attend
h Maryland will lead off with the Unior
); | League Club of Baltimore. The Other
. Maryland organizations will be cadets from
St. Johns and Maryland Agricultural col
. leges; the Montgomery County Marching
l Club and the National Junior Republic
Army of Annapolis Junction.
The Young Mems Republican Club o.
= Wilmington will be the only organization
from Delaware. The students from HaI'
!. ward will be the civic representation o.
Massachusetts,, and delegation of Span
). ish War Veterans will hail from Indiana
e the home state of the Vice President-elect
: It is strange fact that not until a few
n days ago had any application been received
q from either civic or military organizations
q in Indiana. The newspapers took up thu
q cry and within week two application!
G were filed, one by the Spanish War Vet
>, Grams, and one by the Sd Indiana Infantry
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