The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-07-27
Brilliant Pageant to Re-
ceive w. j Bryan.
BIG SHOW TO BE GIVEN.
Taegart the Tiger ard Joe Bailey, Ma
mmoth Blood Sweating Behmoth
of Holy Writ.

New York, July 2O.-When William
Jennings Bryan comes to town there will
be lots of things doing. The plans al
ready made for his reception are so ella
borate that it will be handed down to
history as display comparing favorably
with anything ever seen this side of the
Atlantic. The spectacular features
planned by the committee in charge will
put to shame all previous efforts made
in glittering street demonstrations.
This is about how the country editor
would describe it:
Aug. 20.-Nothing in the history of
our fair city has equaled the grand
street parade given by the United Dem
ocratic shows along the main street to-
day. Description is beggarded by the
glorious, glittering, gorgeous pageant
vending its way from the steamboat
landing to the show lot on Madison
Spare Enormous tableau cars bearing
burdens of stylishly attired lady and
gentleman performers, comical clowns,
bright chariots, miles of ferOcious
democratic animals, hungrily surveying
the surging crowds and rare freaks from
every cline make up a spectacle the
like OF which had not been seen in this
community within the recollection of
our oldest inhabitant.
When compared to this the displays
offered by the Big Sell & Faux Pas cir
Gus. which showed here in 1896 and
again in 1900, fade into insigniEcance,
while no one thinks of putting in the
same category the feeble openair ex-
hibition made by the A. B. Parker Dime
museum, as may be recalled, went to
pieces little less than two years ago
and was attached by Sheriff T. Roose-
welt to satisfy claims against it.
Our local staff, who had a seat on
grand stand erected by the kindly dis
posed neighbors in that stronghold of
the oldtime democracy, the head of
Wall street. sends the following account
of the order of the parade:
Solid gold bandwagon containing the
celebrated Eighteen Carat band, former
ly the w. j. Bryan Silver Cornet band,
playing popular airs. Our reporter motto
ed tremendous rush OF newly signed
performers to get on the wagon. In the
scramble several of the old wind instru
mentalists, who formerly had prominent
places, got showed off. Senator Jones,
the Arkansas bass drummer, was among
those who suffered this sad fate. After
he fell off the wagon ran over him. His
place was promptly taken by G. Cleve-
land, bass tube.
A. Belmont, piccolo, and Bourke
Cochran, trombone soloist, were among
the new players who attracted atten-
ton. There were also many encomiums
for the bandmaster. Professor Nathan
Straus, who succeeded Professor Fred
Williams of Massachusetts, the. latter
having been deposed for leading non
union concerts.
Large catafalque, bearing the embalm-
ad remains of Jeffersonian Principles.
Positively the most perfectly preserved
mummy in eXistence-a connecting link
between the antiquity of the dead past
and the live issues of the day.
Herd of ferocious wild asses from the
western plains, now broken to harness
and driven by that peerless charioteer,
T. Fortune Ryan.
Open tank, containing Joe Bailey, the
blood sweating Behmoth of constitu
tional writ. The most ponderous zoolog-
zeal exhibit alive.
Steel barred den containing the fa-
nous Taggart tiger recently captured in
the jungles of French Lick Springs,
Ind, and now, for the first time seen
in cage. Lives exclusively ON poker
chips and makes constant efforts to es-
cape to its native businesses.
I The Mississippi trick mule. J. Sharp
William, gaily caparisoned and cutting
up didoes.
Colonel Henri Watterson, the veteran
animal trainer, feeding raw chunks of
gold doctrine TO a group of subiugated,
fire eating, southern panthers.
Bosco Tilman. He eats 'em alive.
Especially the colored ones.
Empty cage which formerly contain
ed the rate bill dodo and the antitrust
aux, two exceedingly rare birds, now
missing. Believed to have been stolen by
a rival organization.
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