The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-31
LAST BIG RALLY.
From 10000 to 100000 Men i'm
Line of March.
Great Parade of Republican
Voters in New York.
CAMPAIGN EMBLEMS
Include Big Sticks and Full
Dinner Pals.
Business of Every Kind Turns
Out Representatives.

new York, Oct. 31.-New York awoke
To-Day prepared to witness one OF the
Ia sest political parades in its history.
Accorolng to estimates given out by
organizers of the demonstration be-
tween $4,000 and 100000 men have
passed in review at the Worth uon,-
ment in Madison Square before lanes
p sherman, the Republican vice nresi
GENITAL nominee and Secretary Of Stale
Eunu Root before o'clock this after
noon wnen orders to dispense will be
given at Times square.
arranged by the Business Mare De-
pupncan association, the parade is in
Iendeo as a last great impetus to the
t,epupncan campaign in this city and
mas Deen planned carefully on an eIab-
crate scale. Rear Admiral Joseph r
Cognian, retired, was selected as grand
iiidrsnal, while other prominent Reput
means were designated to lead the re-
spectlVe divisions Of which there We're
Because of the great number of
pdraoers, formation on the side streets
between Worth and East Fourth
streets began much earlier than 10
CLOCK. the hour selected for the start.
Men carrying all manner of Republi-
can political emblems-"big sticks, {"
full dinner pals" flags and banners
were seen hurrying to the various for
nation points in readiness for the
march. The police too, turned out
early to handle the crowds, two thou
sand having been assigned to rfSnts
along the route.
Major Oliver Bridgeman gathered a
force of Wall street brokers under the
title of the Bankers and Brokers' Taft
and Sherman club" a REORGANIZATION
OF the Sound Money club which COM
DATED Bryan in 1896. Business and
manufacturing interests were well rep
resented, there being among other dele
cations wholesale dry goods men tail
ors, clothters, grocers, haberdashers
| hardware men, railroad employees. ex-
porters, engineers, tobacco merchants
coffee dealers, representatives from
the Lawyers Taft club, drug mer-
chants and students from Columbia
| university. In fact, those in charge OF
| the demonstration tried to assemble as
diversified body as possible to take
| in all classes of business. A marsha
| was selected for each division with in.
structions as to formation and time for
| falling in line.
Rear Admiral Coghlan was assisted
| as grand marshal by Commander w E
Franklin, U. S. N, as chief of staff
and Colonel Robert M. Thompson. u
! 8. A.
Although the last of the parade Is
not due to dispense at Times square ur.
! til p. M, spectators were quick tc
seize points of advantage along the
route starting at Worth street and
| Broadway, extending up Broadway tc
| Waverly place, thence up Fifth avenul
| to Times square.
The Union League club erected fol
! the occasion a grandstand in front OF
the building at Fifth avenue and
| Thirty-ninth street. The grandstan6
| at Madison Square was divided intC
| five sections for convenience, one fol
| the reviewing officers, one for tht
members Of the executive committee
and their families, two for specia
| guests and one for ticket holders.