Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01
REVIEWS
ANT|-BRYAN PARADE
For Seven and a Half Hours
Procession Moves By.
OVER $1,000 MEN IN LINE
Democratic Leaders in National
Headquarters Look On.
RIVAL BANNERS FACE TO FACE
Great Demonstration Of New York
Business Men-Secretary Root in
Reviewing Stand Most of Day.
OVER $1,000 MEN IN LINE
RIVAL BANNERS FACE TO FACE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, October 31-It wasn't eA>
actly a duplicate of the sound money
parade Of 1896. when over 100000 business
men marched up 9Th avenue on the Satur.
day before election day just to emphasize
their reputation of Bryan and all his
ways, but. for all that. today's business
mems parade, engineered and executed
with precisely the same object in view.
was something decidedly worth thinking
about and worth looking at.
| It's something of an achievement. looked
at from one point of view, to have 5o.OOo
men put in a whole day marching around
the streets of the busiest city in the world
just to show how much they don't like
you: and that's what Bryan has achieved,
! If nothing else.
For 5000 New Workers passed the re-
viewing stand in Madison Square in the
course of seven hours and half today.
The parade was reviewed by James ).
Sherman. republican candidate for the
vice presidency, and by Secretary OF
/
for luncheon. they sat all day long in the
chill November wind. beneath the pavil-
ion awning near the Worth monument.
| surrounded by many prominent men In
the republican counsels of the city and
| the state.
Some forty-three divisions tramped up
town through the whole length of 5th
avenue as far as 4Oth street. where the
| IT.
moved promptly on time. and, with only
inconsiderable delays, moved on to its
conclusion like clockwork. Its success,
from this point of view, reflected credit
upon the grand marshal. Rear Admiral
G0ghlan and his assistants. and also on
the priyates in the ranks.
/ Parade Ends After Dark.
It was only a minute or two after II
o'clock when the head of the column
passed the reviewing stand. It was not
until half past 6 o'clock, an hour and .
half after darkness had fallen upon the
city. that the last man made his salute to
the waiting vice presidential candidate.
Thereupon he replaced his silk hat upon
his well ventilated head and concluded the
| toll of one of the most laborious days OF
his career. The Secretary of State had
abandoned him to his labors about half
an hour earlier.
Soon after ) O'Clock, when the gloom
was getting pretty thick. attendant
brought up a lighted lantern and set it
down upon the rail In front of Sherman.
SO that by its light the paraders might
get better view Of his face. So far as
could be learned not a complaint was
registered though investigation confirms
the belief tina. the light of that lantern
was the result Of the combustion of the
product OF now notorious trust.
| AS on the day of :he ''sound money"
parade lower New York practically gave
up its day to the demonstration. Early
in the day crowds of business men be-
gan to gather In the canon dis rict.
where at the appointed meeting places
for the different divisions. small Ameri-
can flags badges. buttons and other in
sigma were served out.
The wholesale dry goods district was
the first to show activity. There the
head of the column formed. the bankers.
brokers and building trades people hav-
ing plenty of time for their preparations
later.
Rear Admiral Coghlan took charge OF
the plans for getting things started. In
his capacity as grand marshal assisted
by Commander William B. Franklin
chief of staff. and Col Robert NJ.
| Thompson, chief of aids.
Six police inspectors. commanding 600
policemen. including 100 mounted men,
got the line of march ready for the thou
sands that were to pour through 1t. Not
| In all the day was there trouble OF any
| consequence at any point.
The reviewing stand at Madison Square
| Garden was about two blocks long and
stood on the east side of 9Th avenue.
facing the democratic national head
quarters In the Hoffman House. upon
| whose balconies good many men or
prominence in the management OF the
Bryan campaign came frequently from
time to time to see the republican spec
tacle unfolding beneath them.
| Directly in front of the reviewing stand
<ass krr eta
of the avenue. between which were hung
festoons and a wreath or laurels. to-
gether with a big banner upon which
were inscribed these words Of Judge
| Taft:
And permanent good to business can
only result from that which safeguards
employer and workman alike"
Rival Banner Overhead.
| But IL it irked the democratic mag
mates in the Hoffman House to have 10
| look on all day at the marching republi-
can hosts they had their revenge. For
| Immediately north of the reviewing stand.
only a few PAGES beyond the Taft motto
and the arch of a laurel. and at least as
conspicuous. stood two more huge poles
from which hung a democratic banner OF
the largest and most intricate k,nd.
| 1t not only exhibited speaking hkenesses
of Bryan and Kern. together with their
names, but it also showed an inscription
which apparently had been recently added
and which read like this:
wall streets dinner tables may be full.
but the dinner pals are empty"
| And under this democratic motto and
the pictures of Bryan and Kern marched
for six hours and a half the $1,000 sup
| porters of Taft and Sherman-every last
man of them Moreover high above the
heads of the watching throng and the
paraders few a big box kite that carried
a tandem of banners praising Chandler.
md inquiring blatantly, Shall the people
| ruler"
| A good many persons who were early
/ at the stand prophesied confidently that
| the Bryan banner would not stay In its
place long after the head of the column =
| reached It. But it did. 1t stayed there
all day long. though surprise. pain. rage
and grief were depicted upon a good many
faces as their possessors came in sight
of the offending banner
1t wouldn't be correct to say that the
| big parade was a wild and tumultuous
expression of unrestrained and unre.
| strainable enthusiasm. 1t wasn't. No
mobs Of frantic wild-eyed men danced
hornpipes up the middle of 9Th avenue