The Robesonian., 1910-01-27
GREATEST RALLY EVER.
YESTERDAY A BIG DAY IN LUMBERT0N.
Thousands Attend the Farmers Educational Rally-Three
Thousand School Children, 1000 Farmers, IS Veterans
400 Horsemen in Parade-No Serious Mishaps-P erfect
Weather and Great Day in Every Respect.

The Farmers Educational Raj
ly held in Lumberton yesterday |
was most emphatically success
in every sense Of the word.
With the possible exception of |
the great crowd that gathered
here during the constitutional
amendment campaign lin 1900 to
hear Aycock and Glenn, it was
the largest crowd that has ever
gathered in Lumberton. Esti-
mates vary, of course, as they al
ways do in regard to great gath
erings of people. Some say it was
the largest crowd ever gathered
in Robson county. The 10th Of
May celebration in 1906, when
the Confederate monument was
unveiled, has been reckoned
from as record breaking crowd,
but Yesterdays crowd laid that
one in the shade.
Men and brethren, the people
were here from every nook and
corner of the county. 1t was
'Howdy, Mr.. Mac. "all day long,
for Scotchmen were here from
all over; and all that are not
Macks were here, too-every
name that Is known as belonging
was heard; for they were all
here and their wives and daugh-
ters-from Scotland county, from
Cumberland, from Bladen, from
Marion county, S. c.; but the
bulk of the people were from the
State of Robeson, and it never
appeared more like a State than
yesterday.
School children were here some
2,0C0 to 5000 strong, and
that fact alone is equivalent to
saying that it was great day.
Yes,it was a great day, a great
crowd.
Never fell there a more per-
feet day in January for a rally
not too cold for parading and
for listening to our-door speak
ing.
For weeks schools all over the
county had been preparing for
this great day, looking toward
to it, and they contributed nc
little to it's success. Tuesday
evening some Of the school floats
arrived and yesterday morning
all Robson county was up bright
and early and all eyes were turn.
ed toward Lumberton.
The parade and exercises did
not begin as early as was intend
ed because some trains were late.
When the Raleigh & Charleston
train arrived about II o'clock il
was loaded down with people
from the section Of the county
through which it runs and the
conductor said he left hundreds
of people along the line and
would have to go back for them
which he did. And the Seaboaro
train from Maxton, which arriv
ed shortly after II, was also load
ed. On this train was the bane
from Rockingham, which haC
been engaged for the day, and as
soon as they arrived the parade
began.
The line formed in front of thu
residence of Mr.. A. w. Mclean
on Chestnut street, and marched
thence to Second and to Elm, O,
which street, in front Of tn
Waverly hotel, thaparade began
in the following order: Band
speakers in carriages; executiv,
committee of the Farmers
Union, also in carriages; mar
shals on horseback; Red Men o.
horseback; Confederate veteran
on foot; school floats and schoo
children on foot; Farmers Unio
men on foot. Mr.. H. &. Stubo
was chief marshal, MIR. e.
Britt, assistant. There wer
some 400 marshals, Is veterans
between 5000 and 5000 schoe
children, and at least 1000 Far
mers' Union men in the parad
and it formed a complete circl
around s blocks. Had tn
procession been strung out i
a line it would have stretche
for distance of Z of a mile or
mile. The march was up Eli
street to 10th. thence to Walnu
thence to 3rd, back to Elm an
then to the court house. in .fror
OF which was the speakers stan
and seats for the people.
The parade began .abo,