El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-09
REDFIRE AND
MIXTURE Of
DEMOCRATS
Ants and Regulars" Garry
Torches, Speak and Ride
Together.
BANDS AND ANVIL
FIRING A FEATURE

Claude Hudspeth said it has been
sixteen long years"
Joe Nealon corrected him and said
it has been 20 years.
Anyway, it has been a long time
since what Dan Jackson calls the
militant Democracy Of FL PasOS has
had a chance to celebrate the election
Of Democratic president Because
Of this long time between celebrations,
the local Democrats celebrated Friday
night in Cleveland square after they
had paraded through the streets.
There was more to the Qualification
meeting than the celebration Of VIII
sons victory. 1t was a Democratic
love feast inspired for the purpose Of
bringing back into the one fold all
Democrats of the city, even those IN
der the banner of the anti ring Demo-
Gratis. John Wyatt marched in the
parade with Park Pitman- Vic Moore
rode with George Huffman and other
regulars: Dan jackson drove the
county official mule team; Ike Alder
etc was in the parade with his green
automobile and Sreener suit and
Zach Cobb was given a place on the
program which he was unable to Till
because Of his absence in austin. Tom
Lea, county chairman elect and leader
Of the ants, was also absent in Ala
mogOrdO.
first of the kind that FL PasO has
had, and was the only touch Of real
national election color this city has
enjoyed in the recent campaign. The
whistles started Believing at seven
Frank Coles began his anvil salute as
soon as the whistles stopped and
kept it I'D until the last canine was
deceased. This anvil firing corps took
an active part in the program 1t
punctuated the speeches and caused
judge A. s. J. Eylar to get his Demo-
cratic dates mixed.
I'VE ought -bOom--realize
What--bOOm -Grover- boom
boom - boom - woodrow wilson
boOm-has before hiIn-boom," this
being a cross section of judge Eylar's
speech with the county judge lodging
at every discharge OF the anvil.
There was a big crowd present in
and listen to the music. The park
was crowded and the streets on three
sides were filled with carriages.
Fire Whistle Starts Celebration.
Promptly at o'clock the fire Whis-
tie started chief Os-Aple salute,
which was joined by the other factory
whistles which continued TO blow for
five minutes. A negro minstrel band
IN Pioneer plaza started playing as
soon as the whistles would permit,
and great crowd gathered in the
plaza, thinking that the minstrel con-
cert was a part of the celebration.
The Os-Aple Jubilee lights had been
LETT hanging at the street intersections
~ O-N-GA VI the AAAe OF anu THESE were
turned on. at the fiat rate of five
cents alamp an hour to illuminate the
line Of mOrch. Louis Behr ring" and
Harry Turner-"auti ringH-aIso dis
tributed packages of red fire and
fuses along the route to volunteers
who would consent to keep the red
lire going as the parade passed.
The Parade.
A squad Of mounted police led the
procession, which formed at the city
hall in answer to the booming of an
anvil Behind the police, who carried
flags and sticks of red fire. rode John
}. COnnOrs-bOss of the pest house
as grand marshal, with a wide sash
over his shoulder. Behind him was
the Sous-Aple hearse drawn by four
burrOs and driven by a sheepish look
ing Mexican boy. The side of the
hearse carried banners marked &c o.
P" delicate insinuation that the
once grand and ancient party might
be deceased. A dummy, unlabeled,
rode on top A Mexican band pre-
ceded an FL PasO Electric Railway
supply wagon drawn by two fat, long
cared Missouri mules, which were
driven with considerable native abil-
ity by mayor c. F. Kelly. The city
officials rode in this wagon on kichen
chairs.
Dan jackson and ssThe RinE0
Next came a farm wagon drawn by
two more dappled, white mules driven
by judge Dan Jackson. of the anti
ring side, making the charioteer class
a draw between ring and anti ring.