The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-11-16
THIRTY AUTOS ARE IN LINE
Banners Show Non Partisan Appeal for
Support of the President and An
Undivided Citizenship to Retain the
Existing Prosperity.

democracy IN heDosnd muSI hdFo ="
personal feeling Of pleasure i'll the re-
election of President Wilson, for more
than two hundred Kenosha Democrats,
braved the cold and snow of Monday
night and turned out to take part IN
the automobile parade planned as a
celebration of the outcome of the cleo
tion. 1t was parade with blankets
on the radiators and with clapping
hands to keep warm, but the whole
program was carried out. The band
played lively airs and footing horns
held by the two hundred enthusiastic
Democrats kept the noise going for an
hour and a half Red fire burned and
sputtered and went out only to be
lighted again and it can be said that
Democracy ratified and jollifed regard
Jess Of the fact that the conditions
were not ideal for such a. celebration.
There were more than thirty automo-
biles and motor trucks in the parade
and most of them were decorated
with plumes and bunting and fages
and painted signs.
There was nothing to offend. In
fact the name of the great Demo
cratic party did not appear at any
place in the parade.
FWe All VIM was the big black
sign which decorated the first automo-
bile in the parade and this was the
sentiment Of all the signs found on the
automobiles which followed The com7
mittee in charge had spent lot of
time and money getting ready for the
celebration and they deserved better
luck Only handful of people were
at the corner of Market Square and
Main street when the parade started
and Eost Of the people who saw the
parade looked at it through frosted
windows. There were horns and flags
in plenty. but all of them were on the
automobiles and the trucks and there
were few decorations about the city.
All the time the parade was in
progress the blizzard ragged and the
automobiles were forced to drive their
way through the snow storm.
Right up among the automobiles at
THE head of the procession was big
motor truck which carried a ten foot
banner which read, "America First.
Stand by Our President, Our People and
Our Home. ono Divided Allegiance. y
There were lot of signs on the au-
tomobies which referred to the presi-
dent as First in Peace-Last in
War" Another one of the big signs
bore the message, f'Stand by Our
President Home Industries and the
Home Town. Have Confidence in Each
Other, Boost, Boost. "
Still another of the big banners read,
"Now That It's All Over Let's Get
Together. We are All American Citi-
zens. What is Good for One is Good
for All. Don't Knock. Be Booster y
The big truck bringing up the rear
of the parade bore the legend, Get
on the Band Wagon. The Only Way to
Retain Our Prosperity is to Give Our
Undivided Support to Our President. -
No stone had been left unturned to
make the celebration success. There
were hats and caps, for all the men
who rode in the automobiles and on the
trucks, there was red fire and roman
candles galore and fancy lamps for au-
tomobiles, All that was needed to
make the celebration a success was to
have some one to wear the badges and
the caps and blow the horns. At that
it can be said that the crowd was
noisy enough to wake up even the
hard sleepers.
The route was originally mapped out
as u ten mile route touching every part
of the city, but after half hour fight
ing the wind and snow the most enthu
siastic of the Democrats decided that
they had seen enough of celebrating
and they began to drop out. The com
mittee declared that it was entirely
satisfied with the celebration Featured
was the fact that one automobile loaC
of Democrats came down from Racine
to take part.