The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-09-07
NATION HONORS
N men IN DRAFT
PRESIDENT, SENATOR'S, MEM
BEERS OF CONGRESS AND CAB
met IN PARADE.
MANY TROOPS In LINE
Much Enthusiasm Shown and Wash
III. ington Howls Itself HORSE
Allies Join.

Washington. Sept. 4.--The Presi-
dent and Congress of the United
States and the allied nations, thru
their diplomatic representatives, join
ed to-day in paying honor to the men
selected from the District of Column
bia for service in Americas nation
al army raised for the battle for de-
mocracy.
Washington, long used to glitter
\ ing professions, to the blare and
noise OF inaugurals, opened its eyes
and cheered itself hoarse at the
spectacle. For two hours, while in
other cities turnout the Nation other
thousands moved over the first part
of the long road that may lead to
French battlefelds. Pennsylvania
Avenue heard the tramp OF marching
men. the mingle of spurs and the
rumbling of artillery.
About $4,000 men. women and
children passed a reviewing stand be-
fore the White House where the
President and his guests watched the
parade. More than half OF the long
line was in uniform.
From the corner of fifteenth Street
where Pennsylvania Avenue turns
around the Treasury. the long mile to
the foot Of Capitol Hill was one
stream OF flags in the breeze and
sparkling under a cloudless Septem-
Der sky The President and those
in the stand with him were kept at
salute continually. No one Of the
dozens OF officers Of foreign armies
and navies overlooked the tribute
due the emblem OF the great repub-
lie that has lined up on their side to
make the world safe for the princi-
pies on which 1t was founded.
Wilson Heads, Parade.
President Wilson himself, eyes to
the front stepping out like a freshly
trained recruit, marched at the head
OF the long line surrounded by a COM
mittee Of citizens which arranged the
parade. Behind him in unbroken
ranks came most OF the members of
the Senate and House. in such a trib-
ute as they probably never have giy-
en- on any occasion in the long years
since this country became a Nation.
When he reached the White House,
the President left the ranks and took
IA Ia nj In ha nd hu
II was the second time he had gone
afoOt over Pennsylvania Avenue. The
first was when he led the prepared
ness parade before the United States
went to war. Most of the members
of the Cabinet, the Japanese Mission,
Ambassadors Spring-Rice. OF Great
Britain, Jusserand, of France; Minis
ter Calderon OF Bolivia, and dozens
of officers in uniforms OF the armies
of the nations that are fighting Ger
many were in the stand with them.
All stood for the two hours with
eyes steady on the spectacle. The
President sat grim and unsmiling
most of the time, watching intently
while all trappings of war came by.
Seventy Senators In Line.
At the head of the Senate division
came Senators Nelson and Warren,
of the Union army, and Martin and
Bankhead, who fought on the side
of the Gray in the Civil War and
with them marched Senators Cham
berlain, chairman of the Military
Committee, and Lodge, ranking Re-
publican of the Naval Committee.
There were seventy Senator's in line
aad only a few were absent who
were not sick or unable to make the
long trip. :
Hhe House turned out hundreds of
its membership, headed by Speaker
Clark and Uncle Joe" Cannon !
Marines Attract Attention. T
For more than an hour the food
thai poured by the stand was IN the
brown of the khaki-clad army, with
the exception of the fourteen hundred
drafted men who in spite of their
civilian clothes marched proudly ami
With more than semblance of mill
tary formation. Regulars on foot,
ON horse back, on the caisiops OF field
pieces and trundliny machine guns;
National Guardsmen of the District
and Marines from nearby camps