Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-09-05
DAY

big success IN every way. 1He
weather could not have been improved
upon, the crowd was one of the larg-
est ever assembled on the streets OF
Newark, the amusements were new
and novel and the music was the best
ever.
Early in the morning the people be-
gan to gather and by nine o'clock the
court house square was packed. EV-
eryone was bent on having a good
time.
The procession, in charge of Carl
Lippincott, grand marshal, started
promptly on the dot, and moved over
the advertised route. At its conclu-
sion it disbanded at North Park Place
in front of the speakers stand.
Col. D. L. Perry, of Columbus, a
real dirt farmer, was the speaker Of
the day, and after an invocation by
Rev. X. R. Close, of the Plymouth
church, was introduced by Harry
Cochran, president of the Trades and
Labor Assembly. Col. Perry, who
has travelled from coast to coast and
from the lakes to the gulf, is prob
ably one of the best posted men on
general conditions of the country as
they exist today. For an hour he
held the close attention of crowd
which packed all space within hearing
distance. He especially urged that
farmers and working people should
keep posted on both sides Of every
question, read the papers, read the
party platforms, and decide how they
would be best benefited before cast
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ed by party prejudice, but vote for
the men who really had your good at
their hearts, and whose past record
proved the truth of their claims. Such
men said the Colonel, were undoubt-
edly Bob" La Toilette and Burton
X. Wheeler.
The speaker claimed the candidates
of the two old parties were both
tarred by the same stick, each was
equally acceptable to the Morgan in
terests and the Wall street gang. He
said the Democratic and Republican
platforms reminded him of the two
apple peddlers, an Irishman and a
Dutchman who was rather shy on the
English language. The Irishman was
first, crying "Apples, apples, here's
your fine apples" He was closely
followed by the Dutchman, who
could only say ode same ding here!"
Attention was called to the fact
that the requests of Labor had been
ignored at both the old party conven-
tions, and how when Senator La Fol
lette stated at the Cleveland conven-
ton that if a plank was adopted to
assist Labor and the farmer, he would
still remain a Republican, he was
greeted with Kisses, and that Davis
had to leave the platform of his party
to enable him to mention labor at all.
La Toilette, who had stood by Labor
and the farmers for forty years, now
needed their support and they should
rally to his standard.
Many and varied were beautifully
decorated floats of the manufacturers
and merchants which composed the
fourth division Of the parade, and it
was a difficult matter to select the
winners, but the judges finally ar
rived at a decision and awarded the
first prize to the Granville Lumber
Co., whose float was decorated by
SPEEDY" Lanning, and the second to
Electrical Workers Local No. 172.
In the afternoon program was in
cluded a large number of contests,
each of which had many entries. The
following are the events and the
lucky winners:
Boys heel and toe race: Leslie De-
bevoise, Arthur Kaercher.
Girls 100-yard race: Martha
Rhoades, Elizabeth Kaercher.
Boys bicycle race: Roy Debevoise;
Ray Gamshaw.
Boys three-legged race: Robert
Greene and Fred Weakley; Charles
Martin and Edward Schauck.
Girls running race; Edna Roberts,
Eva Bell
Boys and girls wheelbarrow race:
Edna Roberts and Leroy Carter; Eva
Bell and Harold Sisk.
Boys wheelbarrow race: Norwood
Smith and Kenneth Jones; Lloyd De-
bevoise and Leslie Debevoise.
Boys peanut race: Delmar Jones,
Russell Hobart.
Girls peanut race: Nancy Montan-
lao, Evelyn Wolveries.
Boys shoe lacing contest: Ray
mond McGough; Charles Martin.
Girls shoe lacing contest: Nancy
Montaniao, Edna Roberts.
Boys race: Ray Debevoise, Robert
George.
Girls race: Virginia Haulk, Nancy
Montaniao.
Girls pear-eating contest: Marie
Kaercher; Velma Rogers; Alma VOL
ven.
Boys pear-eating contest: William
Sabey, Raymond McGough.
Smoking Contest for Men: G. H.
Montgomery and Guy Wolverton.
Person coming longest distance:
Mrs. ]. C. Miller, Paduceh, KY.
Largest visiting family: Mr.. and
Mrs. F. A. Gettys and II children,
Thornville
The dancing platform proved a
drawing card, and was literally pat
ronized all afternoon and evening.
Much interest was taken in the
drawing on the automobile given
away at ten o'clock. The holder of
the lucky number-3240-was Orange
Johns, of Saratoga avenue, and his
ticket cost him % cents.
The winner Of the boys bicycle con-
test was Edgar Hare, Of Eddy street,