New Britain herald., 1925-11-06

William Mckinley and William
Jennings Bryan, the principals in
the last fashioned election. was
Andrew j, sloper, who was In the
thick OF the fray from the time
when he cast his vote for Mckinley
at tho republican nominating con.
rention until, after his adherents
had marched themselves ragged
through the cities OF Connecticut,
he was elected senator by an over
whelming majority, The "sloper
Guards" a uniformed organization
consisting OF two foot companies
and one OF mounted mon, we're Or
ganizcd in New Britain, were out
fitted with Rough Rider costumes in
tribute TO Vice. Presidential Candi-
date Theodore Roosevelt, and
marched at least once a night dur
ing The final weeks OF the campaign,
Frank Traut was captain Of tho
Guards, with George NJ. Mycroft
and Harry f. Smith as lieutenants
and Charles w. Irving as secretary.
X, c, Mcrwin. Fred Epson, Howard
Humphrey and +. r. Swift led the
mounted men, OF whom there were
30. A Sound Money Battery was
organized and captained by +. Q.
Pickup and was provided with a
cannon which was the big noise OF
the local campaigning. {. i, Scott.
George Il. ManIcy, Harry Green and
Frank Barrett were prominent in
this organization, The Polish re-
publicans gathered under w. TART
man; John 3, Brink rallied the
swedish adherents of Mckinley and
the German Republican club made
a bid for prominence by stringing a
banner across Church street. The
picture Of Roosevelt on this streamer
was home product and caused so
much laughter that the banner had
to be removed
The democrats conducted a much
quieter campaign in spite of their
strength here. Neither side was
able TO bring a national candidate
TO New Britain, but the republicans
turned out in great numbers to hear
George P. Mclean, theeir choice for
governor, when he spoke at the
Opera House, now the Palace
theater, Samuel Fessenden was
also secured, but the democrats
played their trump card on the same
night and drew larger crowd to
a trebly-addressed meeting presided
over by the late Judge John Walsh.
The interest was shown the week
/ before the election when 5000 men,
as many as voted the G. o. P. ticket,
turned out in the rain and marched
for miles through the city in a big
republican demonstration. Col, c.,
Is. Erickson led the way, with j. r..
Andrews as his chief OF staff.
Seven bands and a drum corps pro-
, \ided music, and uniformed organi-
cations from as far as Springfield
participated. All the factories
turned out to vie with each other
IN the number of men in line and
! originality of costume. Traut &,
Hine, inasmuch as it announced it
made the presidents suspender
buckles, saw that he had good sup
. port While the Russell d, Erwin
4 goldstandar d men wore gilded hats.
'Charlie's Park" at West Main and
! Vine streets, was decorated with
ESQ colored lights, and fully a
thousand persons watched the pro-
. ceSsion countermarch there.
Then came the great day, end
eieren-twelfths of the voting popu-
Iation turned out. Little thinking
that the day would come when less
than half the voters would exercise
their privilege, the newspaper edi.
tors the following day soundly be.
rated the unpatriotic 543 men who
stayed away from the ballot boxes
Mckinley swept the city, Bryan