The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-29
Hoover, Richie ParadeS
as Different as Might
and Day.
BY ARCH STEINEL

servers.
The torchlight procession at
night that greeted Governor
Ritchie was a mass of colored
lights, blare of spontaneous en-
thusiasm, a personal triumph of
those called forgotten men"
The man without an overcoat car
ried red torches in the Richie rally
with its multiplicity of political
wisecracking banners, or stood on
the curbS and waved white sticks
from which shafts of white light
Streamed.
Cheers were plentiful for banners
declaring for beer" decrying the
"chickenleSS pots" and carless ga
RACES, an other partisan emblemS.
DUT when the President rode
ID north on Meridian street, three
hours earlier, it was a Sombre crowd
that gave more applause to the
Black Horse troop from Culver than
to the chief executive.
Hand-clappings, whistles and
shouts for the Republican candi-
date were as spotted in the human
ity masseed on Meridian and around
the segmentS of the Circle as the
black isles on zebra's back.
President Hoover bowed and
waved his hands, to each burst of
applause. He alternately put his
hat on his head or took it off as
small demonstration clots gave vent
to their partisanship.
The few boos were negligible.
They came from high office build
ings, and frequently were halted by
some employer hauling the DEM
ocratic partisan from the window
Adding machine tape from invest
ment and life insurance companies
in downtown buildings, streamed
out on the chill wind. and waved to
the echoes of cheers from the en-
ployes who held the tape in their
hands.
G.. o. P. organization employees
rode in a truck blocks ahead of the
Hoover reception giving away flags
and blue elephants mounted on
sticks. The flags were at premium.
Small boys stampeded the truck to
obtain one of the banners.
TINE President rode in a touring
Il car. He was f1anked by secret
service men and city detectives, who
either rode or walked at the cars
side.
Mrs. Hoover, vivacious, waved to
the crowds that lined the curbs.
Senator James E. Watson, who &C.
cupied the Presidents car, looked to
the left and right at each fresh out
burst of cheers.
The nocturnal parade, for the
most part, was as we'll organized as
a political machine functioning on
election day.
Reviewing the torch bearers from
an auto on the Circle, Governor
Ritchie frequently smiled at sallies
against Republican policies or
waved his hand to Democratic
beauties on trucks.
Twenty thousand persons partici-
pated in the parade.
Forty thousand lined the side
walks.
Throughout the review at the Cir
Gle an airplane with two parallel
streams of white rocket lights
zoomed, dipped and circled over
head.
IT'S the greatest thing I've ever
seem declared the Maryland Gov
ernor.
Attaches accompanying him in the
reviewing car pointed out a delega-
ton carrying the banner, Hoover
vile and Curtisville."
NNE marcher with three beer
- bottles dangling from stick,
drew a smile from the Governor.
Four women riding on horseback
were labeled the -Four Horsemen
of Republicanism-Deceit, Despair,
Delay, Destruction"
Another banner compared the
prices of grain in 1928 with 1882.
Negroes danced the jig. The Side
walks of New York." and Happy
Days Are Here Again" were the
popular tunes of eight bands that
dotted the parade.
Rockets and bombs doomed
throughout to the accompaniment
of the shouts of the red-torch
carriers.
1t took one hour for the Ritchie
marchers to pass the reviewing
stand and from the first walkers
behind the indianapolis Bugle and
Drum corps to the last contingent
there was no let-up in the shouts
from the curbs Or paraders.