| Show PEOPLES PARTY PARADE saturday night january was the second parade of the peopled people Is party marching clubs there was one big thing and that was the rain rainstorm storm but it big enough to stop toe the parade rhe fhe boys have had cwb ex perien ces with the weather and they saw to it that it permitted on both occa occasions first it was a heavy fall of snow and next a drenching driving rain but the clubs got rhey will have two more parades one in a few days and one to the polls on election day and they wil get there on both occasions the thaw of saturday had made we the icy sidewalks so slippery that it was difficult to walk about 8 pm a drizzling rain began and in a few minutes it increased to a heavy shower some doubts were ex pressed expressed about the parade being successful but this thought was soon dispelled when ab shortly artly after the drums sou sounded nd the men began to rally and long lines ilves of the divisions headed beaded their way to the appointed places pully appeared but b u t in in some cases where the officers thought proper owing to dan danger gerof of some taking cold several hundred aundre 1 were released to seek shelter but the great majority were prepared for the weather and remained throughout during the assembling and for nearly an hour before the time for starting start ingred red fire was burned from stores and residences of lead leading ng men and the air was rent with the cheers of the men in line and of the thousands who had bad come out in spite of the furious storm everything F very thing was in readiness at 9 when marshal richard bichard W young gave the command to forward and the head of the column made its way from the J WS corn corner e r down east temple I 1 aws 7 street A quick march was ordered and for half an hour the long lines wended bended their way from the streets on either side until all ah obtained place on the street the column countermarched counter marched and made seven blocks in close marching In gorder order it was not considered wise to carrh longer owing to the storm and word for the explosion of fireworks was given the various organizations responded and for 15 minutes the air was full of rockets bombs the rattle of explosives and the cheers of the multitude while the varicolored vari varl colored lights from the burning powder lighted up the whole city presenting a grand spectacle in deep contrast with thedarl the dark clouds and quickly descending rain this done the command to disperse was given and the clubs retired in marching order to their various districts the men were in fine spirits the rain not having dampened their ardor in the least there was one very unpleasant feature but it did not originate with any members of the peoples peopled party crowds of liberal hoodlums some of them well known members of that party engaged in howling beering and using vile language at the peoples men snowballs and stones were hurled by these hoodlums and several persons injured in some cases where the culprits were caught they were dealt with one Li liberal berall whipper in went ang u up to an aged citizen in the ranks and struck him the scoundrel was caught by some of the boys who warmed his ears another fellow attacked another of the barchers marchers mar chers but was quickly laid on his lack back in the slush in several other instances the men in the ranks had bad to defend defend themselves one gang went so far as to try to seize one of the flags but of course this was summarily checked one of the bands of hoodlums was headed by a portion of a liberal drum corps in uniform they went along the street during the parade howling blowing tin horns shouting gk george orge M scott and using vile language there was an effort to drown the shouts of the marching clubs but this was more of a task than abo th liberal howlers bowlers could accomplish as they were not sufficiently numerous the attacks of these liberals upon the live line well nigh exhausted the forbearance of many the peoples peopled men however restrained from overt action except where it became positively necessary in self defence those who instigated the interference however and who gave their approval are liable to go a little too far any conflict would be a most lamentable occurrence and some of the wiser beads of the Li liberal berall party should take measures to prevent their followers from making further unjustifiable attacks which none need expect will be passively submitted to |
