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Day
23
Month
October
Year
1894
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Public Domain
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Chicago, Oct. 2:). - Enthusiaam was an nbundant article ii thls town Saturda; uight. It painfcod the west side red with Democratie flreworks; it filled Fii-.t Regiment armory with Republicana ti hear "Czar" Beed, ana it broke out In loud cheers it Populist demoustrations t two meetings on tho south sido, where Ur. rlynn held forth, to Bay nothing of a moí'íiníí of Democratie vromen ai tral Musió hall and a score br more of politioal gatherings in other portions oí thecity. Tin biggest gathering was the Democratie procossion, the flrst of this sort of "campaign Chunder" that h:is been seep in the streets hore on a largo scala this frt.Il. Was a Monster Procfs.sion. It was n monster procession. Estimatea of the number taking part vary from 85,000 to 30,000, and of the time taken to pass a given point from an hour and thrcoquarters to two hours. Tlie route was sis milos long and along that routo the parade loft a trail of pyrotechnical illunflnatlon. Soventy-onc politioal cjubs and organizationsfrom every ward in t!io city, from KvanstKjn to South Chicago, took part. Thirty bands of tniislc fiücd the niht air with brazen mclody. Two thousand cow boys rodo ten abreast in the column Thrro were oompanies of Gornans, Pole Scandinavians, Italiana, Bohemiana, Hun garians, French and Syrians in the grea procession. The Syrian club carried transparenoy with the logend, "Our firs vote. Wc are Deinocrats," and aftnancia sentiment carried of another club was "$1 in Silvcr for $1 in Gold." lia; f a Mil I ion People Out. The start was at the Haymarket, anc íheíe were probably 50,00( spectator paeked in tlic open spaces thereabouts to seo tlie prooossion start, whilo the Ion route was lineil with people to the number, it is estimated, of 5(X),000. Tlie demonstration was undoubtedly tlie biggest thing sa far given in the campaign at this city, and the enthusiasm began at the hoad of th colunm and went roaring back to the reai guard, whilo tho route was marked ta those at a distauce by tho glare of fireworks which were set oñ all along the lina by the wagon load.

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