Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1915 — Glenn Baker Witnessed Parade of Wets in Chicago. [ARTICLE]

Glenn Baker Witnessed Parade of Wets in Chicago.

Glenn Baker returned home • this Monday morning from Chicago, where he had gone Saturday after a visit with his sister at Pontiac, 111., and after spending two or three days at other places. Glenn stood for three hours and watched the wet parade, the pageant planned and carried out by the saloon and brewery interests as a protest against the order of Mayor Thompson for law enforcement. The Tribune says there were 44,155 persons in the parade. It was the largest and most spectacular street parade that ever took place in Chicago. It waq three times as large as Mayor Thompson’s prosperity parade on the date of his inauguration and more than five times as large as the recent dry parade. It was a remarkable parade from the fact that it was largely composed of foreigners, thirty nationalities being represented. There were mottoes and banners in every tongue. "Home Rule and Personal Liberty” was the consensus of the banner and the bands played “Tipperary” and “Die Wacht Am Rhein” and forgot the differences across the ocean in their united demand for wideopen saloons. Mayor Thompson says that it is now a fight to the finish with the wet forces and he describes their parade as “anarchistic.” Strong as the forces that marched beneath wet .and law violation banners seem, the mayor is determined to carry out his oath of‘law enforcement and he accepts the challenge of the wets with the spirit, of a good fighter.