Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — FAIRBANKS PARADE MONDAY EVENING [ARTICLE]

FAIRBANKS PARADE MONDAY EVENING

Chicago Streets Blocked When Mlurchers Take City By Storm— lndiana Bopsters Number Many. Chicago, June s.—Headed by a mounted escort of Chicago policemen, with banners and American flags flying to the lake breeze and with the cradc Indianapolis Military Band playing the Hoosier song, “On the Banks of the Wabash,” Indiana republicans, every last one of them shouting for Fairbanks, marched up Michigan avenue in such numbers early this evening that all other traffic on that notoriously busy thoroughfare was clogged and jammed until it was brought to a complete standstill. The Hoosier contingent of Fairbanks boosters, which came 'here on special trains from Indianapolis, Evansville and Terre Haute, represented by far the biggest single delegation which has yet arrived to participate in this herculean job of pres-ident-making. Pandemonium broke loose when the parade ended when the shouting Hoosiers of the Congress hotel and proclaiming with noisy enthusiasm that Fairbanks is the “best bet.” There wasn’t even elbow room in the lobby after the Hoosiers arrived. Mrs. John W. Timmons, daughter of Charles W. Fairbanks, was among the 600 paraders. She was the only woman to march, but it is needless to say that no other person in line was more enthusiastic. Mr. Fairbanks himself is remaining in Indianapolis.