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Inter Ocean Sep 2

Buffalo Bill Objected To.

The posters first issued for the parade of
Labor day announced as "Honorary Marshal,
W. F. Cody," but those issued later contained no
mention of that picturesque individual and
thereby hangs a tale. When the first posters
were distributed a great big protest was sent up
by union men in different organizations on the
ground that Buffalo Bill was not a laboring man
but a shrewd show manager, and that they did
not want Labor day and the union parade
made an advertising medium for the Wild
West or any other kind of a West. When
the marshals got together they found that
the scheme would not work and they voted to
take him off. All kinds of charges and insinuations
were made, as is usual in all such cases made
and provided, but there is no evidence that it
was not done with the idea that it would be a
drawing card and was done thoughtlessly.