Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-26
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The RAIDS see double, .N'AN neore.
The Mass ends In q Ffxxle.
The desperate efforts Of the blacks oi
Rock Island to redeem their lost cause in
Singlston's district, and. if possible. get up
. mseting that would equal the zig O. 'Brisn
meeting Of . few weeks ego. ended 10 gath
erins Of very respectable size, for the kind
II Va, without doubt the largest they have
had during the campaign. They spared
neither money or work. One enthusiastic
Rad from the country. with great guste,ds
clarsd that the procession In the afternoon
was "ths largest he had ever seen in the
West," and he Was . man Of much travel
and observation. Why said he ''thsre was
mors'n two hundred"
From those who were there, ,ws learn thai
the number fell far short Of the O'Brisu
u.essing. The management however cen.
solsd the "anxieus" with the assurance
that more would come in the evening.
They were doomed to bitter disappoint
mont, however, for. having listened to the
low and disgusting slang Of Dick Yates,
large numbers cemmsnosd leaving fer hone
st an early hour so,by che time they sams to
form their torch light procession, the num-
Der had very materially decreased. But
the radical reporters knew how to AZ the
matter, 50, standing on first one strss.-sor
nsr and then another, they counted them
over IS many times % they liked aud, tax.
ing the aggregate sum Of their counts, mad .
out lover . thousand in line" This r.
mardable coup de grace for making out q
large number, is about - brilliant ~ their
method Of meeting the financial difscultiss
Of The country. with . result fully % appar-
snt to the taxpayers who ore beginning to
see financial breakers ahead.
But to give our readers . correct idea OF
the affair ~ will state that there Vas b
tween four nd i've hundred in the after
noon procession, with ten timss that nun-
Der on the streets, tho most Of whom were
Democrats, judging from their convsrsation
IS they passed, or the shouts for Seymour
and Blair that we're started and carried
along the entire line in answer to some
cheer from the procession. This vas more
noticeable in the evening, when it seemed -
though over three -fourths Of the assembled
multitude were Democrats, out to see the
show, or. what is more appropriate, idle
spectators at funeral march. The process
sion was but An insult to the intelligence Of
Tho working classes and tax payers. Tho
go called decorations were mere bawdy
paintings, the mottoss ssnsslsss and foolisl,
and their "en.huss" more like the laugh Of
the victim OF misplaced confidence in the
fence csrner. In the evening the ''enthuse'
vas very much mixed. the result Of too
much ''rousing" in the ranks. They mis-
took the caricaturs Of Forrest for Grant,
and Justify cheersd it, much to the disgust
vi tnoss cafTyin8 H.
The speeches Of Ingersoll in the after
noon vas one of the best they have had in
this section, and did much to relieve the
bad impression left BY Yates foul aud dis.
gusting slang and attempts at Wit delivered
| at the expense Of sense, truth and the coed
impression the leaders desired. Rummsll
spoke to the Germans at the Court House,
Bpt as over nine-tens of the Germans Of the
plAcs are consistent Union men aud Demo.
cr&s, it was rather tame affair, especially
thd enthuss it received.
The efforts Of the afternoon at present.
in9 or nearer fact, mis-prssenting the
poll |tical issues Of the day. wore too much
for hem. 1t struck in, and the result was,
vi 3sn it came time for speaking in the eve
nikg, the "talent" had ali slid-wern't to
b( found-so the management trottsd the
procession, composed OF about one tsnth
foters, out towards Camden, and brought
fthem in on back street and escorted "sur
little Tanners" to the ferry and sent them
home about nine O'Clock. A large number
Of citizens went over to hear some speak
ing, and came away disappointed, and
many wers disgusted. They had seen large
crowd, and, Judging from the cheers Of the
multitude, mingled with those Of the pro-
csssion, thought both parties had met for .
grand holiday.
To sum up the whole matter in Q nut
she'll, the roaring, tearing, clustering and
Dragging black and tans of Singlston's dis
frict ::hsvs kicked themselves to political
death. So think the leaders. and 30 will
Lord Hawley know when his opponent,
Singleton-the representative Of the De-
mocracy, the peoples friend and cham
pion-is elected, - he surely will be, BY
handsome majority on the Sd Of November
next. The black mountains Of that district
have lAborsd and nascifmr relieGlous mus,
just - every body expected.
How rnEY TaIsD TO GET rP 4 CRowp.-
The following, from the address Of the
Chief Marshal Of the Radical turn out at
Rock Island, on Saturday, is . specimen Of
their desperate attempts to get up big
crowd:
II earnestly request those officers to keep their
several commando in line until the entire line Of
march hiss been passed over"
But the Doctor nov. complains that .
good many teams were in town that did not
60 in the procession. This 10 true. And
it is Just - trus Of the O'Brisu process
sion.
The Doctor also, in his address, made
the following affecting appeal:
II expect the ward marshals TO use every
means to get out the last man, woman and child,
and every horse, mule, wagon, carriage dray and
cart in their several wards
They did the best they could but cou!dn {
raise $50 teams, bat had fsety lsss than the
O'Brien procession.
The Doctor, ct the close Of his address,
got patriotic and said:
1--WE expect to make this demonstration the
clncher Of the campaign, and ws hope 10 do ths
work so we'll that our foes will forever abandon