Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-12
The Oflice-HOlderS' and Office
Seekers Meeting.
Formation of the Grant
Ferry Club.
Eawley, Robinson. Sweeney anu
jackson rum the machine

The postmaster's paper says that ''no
.oonsr than it was dark" &c, &c. the peo-
ME began to gather, etc. This is true.
From the 9th of June 1.-THE day the Phila-
deIphia Convention was held) to the llth of
Julv. not q cheer was ever heard in this
county for Grant. For long time they
have been soliciting money to gel up
Grant mee,ing-but few contributed; large
numbers o f men refusing, who had formerly
paid liberslly-and refusing also to attend
the meeting After waiting over i've weeks,
and until the Greeley men had held ratih'
cation meeting, the Grant folks, after dark,
mustered courage to get under the trees IN
Court House Square, form Little ring Of
office holders and candidates, and, after
being re inrorced from Moline, raised q
sickly cheer or two for the man who gives
them their bread and butter. There was
I Postmasts. HaYerstick, Sheriff Payne. Rev
enue officers Wiser, Burgh and Halves
Candidates, Payne, PArmeuter aud Knox
Congressman Hswlsy, Police Magistrate
Simonsou, Deputy Sheriff Wilson, Deputy
Clerk Harson and the balance of the bread
and butter brigade. This WAS the Get tha
run the business. Not 4 quo Was fired
Their only speaker was Office holder snc
candidate Hawley, whose dreary, moarnfuI
and poutless plstitudes we're $ bore L
everybody. 4 man who claims that thu
Naturalization has brought all its rascal.
Office holders to punisbmen. sut
then claims that no Investigating
committee had ever found an thing wrong
iss f! attorney for the Grant Ring. lie
him pass. When be ga: down there wer
quite universal calls for Maj Beardsley, en-
- they continued loud and long. The Iune
riug then c'amored for ofice-holder Greg
? and kept that up for long time. The
a probably wanted him to repeat some Of b
savings at the opening OF the Wat, and b
speech in Court Square, in which be d
nouuced Grant as drunken, neon pesen
they relapsed into very sad condition f
awhile. when there were frantic snd plteol
calls from the ring for nearly everyooc
who ever tried TO speak ia that crowd, b
they got no response. Then they called i
the Postmaster, but he ec.ined, saying
would make his speech in his paper.
H.. q. e.. Atr.f4,
10 excused himself on the usual slight grour
" that he was sick a good many OF the
&c were) and after few slight remarks
:. slightly retired. They called for q Men,
n Quincy didn'i respond. After plaintlgely al
u gainIv calling several names for speaker
u they began to call for the "SosP Man wht
70 z. D. Sweeney reported constitution, a.
IS with his partner for President, T.. !. Ro
10 insou for Treasurer, and few Office holde
for the other places. One man veUtured
y remark that be didn't object to the consIg
IA ton bu, De didu'. ike the otIcsfs--i: look
s to much ike Ferry Cla5,-whereupt
D. Quincy Mcneil announced tha. at ID
IS tookstnat lie. for the officers OF their cl
ID they we're q pack Of id fools, but
in ring voted them IN. Soma one then q
G. nounced that they had over hundr
names down (for assessment to pay ca
le palgu expenses, We suppose on their ci
N list. but msu who saw the list says the
r we're oul7 forty-nine. They t8en We
10 home, as the Union says they came in t
" dark, and seemed mighty glad to gel ava
re Il IS claimed that the majority present we
ie Greeley men, who went TO see tAe IL
d Without lbem and the Moline men III
?, could scarcely muster bakers dozen 7
II saquerrg was done 10 The little iuaer ri
Is around The lamp post, while the peol
looked on sud laughed. The othce-boii'
IS and candidates seemed TO have au espeC
spite towards all Liberals aud showed j.
ID every opportunity. They cant get cTe7
as poiu, made by Mr. Kerns, in bis speech
s. fore tbe Greeley meeting, viz: No pa
T. lca7 eUer successful IN presidential eterti
AZ ehfIt "f'fNf't 10 t't - L'''''fNf' I'''F 20
b. rs ," We don't blame them for such fe
ings. We had the same pain under {
ne Jacket when Kuruer, 1rumbuli, Palm
10 aud thousands Of other old Democrats
ef this aad other States left Us on the sIavr
- issues, and carried the State aud the Coz
Ie try against US. The thing is reversed nc
the State and the Country will both
I pudiate the Grant ring Of corruPtionists t
81 fall. 1t ia the peoples turn TO laugh, mt
e aud the ofice-holders' turn mourn for tn
err soou-to be lost loaves and fishes
re P.S.-Oue Of the men appointed as
officer of tie Graut-ferrv club, said t,
friend to-day They used my name wi
- gu; my consent, and l won't have anyth
10 DO with the ID thing, nor vote for CIR
either ~ So it goes.
Sc No humbug, May Bros sell at cost.