Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-08-23
Grand Rally for Grant and Wilson at Moline

Grand Rally for Grant and wilson az Monne
For several days previous to the 2lst
Moline was diligently posted with bills for
German mass meeting, at Keese's Hall. II
was noticed that wherever there was an old
poster for the Liberal meeting, of the prev
ious week, left 10 good condition, the post.
master in expectancy" Of Moline, had care.
fully and neatly pasted bis posters below the
heading of the old bills 40 as to read Liberia
German Mass Meeting. This called out a
few Germans, who were for Greeley; most OF
them, however, understood the Dodge and
remained at home. The band commenced
to play at an early hour, and BY their good
music called together something of 3 crowd.
And when Mr.. Schilling com menced speak
ing, at nine O'Clock, an hour after
the advertised time, there we're pres
ent, including those standing in the bar room
and under the windows out of doors, City
five persons. The nationalities of the GRO wd
we're as follows: Germans 81, Americans
20, Scandinavians IA. The Freja (Sandina-
Wan band was hired for the occasion. If
any lying Greeleyite attempts to belittle this
meeting be may be assured tina. these figures
are made up by actual count; and if some
of the number we're boys who we're reading
newspapers and smoking, in the back part Of
the hall, they will vote some time if they
live long enough. 1t WAS also sscertained
that forIy-tyo persona, by actual count, took
seats in the hall to listen to the speaker.
The Is Greeley men, among the Germans,
were told by the speaker that they
were led by Carl Schurz, as he would lead a
| horse by the halter. They were also in
formed that this same Schurz had received
hundreds of letters from Germans, all over
the country, asking hin to expose the
| French Arms Sale, in the Senate, but that be
refused, for year and half, to do it, a few
minutes later they were told by the same
speaker, that Sehurz went into this investi
CATION when no German in Germany or in
the United States,and no German paper. had
ever agitated the matter, in this country OIL
| Germany.
Three German Grant men were present
and were of great assistance to the would be
| Postmaster, and the Grant candidate for tbs
Legislature, who had charge of the meet
iDg) after their glowing enthusiasm had sub
sided; for, at frat, their enthusiasm was suct
that, being ignorant of the language, the,
cheered vociferousy for Greeley and Brown
laughed at the pathetic descriptions of tn,
speaker, and wept over his Jokes. After
this was discovered, by the more discreet
men like the Postmaster from a neighborirs
toWn, it was arranged that they should
watch one Of the three Grant n en- who un
derstood German and who kindly consented
to sit where his feet could be seen. From
that time, At the proper time and place
there was most enthusiastic applause iron
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Moline NJ. d the taadica,e for the l.egisl Ia
ture, and the little boy who edits the RI
U{elG
A dog ght in the neighborhood cecurr
ing, about the middle of Mr. Schilling
, speech, cleared the hall for few mioutes
and it was thought by some that this do!
T tight was a wicked Greeley dodge, gotten u
at the iDstigation Of Greeley himself; Will
J others say 1t was diversion gotten up b
the Americans, present st the meeting, I
, relieve the monotony of sitting for an hou
listning to speech in to them an unknow
5 tongue. Mr.. Schilling was an eloquent, al
: would have been an effective speaker, Ia
! be not espOused so hGd a cause. At ID
j. close of his speech the man who was RdveI
used to speak in English arose, but the al
1 dience got so much the start of him in th
o thing that he decided that though "speec
e was silrerH, silence was golden" As til
o enormous and enthusiastic crowd we're lea
: ing the hall, the president of the meetin
whose German bi1th hadn't before been su
pected, although be is an old resident
Moline. pleadingly asked: Can't we get U
d three cheers for Grant and Wilson hefo
II we lesve?' ThereuPon eight of those tait
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,iently lsteuiug TO speech of which tb
d could not understand a sentence, gave thr
Of cheers for Grant and Wilson, and lie
E, declaring that ";heY had got out lsrg
Il, crowd than they expected"