Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-04

from the rousing republican rally, winch |
took place on the occasion of Bevsridge's
rec snt speech here. In the latter instance
about 6fsy men aud boys Counting office
hOlders) We're present, while last evening
every seat in Turner Hall Was occupied and
nearly every inch of standing room, and
many went away for want Of seats.
About eight O'Clock DIR. Trussdals, Liber-
al candidate for Congress, arose and in a
few well chosen remarks introduced Judge
Eustsce to the audience, who received him
with perfect tempest of applause. 1t wss
evident from the start that the crowd in at
tendance were full of enthusiasm for the
cause Of Reform.
Judge ElstAce commenced by stating
that he had come to talk to think
ing, reasoning men, and should
say nothing which he was not prepared to
prove. The efforts of the leaders of the
Grant party are to keep the people from
bearing but one side, while the Liberals in
vits attention to both. He spoke OF the
charges against Grant; said they could all
be subssantisted BY indisputsble proof; that
they we're of so serious character that the
Grant orators did not attempt to disprove
/ them, but only to excuse them, or to use the
common Grant argument snd call them 8
/ lie; that their Efforts are directed to keeping
alive the old auimosities between the North
and the South, appealing to the baser pas
sions Of human nature TO keep up the hate.
Here the crowd applauded, and Quincy
McNsal shouted "lt's dam lie, BY
God" The audience rose to their feet, and
cries of " Put him outr' put him out,'
were heard oil over the house. Mcneil re-
peAted his insult, with oalhs, and the police
"snsksd him oct Of the house. Quincy
Abored under the same difficulty tbst trou.
bled Oylesby in Indiana" been eating Gu
cumbers and milk" After the confusion
lad subsidized, Judge Eussace said that be
was sorry for the interruption, but it wss q
standard Grant argument; they sag every
thing was false bat could prove nothing
Great applause
he then paid few moments attention 10 8
consideration of the South and her people
showing how bravely they had fought, in 8
bad cause; how they had laid down THEN
arms when conquered and asked TO be re-
ceived back into the Union, Abraham
Lincoln, one of the greatest and purGsi o.
statesmen, fought them on the principle
that "a house divided against itself cspno
stand y that principle was true then and il
true to day. As long Is one great section
Of our country is crippled and pArslJ sed, 81
long will the gait Of the whole body bs im
peded; what we want is to restore that par
to health and send the life-blood coursiuJ
through every part of our dy-politic. Ii
spoke Of the Pittsburgh convention. Itwa
intended to Assis, in keeping in power cor
-rupt administration that the leaders migh
: continue to rob the people. He read 81
sxirac: from Grants report Of the condi
ton Of the South in 1866, which declare,
that all thinking men in the South accepte
the situation in good faith as final. He the
+ gave several instances of the manner il
which the South had been oppressed 70
seven years The debt Of the Southern
States had been increased S2l5, 00O, 00
since the war. 1t was not the rebel debt
as some say, for there is 10 sue
debt. In South Carolina to.ds
tae debt ia SO large that
tax TO collect the interest Of the del
would rein thousands.
After q ScAlhing history of csrpei-bag role
ne proceeded to give lev illustrations c
Grants civil service reform, Gov. Holder
, Of n. c., impeachsd and convicted of hg
crimes and misdemeanors, by his own Stat
Legislature, was Immediately appointed
GRAFT United States Minister TO Peru.
fellow named Clark, from Texas, VAS kicke
out Of Congress, as it was proved that Co
Davis had frsudulen,ly given him csrti6
cate ofeleciion but no sooner was he ex
PEELED than Grant made him Post Mssts
At Galveston. The case OF Gov. Davis, (
Texas, was brought up, and the policy no
! being pursued there-in6icting large nun
bers of men in each county, tho are sum
I moned to appear At a p ace 4 days jourDe
Z f ON home on the 18th of Novem ber-ele,
3 tion day. He then spoke of the manner
E which Southern csrpet-bsg and colored lie,
J islatures had voted away the peoples MOI
= ey and asked lift was strange thar the pee
q pie there should look to this Liberal NOV,
, ment with hope. Georgia with her 5000
majority had jus! opened the ball cheers
and next Tuesday Pennsylvania, Ohio an
Indiana will give their verdict on these que
tious.
> The speaker then turned to financial a
fairs, And.in sharp, decisive language, expo
ed the incompe,ency and dishonesty of Ii
Grant Ring.
-Four distinct official statements Of IL
n amount of the public debt on the lat day
July, 1869, had been made, by the sam
o Secretary of the Treasury, and no two
them we're alike. There was discrepanc
of over $l56 900 900. here are the stat,
ments, from official records:
l. Financial Report 1859,
d page 29..................... s2,656, SOB, 655.;
2. Monthly Debt Statement,
July /, lS69............, 2,645, ITO ,294.1
3. Finance Report 1870,
il page % ................ 2,bSS, 1852 213.i
n 4. Finance Report 1870,
II page 276..-.....-..... 2,4S9, 002, $50 =.
1t No man, to-day, can tell Wha; our publ
1t debt is, and we need q new book keeper
The speaker then alluded to the loss
- collecting revenue. Mr. Curtis, of the els
N service committee, states that our Cover
ie mens has collected, annually, for the lie
'e seven years, three hundred and sixty mi
lions of dollars. Ono-fourth of this sur
u the civil service commissioners, sppoin,t
!, = By Grant, had stated in their report, is 10
So in collecting, showing a less, in seven year
J. of aiOht hnndrad and cnx,v r,;it;a..