The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-10-12
me Hender.on Meeting in Andulsia,

The Henderson meeting IN Audu1saa,
ANDALUsIA. Ills. Oct.10. 1876.
To the Editors of The Argus.
1t was announced by handbills from
Jim Parks, the fugler for the faithful of
this county, that there would be Re-
publican meeting at Jones's Hall in Anda-
lusia this evening, and that DISTINGUISHED
orators had been secured to do the spout
ing. Accordingly at about o'clock. hear
ing that the speakers were in town, L put
on billed shirt" and went to the ball
where had tho pleasure oil meeting the
Hon. Tom Henderson and that gallant,
battle SCARED veteran soldier. Il. +. Par
menter the Republican candidate for
states atty. and Polly Perkins's brother,
who wants to be sheriff of Rock Island
county. In very short time the people
began q gather and kept coming until the
hall was crowded for the space of about six
feet back from the speakers stand-most-
~ boys, with now and then scattering
one towards the rear of the room. Some
one called the meeting to order aud on bis
morton Bill Bruner,the persistent aspirant
for all the offices Of Edeington township.
was chosen chairman, ard Capt. A. I.
Ekstrom was selected as the man to shove
The quill. :
The meeting new being duly organized
and in suitable condition to hear any
thing that the distinguished gentlemen
might hse to say. Billy, the chairman,
first introduced Tho's. j. as our present
Nj. G. and who was very deslrous OF Sc
curing another election. He commenced
Grating by telling the assembly that there
WAS to be AN election in November and
that it was very important that they should
know it. At this juncture some OF the
boys made a little noise in the room, when
Jim Furgeson shouted, at the top OF
| his stentorian voice, LET US have
order" aud the boys subsidized and
quiet prevailed, until adjournment, and L.
j. continued to speak his little piece,
ii>coursiug on the merits of the different
parties who hal presented candidates t,
the people to be voted Cor at the coming
| election. He denounced the Democrats
as beng party lately in rebellion against
the government aud a. being antlgonlstlca
10 truth, honesty, virture and everylhlnl
tha, is good La substance he alluded Il
the independents as fools. The Repuhh
can party he regarded is being the Moses
that had led the people out OF the wilder
ness; said they had whipped the south
aud freed the negro; that they had never
| made any national debt; that they haC
paid debts contracted by the Democrats
as far back as the recollection of man; tina
they were the champions of honesty anc
the only hands in which the administration
of this government could be trusted witt
salty; that he ct. j. had done some
betty voting in congress for the good o.
this country and was prepared to do more
He then alluded to the currency question
said he was in favor otresuning speciepay
ment at the time specified in the re
sumption act: said there was no more
reason for the postponment of resumptio,
than there would be for a man to set
/ O'Clock as the time to eat his dinner anC
then postpone it. The idea struck ms
that ii man should set o'clock to ea
his dinuer and prepare nothing to eat ht
would be very likely to postpone the per
Torrance Preparations must be mad
for resumption before we can resume. III,
spoke OF the time when the rebs first 10
suited our flag and Mr.. Lincoln called io
volunteers; told how We rallied around tn
flag, etc, ETC., which | thought httl,
rough on MIR. 'Parmenter inasmuch as be
never rallied as any one knows of, Blu
1t appeared to me that he would lik,
to be the owner of one of thos'
sheets ct paper that is evidenc,
of mans having rallied around tn,
flag 1t seemed to me that Parmente
would feel easier in his mind if he was tn
owner of such certifcate-ike the on
10 Mara has, for instance-and one tina
every Democratic soldier is proud of.
When the Hon. /. j. got about hal
through with his discourse some one re
ported that large delegation from Bowl
lug had arrived and that caused SOM
little commotion, and he said he woul,
postpone his remarks until the torcl
bearers came into the hall or done some
thing else. In short time the Bowlin,
delegation filed into the room, aud, afte
being counted. were found to number
haymakers. Is boys and dags-all witt
torches. Order being restored the speake
lquietly proceeded with another chapter o
abuse of the Democratic party. and thel
closed with many thanks to the audenc
tor kind attention.. etc. Two or three boy
clarped their hands and stamped their tee
and one boy danced jig behind the door
That other brave soldier, Parmenter
was then called for, and he very reluctant
ly arose to standing posture and said tina
it was late and S me of the people lived il
the country and he would not occupy thei
time in making speech.
| noticed the nice young man that hashe
up trash for the Rock Island Union airlu
his heels on the back of chair, with one 0
Cunningham 8 penny grabs in his moutl
and cheap lead pencil behind his ear, S
| suppose the Union will have a flower
report of the meeting. For smallness
1quietness and poor speaking, the meetin
was success. Thy met quietly. sat an,
adjourned quietly. The only thing livel
or interesting about the whole affair wa
the splendid music discoursed by the Val
J ley Guard Brass Band. of Audalusia, an
[ was sorry to see the music go to vast
on such an embarrassing occasion.
Ex-TRAvELER.
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