The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-10-09
Last Nights Dispatches.
Judge Trum bulls Canvass.
Chicago Times Special.
A FAST DRIVE AND A SPEECH.

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FAST DRIVE AND A SPEECH.
LA PORTE, Oct. S.-Judge Trumbu
drove from Aledo to Monmouth, distanc
of twenty FIVE miles. in three hours
yesterday. arriving at the latter place ct
P. NJ. In the evening he attended tn
great mass meeting at Union ball. wher,
nearly two thousand voters were assem-
bled. and supplemented Henry Clay Dean
address with short speech. There. al
ELSEWHERE, he was received with enthusi
asm and heard with the closest interest
One of Deans sallies is in everybody's
mouth to day. Said be, in substance
'Conkling is the peer of any member oi
that august body. the senate of the United
States. He is the peer of any man in this
great Dation--that is, the Narragansett
pier" Leaving Monmouth at 9 this
morning, the judge came to Bushnell
where be was met by a number of political
and personal friends, end escorted to
! LA HARPE.
la pretty town of some two thousand
inhabitants, eituated in the northwestern
part of Hancock county, AT the depot he
was received by leading citizens. brass
band, marching clubs i'm full uniform.
carriages, and other demonstrations of
welcome. and escorted uptown. At about
this time large delegation from Blandius-
vile and Dallas City entered in the town,
and the procession was formed and march
| ed through the principal streets. This
latter delegation was at least Eve hundred
strong, and elaborately gotten up. There
were two bands, great wagon with forty
one young ladies attired in red. white and
blue. thirty eight of whom represented
the representative states and the other
| three forming a group representing the
north and south shaking hands, not oyer
the bloody chasm, but the Goddess of
Liberty" a mounted delegation of ladies
| and gentlemen In full uniform,
A BLONDE COLUMBIA ON HORSEBACK,
Hancock guards mounted and Hancock
guards on foot, not to mention specifically
long line of loaded wagons, many of
which were handsomely decorated. When
the procession dlsbanded for dinner, the
town presented the appearance of fete
day. The streets. sidewalks, hotels stores
shops and private houses, were thronged
with robust. clean. good natured, healthy
looking crowd, most of them intent on
patronlZlng the ginger~suap sharp and the
lemonade fend upt the brink of tempo
| rary bankruptcy. Judge Trumbuil diDed
| at the house of ex-senator Warren. and
shortly after o'clock band announced
his approach to the pavilion erected in
the center of tho public park, 10 the centre
of the town, He appeared sandwiched
between Elder Jones. of Blandinsville, aud
Gen Dodge of Iowa. and followed by the
| thirty y-eight pretty girls in national colors,
and long line of uniformed marchers. a
thousand had anticipated his coming. HIS
approach was the signal for
A GENERAL RUSH
from the streets and shops to the park,
and. by the time the band had run out of
wind, between four and five thousand peo-
pic surrounded the elegant pagoda. Hon.
j, Ii Huugate, Democratic candidate to
the state senate from this senatorial dis
trict. called the meeting to order aud made
several announcements, and the giee club
sang two pieces in good voice aud style
In a few eloquent words Mr.!Hungate in
troduced Judge Trumbull, and bis appear
ance here, as elsewhere, was greeted with
three rousing cheers. The judge was
slightly hoarse at first, as the result of his
many open air speeches and his long ride
Of last evening, but this defect passed
away gradually, as he warmed up. He
began By assuring the audience that he
was
NOT HERE TO APPEAL TO The PREJUDICEs
or partisanship of any. He came 10 the
interest of peace, and if it lay within his
power he would blot out from the English
language every word encouraging Sec
tional strife. The large majority of his
hearers. he said, were not voters twenty
years ago. The most of those who took
an active part in the events of that period
had passed away or had turned oyer to
their children the management Of political
affairs. Therefore when they were told
that in case the Democratic party was
successful the government would be
relegated to the control OF the
rebels. they should remember that
NEST of the rebels were in their graves.
He requested any man present who
doubted the iof facts which he
should make during the afternoon to
interrupt him. and promised to answer in
respectful and serious terms sall questions
put to him. He had lived too long to
desire to mislead the youth of his country,
and was near the end of life. 1t was
necessary. be had found to
REMOVE PREJUDICE
before facts could be appreciated. He had
alyesd7 Z beep charged With being
inconsistent. His determination had
always to be right first and
then :consistent because he was
right. q He was occasionally asked if he
was not twenty years ago, on the other
side. On the Other. side ct what? THAT thing
to ghieh his cuestioners referred had got
no sides, If it had an eaIstease to-day
be should be on the same side that he was
then. From his youth up he had been on
the side of universal liberty and against
slavery IApplause For two hours
Judge Trumbull held his immense audi
ence introducing fresh topic before any
| body tired of the old and he was only
interrupted by applause not single
republican being present who was rash
| enough to accept his challenge made ct
the beginning. The word enthusiasm
has been worn SO threadbare that it is
meaningless, but it is the only word IN it's
pristine purity, that can be used to char
acterize the state of feeling In which the
Judge left bis hesrers. Cheers on cheers
and music by the bands closed the most
| important . political demonstration evtr
witnessed in Hancock county. Hapcock
coust9 is
A DEMOCRATIC COUNTY
in what has heretofore been republican
district, but La Harpe is a republican
town. and it is this fact that gives signi
6canoe to The great demonstration of
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