The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-09-25
THE REPUBLICAN, RALLY.
The Hosts Assemble from Rock Island,
Mercer and Henry Counties, and,
Assisted by Scott County,
Iowa, Made a COnsid-
cradle Showing.

not actuated by the mean spirit of its
contemporary, and proposes to
give fair and impartial report of the
There is nothing gained in
giving a garbled report of general polit-
ical demonstration People who witness
it know that the garbled report is not
true. and even though it be favorable to
their views, they feel a tinge of shame
when the matter is mentioned. Yesterday
afternoons proceedings opened at $50
with a song by the Rock Island glee club
after which Mr.. Reimers introduced Hon.
R. ]. Oglesby, of Lincoln, H., republican
for governor. "Old Dick be.
gan his stereotyped speech, which he has
delivered over this state for twenty years,
by applying some taffy to Mr.. Reimers,
whom he characterized as young German
with beautiful flow of English Ian
guage.
Then the old fellow launched out INTO
his cut and dried old speech People who
have heard him before recognized the same
old harangue of ten to twenty years ago
There was the bloody shirt which he
waved wildly for half hour to get up
some enthusiasm among the soldiers. This
failing he applied his agricultural expert
ence for while, but it was no use. The
farmers were not there. Then he reached
down and yanked up his mechanical idea.
1t was no 90. The old man sized up the
crowd and tackled the SANDER against
Gov. Cleveland. The effect was magnet
ical. He had struck the keynote at last,
and then the old fellow waded in and
sandwiched in scandal among his other
remarks. He abused Hon, Garter Harris
son, and it was subject of remark that
Harrison did not mention 0glesby's name
in his speech the previous night. 1t
shows that the old man is troubled for all
his outward show of bravery. He even
had to attack ". II. Niece and talk about
the latter's vote on a tariff bill in congress
and make an appeal for Petrie The
speech was the same that has been heard
by the people of Rock Island heretofore.
M. G. Quinn, of Peoria. was next intro
duced and made speech of some length.
He discussed the political issues of the
day in the usual way, and told how he
had turned his political coat. As he
doesn't amount to anything to speak of,
his political opinions. at the present time
90 for naught
IN THE EVENING.
Quite a number of people came in from
the surrounding country and from Dayen>
port in the evening, and the city was pref:
ty well filled with humanity The illu.
limitations and decorations were very fine
The electric light tower at the postoffice
block corner was very nicely decorated
with Chinese lanterns. Along Second
avenue from the Harper house to Ninth
street the decorations were very hand
some. Also on Third and Fourth avenues
the decorations of Chinese lanterns, flags
and bunting were beautiful. Along the
line of march there were many democratic
houses Illuminated. These Examinations
had been provided for Tuesday evening in
honor of Hon. Carter Harrison, but the
unfavorable weather prevented their use.
and the democrats, in spirit of kindness,
helped the republican illumination and
decoration along. Red Greek fire
was burned at various places dur,
ing the evening and added con-
siderably to the grandeur of the scene .
The procession was very slow in forming
and it was nine o'clock before it got
started from the headquarters on Eight
zenith street. 1t was led by Bluer's band
followed by cavalry of 243 horsemen
made up of the various cavalry companies
of Rock Island, Henry and Mercer coun-
ties. Then came the footmen who num-
bered by actual and careful counting, ill.,
Guiding the company of boys, 1,040.
After these came the road cart brigade,
which numbered forty so that it may be
said that the procession numbered 300
persons all told There were eleven bands
in the procession, seven of which were
martial bands. The line of march was
from the headquarters on Eighteenth
street to Third avenue; east to Nineteenth
street; north to Second avenue; west to
Ninth street; south to Fourth avenue;
east to Twelfth street; north to Third
avenue; east to Eighteenth street, south
to Fourth avenue; east to Twentieth
street; north to Second avenue and then
to the square. The different clubs carried
torches and were dressed in uniforms.
1t was 1915 when the procession arrived
at the square and Mr. Reimers again in
troduced Hon. r. j. Oglesby, who evil
IDENTIFY wanted the country people who
came in since his afternoon speech to
know who he was. He talked for about
five minutes urging the country people to
support the republican ticket.
The Hon. John B. Hawley was next
introduced. but owing to the lateness of
the hour he was compelled to cut his
speech short. There were many in the
crowd who wanted to hear Mr.
Hawley speak and they were disap-
pointed when he announced that he
should only say few words. He tack
led the democratic party at once and &C
cused it having robbed the treasury after
the republicans had gone to the great
trouble of building it up, etc.
DR.. P. N. Cronin, of Chicago, sang a
song and made few remarks, but by this