Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-08
VISITED BY THOUSANDS.
Exceptionally Large Number of Visitors t
Gen, Harrison-His Remarks.


Gen. Harrison-His Remarks.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct Seen. Harrisons
visitors Saturday and Saturday evening
numbered several thousand. While two In
diana counties, that are hopslessly Demo
cratic, supplied 500 of the number, 1t re-
manned for Chicago to round off the visita-
ton with over 5000 OF her citizens. repre-
senting the Chicago Union Veteran club, the
Veteran Union league, the Blaine club
(Englewood), Hyde Parke and Lake View
Zouaves, together with the Fiambeau club
of the latter place. IN addition to these
were 900 of the Hyde Park league, who
came by another road, the "Big Four" the
first mentioned travelling over the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois and Indiana, Bloomington
& Western The Hyde Park league arrived
at i o'clock. and it was noiunlil an hour and
half later that the Indiana, Bloomington
& Western Il ain reached the ity.
By the delegations coming that way stops
were made at Danviile, Charlottesville and
Pottsboro. Speeches were made at these
places by Col Mum, Stephen A. Douglas,
Jr., A. c. Higgins. George c. Ingham, Gen.
Hovey and Corporal Tanner, the two latter
joining the delegation at Charlottesville.
The trip here Tor those on both roads was
one of ovations, crowds gathering to cheer
the trains at each station. With the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western train was a fort
from which a Napoleon gun was fired along
the route. Reaching this city the visitors in
| procession were seen by thousands of people
/ who lined the sidewalks and sent forth cheer
after cheer Al Tomlinson hall at 9 o. clock
in the evening. WHERE 6 900 people were as
| sembled, Gen Harrison received the visitors.
/ For a square from the ball the streets were
| blocked by people who could not gain an
entrance.
Gen Harrison was received with tremen-
| dous cheers, and men rushed toward and en-
| folded him in flags, while all the time the
| great audience was keeping up the enthusi'
asm with cheer after cheer Ex-Governor
Hamilton and Judge Keatley spoke for the
| visitors briefly.
Gen Harrison began by complimenting
the delegation from Chicago and vicinity,
and expressed his pleasure especially at the
large proportion Of workingmen present.
He then welcomed the veterans with few
appropriate remarks, saying. among
| other things, that tue union
army in its composition wa
I
1t was the arm Injured TO labor on the farm
and in the shop that had upheld the flag
Coming to the tariff question he charged the
Democracy with persistently presenting tn,
revenue tariff proposition, notwithstanding:
that every time that principle had obtained
in the administration of the government
business and industrial depression had fol
Lowell, and said he had been given a copy o
The London News of Sept X, in which tb
editor, after referring to the contrary view
taken, of the Democratic position, said tina
if the contest was not between free trade an,
protection, it was between protec
ton and something that was not proteC
ton, and, the general added, "it is not o
the smallest interest to you what the othel
theory is" He said that those who honest,
believed the import duty was added to tn
cost to the consumer Of all articles produce,
in the Unitei States could not stop short o
the absolute destruction of the protective
system. The impulse Of such loicg inevitably
drew in the direction of free trade.
When the general closed there were lou,
cries of ego on but he declined, sayin
others wished to speak, and after thaukin;
the audience for its visit and attention b
retired