Rock Island daily Argus., 1888-10-22
CHICAGO REPUBLICANS RALLY.
Blaine Makes Several Short Speeches an
Reviews a Parade.

Blaine Makes Several Short Speeches and
Reviews a Parade.
CHICAGO, Oct 22-Hon. James g. Blaine
spoke Saturday evening for thirty-fl min
utes to an audience of 1000 people in Battery
D armory, on Michigan avenue. An equally
large meeting was held simultaneously in
the adjoining Cavalry armory, where Mr..
Blaine also made brief address. Both
buildings were densely thronged, and more
persons were unable to gain admittance than
those within the buildings. A sIrging,
struggling mass of humanity bio .kaded the
entrances for several hours before the time
set for the meeting, and when the doors
were opened every available foot of space
was quickly filled The crowd did not wait
to ascend the stairs leading to the galleries,
but men and boys clambered eagerly up the
posts and over the ratings above. The ar
| rival of Mr.. Blaine was the signal for an
outburst of applause, and upon his introduc-
| ton by Governor Oglesby, the cheering con-
tinued for several minutes.
| As soon as Mr. blaine could get quiet he
proceeded to speak. He said the Repub-
| licans had ruled for twenty -four years, and
| their record was known of all men. Their
Supremacy had obtained at a period that
was only second in Importance to that be-
| tween the declaration of Independence and
| the organization of the government The
| Democrats had been in charge now for a
| time, and the question was whether they
should continue in power, and to that en-
be proposed to examine their record He
then arraigned the Democracy for failure to
keep the obligation voluntarily assumed that
they would reform the civil service; in
stead they had lowered the standard. even
dshonoring it by appointing to office par
doned criminals He denounced the fisher
les treaty as a betrayal OF American rights,
and approved its rejection by the senate; ar
raigned the pension policy OF the govern
ment, and denounced the vetoes of private
pension bills, and generally criticised the
president for toofrequent use of the veto
power The refusal of the Democracy to ad-
nit Dakota to statehood because the vote OF
the new state would be Republican in the
electoral college was vigorously attacked, and
declared a crying outrage, and in this connec-
tion he generally animadverted on the his
tory of the Democracy in the matter of ad.
missions to the Union.
He then proceeded to criticise the finsn-
cial policy of the government on tue matter
Of the surplus, which he said had been built
np persiStently with the purpose of creating
the condition that confrouts u.s. and said
that such a policy would have built barri.
cades in Partisan streets and resulted in sus-
picions of lunacy of the queen if attempted
in England He charged that the money
had been deposited in pet banks without ref
erence to the needs Of the country, asserting
that New York city got q lions share of it,
while the west had been neglected, and this
for the purpose of assisting in the reelection
of Cleveland Referring to the charge that
John Sherman, when secretary of the treas
ury, did the same thing, be said:
| THAT is as false as the policy which the
story was started to sustain is flagitious. L
is utterly false. [Applause.l John Sherman
never had a single dollar that was takeI
from the treasury. When he was selling the
United States 4s-a great financial achieve
ment, for he sold sos, 900, 600 of them-they
were sold across the counters of banks tba
had been made the financial agents of the
government, and it was the money paid il
for them mot money taken from the treas
ury) that Secretary Sherman placed Tina
money was used, in turn, to pay for the SO
& per cents that we're retired by the substi
tuition of the A., by which $l4. .000, 900 Of in
terest annually was saved to the United
States. [Cheers.l What Secretary Sher
man did was specifically, by letter, author
lied by law as a necessity"
Mr.. Blaine closed as follows: "I know
that speech Of this kind, or of any kind, Il
the Republicans OF Illinois is useless and
even worse than useless. You have stood ii
the vanguard, you have led the party in it
great triumphs. Your great imperial west
ern state, under the lead of my friend on m,
right [Governor Oslesby1 and his compeers
has stood as q rock in the way of the southern
Democracy. tCheers1 1t stood tn re III
time of war and it will stand there througl
the eras of peace; and in the lead of Illinoi
and the thousands and tens of thousands o
her gallant sons, we find an assurance of vic
tory"
Gen. A. f, King, of Maryland, followed ii
review of the issues Of the campaign
The crowning features of the demonstrt
tion was the brilliant street pageant Of un
l formed clubs with torches, hambeaux an
transparencies, which marched through tn
; city in the evening About eight thousan
; men were in line. Two of the most interest
ing features of the parade were the CONNER
l ciai travellers, who all carried red, white an
blue umbrellas, and who were very numel
Gus, and the young ladies' company, clad
l gowns "bult" of red, white and blue vertics
:, stripes and zouave jackets. They trudgst
along over the long route of the parade /,
bravely as the, men and we're continuousl
appauded by the thousands of people WI
ii lined the sidewalks on the whole line
; march. Mr.. Blaine reviewed the processio
from the balcony of the Leland hotel
: Mr. Blaine, accompanied by Wake
. . Blaine, Gen. Adam E. King and a numb,
of newspaper correspondents, left at TO-:
l. last night for Buffalo in a special car a
tached to the regular Michigan Centrl
train.
q Mr.. Blaine was called upon after lunch Sa
:. urday by members Of the organization {
veterans Of lS40, known as the First Tipp
It conoe club of Chicago, whose quarters a
D on the first floor of the Grand Pacific hote
+ where Mr.. Blaine was staying. Later he a
y peared in the club-room, and, upon beir
$ presented by the president. was welcome
l. with nine rounds of cheers. He made
n brief address. telling how, as boy Of IL,
r saw Gen. Harrison's grandfather on ii
It way to the capital and remembered Il
,s name of the coach he Travelled in. He W
z waiting now, he said, in patient confiden,
" to see the distinguished grandson embark
n- the same trip Mr.. Blaine also visited Il
te Commercial Travellers Republican clu
] rooms and signed the register Of membe
,e ship, and took campaign umbrella al
j. badge.
5; Friohtful Disaster in ItaIy