Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-18
O'Mnra and McPheeters at HiIlsdaIe

dllLSDAl4h, SEPT. 10.
A crowd of about It's gathered in
town this afternoon to hear the Hon. Pat
O'Mars and Rev McPheeters shoot their
guns and wave their bloody rags. The
natives had prepared seats and speak
ers' stand in the grove south of town on
Oak alley The Joslyn club was present
with its flag on a willow pole. The
Messrs. Whitesides sang The Star
Spangled Banner" and q campaign song,
after which ex-Sheriff Payne intro
duced Pat OMara, who opened by
saying that the people could see the
difference in the working of free trade and
protection, as McPheeters wasraised I'M
der protection and he under free trade
'e said that it had been supposed
~ this was campaign of ideas, and
Upon proceeded to SANDER the DEM
Ia - party, seeming to forget the ideas.
,anrbl;ospoke of Geo. W. Gamble. the
tencv saTind veil over his incompe-
thon,hI 10 NJ conclusion that he (Pa)
competency AZ 4 capable of Judging his
IN the last Satnrdo one else. He alluded
here, in which Mr. democratic meeting
not understand WHY tPiry said he could
be II per cent higher 10 ' sse .sA sh ,Oo
Pat tried to explain by s.. maj iou .
democratic legislature Of 1887 'na. .ne
propriate money enough BY onee n1t ap
half millions Of dollars TO meet thu one
prlAtiOn. He said that it took a tax p'o ~
per cent. to raise the eight and ONE,
and II per cent. additional to raise Il
additional one and one>half millions.
appears that Pat had forgotten his arith
metic when he left home. He said Har
rison could not help but vote as he did ol
the Chinese question in the senate H
also said that China could send
hundred million Cinnamon here an,
not miss them, and that at that tim
we needed the Cinnamon for laborers
he said that Grover Cleveland was no
the friend of the soldier; that he wen
nshlng on decoration day and had vetoe
pension bills, but dill not say that he ha
signed more pension bills than all tn
presidents from Washington down. Hi
speech then lost some of its flavor, so h
dished out little bloody shirt to seaso
1t with He said that Cleveland aband
oned bis profession OF law to become
public hangman. He forgot to say tina
he (PaO left the democratic party becaus
he could not 90 to the legislature, an,
now be wants to pose as states attorney
lie then alluded TO the free whisky planl
and said 1t was to be free only on tn
spirits used for mechanical purposes an,
the arts. After some other remarks whicl
we have not space to write, he set on
some more bloody shirt He conclude,
by more abuse Of President Cleveland
and sat down almost exhausted after hi
great mental and physical labor.
The glee club then sang 1.-THE Politiea
Barber Shop" when the big McPheeter
took the floor and almost broke his bacI
IN trying to look over his stomach at hi
feet to see il trey were in position. FL
appears to be al escaped clown from ,
circus, and we were on the point of look
Ing around for the show tents. His ad
dress up to the time we left was nothip,
out testing and bloody shirt. We left t.
look after musket, expecting to be mus
tered into the service TO whip the rebel
again. We would like to hea
thess speakers again, as they make vote,
Tor cleveland wherever they go. TIL,
crowd was about equally divided between
the republicans and democrats, with sew
eral prohibitionists.