Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-16
Thick Of the Fight.
Big Guns at Work on the indi.
ana Line of Battle.
A HOT PLACE IN THE CONFLICT

Thurman and Blaine Stirring Up the Polit-
icai Enthusiasm-The Big Barbecue at
Shelbyvilis and Remarks of the "Old
Roman"-Rlaine at New Albany Talks
to "a Throng About Mills and Secretary
Fairehiid's Recent Statements-General
Campaign Notes.
SHEIBYvnLE, Ind, Oct l5,-At least &c.
900 people did honor to Judge Thurman here
yesterday. OF course Shelby county of itself |
did not furnish this great concourse. They
came from Marion and Vigo, and Rush.
and Bartholomew. The Illinois |
border sent contingent and Kentucky also
contributed her share from Louisville and |
Covington The Thurman club came from |
Columbus; the Duckworths from Cincin- |
matt, and there were scores of Indiana cam
paign clubs from all over the state There
were also a large humber of Frances Cleve- |
land clubs composed Of girls, which formed |
perhaps the most picturesque feature of the
day Every man carried a bandana handker-
chief and every woman bandana umbrella,
which latter proved of decided utility, rs it
raned steadily throughout the morning
When Judge Thurman stepped on the plat
form at the fair ground he saw a vast,
surgng crowd in front of him. Judge o. S.
Glessner introduced Judge Thurman, who
spoke as follows:
My FRIENDS: Before l commence the brief
speech that shall try to make to you oday, |
want TO make an explanation. l want 10 say TO
you that have been compelled to decline shaking
hands with my friends. whom, under other cir
cumstanCes it would have given me great pleas
ure to take by the hand; but / have been on the
stump so long and receiving so many dele
cations that this arm of mine is as to
make il impossible for me to shake hands with
you. 1t would cause NE more suffering than |
could bear, and more than any of you would wish
TO infiict upon me. | shall speak to you very
briefly, because first, there are many other
speakers here whom you desire to hear that it
would be inexecusahe in me to monopolize your
time ] am anti mOnopolist-L great chceringl
from principle, and, therefore, on the stump |
never take the time that belongs to other men.
The judge then SAID he was a happy man
to stand i'll Shelbyvila where his dear friend
Hendricks had lived so long, and also to See
the evidence of grand victory in Indiana,
which would mean the election of Grover
Cleveland TO the presidency again. Here the
speaker drew his bandana, which was re-
celved with uproarious applause, ana then
referred to the last campaign for president,
in which he said the Republicans predicted
that the Democract would paw the rebel
debt etc, which prediction had not been
verified, for nothing Of the kind had been
suggested and the country was nevrr so
prosperous. He eulogized President Cleve-
land ard in this connection said:
Now my friends. there never was a president
who took his seat under more trying circun-
stances than Cleveland did on the 4th of March,
1885. The Democratic party had been out of
power for nearly quarter of century. OF
course there were many Democrats who thought
that when got Demo, ratio administration
very Democrat in the land ought to have a good
office. OF course there were others who wanted
no office, but had their own peculiar opinions as
70 how the government should be conducted; and
70 meet and satisfy the wishes of the peope-to
satisfy the wishes of those who had elected him
president that man Cleveland had the hardest
task that was ever intruSted to a president and
now how has he per formed that task You learn
4 happy and complete answer to that question
In the fact that after three and half years his
administration the Democratic convention at ST.
Louis renominated him by a unanimous vote, and
that nomination has been ratified by the Democ-
racy of the whole country from Maine TO Mexico,
with the same sort of unanimity. Ne second rate
man was ever renomnatad for the presidency of
the United States by unanimous vote. l will
change that and say no second rate man was ever
nominated for the presidency of the United States
the second time The fact is that Cleveland has SO
conducted himself. that his administration has
been so clean, so upright 50 patriotic, that the
whole Democratic party from one end of the re-
public to the other, said Let us give him an
other term
The speaker here complained that he had
such cold that he talked with difficulty, hut
tod TO fayy ha
which be declared simply a tax, and when
that tax was used not for the purpose of rails
ing the necessary revenue, but millions of
unnecessary revenue, it was simply steal
from the people The tax was paid in the
most unequal degree by the poor man. He
then went over the same argument he has
heretofore given to prove that the tax was
paid by tue purchaser Of goods and made
them cost more than they should cost, not
only on those products of foreign manufac-
ture, but on the home products. This had re-
suited in an immense surplus, which repre-
sented unnecessary money taken from the
people for which the government has no use
| The Republicans said it was for the poor
mans benefit TO tax him on everything
while he lived and bury him in a taxed
/ grave, but snch a statement was absurd A
nation could not be made rich by taxing
| itself beyond the requirements of the gov
| ernment. The Democrats had no purpose to
| break down the manufacturers. They would
| give them fair chance and that swas all
they could ask. The Democracy could not
be the enemy of the laborer as it was com
posed of laboring men.
The judge then closed with the admoni-
ton that upon Indiana might depend
whether Democratic president occupies the
White House for the next four years, and
thanking his auditors for their attention,
babe them goodbye.
At the other stands Senator voorhees, and
Assistant Postmaster General Stevenson were
the principal speakers.
Judge Thurman left at o'clock last night
for indianapolis and will speak in Fort
Wayne on Wednesday afternoon.
For the barbecue at the fair grounds fifty
steers had been killed and roasted Two
acres of tables were spread and at l2 O'Clock
the work of feeding the thousands began
The Cleveland steer was roasted whole and
highly seasoned.