Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-02
GENERAL AARRISON'S VISIT
The Republican Nominee Receiv
Delegations of Supporter

Delegations of supporter
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July Gee
son spent Saturday morning receivi
and answering letters and teleCra
ing the afternoon representatives
quette club, of Chicago. a young
publican club OF which the gen
honorary member, called at his he
sent resolutions which were adoT
meeting OF the club after Gen. l.
nomination. The committee consl
George V Lauman, president: Hubert u
Croker second vice president " : Gil
bert, treasurer, and F. B Gould They werj
dri ven 10 the generals residence shortly aftel
3o'clock and received by him in the from
parlor. Mr. Lsuman presented the resolu
lions, and the general responded as follows
GENTLEMEN or THE MARQUETTE ClrB. sincere
" thank voG foC the congratulations of the Mar
Qnetta club of Chicago well recolect the even
ing spent with you last February and remem
her how fayorahly your club impressed me al
that time a BODY Of active energetic Young
Repuhlicans-uot so much an organization foT
pleasure and Tor social purposes as for active
advancement Of Republican principles in your
vicinity and III TIN country a. we'll | thought
/ recognized IL y6u then an efficient body foi
work III the STATE Of lllInoI, that could IN the
coming campaign render signal service to the
party whose principle. its members maintain
rejoice In your coming to call on me here and
hope YOU will carry my sincere thanks to your
members and make yourselves welcome at my
home now and Whenever You are Ia indianapolis
Saturday night 400 old soldiers, irrespective
OF party called on zen. Harrison at his
home, and, through Mai james l. Mitchell,
congratulated him ON his nomination Gen.
Harrison responded, thanking the veterans
for their call! and then shook hands with each
OF them, Mrs. Harrison joining the general in
the hanishaking
The next body to call was the Harrison Re
publican club. composed Of 500 colored citi-
zens of indianapolis. The spokesman was
Benjamin D. Bagsby, who presented bis COM
panions to the general, who assured them of
his respect for and interest in the welfare OF
the colored people of this country. He re-
ferred to his nativity in Ohio, on the Ohio
river. the dividing line between slave and
free territory, and the dramatic scenes wit
messed there when slaves would manage to
get across the river. Said he:
I remember once as a boy wandering through
my arandfather's orchard at North Bend, and in
pressing through an alder thcket that grew on
man with the frightened look of n fugitive in
his eve attempting to satisfy his hunger with
some walnuts he had gathered he noticed my
approach with fierce, startled look to see
whether was likely to betray him. was fright
ened myself, and left him in some trepidation,
but kept his secret lCries of Good good
Gen. Harrison then passed in review the
events of the past twenty-eght years in the
history of the negro race in this country, and
expressed his satisfaction with the aboiishment
of the legal disabilities which had been put on
the black man in this state and elsewhere,
and his qualification that the Republican party
had been the pioneer and enacter of the new
order of things, He spoke of the JOY of the
coiored people along the line of Sherman's
march to the sea, when they saw for the first
time in years the stars and stripes, and closed
with an expression of the pleasure with
which he behed the desire of the race for
education, which he said vas the open way
to their perfect emancipation. He then
thanked the club for their visit, and the
members filed through the house and shook
him hr the hand