Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-09
A Robust Old Roman.
Severe Test of Thurman's Pow
ers of Endurance.
KEPT BUSY RECEIVING DELEGATES.

, COLUMBUS, o., June Cit was expects
that the Tammany delegation would arriv
here yesterday morning, and pay their re
spects 10 Judge Thurman, and local club
, were at the station early to escort them, bu
they failed to appear. The North and South
Carolina delegations arrived, however, ant
were escorted TO Humans house, while the
band played "Dixie" The members OF tn
delegations were introduced TO Thurman, WIFI
received them cordially, but made no adj
dress, speaking TO them in a conversations
way only.
soon after noon the train bearing the
ne wspaper correspondents arrived, and they
went in body to the Thurman residence
| Upon arriving there the correspondents werS
cordially received by the distinguished
Ohioan, and after hand shaking all round
Major Jno NJ. Carson, Of The Philadelphia
Ledger made the following address:
Judge Thurman-The gentlemen by
whom you are surrounded are newspaper
correspondents resident at Washington. We
represent newspapers of nearly every state
in the Union. We also represent, in a news
paper way, both the great political parties,
| and should other parties spring up between
now and November, will doubtless represent
such parties also. We are a kind Of minia-
ture national convention, but IL formally
convened would not be found so harmonious
| as to choice of candidates and declaration Of
| principles as the convention whose sessions
we have attended at st. Louis, and which So
lected you as its candidate for vice president
Finding ourselves in Columbus through
the courtesy of Mr.. Holden of
The Cleveland Plaindealer, we have
| improved the opportunity to call
| upon you to pay our respects, and to
| congratulate you upon your nomination as
the candidate of your party for vice presi
dent. Knowing you personally-as many of
| us do-esteeming you for your virtues and
| abilities, admiring the steadfastness and fidel-
ty with which you have adhered to your
party, some of MS being Democrats will
support you, and others of us being good Re
puhlicans, for the same reasons will oppose
you. But should you be elected in Novem-
Der next | can assure you that none will give
you more earnest and more hearty vel
come back to public life and to Washington
than the corps of correspondents of Newspa-
per row.
Thurman made brief and felicitous reply,
and then, after partaking of a repast the
party at once took carriages for the station,
where the special train on the Panhandle
in waiting to carry them east
At o'clock the Ohio delegation and the
jackson and Thurman clubs of the city ar
rived home, and proceeded at once to Thur
of the Ohio delegation, presented the delega-
ton, and Thurman addressed them as fol-
lows:
FELLOW CITIzEHs--I understand that many good
people say-and think with justice, two,-that
am too old to run for the vice presidency. Those
who say and think this don't understand the eff.
feet of such demonstrations as come from your
hands upon old Democrat. Why, | feel, ten
years younger. A voice-"Yes, twenty years,
Judge Well it will be twenty years in twenty
days LLaughterl Why, last night stood here to
syeak to my fellow citizens, intending to
speak only five minutes and spoke twenty min
utes with great vigor. suppose that before the
election in November shall be fool enough to
prance around like young man just out of his
teens,
But let IFS be serious my friends. When you
were kind enough to call upon me you were |
leaving for St Louis, did not want the nom
nation God knows did not. All l wanted was
peace. ! could not say would not accept the
nomination; | could not say would accept;
and so, surrounded by those difficulties there
was other way but to place myself In your
hands knowing that you woul3 deal fairly and
honestly with my honor and the honor of the |
Democratic party. l do not say whether you
acted wisely or not. do know you acted fairly |
and honestly by / shall always have q |
grateful heart, and thank you for what you have /
done. And no matter whether l shall succeed /
not, can not be deprived of the good will of |
the people of Ohio and the United States.
am afraid If l talk longer will, my friend /
Lowenstein would say paralyze you. Now that |
the ticket Is nominated hope every one of you /
will work for 1t. Another word: scarcely ever /
has there been submer spectacle than that of |
the unanimous nomination of Cleveland Cheers.
You did n wise thing in that. The people love
brave man, and Cleveland is a brave The
people love an honest man, and God knows
Grover Cleveland is an honest man. The people
love a man of sound Judgment, and know of
no man of sounder Judgment that Grover Cleve-
land. The people love a man who stands for the
people and for principle, and does not fear the ]
results, and Mr. Cleveland is such man. To
every man at st. Louis who voted for Cleveland
IL will be an honor as long as he lives Cheers
A member of the Ohio delegation then
presented Thurman with the bandanna
which rested upon the standard of the New
York delegation at st. Louis, and was en-
trusted to Thurman by that delegation The
clubs and delegations withdrew after shak
ing hands with Mr.. Thurman.
The orations of the day were crowned by a
grand demonstration in the evening. About
8 o'clock the Tammany club and the Licking
club, of Newark, o., with other Newark citi-
zens, numbering in all about 400 Democrats,
arrived in the city. They were met by dele
cations from the local clubs and were at
once taken to the residence of Judge
Thurman. The distinguished Democrat soon
appeared, and was greeted with cheers. After
the meeting was called to order by Albert
White short speeches were made by T. M. p.
Brister president, and II, X. Jones, vice
president Of the Licking club, and others
The Old Roman then stepped to the front
After receiving so many visitors and talking
so much, it was not thought that his remarks
would be lengthy, but he made the longest
speech he has made since the convention, and
was in far better voice than on the proceed
ing evening. He could be heard distinctly ,
throughout the great crowd. He said:
GENTLEMEN OF THE LICKING County CLUBS:
have no words sufficient to express to you my ,
sense of gratitude for the honor you have paid
me tonight You have left your homes and
come here, and said kind things that have in
spired and nvigorated me. 1t is enough to add
Ten years to the life of an ordinary man. [Ap-I
plsuse.l / thank you most profoundly for this
mark of esteem, IL shows that your hearts are in
the right place and that you mean to stand by the
Democratic doctrine and maintain Democratic
principles with all your power and ability,
He then thanked the people of Columbus |
who were escorting the visiting clubs, and {
said that those who said he was too old to
run for office would find that he could talk [
yet at least. He felt like making an old {
speech, but it was not yet time for 1
them. He entreated them to make an earn 1
ast fight, and Ohio would he at least doubt I
III state. jefferson, Madison, Monroe and '
ackson, and, he thought, Pierce, had re-
eived Ohio's electoral vote. Four years of
rule had proved the predictions
f calamities that would follow Democratic =
ccession untrue, and left the nation more ..
rosperous than ever before
He made speech of about half an hour
oPINIo MS AS YOU LIKE EN-.
Jews of the Matter that as Usual Depend
on Who Holds Them. a
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