Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-07-02
GENERAL hARRIsoMs VISITORS
The Republican Nominee Receives Three
Delegations of Supporters.

Delegations OF supporters.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, July 2-Gen. Harri-
son spent Saturday morning receiving callers
and answering letters and kilograms. Dur
ing the afternoon representatives of the Mar
quette club of Chicago young mems Re
publican club of which the general Is al
honorary member, called at his home to pre-
sent resolutions which were adopted at the
meeting of the club after Gen. Harrison's
nomination The committee consisted OF
George V. Lauman, president; Hubert d.
Croker, second vice president w. =. gil
bert, treasurer and f. b. Gould. They were
driven to the generals residence shortly after
3 O'Clock, and received by him in the front
parlor. Mr. Lauman presented the resolu
tions, and the general responded as follows
GENTLEMEN OF THE MARQUETTE CLUB: sincere
ly thank you for the congratulations of the Mar
quette club of Chicago, well recollect the even
ing spent with you last February and remem
her how favorably your club impressed me al
that time as body otnactive, energetic young
Republicans-not so much an organization fol
pleasure and for social purposes for active
advancement of Republican principles In your
vicinity and in the country as well. thought
l recognized in you then an efficient body fol
work in the state of Illinois, that could in the
coming campaign, render signal service to the
party whose principles its members maintain.
rejoice in your coming to call on me here and
y'N'
MEMBERS and make yourselves welcome at my
home now and whenever you are In Indianapolis
Saturday night 400 old soldiers, irrespective
of party, called on Gen. Harrison at his
home, and through Maj 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 handshakiuG
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publican club, composed of 500 coored citi-
zens of indianapolis. The spokesman was
Benjamin d. Bagsby, who presented his COM
panions to the general, who assured them Of
his respect for and interest in the welfare of
the colnred 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:
remember once as a boy wandering through
my grandfather's orchard at North Bend, and in
pressing through alder thicket that grew on
its margin | saw sitting in its midst a coored
man with the frightened look of a fugitive in
his eye, 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. Cries of ''Goodr' "goodH'l
Gen. Harrison then passed in review the
events of the past twenty eight years in the
history of the negro race in this country, and
exp cc,ad his satisfaction with the adjustment
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
cOlored people along the line of Shermans
IN fhsa tnyl. fI,.Vr -,
time in years the stars and stripes. and closed
with an expression of the pleasure with
which he beheld the desire of the race for
education, which he said was the open way
to their perfect emancipation He then
thanked the club for their visit, and the
members fled through the house and shook
him bF the hand. .r.