Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-10-28

ticket. Notwithstanding that there were
times when 1t was harder to vote against
much ADLER man on the opposite ticket.
Let party obligation and party discipline
prompt the voting for the republican can.
didates from top to bott om'
He looked around to Joe Haas to see
If he had said enough on the Gest score,
but failing to catch the eye of the chair
man. who with Capt. Robinson and
Chairman Schroeder was having an AMI
mated conversation in the rear of the
stage, he launched out into asupport of the
republican state ticket. He praised DR..
Edwards as an old friend and neighbor of
his and then he devoted himself to the
republican national platform of 1888. He
upheld the silver bill, the force election
bin and lastly the tariff plank. the out
growth Of which was the Mckinley bill,
the shortcomings of which he indirectly
attempted to excuse on the ground
that the republican party had
pledged itself to revise the
tariff. He left the subject long enough
to put in a word in support of Reeds
quorum ruling, and getting back again at
the tariff, he defended the tin-plate and
wool tariffs on the same old ground that
they were necessary to foster and pro-
tect home industries. He held that the
aggregate of the dutisble list was A per
cent, whereas 1t was As under the pre-
vious law; held that the party had put all
sugars on the free list; that the Mckinley
bill had been shamefully misrep7esented.
and that the republican party had al>
ways been for reduction OF taxation. In
| conclusion he begged that the Mckinley
bill be given time for practical operation,
before it was condemned. The general
expressed hope that he would hear
| good news from Rock Island next Tues
day, and sat down.
Chairman Schroeder, who had, as
stated above. been in conversation with
Joe Haas and Capt. Robinsan during q
large part of the generals speech, then
came forward and said.
CAPT, ROBINSON WANTS To SPEAK"
| The captain was sresdy on his feet
to be received, and he at once took
off his overcoat and went at it. He gave
his opinion of the two great parties, one
being termed the party of progress and
of benefit to mankind, and the other of
mud singers. Then he rambled off into
the subject of currency. You know. "
he said, that am interested in the cur,
rency and in national bank, and if there
is so much money in it why did P. L
Mitchell. who, you all know, is careful
and conservative business man, get out
of q national bank and into state bank
| Now | ask you why2 The democratic
party is tissue of lies from beg inning
to end; they don't tell the truth about
the hlcKin ey bill. though / have not
read it. but know 1t was devised by oul
friends and that's enough"
After this wonderful display of logic
eloquently expressed. Capt. Robinson
said he had known both the congressiona
candidates from boyhood. Either would
do the best he could. but here he went of
again, but there has been no argumen'
10 this campaign; it has all been nut
singing, Now you all know of my con-
nection with the ferry" There was
man in this town. he said who had pre-
tended to have succeeded in getting tn
bridge open free on the face of his opuo
sition. is there q man here who hs
ever been stopped from going over tina
bridgt2' he asked.
Thereupon he resumed bis rambling
1.-The ARGUS has said that | told Gest {,
keep the bridge closed. Is that SOP 9Th
captain paced up and down 10 front o
the footlights) The bridge has Away
been open TO anyone who could haul
load not so big or bulky ths
it could not pass. Is that no
SOP Then the captain went bacl
and pounded the table three times. Blu
the captain went on: The only things
that had been denied free admission I,
the bridge land the captain omitted L
say that this was only in the season o
the year when the ferry was running
was merchandise which was bein
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other, and this was because the Ro G.
Island road had put its money into tn
government bridge and ought to hsv
something TO say about what went owe
it. At this juncture the captain rante'
of into another chsrnel. Again W
will quote from his OVID fluent tongue
IF have a representative there in con
gress, it is his duty to introduce me whe
matter comes up that I think
Now isn't that SOP When the order
were to be changed regarding the use o
the bridge, asked Mr.. Gest to get per
mission from the secretary of war, tina
L be heard, and he did it. Wash: ths
all right9 Wouldn't Cable have don
that? Wouldn't anyone else have don
that? Give me permission to speak whel
the question came up as to whether th,
bridge should be free7 Wasn't that al
right? Now ask You. wasn't all tina
which was in the ARGUS lie? Yes. yol
know it was e and the ARGUS know
1t was lie. Wasn't itf
After this stupendous effort the cap
tain went back and pounded the ia bl
again and then he said Gest had done al
he could to accomplish what he ha
been sent there to accomplish" He ha
seen and appreciated Gest's wor
in Washington? "Gest has represented u
fairly, truly and ably. Has any of yo