Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-13
WITHOUT ONE CHEER.
1t was a Desperate Attempt to
Ratify Nevertheless.
but the crowd Had to be Invited TO
Applaud the Ticket and Then 1t
was Very Weak-Saturday
Nights Meeting.

nation of Harrison and Reid Saturday
| night. Notwithstanding that the pro-
posed event had been properly sn,
n,unced, and that the late Mr. Wells had
Bleuer's band out parading the streets
for an hour before the meeting was
called, it was a very small band of the
faithful that assembled about Mr.. Wells
select carriage load when it drew up on
Market Square, the place announced Cor
the meeting at s o'clock. Then such q
hustling as there was! A messenger was
dispatched between the offices of
Sweeney & Walker and MI. Lee Gait
on opposite sides of the square in
hot haste. The crowd which had
been drawn hither by the band
which at once began playing.
Marching Through Georgia, stood
meanwhile spell bound gazing with awe
at the men in the carriages. The ex-
| PLANTATION of the cause of the furry be-
tween the two offices on opposite sides
of the square was soon explain ed by the
flashing of two locomotive headlights, by
means of which il was hoped to compete
with the moon in illuminating the scene
After the desired effects had been pros
duced, E. D. Sweeney, who had been
deputizad to master the ceremonies. a.
rose in the carriage and solemnly an.
| nounced that two hours before wave of
| enthusiasm had been started on the At
lantic coast over the nomination of Har-
| rison and had been started west. 1t had
rolled over the Alleghsnies and come
west until it had struck the Mississippi
valley, and after the people here had ex-
pressed themselves it would start on a
cross the plains and over the Rockies to
the Pacific, where it would pass out
through the Golden gate and-but Mr..
Sweeney did not say whether it would go
on to the Honolulu, because no
doubt, OF the limited time at his dis
| posal, He, however, lsuded Harrison's
| nomination to the skies, with the rising
| infection oil Harrison. He was the
| best president that had ever sat in the
white house; he was the greatest man
| that had ever lived, the lustre of whose
! glorious deeds outshone everything be
| fore recorded in our national his
tory. And so nr. Sweeney talked and
talked until he was hoarse and finally sat
| down. after having introduced DR.. Pats
rick Gregg. The doctor made short
talk, much less imprisoned than that
! of his predecessor, and it was with nota-
| bly, less of an effort The venerable doc
tor thought that the country was safe in
the hands of either party, but safer he
believed in the hands of Harrison than
anyone else. He renewed his feality
to republican doctrines and quietly re-
| tired to his seat in the carriage.
G. J. Scare then made studied effort
to make an impression. He commenced
by apologizing for his own appearance
and paying the somewhat left>handed
compliment to those who had spoken and
were to come, by saying that the CON-
mittee hsd inconsiderstely placed the
poorest speaker first. but that if the
! crowd would be patient it would get the
dessert later on. Mr.. Searle, it may be ex-
planned, is candidate for the republican
nomination for states attorney. and in
justice to his practices as a lawyer it
should be said that he is not the iudivid-
ual who became the laughing stock of the
community in conn ection with suit
against THE ARGUS few months since
but his aspirations are such that it was
incumbent upon him to make the best Of
his opportunities Saturd sy night. And
he did. He first recl;ed the history of
the United States. then told in particular
all about the civil war, and presented
some startling facts that had never been
heard before about the men who, put it
down and he said something about it be-
ing a good plan to pension the disable
survivors. There was q possibility. he
said in the same connection, of q change
of administration next fall, but not pro-
liability. He tried to show why there
should not be, the sum and substance Of
his remarks being that Harrison ought 10
be reelected because he is republican.
Mr.. Sweeney with flourish of trump
cts brought on the dessert-ex-C Congress-
man W. II. Gest. Mr.. Gest's remarks
were begun, continued and ended in
praise of the billion-dollsr congress, of
which it will be remembered, he was
member. The democrats he said. had de-
nounced the appropriations of the last
republican congress and yet had already
prepared river and hsrbor bill with
$50, 600. OOO-"snd," said Mr.. Gest, Il
thank God for il. He talked about the