Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-30
Ian OFTHE MASSES
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The speaker made reference to the
prostitution Of the pulpis to the mire
OF politics and called attention to the
TACT that the pulpit was intended tc
call men to the worship of their God
and not to the worship OF any par.
t'cular men or set of men. He also
made reference to the flag of the
nation being designed and intended
to wave over all American people and
is not intended to be an advertising
sheet for Mckinney and Hobart.
He made u cutting reference tc
the appearance OF Powderly in Rocs
Island tonight, alluding to him a:
one who had once preached the doc.
trine OF silver, bnt who imag ined ht
had seen the light Of heaven. where.
as it came from iianna's back room
and struck him in the palm of his
hand instead of the head
The silver Onssttan.
In touching upon the silver ques.
ton the governor discussed il in
much the same manner as in his Cen.
trail Music hall speech at Chicago in
reply to Carl Schurz. He discussed
at some length the credit system OF
our country. the effect OF the dem n.
citation of silver upon the prices OF
our products, tracing the history OF
silver through the various stages OF
its use as money; the necessity for
it's reestablishment as money. and in
closing made an appeal to the pa
triotism of his audience when they
went to the polls in Der. aud
that if when they went there the,
had in their minds the welfare oil
their families and their posterity.
they would cast their vote for BRYAN
and the people.
The Ondcer. Of the Day.
In addition to President Huesiup
those selected by the democratic
county committee to serve as vice
presidents aud members OF the re-
ception committee were:
Rcck lsland-Vice presidents, NJ.
V. Concannon, ID. T.. Butler, Il. Win
ter. V. Dauber, j. W. WEIGH, T..
Frey, Paul Thiesen; reception com
mittee. j. G Surman, Henry Kinner.
NJ. M. Briggs, I. j. Medill, Jr., f. Ii.
Guyer, p. Kennedy, Edwin Ward.
Moline-Vice presidents, Il. Sam
uels. Gus Segur. c. A. Barnard, p.
Nelson, Thomas Roseborough, w.
Giles. A. g. Swanson; reception. w.
b. Zones, r. Reimers, DIR. K. c. j.
Meyer, NJ. Wiegand, H. j. Gripp, J..
c. Ii. Read, +. c. Hoffman.
L. L1
Freek. e. b. Fisk; Coe, X. Sadoris,
John Schall; Canoe Creek. j. M. Mar
tin, Charles Gerhardt; Port Byron.
W. ID. Hall, John Schafer, Dr.; Hamp-
ton, August klebe, A. Il. +. Adams,
William Letsch, George McNabney,
S. ID. Wainwright, George Church
South Rock Island, George M. Lu-
kens, r. S. Silvis: Black Hawk. P. II.
rhiiebar, II. j. Huyett; Coal
Valley, G. X. Knapp, Henry
Hitler; Rural. Lewis Wilson, Joseph
Scott; Bowling, S. z. Ball, William
Heath; Edgington. Addison Rush. w
&. Davis, s. e. Taylor. Il. Z. Wait;
Andalusia, Ben Fountain. j. G. Brit.
ton; Buffalo Prairie. c. d. Wheaton,
w. IL. kistler; Drury, Fred Foster.
|. Z. Terry; Zuma, Gregory Brown,
Charles Schafer; South Moline, W.
A. Christian. w. C. Wilson.
Political Notes.
Gov. Altgeld speaks at Moline to-
night.
The date of the Rock Island Moline
pilgrimage to Canton has been 6xei
at Friday. Oct. 9.
Rain prevented Capt. F. A. Freer's
and William Jackson's speeches at
Milan last evening.
The republicans have offered to
bring people down free from Mo-
line tonight, SO they won't hear AL.
geld.
The elements were prophetic in
their treatment Of republican bao-
ners last night. the Mckinley and
Hobart streamer being nearly torn
of, but old glory itself was left I'M
furnished.
Ex-senator Warren Miller, of New
York. another bright light of re pull
licanism, the man who was
afraid to open his mouth at St. Louis.
has been engaged to come to Rock
Island to speak Oct. s.
Powderly will exhibit the face that
has been turned toward the wall, By
the Knights of Labor, toaight in
Rock Island. The event will be
made the occasion for the Outpost.
poned republican demonstration and
then the former labor leader will
speak for the political theories for
which he gave up the cause OF labor
The management OF the Forman
meeting here has been in suspi-
ciously confidential relations with
the republican push for the past few
days in arranging for the Saturday
night gold meeting, and the conse-
quence is the Railway Mems Sound
Money club is to turn cut for escort
duty Saturday evening. In view Of
the fact that the railway mems clubs
bylaws strictly specify that it's polis-
ical influence shall only be exerted
as far as the currency question is
concerned, and as Mr.. Forman is
conf ming himself to state matters, it
is difficult to comprehend just where
the railway mems mari comes in n