Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-14
REPUBS GIVE a ROUSER
stump Speaking and shouting In the
Sixth Ward Lumber Yards.

stump Speaking and shouting in the
Sixth Ward Lumber Ysrd..
Republicans gave street parade
Saturday night. The final act
came off in the yards of the
Rock Island Lumber company on
Third avenue and Twenty-fourth
street. where a flag was unfurled
The affair was under the auspices Of
the Sixth ward Mckinley club.
1t was the largest turnout which
the republicans have had yet; and
the Mckinley club was the whole
thing. Its band was in the
front, and its members and aux-
iliaries all gave dust to the Lincoln
boys. When the pageant passed up
Second avenue Doc Thomas shed q
tear in seeing his white winged
angels playing second fiddle to the
Third avenue aggregation. W. IL.
Jordan. with pulling and snorting
sliced and with two nineteenth CEN
fury knights on either side of him. led
the procession. 1t was great night
for Jordan. lie ii d his horse to a
lumber pile when the parade was
over and took front seat on the
platform with Steve Collins, Brother
Quayle, Harry Cleaveland and
Charley Searlc, and some others.
The band played 1.-The Rising of the
Moon" when the flag went up.
The chief talk was made by Hon.
A. &. Fish, long whiskered gentle
man from Chicago. He made the
same old stereotyped talk which all
the fellows of his class are making.
He told that old story about a crisis
being before the American people in
consequence OF the declarations of
the Chicago convention and which,
he said, en- bodied laws which were
aimed at the pocket OF every wage
Garner. He talked until the arsenal
across the slough struck eleven
bells. Hon. W. II. Gest mounted the
rostrum. He gave expression to few
sentences which he claimed were very
good. But no one could get on to
his curves. 1t is probable his little
| talk will he printed and sent ont.
Then they all went home.
A unique feature Of the procession
was the escorting of the Hebrew club
by detail of police. 1t is coming to
II pretty state Of affairs in Rock Isl
and when political party or crowd
Of citizens, no matter of what nation
ality, cannot walk up the public
thoroughfares, without being under
police surveillance lest they might be
assaulted by the hoodlum element
1t is confession of inability on the
part Of the department to control
this class, which should be properly
punished when unprecedented.
Mayor Voi'nsr Is Heard.
Mayor Henry Nollmer, of Dayen-
port, spoke to the Railroad Mems
Sound Money club of Rock Island at
Carse's hall Saturday evening. The
dollar, Mr.. Nollmer contended, was
simply an honest obligation that
must be redeemed for its worth and
value; that the government after
purchasing a dollars worth of bull
ion and Going portion of it as a dol
lar and paying it out for dollars
worth of value it is obliged to re-
deem it as such. The honesty of the
transaction, he held, vanished when
the government surrenders its spon-
sorship. as it would under free coin
age. when it will cease to buy silver,
but simply coin it for those who pre-
sen, bullion at the mints. The
faith of the government will cease to
be behind the silver dollar and
its value will then cease to be be-
yond it's bullion weight. for without
the cost Of coinage there will not be
the additional value. But being
clio he'd with its legal tender value,