Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-10-01
MOLINE IS AROUSED,
Greatest Poll ical Meeting in
Its History.
ANXIOUS TO HEAR ALT6ElD.
Auditorium Packed to Over
flowing.
Crowd Waits Outside to Greet
the Governor.
TO HEAR ALTGElD.

Moline never had such . meeting
al that which turned out to hear
Gov. Altgeld last night. Notwith-
standing the desperate efforts made
by republicans to draw the peo-
pie to this city, they remained there
with the exception of those who
came down as pronounced republic
cans to lend aid to the demonstra.
ton designed to counterfeit the effect
of the governors afternoon address.
The auditorium was packed to suf-
location an hour before the time an
nounced for the speech. and the time
has not been in Moline's history BE-.
fore when such keen inter-
est and enthusiasm we're shown
in a democratic speaker in the re-
publican stronghold of the county.
There were $50 people in the house
400 Of whom were on the stage
Chairman w. r. Moore. OF the demo-
cratic county committee. called the
assemblage to order and introduced
c. w. Phillips. president Of the Tri-
City Labor Congress and Of the Twin
City Typographical union. as chair
man of the meeting. and Nj. Phillips
made fitting address in presenting
the governor as the fearless and true
representative of the masses Of the
people. Gov. Alfgeld was received
with q tremendous manifestation. 1t
was such . greeting as he received
in Rock Island in the afternoon,
spontaneous. hearty and soul STIR
ring. The governor was given the
closest attention and his strong
points on state questions were thor
oughly appreciated and spplauded.
A crowd Of as many as found their
way into the theatre awaited the
governor outside aud the multi
tude was addressed by w. J. Kerr. of
Colorado. w. r. Moore, NJ. J. Nc
Entry. and William McEniry. and
when the governor was introduced
after he had finished his address in
side the crowd cheered him until it
had exhausted itself. Then Mr..
Kerr went before the meeting In the
auditorium and held the closest at
tention until IL o'clock.
The Bryan club went from this city
as an escort to Gov. Altgeld and on the
return to this city gang Of Moline
hoodlums near the Peal house pelted
the electric train bearing them with
stones.
Mak-s . Splendid Impressloo.
Gov. Altgeld made q splendid i'm
preston both in his address here and
the one in Moline. There was moth
ing imprisoned in his remarks on
either occasion. The calm, thor
ough and business like manner of his
delivery, yet eloquent and convincing
and the force OF hi. arguments COM
manded not only the attention of his
hearers, but awakened confidence in
him on the part of those who, led by
Misrepresentation, had gone to see
a different kind Of q man and to hear
different kind ofexposition of meas
ures and theories.
Aside from his strong presentation
Of state affairs and his arraienment
Of the inequalities of the tax system,
the governor at his afternoon meet.
ing in Rock Island discussed the cur
rency question 10 an exhaustive man.
ner. An increase In the tariff would
not afford the psnacea for the ills
with which The people of this land
are afflicted today. Republicans feel
ing that some hope must be offered the
American people and having nothing
else, they hold out the idea of in-
creasing the tariff tax and ask that it
be tried. and they ask the people to
shut their eyes to the fact that the
distress from which we suffer exists
all over Europe. as we'll as in this
country, and that it exists in coun-
tries having a tariff. countries hav-
ing Q moderate tariff. and in coun.
tries having no tariff at all. They
ask the people to shut their eyes to
the fact that We now have q very
high tariff. The governor then took
up statistical reports to show that
the Mckinley Law for The fiscal year
ending June 80. 1894. produced q de.
ficit to the United States treasury
Of go. 100000. He took up the his
tory of silver coinage in this coun-
try. showing slept BY step the coin
age of the white metal from Is 6
down to 1873. aggrega,ing $l54,SlS..
that it had been maintained BY Carl
Schurz and others that congress de-
monetized nothing when it struck
silver down in rs. In 1871 there
were /, III. 1877 silver dollars coined
and in 1872 there were LIS 600 Gil.
yer dollars coined. being nearly twice
the number coined before In Q single
year. and this two years before the
demonitization act. He referred to
the treasury statistics on money to
show the per capita circulation as
we'll 40 the general volume There
10 not enough money in the country
to do its business. that IL the main
fact, he held. In al the agricul-
tural states Of the south, the Nissis.
sippi valley and the west there 10
the greatest scarcity Of money. The
banks ere unable 70 furnish what il
needed. and even In the money cen.
tsrs very little disturbance renders
the banks helpless. There 10 less