The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-10-01

4lnore Race ON

] from head to foot vils;
y blood Of the free-stsisIl
q as" When Preston ~
: ! Carolina member n
81 -. assaulted Senator C
S4nnsr OF Massachusetts, II
stnats chamber, the whol.
WIS ret on fire. Greeley cal
q deed Of blood committed l.
chamber of assassins.
INDIGNATION meetings were !
everywhefe. In Boston ther.
2 great meeting at fremont ts
and another in FaLeuil Hail
dell Phillips, Lyman Beed
Tneodore Parker. the veneu|
Josiah Quincy and others "a
generation were .aere to ~
flames Of popular indisnat,os
the same time. in the souts
wiser heads could not prove
young men from applaudine n,
action in resenting the /,
which Sumner had heapea
the head of the aged Serato,
Ter. Brooks kinsman.
Good Republicans nevr :.
9 regular Democrat anuhi,s
Insulting than Border Rsa
buchanan had been the ia
sign the famous Ostend nsn,s
which looked to the anper,t,..
Cuba. The Pierce admiIiui,s
AMI Buchanan had looked M
voH upon the Nicaragua IN,
ingl expedition of William ~
the gray-eyed man Of dnIS.
and the Republicans BELIEVE
it was the beginning Of a 60
Of conquest Of which Cuba =
be the chief prize. Thefe60S
was@ not at all surprising tn
Democrats and supporter q
cnanan should have found !
selves dubbed "Buchaneers.
"A Forgotten Pageant
One of the greatest polit
meetings or rallies" ever heN
this country was the "Fremoot !
Freedom festival" at Dayton. d
on July 30. 1856. There wersn
than a hundred thousand n
there. from all over Ohio and ID
adjoining states. The rallyine |
that day was: There is q Nod
One bf the chief features Nd
burl9sque Democratic parade :
ticipAted in by a company Of u
men from Indiana This pa1|
was headed by no less a perso
than his satanic majesty, who l
being attended by a compalJ|
menials who were easily n
nized as President Pierce and
cabinet. Then there were n
representing Buck and Breck.s
Wtlker filibusters, Border I
fans beating women to dealt
Simon Legree beating an q
. Tom, a Brooks breaking his 4
owl a Summers head. Brig
Young and his wives (Mormol
wa s then a Democratic asset
al winding up with a repress
tjbn of the gigantic" Douglas
ttcking the Missouri ComproI
That day it was declared .
were only two parties in Oh
'"The Peoples and the POST
ters'."
Rousing the sentiment OF
free-states to thus support the
publican ticket was good emf
for the young, but the leaders
lied that the old conservative I
ocrats must be appealed to,
that the old-line Wings must
kept from voting for Fillmore.
win the old-time Democrats, G
ley and his cohorts opened fir
Buchanan's record. They pr
that he had been a Federalist,
been twice elected to congress
er Jackson's day as a Feder'
that he had been a slavery res
ZIONIST in 1920, and that he
been so devoted to the "thirt!
thirty" line Of the Missouri I
promise that he wanted to ex
! it all the way to the Pacifi'
1850.
To the wavering Wings old 9
lev talked straight as man TO
and brother to brother. he
| clared that the Fillmore ticket
being financed and run by IN
| Gratis to divide the northern
p. that it's only possible effect "
| be to defeat Fremont and :
Buchanan, and that Ffllmoresi
of having the election thrown
| the house" was a delusion e1
snare. He attacked KNOWN,
ingism" with such bitterness
he not only weakened its stIel
among the old Wings, but ~
tracted many German-Americss.
i, the northwest to the new hsv
can standard. =
| When the election was oV0 b
! was hardly a suggestion OF
ton Of the Republican actlvfy..
body believed that Buchanan
| be able to solve the dellcaIe
lens which confronted MIN.
great battle was already Oh.