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Rock Island Daily Argus
Rock Island, Rock Island County County, Illinois
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Ex-Governor Oglesby's speech at the Warren County Republican campaign opening in Monmouth was a flat affair with low enthusiasm; his tariff remarks were regarded as jokes, and he abruptly ended after an hour.
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Oglesby's Remarks on the Tariff Regarded as a Hoodoo.
The following dispatch to the Chicago Herald from Monmouth yesterday tells the story:
The grand campaign opening by the Warren county republicans and ex-Governor Oglesby tonight was a flat affair. The audience did not exceed six hundred, one-half being women and democrats. Owing to the painful lack of enthusiasm, the governor after an hour's effort got disgusted, and to the surprise of every one abruptly said good night. His remarks were confined in the main to a recapitulation of what great deeds his party had done and expected to do. His attempt to prove that the tariff was no tax and that his party was working only to protect the laborer was accepted as a stale joke. He thought congress should have been more liberal to the soldier, admitting that he was one of the boys, but only received $8 per month.
Oglesby admitted that he had not read the tariff bill and was not posted on the question. That was no obstacle to his making the wildest kind of statements, however. His ignorance of the tariff was not mentioned here, but that was not necessary. It was too apparent.
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Monmouth, Warren County
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the event was a flat affair with an audience of about six hundred, half women and democrats; low enthusiasm led oglesby to abruptly end his speech after an hour.
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The grand campaign opening by the Warren county republicans and ex-Governor Oglesby was poorly attended and lacked enthusiasm. Oglesby spoke on party achievements, tariff as protection for laborers, and insufficient congressional support for soldiers, admitting his ignorance of the tariff bill, but his remarks were seen as jokes.