The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-10-25

HawlSY mas Oeeu BeIc. IL ID unnecessary
to assure the world that Quincy still sur
wives.
The nice young man from Rock Island,
TO congress two years ago, has been trotted
out, and such trot
The candidate nominated by government
Office holders showed himself last night to
to about one hundred and fifty persons, all
told, some of whom were there because they
held au office, others because they wanted
office, few to hear Hswley, and great
many out of pure curiosity. A large number
OF the latter were democrats
Hawley in appearance is what the women
would style perfectly splendid" comely
youth, who could make success in travel
ling on his shape. He is rather elongated
and has hungry look about him, and
evidently is of q yearnug disposition. He
would pass at par most anywhere for an
itiuersnt preacher. He looks like he could
stand a great deal of perquisites and enjoy
high teed. The conclusion that one would
come to after seeing the young man and
hearing him try to speak, is that he is a
mistake. He was undoubtedly intended to
have been woman, but it Amt his fault
He would make a first class campaign for
the Sixteenth Amendment, or suoceed as a
lecturer spirituslism. He is ust adapted
tor rather form fact the vocation in
which he would achieve distinction, would
be associate reporter on the Whig. As
a politician, he is failure As congress
man, he is broad burlesque.
If anything was wanting to prove that
the fourth district needed change in repre-
seusatives, that thing trsuspired at the court
house last night. Hawleys speech was,
outside of his talk about himself aud his
defense of mis- course, the simplest of bosb,
the most common of rehash, disconnected,
dull and dry, and calculated to put one TO
sleep. There was not an original idea or
expression from frst to last There was
not sufficient force or life in his remarks
to 'enshuse" even the office holders. The
spirit Of his piece WAS suggestive of
funeral.
He commenced with financial matters
and claimed economy for the administration.
he branched out on the tariff and proceeded
to show the congressman IL different ideas
about protection and that some democrats
were high tariff on principle. This brought
him down TO himself, and he stated how he
had voted about five hundred times TO reduce
the tariff, all Of which went to demonstrate
that though ne was not much on the speech
he was lightning on the vote. He had voted
20 instruct some com mittee to report q bill
to reduce the tariff on salt and coal. He
voted for the reduction of tea, coffee and
sugar aud the "olessed free list" In fact,
according to his story he was doing the
greater part Of the voting for the party. He
alluded to the democratic idea about taxing
government bonds and Was surprised at 1t
He declared that he did not want to go to
congress if it was demanded that he should
vote to repudia.e the public debt. Here
there was little waking up, and a weak
flutter In the vicinity of the speaker, few
of the ''old uns" remem beriny to have heard
that two years ago. An officer brought his
cane down on the floor, few claquers took
the cue, bat the response did not Gomez
Hawley then proceeded to defend himself
and tell what he had done for this end OF the
district Here there was q little interest IN
the audience.) After lengthy introduction
he told about the custom house, how he had
seen the supervising architect of the treasury
department and prevailed on him to recon
mend Quincy for 100000 building. Zone
man on the front seat got lost in the archi
;ect explanation and dropped off to sleep
He, however, subsequently stated that the
same supervising architect recommended
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quandary, which showed that the architect
WAS very susceptible and an accommodating
fellow. He next went with the custom
house business to the secretary of the treas
ury, who was slightly obstreperous and had
to be interviewed early and often. The
secretary of the treasury was too much for =
number in the audience who went out.
Finally, much to the regret of Hawley, the
secretary ignored Quincy in his report to
congress. Hawley, however. tackled him in
the house, showed him how North Carolina
q rebsl state, got recon men alton, and
how Quincy was overlooked The upshot of
the whole matter was that through Hawley
North Carolina was vetoed and Quincy rub
stituted in recommendation that did not
accomplish anything and never got any
further than the speakers desk. (The
allusion to the rebel state of North Carolina
brought out the office holder, who brought
his cane down on the floor with q thud and
walked up the man on the front seat
Hawley next referred to the railroad
interests of Quincy, and showed that he
was nearly as much interested in Quincy s
western communication as he is in radical
votes at the coming election. he had
worked hard to secure al appropriation OF
public lands to the Brownvilie and Fort
kesrnsy road, got bill through the land
committee, of which he happened to be
Der, and on to the speakers desk ln the
house the day before adiournment-where
II sill remains Here it occurred to q man
IN the audience, interested in railroads, that
1t was fanny that the bill just got to the
speakers desk at the tail end of the session,
anu JUST III time to hgure IN the nominating
conventions a. home, and he Ieft.) The
congressman announced that there were
many things he could TALK about and would
like to speak of, but he hadn't time. Here
several thought they hadn't time to hear any
more, and they left Hawley proceeded to
close on generalites. Here several negroes
in the audience who expected to hear some
thing about the importance of the fifteenth
amendment. concluded this was ono of the
subjects Hawley hadn't time for and they
left
Hawley declared against voting public
lands to any but actual settlers claimed
that the radicals were the authors and
fnishers Of the homestead law; referred {
the soldiers, the war prosperity, and wound
up with Dick Oglesbys peroration. (Ths
office holder with the cane missed the con
50 nection this time, and Ha~ley sat down witt
tremor of applause, amidst a stampede 70
the outside Ha~ley was done. A numbe
in the audience wondered what they cam
there for. Several wondered what it al
meant. Some wondered what Hawley hat
been talking about, and everybody but tn
Office holder who accompanied the speake
to the hotel. wished themselves at home
The conclusion of everv fair minded man il
the court house was that Hawley, as
speaker, was miserable failure. The bur
den of his speech was his own defence a,
attempt to show that he really had don
something in two years. Nothing abou
tie radical party except what
read in newspapers every dayi NO