The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
NOTHING BUT A COAL-MINER.
Lord Hawley Tries to Slur his Betters.

The extreme litteness of some souls is
traly surprising, but that such swelled
head pleban as Lord Hswley should try to
slur a man superior to him in everything
that makes up the statesman, scholar and
ths accomplished gentleman, will be still
the two men. We take the following from
the Monmouth Rerjep:
After The man HawleY was nominated by
the radicals last Wednesday, q commit, g
was appointed to wait on him and inform
him OF the fact He WAS not far off, and
was soon on the stand. In mis- short twsd-
die OF thanks, he attempted to get off a few
shsrps on the Cable, that, under any
other circumstances, would have been
thought fiat enough to puke a Eastwood
rail.
In his remarks he had to indulge IN one
of his characteristic little filings at the dem
ocratic party and the lsboring men of the
country. He said the democracy were
driven to the necessity of digging csndi
date out of the coal banks OF Rock Island
county, which was intended as sur at the
laboring coal miners and working men
Going to congress has swelled this Hswley
up like toad, and his remarks on Wednes
day 90 to prove the assertion OF a prominent
republican OF Henderson county, who called
on him 10 Washington, that he don't know
poor, common man when among the radi
cal nabobs of the country.
He will soon be round begging these
same coal diggers for their votes. When he
comes, trimmed in broadcloth and kid
gloves, remember him.
He will realize that these common labor
ers have votes and will, before the cam
paign is over, be around cringing and
crawling to get the votes of the lsboring
men he so much despises. They will then
tell him that they have voted for sweled~
head Iguoramus long enough, and that they
now prefer TO vote for coal miner, sn
honorable highminded gentleman, a man of
the people and scholar and statesman.
Speaking Of this same thing the outlay
Herald says:
Ii Is believed that Hawley never did an
honest days physical labor in his life. 1t
Is common thing Tor such men TO turn up
their noses at the poor day laborer, who
earns the bread that he eats by his DAHL
toll. When he told that "promnent repub
lican of Henderson county that he didn I
know poor, common man when among
the office holding gentlemen" at Washing
ton, he spoke just as he fels. He wouldn I
know poor man now if he wers not a
candidate and id not wan. some of them to
vote for him. Politically, Hawley is a
'dead beat" He is socially what might be
called an aristocratic ape He attempts to
stlt up over the poor workmen, but tries to
ape the manners and habits of sweIled head
aris;ocrats. intellectually, he amounts to
nothing at all. He never in his life thought.
or said or did a smart thing-that is, any
thing that could not have been quite as well
thought, o. said or done by a trained
mocking bird, 1t is not at all strange that
man Of this stamp and calibre should
profess to entertsin feelings OF contempt for
the poor workmen. But if he had the
capacity to exhibit ten times the contem pit
he entertains for working men, he would not
even then be able to exhibit one tenth of the
contempt that the working men entertain
for him. He will be taught lesson BY
the working men this fall that he will never
forget.