The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-04
Gov. Williams, of Indiana.

The Davenport Gazette says:
"But the demagogue Blue Jeans was elected. and
"the UiLer elements therefore triumphed, claptrap
Dedicated caution, and dirt overwhelmed deceney,"
Hon. John P. Irish, of Iowa City, who
stumped Indiana with Gov, Williams,
publishes the above in his paper, The Daily
Press and answers ii as follows:
How do the postmasters rage. How
they imagine vain thing
The man who uses such language about
Governor Williams is not fit to eat swill
with the governors pigs.
Mr.. Williams's crime is that he is a
farmer.
He stands six feet four, straight as
an Indian, with big brain and clear eye,
Seventeen times he was elected to the
Indiana legislature from Knox county,
which has the large and cultivated town of
Vincennes for its county seat Five con-
secutive terms he served as president OF
the state agricultural society, and at last
was elected to congress by an oyerwhelm-
ing majority, and now becomes the chief
servant Of the state.
He is in the truest and best sense a
gentleman, with the personal neatness and
high sense of honor which become gentle
man. His record is unspotted and it is
high testimony to his devotion to principle
that when the support of greenbackers
was offered him as the price Of abandon
ing his hard money views, he stood by his
fixed belief, and fought out his battle to
victory upon principle, He is immeasur-
ably the superior of Ben. Harrison in solid
culture, gentility and craftsmanship, and
sneers at him are only sneers at the great
farming class of which ne is foremost re-
preventative.
We wish there were local example to
which we could point to giveour people as
clear a conception of Gov. Williams as we
have acquired by personal acquaintance
and association, He is endeared to the
people of Indiana by many of the same
qualities which constitute the tie by which
our people are held to Governor Kirkwood
With better culture than Kirkwood he has
much longer and more meritorious pub
lie record, having been seventeen times
elected to the state legislature agains
Kirkwood's once, and enjoying a broade
contact with the farmers of his state b.
five consecutive terms as president OF tn
state agricultural society
Kirkwood was chosen to fragment o
term IN congress, Out puTs w llldtuS Wa
elected to full term and served so &C
ceptably that his people put him at tn
head of the state government. His per
sonal habits are Perfectly neat, he uses n
liquor nor tobacco in any form, here agail
having the advantage of our farmer gov
ernor, who is inseparable from his chaw.
But in one respect the two governors re
semble each other closely and are Join
heirs to the inspiration underlying homel
and eloquent speech with Abraham
Lincoln, who like them both was plai
man of the people.
Gov. Williams's long public experienc
makes him a much reader man than Kirk
wood and has better fitted him for an im
portant place in our public affairs. If hi
age does not forbid, it is not too much t
anticipate that he would go to the pres
Dental chair as the first farmer president
unframed for any other profession, as h
is the first farmer governor of the thir
state in the union.