The daily gazette., 1876-09-23
The Germans for TiIden.
Ahe state will go DemOcratic-Whnt
u biue Jeans" Williams Says.

= Blue Jeans" Williams Says
A New YoIk Herald correspondent in
tervlewed several well informed politi-
clans of Indiana. g.
MIR. John klinkel said "Our German
vote will go seven out of eight for the
Democratic ticket. In the first ward of
this city we have organized club of 225
Germans, in the second about 200, in the
third over 200, in the fourth over 200.
and tonight we. organize in the fifth, /
tell you, sir, South Bend will give Dem
ocratic majority of 1900 votes. In this
township there are 300 German votes. In
former times all except 100 of these went
with the. Republicans. This time it is
just the reverse. German Republican
speakers come here and cannot get an au-
dience. There was that drunken Judge
Dittenhoeler and Hayes, of New York,
who were sent out here, and they just
disgusted the honest Germans, who want
only honest government and have no time
to listen to sbloody shirt nonsense from
such people. The State has about one
fourth of German vote, and the best
part of that will go for Blue Jeans Will
liams and Tilden and Hendricks
The Herald correspondent adds
have been particular in seeing how the
German vote will go, because 1 believe it
holds the balance of power in this State.
Mr.. Carl SchlIrtz has been conspicuous
failure in so far as influencing the Ger
| mans to vote the Republican ticket.
Several things conspire to make the Ger
mans take their present course, notably
the hard times, which they have been
brought to believe are attributable to the
Republican administration. After all L
have heard 1 am disposed to the conclu-
sion that the State will go Democratic by
small majority in October, and by con
siderable one in November.
"Uncle Jimmy" Williams when asked
about his famous suit of blue jeans, said:
SIN the county where l was raised
they never wore anything but blue jeans
for many, many years, eos they could get
nothing better to wear. There wasn't a
store within hundred miles of us that
kept cloth or tailors' fixins. We made
our own weariI' truck, and we thought it
no disgrace neither. l larned all know,
though it aint much, in clothes made of
blue jeans. larned to be fair and square
with every man without the help of broad
cloth and linen shirt bosoms. l went a
coortin (here the old mans voice actu-
ally forgot itself and hembledD in blue
jeans, and neither she nor the minister
objected to marry me on that account
when the time came. dunno as need
say as much, but the happiest days of my
| life were passed without ever carin' to ex-
change my home made jeans for New
| FORK or indianapolis fashions, and I'd be
ashamed o. myself if was to go back on
them now because lot of little minded
jack-assess think fit to sneer at them"
Here the speakers voice took on tone
of earnest feeling, and he grasped the
knees of his blue jean pantalloOns as
though they were old and very dear
friends, dearer now than ever because of
scorn and persecution. Perhaps" he
went on, ''if Schuyler CoifaX had been
wearing blue jeans he wouldn't ha'
wanted any Credit Mobilier. Perhaps if
Garfield was content with a suit on his
back and pair of plough handles in his
fists his appetite and conscience would be
better to-day. Don't you think if Bel
KNAPP and Babcock and Grant himself had
to stick to blue jeans they wouldn't ha'
wanted to trouble their heads as to where
they could make the biggest pile and how
they could cut the biggest dash? Don't
you know that fine houses, fine clothes
and fine everything else make some men
fools and other men knaves"
Il suppose, Mr.. Williams, you expect
to be elected Governor
"Well, all can say is that up to the
National Road they give me $1,000 ma
jority." (The National Road is line.run-
ming due east and west through the CEN
tire of the State, and Mr.. Williams refers
to all that section of country south Of it.