The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-08-11
A JEWEL OF A GOVERNOR.

We think it no reflection upon the
weIl-earned regulations Of the scores of
political demagogues, whom mysteri-
GUS Providence allows to cucumber the
earth, to say that "Blue Jeans Will
liams, of Indiana, is the pet of them
all. Essentially par excellence, polti-
cal charlatan of the most unmitigated
type, the af1ectation of the homely garb
he wears, only aggravates the disgust
that his shallow hypocrisy begets
This gentleman of the cap and bells.
This merry fool Of the people, who
laugh at follies, he ignorantly repeats,
seems to regard the sturdy yoemanry
of Indiana much in the same light that
Phineas L. Barnum looks upon the
world at large-as fit dupes upon whom
to exercise his genius for deception In
deed the Prince of Humbugs himself
never practiced a grosser imposition on
the too credulous owners of capricious
currency than did Williams, of Indiana,
when DOMINIC suit of homely hue, he
raised another hue and cry of Tilden
and Reform and palmed himself off upon
the too unsuspecting Grapgers," as
Governor de facto" as we'll as ode
jure.' Now Alterations of democratic
ways and habits 1--WE mean in popu-
lar sense) generally smack of the gut
ter. Your peoples favorite, your slip
shod politician, your shabbily-dressed
curb-stone orator, who, with Bourbon
perfumed breath, rants and roars his
communistic and socialistc theories, is
generally an arrant humbug. True, he
dons the blue jeans" or revels in
dirty shirt for the dear peoples sake.
But decency and honesty have yet to
suggest what especial virtue there is in
filthy or homely garb, or why Viii
liams, or any other Democratic politi-
clan, is Il better man in Jeans than in
the ordinary garments of gentleman
And yet this mans dress and address,
his homely, honest garh, his staggering,
off'hand manner, his easy, good=natured
ways had much, if not all, to do in elect
ing him to the Chief Magistracy of In
diana. Nobody ever accused him of
ability or insulted him by thinking him
high-toned. He is a crude child of ma
ture, developed under the most favor
able Bourbon surroundings; a genuine
genius of the gutter, elevated above the
level for which either nature or destiny
designed him by the force of his innate
assurance and cheek He is one of the
minnows which the political tidal wave
of "A washed up from the obscure depths
of popular favor and stranded upon the
Congressional beach. Pity it was that
he had not died decently and quietly as
did larger and better specimens of his
kind. He foated, however, in shallow
water, and felt he was born to aoD
And flop he did. He dashed the Con-
gressonal waters with his diminutive
tail until the little pool in which he
swan was as foamy as his own In
dianapolis beer. Like his greater pro-
totype of the Grammercy aquarium, he
was born spouter. AS an eector of
words he is simply grand. AS minnow,
consttutonalIy strong; but as con-
statesman, feeble and weak.
AS usual he has recently made fresh
asinine show of himself. In common
with men of his class, his principles
and practices are strictly-at variance.
Recently the rioters at Indianapolis pro.
missed trouble. They did not do much,
else Blue Jeans" had never survived /
to tell the tale. They threatened to kill .
and Stay. Threats, however had their
intended effect, at least upon the SEN