Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — A HORNY-HANDED SON OF TOIL. [ARTICLE]

A HORNY-HANDED SON OF TOIL.

Thia Time the Phrase Turned Out to v ße a Boomerang. "I never hear anybody speaking of a •horny-handed son of toll,’ ” said a Kentucky colonel, “that I don’t think of a race for the Legislature which took place in my State a number of years ago between Tom Stuart, then editor of the Winchester Democrat, and I. N. Boone, a descendant of the great Daniel, and at that time holding the office for which Stuart was making the race. Stuart was a young man, very progressive and quick of mind, while Boone was well along in years, slow of thought and action, and especially proud of the fact that he was a representative of the farmers. was he In this regard that he carried it to the excess of almost total abstinence from water for washing purposes, and he would let his hands and face go unwashed for several days at a time. “Stuart was quite the reverse in his Ideas of cleanliness, and at one of their joint discussions he gave his opponent a blow that fairly knocked him out. Boone was making his regular speech, and at the proper place in it he referred to the matter of his relation tc the toiling masses. “ ‘My friends,’ he said, holding up a pair of hands that looked as if they hadn’t been washed in a week, ‘to let you see for yourselves that I am a horny-handed son of toll I ask you to look at these hands, and,’ turning to Stuart, ‘I would ask my pale-faced young friend from the city what he thinks of them?’ “Stuart was on his feet in a minute. “ ‘I do not desire to embarrass my distinguished opponent, ladles and gentleman,’ he said with a bow, “but I would say that I tfiink they need soap and water.’ “It was such an apparent case that the crowd took hold at once with 1 a shout and Boone was completely floored, and later Stuart was elected.”— Washington Star.