nd herein is
illustrated the great mistake so often made by politicians and candidates
for popular favor. Too many candidates for the suffrage of the people in
our early political contests thought it necessary, in order to make
themselves popular, to affect slovenly and unclean dress and vulgar
manners in their campaigns. There was never a greater mistake. However
rough, ill-clothed and unintelligent the voter might be, he always
preferred to vote for the man who was dressed and acted like a gentleman
to the one who dressed like and acted like himself."(553) Coles was always
dignified, always gentlemanly, and always respected. His brief residence
in Illinois affected its history for all time to come. Like Coles in
several respects was his successor as governor, Ninian Edwards. Born in
Maryland in 1775, educated by the celebrated William Wirt, and later
graduating from Dickinson College, Pennsylvania, at nineteen years of age
he came to Kentucky. Here he served two terms in the Kentucky legislature,
was presiding judge of the general court, circuit judge, and chief-justice
of the court of appeals. Henry Clay gave as Edwards' marked
characteristics, good understanding, weight of character, and conciliatory
manners. In his campaign for governor of Illinois, Edwards presented
himself as the highest type of a polished and well-dressed gentleman,
always riding in his own carriage and driven by his negro servant, and
dressing in all the style of an old-fashioned gentleman with broad-cloth
coat, ruffled shirt, and high-topped boots. The people were not repelled
by such a display, but considered it an honor to vote for such a man. The
egotistical Adolphus Frederick Hubbard, who was one of the two opponents
of Edwards, intermingled bad grammar and poor attempts at wit in his
electioneering speeches, and received less than one-tenth of the number of
votes cast for either of the two other candidates.(554)

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Report for 1893, pp. 199-227, see Turner, Frederick Jackson; Report of
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the possession of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, to elucidate
the proposed French expedition under George Rogers Clark against
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_American monthly Magazine and critical Review. New York: H. Bigl