The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-03
Correspondence Of y. y. Sun, radical paper.J

| Correspondence Of n. J. Sun, q radical paper.)
BAGG's HOTEL, UTICA, July %, 1868.
To run a dairy farm may be easy enough
for those who know how, aud It NAV be
equally easy for some people to be caudI
dates for the presidency. But to be can.
didate for the presidency aud a dairy farmer
at one and the same time is not so easy.
Imagine twenty acres Of grass cut and Gu.
| ring, big black clouds rolling up from the
southwest portendng au impending thunder
storm, carriage load after carriage load of
visitors arriving at frequent intervals to de.
mand ones attention, three fine chooses in
the press ready to be turned, bushel basket
full Of letters unopened, and hundred al.
| ready opened, read and to be answered by
the next mail troublesome demands being
constantly made on oue's time for something
which nobody else can procure or attend TO.
and it the thunder storm doesn't spoil the
| hay, the inattention ruin the cheeses. the
delay in answering letters turn ones friends
| into enemies, the time devoted to things
which nobody else can attend to dssetisfv
the fifty odd visitors kept waiting in copse
sequence, aud, in fine, the cares of the dairy
spoil the chances for the presidency, the
candidacy of which has used up the dairy,
then Horatio Seymour is u fit man to be A
candidate and dairy farmer at the same
time, and, moreover, the only man on this
sublunary sphere that can Gil the bill
The Governor is Woodworking man.
tie understands the true idea of economy
in all It's applications. His numerous
speeches during the last twenty years will
furnish the material for as complete a work
ON political economy as was ever written.
His ideas Of financial economy were fully
set forth in his recent able speech at the |
Cooper Institute, in New York. Economy
OF time he Is illustrating daily on his farm |
IN DeeFhed, which he is personally super |
intending, while also representing I've I'm
terrified democrace" as their candidate for |
the presidency, thus causing the multiplied |
and multiform demands on his time So
family depicted above. That he under.
stands economy of time is apparent from
the TACT that he answers each and every de
mand made upon his attention with readi.
ness and dispatch, while at the same time
he keeps perfectly cool and free from ey
cltemeni, and meets everybody aud every
new circumstance and every one of the
thousand petty ann0Yances and embarrass
hentS oally besetung one so crcumstanced
with a cheerful smile, implying, "WelI, take
1t easy; let US look into this matter: il viii
soon come out right And, sure enough.
so treated, all these little troubles vanish
and are thus prevented from aecumulatino
10 make great troubles
And while speaking OF the dairy farmer
Thom | expect to dispose of in this para.
yraph. and pay more particular attention to
he Presidential canddate-I am sure that
II my last letter wrote that this farm had
'een in the possession of Gov. Seymour and
us ancestors century. Your trpes myste
1ously made me say half a'century. Farm .
r Seymour is very strenuous on this point.
md TO day produced to me the musty old vel. S
ow parchment deeds of the land dating con. C
iderabIy more than hundred years back. L
l had little purpose in my visit to Deer o
eld to-day which, perhaps, all things con.
idered, had better not mention lust now II
'ut | found the democratic nominee at
ome-that is. in the hay feld-and was
cry quickly made TO feel at home myself
~o persons at home are quite apt to in Of
lige IN conversation, which was precisely RI
nat resulted to-day. don't propose 10 re- al
lie that conversation for several reasons. ii
irst because it was too long, and would fill
70 much space. Second, because much of ol
was unlmportsnt to the general public. | Ii
.no third' because ! was not cheeky enough u.
TAKE out my notebook and pencil, and re.
uce 70 writing all that was said, and cannot "a