South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1873-07-25
A Rising Power-The Patrons
of HuSbaDdry.

ton, some weeks ago, has given them new
confidence. The order is spreading more
swiftly than ever at the West, Southwest
aud in some parts of the slowly moving
East at the South it has hardly taken
root, the people of that section having To-
cal troubles which the programme Of the
oranges does not touch, and for which the
only remedy yet proposed Is that If the &C.
centric unifcation movement in Louisiana
But oil through the West, especially, the
Patrons of Husbaudry are in great eleo
over their first triumph in Illinois, aud are
recruiting their forces with the utmost ra.
pidity. The new party is young, strong,
ambitious and singulsrly practical in It's
aims, though that might be expected from
the farming population who compose il.
There Is no class OF people so free Of
mere sentiment and within as the farmers :;
AID az time when impractic.ble Issues
like the prohibit,ry liquor law and so called
labor reform are too much occupying the
minds Of theorists in the cities. We re.
Jolce to see the farmers busying themselves
with practical ques ions and matter of fact
grievances. For specimen Of what these
bard headed men ere driving al, take u
look NJ the resolutions adopted by them at
Dcs Moincs, Iowa, the other day. They
declared that they would support no man
tor Office who was not opposed to monopo.
lies that the doctrine of the vested right
of corporations which exempts them from
legislative control has no place in the iu.
risprudence of free people; denouncinc
me back-pay salary fraud, and the Presi-
dent for approving it; demanding political
reform and strict economy 10 national,
Stnte and county affairs.
These are bold, plain spoken words, cut
ting left aud right. Every body can under
stand them They ask for material, tangi-
bic improvements. They strike at real,
admitted abuses. And they interest not
only farmers, but producers and manufac-
turers generally. There is no trace ofpar-
ty feeling in such resolutions as these
They are neither republican nor democrat
lc. Above all things, they are fearless, as
where thOy rebuke the President for sign
ing the salary grab bill. There were ad-
ministration politicians at the Des Moincs
meeting who would have been glad to s,rik c
out that passage of censure upon the Pres
ldent, but the farmers would not permit it,
That is the most hopeful sign in the
movement, that the politicians of neither
of the parties have hitherto been able TO
control il, and they have worked all the
wires to do 30. Tue farmers have no friend
ly feeling towards either of the parties, and
arc the least complasant towards the one
10 power, from whose abuses Of legislation
they arc at present suffering. Therefore
wH must expect that the burden of their
grevous complaints will be leveed against
the republicans. Their right is, in truth,
against tue dishonest and unfairhful mem
bers OF thai party, and they Welcome all
allies
This fact is significant, because the pa
irons of husbAuiry for the most part oriei
nally belonged to the republican fold. As
late rs the recent presidential election ma
ny of them supported the administration.
Not even the liberal republican movement
could detach them from their faalty. But
since then wo have had the Credit Mohi
Tier Developments, and the pack pay scan.
DIAL, and nauscous surfci; # other proofs
Of corruption at Washington The rtaDg
cs were feeble bodies before these reyela.
tons. They were organized for no greater
work-though we would not underratc its
importance-than to cheaper freights on
Western produce.
Now, by circumstances, the scope oftheir
work has become enlarged, and takes in
the great practical reform issues before the
country; and the now party powerfully at
tracts to It's ranks all who sympathize with
u IN the determination TO make an honest,
economical government FIR tho nation
These Patrons e Hu,bluary, or the per-
sons who mansga the new party, are "orig-
mails" They produce their striking effects
with new instruments aud IN a new way.
On the 18th Of this july, when common
place citiz,ns met TO hear thc Declaration
Of Independence read, and to sclf.plorify
with oraiions and poems Of the customary
bomhaslic type, the Oranges mustered their
men all over the Wast. and jid Cuisines 4"
Instead Of rchearsing The crimes of KiuQ
GeorG' snt his ministry again4' The colo
mics, they enumerated the manifold offonsas
of the politician. II his period aud Of this
country ag- just the people. H. was re-.
lra saing annexation upon the bumdrum or
der OF th'nge 40 the nations aunual iubi-
Tee. Smo e. 'tc meetings on tha b they
organized and run l.r themselves. Others
they captured rs force If numbers, and
turned 70 tbo advantage q their order.
There was scarcely Fourth If July cele-
bra'ion in aIl 'he West where the patrons
IT husb2niry did not make themselves felt.
These are clever tactics. The only jar in
The harmony Of fhe new movement is the
appearances ofyc'crau politicians as spokes-
men, It not rs directors. Both Of tho old
parties scnl IA their bost meo 20 take Tho
lead and u is amusing to note how alroi'-
LY lhrY alnnl ,L.r.-.l.na IN lEn fcnIinna Of