Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-12-18
What the Farmers Have Done,

The movement inaugurated an
pressed by the farmers has alread
had a great and beneficial effect upo
the politics of the country. Will:
it has been derided by some, oppose
by others, and treated with indiffel
ence by many, all now begin to sc
the manifest results of the agitatio
it has produced. This movement a
to come it was born in due seaso'
and owed its creation to those cause
which inevitably bring / well detine'
purpose out of chaotic confusion
The objects and principles of TIL
farmers are not novel, 20 have the.
been the first to discover the ill
which have so long afflicted the body
polite; but the farmers were thu
first and best class of people to i'm
part the motive power which gave
the cause a meaning and an active
momentum. The grievances of the
farmers are the grievances of all, but
only the farmers could embody these
in a tangible, living reality, and pre-
sent the naked tale TO the considera-
ton of a public that had become tired
and disguised with the clap-trap and
rodomontade o fparty. The late cleo
tons are full of encouraging por-
tent, and carry with them the story
of wrongs endured, but now happily
discovered by a rcsolutc body of men
who intend to stand fast to the pledg-
es they have made to rid the country,
of corruption, maladministratien.
Credit MobiIiers and salary-grabbers
No man, no matter for his party pro-
LESSONS, cau now find favor with the
people unless he be not only honest,
but above suspicion. The farmers
have begun a process which will weed
out of office and place the men who
have abused their trusts, and betray-
ed a .confiding public. Republicans
and Democrats alike, will share the
same fate in this moral and political
revolution, which is destined to sweep
out of existence every man and meas
ure that has the faint of corruption.
The Republican party possessed the
power to organize and carry 10 ward
this reform, because it was in the eX-
cess, and their failure to do so has
administered a blow to that party
which it cannot survive. 1t is true
that the whole party is not response
BILE for the crime, but the party is
judged by the conduct of its oh )sen
representatives, and there is no es-I
cape from the effects of their action.
The people have an abiding con-
sciousness that they have been sur
feited too much with party, party
professions and demagoguery. They
want less buncombe, less twaddle
upon absolute distractions, and more
earnest, positive material relief from
oppression and misrule. Political
acrobats may endeavor to gull them
into the delusion hat there are es-
differences between the two
but the people cannot be
with such bait any longer !
They have paid for that whistle too
often. This is what the farmers move
means. 1t was not designed
the special relief of farmers, as Il
class, but for the ameli Grafton of the
common public. 1t appeals to the
interests of the merchant, mechanic,
laborer, professional man, all
Who are co-equal sufferers from gen
,ral misrule and %spoliation. 1t means
in a general sense, a correc-
ion of the abuses which partisans
could not, would not and dared not
attempt. It is immaterial what this
lew party, organized only as parties
should be, for the occasion, calls it
self. It must be a party of reform
t must be sincere, and vitalized with
hat energy which will insure its tri-
lmph, and carry with it the insignia
IF practical, earnest purposes to il
ustrate its declared objects. In flu
;ure contests loyal Republicanism
will save no man from reputation,
he possesses the elements de-
handed by the occasion. These facts
re all obvious to those who have the
.bility to see the specs about the pol
teal horizon.