Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-10-01
CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST.
The Farmers and the Democrats

picnic at Mt. Vernon, have become a
popular remedy with the Democratic
cLdguers and strikers of this District, to
allay the nausea produced amoug sa-
gacious and intelligent farmers by the
pernieious Democra tic doctrines of free
trade and population, which they so
persistently advocate. Always eager
to catch at any straw, which for awhile
will keep their rotten party from sink
ing, or ingratiate it into the good gra-
ces of the thinking uen of communi-
ty, they lose no opportunity to mis-
represent the position of their Oppo-
nents, or to attach themselves to the
eaudal extremity of any popular move
ment, if by that means they can ride
into power and pillage and destroy,
unrebuked.
1t is apparent to the reading and OBJ
serving people that the condition OF
the farmers has been vastly improved
within the last few years. They have
discovered that the world of pleasure
and profit lies open before them, and
that it is within their grasp; they have
opened their eyes TO the fact that en-
larged and extended social culture; a
broader and more liberal education; in
creased facilities for purchasing what
they want themselves and better mar
kets for products of their own-privi-
leges to which they are entitled, are
easily available, through united and
intelligent action. All this freshly
awakened interest has been brought
about by the real patrons of husbandry,
and has been directed by the agricultu-
ralists themselves, to the accomplish
ment of results purely and entirely
non-political in their nature.
But now comes-especially in this
Congressional District-the Democrat
ic party, party purely political in its
character, which heretofore has been
diametrically opposed to the interests
of the farming classes, and assumes to
take the lead of the farmers move
ment. AS forlorn hope, they acci-
dentally placed man upon their tick
ct for Congress, who happens to own a
farm, and straightway they cry out to
all the people that they are especially
the champions of the farmers--that
they have received special ordination
to preside over the department of Ge-
oponics-that they are fitted for the
task, and they would have the farmers
believe that in the success of their
party candidate lies the salvation of
the country.
The political shysters who, under the
guise of friendship to the farmers, are
appealing to the people for political aid
and comfort, might do well to state all
the facts concerning the history of
their candidate. 1t is not demonstra-
ted to any one, except in glittering
generalities and cheap laudations that
Mr.. Henry Boyles, the Democratic
(would-be farmers') candidate has been
extraordinarily successful in any un-
dertaking of his life. A carpenterat one
time, he did not rise to be master in
his honorable avocation; then as keep
er of a wharf boat at Steubenville, he
made a failure; at last gentleman
farmer, near county town, he loved
the law so we'll as to become frequent
hanger-on about the Court House, and
a professional juror. AS to him being
even representative of the honest and
intelligent farming class, it is sheer nom
sense.
The grovelling, snivelling dema-
goguery exhibited by the Cadiz Senti-
mel, in its attempt to prejudice the
the minds of voters against Capt. Dan
ford because he had the industry and
the ability to arise from poor plough
boy to first-class lawyer and states
men, is simply unparalleled. 1t must
be remembered, if it is considered es-
sential that man should have been a
"tiller cf the soil" to entitle him to-
a seat in the halls of Congress, that
Captain Danford. was reared on a
farm, and we venture the assertion,
that in all the departments of husband
ry, from the driving of an ox-team to
the finer duties in farmers life, he is
the superior of Mr.. Henry Boyles, the
Democrat and sO-called farmer.
But as Secretary DelanO, said in re-
ply to Farmer Allen the other day,
''labor was not all done on farms. The
''toilers in your iron works and found
''ries, the men who go out to sea in
tships, must be considered by you,
''when you reflect on the right of la
'bor. The loom and the anvil-com-
'merce and manufactures as well as
'agriculture-are to be comprehended
sin the scheme OF the true statesman.
He is not there to make any pretense
'Or exclusive devotion to the farming
COR any other class interest; he spoke
for his country and her interests, and
would not pander to the prejudices
'of either of them at the expense of the
'other."
The farmers of this District are sem
ible men, and it is worse than idle to
lttempt to array them against every
'ther industry. They know that in
'ur present Congressman they have
man, who, by the sweat of the hard
oil on farm, and at the forum, has
Won his present position. He is in full
with the laboring man-and
las the ability and the courage to ,
tand by and labor for the advance !
nent of all the varied interests in the
District. He is the farmers and la
oring mans friend, and the ballots on
he 18th will demonstrate that theyl
re his friends.
REMEMBER the Election on Tuesday {
ne 18th inst. Let no Republican i'm {