The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-08-25
For the HartfOsd Herald.
THE PATRONS OF HUSBANpRY.

lS'uy apparent, tDaI the mere aTilln5 OF
the forces had dismayed the souls of fear
tul adversaries, who most incontinently
fed the field. The political parties of
Ohio county went into action on the
principle that he who fights and runs
away may live to fight another day, only,
in this case, the fight was never fairly in
augurated, from failure of one OF the
cOmbatants to come to time.
That we had bloodless battle, was
due somewhat to the fears of our oppo-
nents,, who could have mustered more
forces than was generally supposed.
However, had they have faced the music,
it would have only made the victory
more certain. As it is, two have put ten
thousand to flight.
Our candidate will make n creditable
legislator. 1t is not to be supposed that
either he or his friends are vain enough
to imagine that his own merits or
strength hadfanything to do with the ter
rors of the opposition. More experienced
men have had the most determined oppo-
sition, and that he has won an easy vic-
tory is due. in the first place, to his be-
ing an entirely unexceptiona0le candi-
date, and to the fact that he represented
sentiment; in a word, that he represent
ed the Patrons of Husbandry. Repre>
senting himself,were his talents the grand
est since the days Of Adam, he would
have been powerless. Representing the
sentiments of the Patrons, he was as in-
vincible as the rocks of st. Helena be-
fore the blasts og the ocean.
His election is the signal gun whose
reverberations will resound through the
camps OF political degeneracy until the
places which have seen the rights Of men
bartered for mess of pottage, will be as
silent as death under the echoes of GA
bricl's horn.
The significance Of our success lies in
the triumph of principles. And here
word of warning. That the patrons have
been successful in the election of their
first candidate, will, in no wise, affect the
price of sugar aud coffee. Two blades
are not going to grow in the place of one.
We have elected our candidate, and the
danger is that we shall expect from him
what would be beyond the power of the
wisest statesman in the land. He will 20
to the Legislature, and find political
majority which will not be pledged to the
furtherance of the farming interests. lie
will find men still under railroad and
monopoly influence. And the endeavors
to stem the tide will be as Intellectual as
an attempt to reach the North Pole. His
influence will only be the lever which,
by the steady support. unwavering fidel-
ity, and absolute patience Of those whose
servant lie is, will at last raise the body
polite to the eminence ofpurity, economy
and justice.
1t may be, that when his time expires,
the only visible trace will by found in a
recorded vote which will show his fideli-
ty to the interests of those who have
elected him.
When the Farmers movement shall
have entirely permeated the vile atmos>
phere of modern politics, then shall we
see the full effect OF this grand beginning
1t may be that the Changers in the next
legislative body will hold the balance of
power in the Senatorial contest, and be
able to dictate who shall represent the
State in the next Senate, and thus assure
the farming interests a representative
pledged to those interests, as interests
which are above and paramount to all
other interests combined.
Let the Patrons expect from their rep
resentative a voice and vote true to the
farming interests, and then if that voice
and vote accomplishes nothing, pick your
fiints and try it again, ever ready to re-
spond to Wellington's call at Waterloo
up guards, and at them"
In the meantime, let us be cautious in
dealing with our enemies. We have only
got the lead of monopoly IN durance vile
Let us watch the movement Qt the tall
The leaders of both parties will only be
too glad to unite in opposition to cur in
terests. Search the poll-books, and
when a vote is found for q candidate who
was not making the race, 0ote placed
upon tie books as q gratt.tops insult to Our
Ordsr, stab the man who had his vote SO
recorded as a political incubus, and when
the time comes, if ever it should, make
him wish that the floods had over>
whelmed him, ere be put such brand
upon himself.
Above all, Patrons, be true, be stead
fast, never be weary in well>doing. Re-
forms are not the work of day. Your
cause is inst; your cause is holy.
Gear not each sudden sound and shock,
lis of the wave, and not the rock;
lis but the tapping Of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock ard tempest's roar,
In spite Of falsc-light on the shore,
Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea -
Sunday morning two negro men, drunk
and asleep on the Kentucky Central near
Paris, were run over and killed by q
freight train.