The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-04-04
A FARMERS TICKET,

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he matter ia fairly entitled TO- It's
aging the farmers Of Texas, or even
no grange, but poor compliment 70
hink for moment that they would
iollOw either Mr., Lang or hls organ In
10 political combination TO defeat The
democratic party, and more especially
since II has beaten OF radlcallsm Tors
over, aud restored quiet and order 10
tho state, Such q proposition naturally
that this great work OF The
marty was done without the assistance
and eountenance Of the hosts Of demo
cratic farmers OF Texas, proposition
too monAtrously ridiculous 10 obtain
for a single moment, The time has
long since passed when u few designing
leaders Of tho grange movement could
have given decidedly political turn To-
tho energies Of tho order The time
has also passed when such u turn would
DO either formidable Ia Itself or danger
Gus TO democratic aseendency, This
state Of decadence ia due TO the natural
reaction among the bone and sinews OF
the order rs we'll IN 10 tho evident de'
cadence In tho influence OF the
LEADERS themselves, The farmers
of Texas arc the be lrock TO
our glorious and overwhelming
majority, We are among those who
refuse 10 accept the theory that beoause
u man Ia u farmer or granger therefore
he Ia less democrat and more OF a
demagogue, all Of which Ia carried logi'
oally in the Examiners proposition
II Is demagoglcal to tho last degree
TO say that the election Of farmer TO
the gubernaiorial chair would elevate
the aosial status or political dignity OF
that class OF our population dnema'
gogIcal because II would seem 10 argue
present infcriority which Ia " far
from the truth aa that either Long Or
Downs Ia a statesman, Hubbard ia a
distinguished farmer and they do say u
granger also, Coke Is u farmer, and II
Is perfectly safe TO any that nine men
out of ten in official life toNday IN
Texas are farmers, They do not got
credit for it,simply because they are not
seeking TO inveiglo their brethren into
the belief that the state 10 going TO the
bad, and unless tho agricultural adams
dons his pillow and hastcns with all speed
TO take up tho trade OF politics the day
Of political judgment will break upon II
country as badly startled by that event
as tho money changers were when the
Saviour came down upon them In the
temple. .... ..I
The Ncps need not tenr that the Er~
dmiuer has influence enough to array this
tho most numerous, and important
class of our population against all the
others, 1t isn't within the possibilities
Of that paper, nor even OF the grange
itself were its membership (Which is II
unity an unit upon the question,
The NcDS can conceive of II situation
where "it may be oxpedient and saluN
tary for them to do So" i. take part
in politics as class and elect, say, the
governor. There the Ne,oS "lets down"
II can never under any possible cons
tingency become expedient or salutary
for any one class of population to array
itself against another or nil others. Ths
masses of mankind are struggling up
Thepure and tho good rejoice at every
substantial advance made, but would it
be an advance, were the farmers TO
abandon their fields and take to- poll.
tics alone2 There has never been an
election since this government was
founded where the vote of the farmers
was not the dominant power in the
struggle, and now to assume that they
have been all these long years practi>
cally without representation in governs
ment, would be asinine in its utter
and hopeless stupidity--or what il
worse, dangerously and palpably dema.
gogical,
The decided conservative tendency of
the democracy for the last thirty years
had tic foundations laid deep in the
rural homestelds of our land. Men
and democrats might wrangle aud fume
at the crossroads and about
the polls, but in the calmer
surroundings of home in the quiet
fields and among the natural sur
roundings of the farm, passion gives
way, and all that is conservative and
reasonable springs up, These benign
and balmy influences have gone out
and stamped themselves indelibly ups
on the politics of our later and better
days. Let us rejoice that it is so, and
make an effort to retain them in their
pristine virtue and yigor, not prostrate
them into a mere class partisanshp,
and render them hateful to all who are
rejoicing that the bitterness of class and
party is becoming lost quantity in our
political system.
A Dream and Breaeh Of Promise I'm
Ohio.