Year: 1878

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We think the Nssos Is giving NOR
prominence to the Egaminer's vagarl
on the subject of farmers ticket thar
the matter is fairly entitled to. 1t i
paying the farmers of Texas, or ever
the grange, but poor compliment Il
| think for a moment that they woult
follow either Mr.. Lang or his organ in


to political combination TO defeat tn.
democratic party, and more especial,
since it has beaten off radicslism for
ever, and restored quiet and order *
the state. Such proposition naturally
presupposes that this great work of th'
party was done without the assistance
| and countenance of the hosts OF demo
cratic farmers of Texas, proposition
too monstrously ridiculous to obtain
| for a single moment The time ha.
long since passed when few designing
leaders of the grange movement could
have given decidedly political turn tc
the energies of the order. The time
has slso passed when such turn would
be either formidable in itself or danger.
GUS to democratic sscendency. This
| state of decadeEce is due to the natural
reaction among the bone and sinews o,
the order, as well as to the evident de-
cadence in the influence of the
leaders themselves. The farmers
of Texas are the be Irock TO
our glorious aud overwhelming
majority. We are among those who
refuse TO accept the theory that because
a man is q farmer or granger therefore
he is less democrat and morA of a
demagogue, all of which is carried logi>
cally ia the Examiner proposition.


1t is demsgogical to the last degree
10 say that the election of farmer to
the gubernstorial chair would elevate
the social status or political dignity OF
that class Of our populatio; dnema-
gogical because 1t would seem to argue
q present inferiority. which is as far
from the truth as that either Long or
Downs is a statesman. Hubbard is a
distinguished farmer and they do say q
granger also. Coke is farmer, and it
is perfectly safe to say that nine men
out of ten in official life to-day in
Texas are farmers. They do not get
credit for it,simply because they are not
seeking TO inveigle their brethren into
the belief that the state is going to the
bad, and unless the ngriculturist aban>
dons his plow and hastens with all speed
to take up the trade of politics the day
of political Judgment will break upon a
country as badly startled by that event
as the money changers were when the
Saviour came down upon them in the
temple,


The Netos need not fear that the EI.
asliRsT has influence enough To array this
the most numerous. and important
class of our population against all the
others. II isn't within the possibilities
of that psper, nor even of the grange
itself, were its membership (which is a
unit an unit upon the question.


The Meas can conceive of a situation
where sit may be expedient and salu-
tsry for them TO do SC" j. e, take part
in politics as a class and elect, say, the
governor. There the Neies "lets down.
1t can never under any possible con-
tingeney become expedient or salutary
for any one class of population to array
itself against another or all others The
masses of mankind are struggling up.
The pure and the good rejoice at every
substantial advance made, but would il
be an advance, were the farmers to
abandoa their fields and take to poll.
ties alone1 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>
eally without representation in govern
ment would be asinine in its utte.
and hopeless stupidity-or what Is
worse, dangerously and palpabIy dema.
gogical.


The decided conservative tendency OF
the democracy for the last thirty years
had its foundations laid deep in the
| rural. homesteads of our land. Men
and democrats might wrsngle and fume
at the crossroads and abou,
the polls. but in the calmer
surroundings Of home, in the quie,
fields and among the natural sur
roundings OF the farm, passion give,
way, and all that is conservative and
reasonable springs up. These benign
and balny influences have gone oui
and stamped themselves indelibly up,
on the politics of our later and better
days. Let us rejoice that il is 20, ant
make an effort to retain them in theil
pristine virtue and vigor. not prostrat,


them into mere class partisanship
ard render them hateful to all who ar,


rejoicing that the bitterness of class aus
| party is becoming lost quantity in oul


political system.


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