Richmond Palladium

Aristocracy Rebuked.

Our quondam friend, Henry Hoover, was a candidate for the legislature, at the late election.--He was very justly defeated by the hard-fisted and honest yeomanry of the county. We were not at all surprised at the result. We have marked with regret the signal departure of our once familiar friend from the simplicity of other days. We recollect with pleasure the hearty and emphatic denunciations which Henry used to pour out upon the "aristocracy of the towns" and the proud upstarts of the villages. In those days a man who by the industry of years had enabled himself to dress in broad cloth or ride in a carriage was considered too proud to be worthy of his support; but now Henry himself has fallen into the ways of the rich and proud,--He rides in a buggy. What business has a candidate to ride in a buggy when an ox cart is far more safe, substantial and becoming? The Whig candidates were denounced as "gentlemen farmers"--wearing gloves, and as having servants, and all that kind of thing, but not one word was said about Henry's buggy. Break the tarnal thing up Henry, and try it again next year. You are as popular as any man in your party, but the people don't like to see as rich a man as you are riding in a buggy! There's no mistake Henry but that the buggy lost you the three dollars per day and roast beef! Darn the thing to darnation!