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TROTTING HORSEMEN AGAINST HUGHES Refuse to Race at Ballston Fair While New Yorks Governor Is Present Jovernor Hughes went to the county fair at Ball Moil Saratoga County New York Wednesday after ¬ noon made an address and was accorded a respect ¬ ful hearing But the harmony of the occasion was jarred by a remarkable occurrence which is thus described in a dispatch from Ballston The governors presence on the grounds how ¬ ever was resented bv the horse owners who have uiktu exception to the governors efforts to suppress In tting on the race tracks of the state As a con viliience they refused to start their horses while the executive was on the grounds groundsThe The strike of the horse owners created an un ¬ precedented situation and Caused the management sf the fair marked embarrassment When the con ¬ ditions became known tt sensation was created timong the thousands of spectators on the grounds and considerable pressure was put upon the trotting mm to change their attitude and run off the races rs scheduled scheduledIn In this the fair ollicials took the lead urging their cases strongly upon the recalcitrant owners Mid pointing out the awkwardness of the situation vaused by the balk in the program Their efforts were fruitless however the owners remaining ob ¬ durate and for an hour and a half they refused to budge from their position They openly declared that Governor Hughes had antagonized their iutiyests and that they proposed to retaliate by refusing to take their horses out on the track while he was present Those presentThose in charge of the fair threatened to have the owners disqualified for their refusal to come to time when the races were called but even this threat hud no effect in altering their attitude and the races were held up during the entire period of the executives visit to the fair fairSaratoga Saratoga county is strongly republican and the great crowd present was naturally mainly of that political persuasion But while the action of the trotting hoisemen evoked much excitement it does not appear that it brought condemnation from the crowd Quite to the contrary the people seemed to be quietly in sympathy with it and patiently awaited the departure of the governor then remained to cheer the belated trotting contests which because of the delay were extended until it became too dark to continue them to a conclusion conclusionThe The incident was really sensational and serves to iiow for one thing that the harness horsomen re unit the course of Governor Hughes as bitterly as do the running horsemen This is an element that has an influence in every county of the state while in the main the running liorse inllueiicc is confined to the great centers of population Governor Hughes lilmself as well as the managing politi ¬ cians must view this incident with surprised con c rn rnThe The diversions of the people have no part in poli ¬ tics but hero is a case where the governor of New ork did bring them into politics and in doin ruthlessly destroyed vast properly interests affected injuriously the Incomes and means of liv ¬ ing of i regular army of men In this country when men are hurt linapclully through means that can be made an issue at the polls they are not usually flow about revenging their injuries through tin ballot box Some curiously interesting and in trurtlve developments in this line appear to lie 1 impending in New York
