Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1874 — Politics and the Granges. [ARTICLE]

Politics and the Granges.

The refusal of the Granges to take any part in Soli lien «ill not prevent the farmers from forming letioctive associations of a political cast. An assoctaiion of this character, intended to he auxiliary to the State Farmers’ Assoctaiion, was formed yesterday hythe farmers of McDonough jConnty The members, a majority of whom are Grangers, are reported to be warmly in favor of the Decatur platform, and to he convinced that evil legislation, of which there is so much to complain. can be ref onjicTTOfilyDy "poll lIC4I action?— Chicago Tribune. The wise action of the recent meeting their organization is not of a partisan political character, except so far as it is the duty of its members to influence the "■political -parties-tG-wbich they- bcioag-to nominate and elect public officers who will be favorable to the grand objects which the Patrons of Husbandry have in view, was gall and wormwood to the “ new party” schemers of the Times and Tribune class. It was a terrible rebuff to those Democratic and sore-headed politicians who have been busy for a year past devising means by which they could catch the Grangers, with the purpose of organizing them Into an independent political party, with themselves as its managers and beneficiaries. The Grangers are not to be as easily handled by the old playedout politicians as the latter had fondly supposed; but the latter, in Illinois, it appears, are still trying to delude themselves into believing that the “ State Farmers’ Association,” so called, which met at Decatur and went through the motions of organizing a separate political party, was not a tnck and a sham, in which the real farmers of Illinois ltad nopart' and have no sympathy "Whatever. The Tribune style of political fishermen, who are just now prowling among the agriculturists in the guise of farmers, seeking a “new party,” yill in due time discover that, by going through the motions of iorming a farmers’ party without any farmers in it will be as great a failure as that which attended the efforts of the same schemers in 18t3 to organize a new party under the name of “ Liberal,” by adopting the Democratic platform and placing a veteran opponent of Democracy upon it as a candidate for President,— Chicago Evening Journal.