Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1874 — THREE PARTIES. [ARTICLE]

THREE PARTIES.

Reader do you believe the Indianapolis Journal is orthodox? Do you think that, like young George Washington or Schuyler Colfax, its editor cannot tell a lie? If you answer these conundrums in the affirmative will you please tell after reading the following extract from a recent editorial in that paper, whether tlie People’s Party is a Republican dodge or.a Democratic scheme? In regard to.JState,tickets it seems reasonably certain that there will be three in the field. The “farmers” who meet here next Wednesday, seem quite determined to nominate, and there is.no reason to doubt that they will, unless when they come together they shall see the impolicy of doing so before either of the political parties have acted. But this is hardly to be expected. Tlie movement is officered and engineered by men.of some political experience and large ambition, who for various reasons huve already cut loose from the Republican and Democratic parties, ot who are perfectly willing to do so, and it would not Comport with their plans for. the farmers’ convention to adjourn without nominating a State ticket, on which, of Course, each one of these restless agitators expects do find a place. It is a noteworthy fact that under the manipulations of these shrewd individuals, some of whom aspire to local and some to higher offices, the Granger movement seems to have quite lost its original and disvery large degree’, it is temporarily suspended; its non-political professions have been, for the time at least, laid aside; the well directed efforts to elevate the pursuit of agriculture and to increase its rewards have been suspended: Ceres, Flora. Pomona, and the other titles, are no longer heard of. instead of all this we have the open and avowed attempt to form a new-political party; a declaration that the present State administration must be changed, accompanied by the singular confession that the State never had an houester or better one, and a general conversion of a movement originated and headed by farmers for purely agricultural purposes into one officered and engineered by politicians for purely selfish epds. We assume it as certain, therefore, that the leaders of the farmers’ movement intend to nominate a. State ticket.