The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-13
A SPURIOUS GRANGER ANSWERED.
A Chance for Him to get new suit Of Clothes
for Nothing.

The Republican ring organ in tins
city publishes a communication, dateu
Hampton, the 10Th, and signed "A
Granger" in which the partizan writer
wants to know why The ARGUS
lis so anxious to make 1t appear tnat
the late Democratic nominations ior
county officers were made by the farm
ers' grange, when in fact the constitution
of the society strictly prohibits political
measures or marty politics, and the by laws
;mnose a fine Of five dollars upon any
member for mentioning politics IN the So
ciety?'
The man who wrote the communication
is either no granger at all, or he is not a
reader of THE ARGUS. We offer him one OF
Dodge 4 Walkers best new suits OF clothes
if he will show that THE ARGUS ever SAID
claimed or intimated that the nominations
alluded to were made by the farmers gran
pes. And we offer him the free use OF our
Office and files to find anything of the sort
THE ARGUS knows quite as well as any
body that the oranges are not political or
CARNATIONS they are organized Tor social,
business, and educational purposes, and,
inside the grange room, no political ques-
ton can come.
1t is, however, an. absurd piece of folly
to suppose that the people whether farm
ers or not) who are DESTROYS of eurbing the
monopolies which are sucking out Their
life, can accomplish their object any Other
way than through the ballot box. And foI
that purpose they have open and pubic
county associations in the various counties
which are political and designed to secure
the objects of their organization by votes
These county associations are composed OF
delegates from workingmen's clubs or or
CARNATIONS; from trades unions; from
mechanics societies; from township clubs
of farmers who are not grangers, and IRON
the oranges also. The farmers county as
ISOLATION is the machinery through whict
laborers, mechanics, wOrkingmen, mer
chants. and farmers can work together
The county association represents all, an'
is composed of delegates from all tn
clubs, societies, oranges, trades unions
etc. etc who please to send representa-
tives.
The county ticket now before the pee
pie of this county called the Farmers An
ti-Monopoly ticket, was nominated by tn
| action of the farmers county association
and not by the oranges alone. III
p Cniou's spurious or ignorant granger cal
T it the Democratic ticket,-but by VIII;
authority don't appear. THE ARGUS ne'
err advocated its nomination. No Den
ocratic committee man ever advised
) The executive committee of the farmer
e association which called the convention
d composed of five Republicans and only oil
} Democrat. The convention which mac
the nominations was called to order by
Republican and every one of its office
r were Republicans. And finally, all Il
( candidates are Republicans, except on
d and he was never regarded as a We
: violent or bigoted party man. What re
son, then, has this spurious granger I
calling it Democratic ticket? We &C
Is tainly cannot imagine.
N The UHion's spurious granger, in
re ignorance, puts the following conundruu
Il And why II It the grangel was designed to b,
VA political party to put down railroad and other n
D. nopolies. was it constructed upon so narrow
guage Is to exclude all merchants, mechanics u
laboring men from it, memberships
1t was not designed to be a polite
P party
he AS to the last part of this spurious gra
Of gers conundrum-he might as well a
h why the stone cutters association do
at admit printers, or why the carpenters
ISOLATION don't admit watch makers. i
pretended granger is an ass-he is eiti
h. a sneaking, skulking political wire-pull
a or stupid fellow who cant comprehe
ge anything. The grange is exclusively
mt farmers society, and a secret, non pollti
is society. There are also, in some toy
d. ships, farmers clubs, composed of farm
who either don't like to incur the expe
of being grange members, or who dc
49, like to join any secret society. There
tn also societies of the crispens, the cOrdws
nut ers, the stone cutters, the printers,
nd bricklayers, the masons, the merchal
~ the carpenters, the cabinet makers-in
all the various trades and occupations, e
cd have their clubs, associations, etc, and
farmers county ass lciation is made VI
delegates from all of these ASSOCIATE
which choose to send delegates.
ing these delegates make up ticket, u
cal which all people who desire to curb
ate regulate railroads or other monopc
The are invited to unite 1t is not mar
ing guage" affair, at all, but one broad emo
the to include all the people except such
md wish to Cypress or swindle the Il
ual through some monopoly or special p
-tv. lege.
lar We hope the spurious Hampton g
mem ger is answered.
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