The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-10-09
G Correspondents.
LIZ. Benjamin Petree Explains
Things Little More Fully.

ilcHi, Eiilan braNton. Is usually Il very
cautious man. He is very careful sbout
committing himself to such an extent.
on any thing, SO that he can't find a
hole to crawl out at-and he il so small
and has practiccd so much, that he can
20 through Il very small one Knowing
this to be the case, You may imagine my
surprise on reading his article of August
II. TO find that. after telling, or IN
tering, no less than seven hes. and lcav-
ing, rs he supposed, Il small hole to
crawl out Of each one, he should tell
one lie direct" and leave no hole ut all
10 crawl through, and give me chance
TO pin him down. can account for it
only Gil one hypothesis, and that is that
he thought he mad 50 overwhelmed me
With the other seven that there would
not he enough of me LEFT to rclutc this
one. He said that | had .bccn in all
the deliberations of that (thc farmrrS)
movement IN this county a> its pro-
ieSscd friend" Now he admits (when
he says "all the deliberations" that
there We're several delibcrationS-mu
than one. at least. deny. and | defy
him to prove, that ever was in any hut
that one meeting that gave you IN ac-
count OF last week, until the township
meetings We're called. unless it was
when it was ATTEMPTED to introduce the
movenFcnt tthc political parO into the
Council ~ Grange and failed, and there
always opposed II. On one occasion.
4! the same meeting where he denied
or GId not rcmcNbrr beng present, IN
his article OF August u. / dcnSrd that
Patrons were under any obligations to
keep any political luaitrr secret that WAS
brought III IN violation "t the rules "i
the order. bTayton was sitting by mc
at the tlsne-and made suggestion to me
which led me to believe sllt he was Of
the sam" opInion That ! was. though
he dld got say anything on the subject
to the assembly. On" gentleman IN
rlnT the discussion rald he would Keep
any tnlng secret that the Master oi his
Grange would tell HIM ~. ! hear now
that he has gone back ON TIE Farmers
4 movement i suppose has Master told
him to. ! believed then, and / believe
now, that 1t was Brayton,s duty, rs
Deputy al tins district, 10 dcc!d" such
questions and put : stop 10 ANYTHING
THAT would be likely to bring disc!cd!t
on the order
lie called me 4 ''twO-iac"d man.
when III tact the trouble i wouldn't
act ''tW"-iaccd ri ms bidding. In his
article ci july II he says. Il can not
close without calling On hm to AMI IN
putting "a stop To- these insults thrown ai
The farmers hl those VIII" claim that
they ar" u>in% tlr Grsngr - 4 political
partT contrary t" IT. positive rules.
Now. suppose had come ont and denied
that they were using the tiran@" aH Il
political party, and Deputy Grand Mas
ter l.. brayt"H had been taN hr wa>(
elected and sent by his Gru%" I" the
Andre" county Grange. - member,
to transact the Legitimate h.'S!nrNS ot the
''EAn-'- where, upon lhrr' htiiiH@ !" he
a quorum present i"r the transaction
oi t." hn-'n"SN OF the Grange, sand
Deputy Master "t the State Gran%r.
WITH a lew others, should hold Il secret
po.ilira! meeting, reverse the decision
OF Il former meeting. /" rri'r Il mater
"i !mp"riaur" i" the people, m! d"r'Ir
! tiIr nilt'"F FlhrIE>ciNc>-l say i HA'i1i
deny that the Grange was hring n~cd
a- political party, aAh sand l,rTuty
Master oi the State Grange NhoE.d con-
tiluc s'I'h pfac'IrrS' thoNe inaI'rioll>
SiinnrrcrS, not BEN" able 10 Distinguish
thc difference between tillN ~ccift p"Ii'I-
cal meetIn% ana = meeting OF the
orange ha"h' nave th' h'PuHeNce
I" not beieNe me. =" You see / was
placed IN Il pcc"'iar d'icmhia--lrt me
take h".u OF either h"m' ! was liable to
he w"rS'ch. | was called on by ny,
superior to a'd nm ana must Il" 1t. !