The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1875-11-16
RARTfzAy POLITICS.


'eaders will not forget that while
he News has no well defined polit-
ical principles itself, partizan or
otherwise, yet-it has always coun-
seled the Grange to 60 into politics;
hut exactly where, or how, il has
never had the goodness to say.
They will also remember that the
EXAMINER, with the declaration of
the principles and purposes of tho
Order ever in its mind, has siren
uously and persistently counseled
the exact reverse. While the News
and other papers have thus coun-
seled, there were yet Others more
numerous, more patriotic, and more
consistently devoted to the interests
of the great farmers movement,
how betrayed nervousness on this
subject quite natural, because such
a movement on the part ot the Or
der would have played the very
deuce with the existing order OF
things politically for time, and
would have ended finally in the des-
truction of the first, ,and most prom
ising organization, that has ever
had for its purpose the elevation
and advancement of the agricultur-
alists of the land.
At the time the EXAMINER was
made the "official paper of
the Grange, it stood among the
first of the Democratic jour
nails of the State, and its
political principles were well and
widely known to the Order, as well
as to those outside. But the wis
dom of the State Grange provided
that the Order was not to be bound
by its political views /; could not be,
indeed, the Patrons being a non-po-
litical organization. And while the
Examiner has been called upon to
treat, often and at length, the aims
and purposes of the Patrons, it has
never parted with particle of ITS
political independence and freedom,
and has exercised its rights with a
due reference to both interests, and
has the satisfaction of rejecting
that its position is appreciated and
approved by the Grange, almost
unanimously, while the Democratic
party stands a unit in its confidence
in the integrity and devotion of thu
paper.
Topapers conducted upon the the
ory which controls the News, this i
esteemed a difficult role, but to thos
who value the quality which in
duces a strict adhesion to principle
under any and all circumstances,th
difficulty inelts into "thin air." be
cause being true to one is guarar
tee of integrity to the other, an
more especially, as there are no po
, sible interests which can or shoul
clash.
i The News, which looks with 8
evil eye upon Democratic organic
, ton, and which is ready at all timt
, to advocate the abolition of part
lines, is prompt to seize upon tn
, circumstance of the apparent clasl
ing of the political interests of Il
Worthy Master, and the Dem'
cratic Governor of Texas, to ure
/ its baleful theories upon the peopl
, but neither the Grange nor u
/. Democratic party, are to be decei
a ed by its well-turned sentences an
/. trite commonplaces.
Il We have nowhere said that a ci
g izen loses his political privileges /
becoming Granger, but we ha'
!. always contended that represent
r tive and leading men, in agreat ne
D political organization like the p
: irons of Husbandry, should avo
political ambition, because Il
E mere fact of aspiring to such pla
was sure to be charged as a poll
cal crime upon the Order, by p
| mara and man lilo tho Naua