The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-15
REPUDIATES WHAT PRES. MELLEN SAID National Grange Takes Off, ficial Action on Address of New Haven Roads
 President.
NOT RESPONSIBLE
 FOR HIS STATEMENTS
Speech the Sole Topic of Con- versation and Discussion Among the Mem
 bers.

Hartford, Nov. l4--Opinions were freely expressed here throughout the day on the address made before tha National grange last night by. Presi- dent Charles s. Meiien of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Rail- road company, in which he denounced political attacks on railroads, and also on the answer of the patrons of hue- bandry to that speech Occasion waa taken at the earliest opportunity of- fered at the resumption of the grange convention this morning to express clearly the position of that order in reference to certain of Mir. Mellen's statements. Resolutions were unani- mously passed setting forth, in sub- stance, that the grange was not TO- sponsible for the statements.
 During the recesses and luncheon periods the speech was the sole topid of conversation and discussion. It was apparently unlocked for, and in thS words of one of the grange offlclalB took the farmers off their feet" The resolutions adopted to-day in relation to the speech are:
 Resolved, That the members of the National grange do not wish the ina- pression to go abroad that the state- ments made by all the, speakers at the public reception last evening are a portion of the grange creed. A raAl- Eroad president was invited to speak and the members courteously listened to his prepared address with many innuendos, susceptible of varied conv structions, some of which would place our order before the world in false position.
 ''The National grange at its first ses- sion after said public meeting desires to publicly declare 1t was not respon- sible for the statements or express sions in said address above referred to.
 Resolved, that the National grange firmly and unflinchingly stands on it's declaration of principles in opposition to all trusts or combinations that use unfair methods to exploit the people.
 Resolved, that we wage no warfare against railways or any other corpor- ations that conduct their business along lines of fairness and we further declare it to be the fixed and deter- mined principle of our order that all men or corporations, rich or poor, great or small, shall obey the laws of our country"
 The session this afternoon was open- ed at 2 o'clock at Foot Guard hall and the four degrees of the subordinate grange were exemplifled by special de4 kgree teams from New Britain ana Keene, N H. Earlier sessions during the day were held in the house of rep- resentatives at the capitol, in connec- tion with which an elaborate exhibi- tion of fruit raised in Connecticut was given by the State Pomologica4 soci- ety.
 At the meeting tonight the fifth de- gree was conferred by the officers of the ten state Pomona gfanges, afteg which the sixth degree was conferred by the Connecticut grange. On Frl- day the governor and Mrs Woodruff will hold reception at the governors rooms in the capitol from lt:se to 1sieO o'clock They will be assisted by ex- Governor Bell of Vermont and ex-9ovs fContinuad an SAcond Raea