Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-11-23
GRANGE SENATOR.
Obadiah Gardner of Maine Sue
ceeds MIR. Frye.

CCCuC Niis yC.
He Was Master of the Maine State
GRANGE Ten Consecutive Years and
Will Be OF Material Assistance to the
Order and to Farmers Generally In
the senate-state Master stetson's
Opinion.
The appointment of Hon. Obadiah
Gardner of Rockland. Me-, to the Unit
ed States senate by Governor Plaisted
was cause of universal congratula-
ton among the farmers of the Pine
Tree State. He succeeds the late Sen
ator Frye as Names representative in
the upper house. The Order of Pa
irons Of Husbandry win have in Mr.
Gardner an able and aggressive leader
and an advocate of grange policies.
His Platform.
Relative to the important measures
which will concern him as q member
of the United States senate he said to
q reporter:
81 have attended many sessions of
the national grange, and i have no
hesitancy in expressing my approval
of all these matters save one" Then
he handed the interviewer a report of
the national grange proceedings where
in was this list. the proposal being to
favor the enactment of the various
ideas into laws:
Federal appropriation for highway
improvement.
Parcels post delivery.
Postal savings banks.
Direct election of United States sen
ators.
Defeat of ship subsidy.
Retention of oleomargarine laws.
Appropriation for farm schools.
Opposing agreements to the detri-
ment of farmers
.sThe exception in the original list.
the item TO which am opposed. is
the appointment of permanent tariff
commission. believe it is in direct
antagonism to the constitutional provi-
sion regarding the method of original
ing revenue measures. do not ex-
pect to find the report of the present
commission of much advantage in the
effort to bring about tariff reduction on
a just and satisfying basis
Speaking of the appointment of Oba-
diah Gardner as United States senator.
State Master Stetson. who succeeded
Senator Gardner as head of the Maine
state grange. said:
THE appointment of Mr.. Gardner is
very pleasing not only to myself. but
to a large body of the Maine state
grange. Last December resolution
was passed at the state convention al
Augusta urging that the next senator
from Maine be a granger, and in my
Journeys through Maine was sur
prised to find with what unanimity
this opinion was sheld everywhere.
Maine has been signally honored by
the appointment of Senator Gardner
for he is an able man who will be
heard from in congress. He is very
popular throughout the country as well
as in Maine as a granger Of the best
type He has for years advocated
allsthe great reforms the grange stands
for. and we will look to him to advance
the cause of the parcels post. postal
savings banks and national aid for
roads. to all of which policies the
srr, rro ;s committed -
When it was suggested to State
Master Stetson that in the event Of d
Democratic president Senator Gard
ner would be strong candidate for
secretary Of agriculture the posi-
bility struck him as very logical. and
he said: THAT would be indeed the
place where Senator Gardner would
shine. He is first of all farmer who
knows the farm from practical stand
point He is widely read man and
a common sense man who would be
broad enough as commissioner for the
whole country. and am sure that
Senator Gardners friends in the Maine
state grange would rejoice and 81
would the whole state of Maine to see
a Maine man in charge of this impor
tant portfolio"
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