Year: 1874

trict. They are thinking men, who
work intelligently toward the objects
they have in view. Old party ties
sit lightly on them, and they have
instead common bond OF sympathy
as farmers which is quite as control
ling as ever were party obligations
In a recent address at Georgetown,
Brown County, the Grand Master Of
the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
Mr.. S. H. Ellis, set forth the "Gran
ger" ideas in regard to political &C
ton, according to the report in the
Sentinel, as follows:


In the Grange you will hear dis
cussed no questions of sectarian re-
ligion or of party politics; yet the
principles of public morals upon
which all religions are based are fund
amental to our order, and the princi-
pies we teach underlie all true poll
tics, and if properly carried out will
tend to purify the whole political at
mosphere of our country. 1t is the
duty of every member to do all he
can in his own party to put down
bribery, corruption and trickery; to
see that none but competent, faithful
and honest men are nominated for
positions of trust; and to see that
the principle which should animate
every Patron is carried out, that is,
that the Office should seek the man
and not the man the office. These
principles should be recognized by
all, but in the conflict of parties they
are too often forgotten. The Pat
ron of Husbandry, who is more the
friend of his country than the serf OF
q party, will make them the pole star
of his political career, and, whatever
be his affiliations, will reject o nomi-
nation that is tainted. 1t is our in
terest that we should find honest
men. I do not know, said Mr.. Ellis,
whether yon have defaulters in Brown
County here the sarcastic laughter
of the crowd soon gave him the in
formation he desired. If you have,
you may trace the wrong to a neg
lect by the people of those great prin-
ciples which are ours, and should be
those of all. The office-seeker is q
nuisance, and you may take it for an
axiom that whoever most strenuously
seeks a trust is the most unfit per
son to whom to confde it. He wants
it for his own purposes, not for
yours, and he will exercise it for his
own profit, regardless of your inter
ests. Money and liquor are the
great electioneering weapons; sensi-
BILE and patraotic men know that
these are not the arguments by
which a people should be induced to
choose their servants. While we
emphatically repeat that no Grange
is a political party or organization,
yet we also assert that the principles
of the Grange will rescue the country
from the rule of rings, spectators,
and corruptionists of every kind,
and will once more place the reins
in the hands of honest men.


We congratulate the Grangers o.
the Seventh District on the rare op
portunity now presented them fol
carrying out these views in the ap
preaching election. We speak from
personal knowledge and long &C
quaintance, when we say that DR.
Thomas W. Gordon-who, though
making nopretensions as farmer, has
for years lived on the produce of his
own farm, taking lively and prac
tical interest in agricultural affairs
is q man they can trust. He is well
informed, able, liberal, and, though
unostentatious in his ways, as firm
as granite. By electing him to Con
gress the Patrons will widen hi
power to assist the farmer, and tht
laborer of every class to strengthen
their cause. No opportunity O.
rendering such services has beer
neglected by him, though devotion
to his arduous profession and tt
scientific studies has left him no timC
to amass much wealth, and his ca
pacity for usefulness has not beer
equal to that Of men of ampler means
But he has been able to benefit tht
workers of his race in many way
little noted by the public, for few
stop to consider how much mai
may do for his fellows, without max
ing any ado about it.


DR.. Gordon has always interested
himeself in the introduction of labor
saving machines upon the farm, al
well as in other branches Of industry
and has taken upon himself the la
Dor of obtaining and distributing
seeds of improved varieties. He wal


the first to introduce the sorghum
plant into Brown County, and CAV
the seed to several farmers, cultiva
ting it in various ways, to learn tn


best mode. It was by his report t.


the Patent Office that the recon


mendation to top or cut off the PAM


cles of the plant was done ava,


with. While he was thus experi


menting, there was no mill in hi


section of the country suitable 70


grinding the cane. DR.. Gordo


made draft on paper, in his Office


of a tbree-rollered horizontal mill


one of the rollers movable-took th


draft to Mr.. McCague, of Ripley


who had patterns made and mi


cast. After trial of this mill, seve


others were made by MIR. Nc c., tf


same autumn, and put into use. I'll


first mill is yet in use by Mr.. Hem


Pierce, four miles east Of Higgin