Year: 1879

WILLIAMSON COUNTY.


Editor Patron.-There is certainly
some great cause why farmers who have
been SO much abused and imposed upon
by county rings and cliques when comes
the time to select men to fill the impor-
tant offices of our country, do not stick to-
gether and select more men of their own
calling than they have heretofore done.


There should be dilligent inquiry made
as to the cause of the frnquent failures of
farmers to cooperate and send men to
represent them and their calling in the
halls of Congress and State Legislatures.


The agricultural classes are more nu-
merous than any other, yet have fewer
representatives selected from among them
to fill important offices of trust. The
thoughtful mind naturally enquiries why
is this so? Why do farmers continue to
be overburdened with taxes without rep
resentation when they have the power to
change this state of affairs in peaceable
way?


We believe that it is party strife stirred
up to great extent by party journals.
Our agriculturists pull against each other
in an indirect way too much to accom-
plish any great amount of good


There are in this country two great po-
litical parties that have long been at war
with each other-both claiming to be in
the right. With one or the other of these
parties the farmers have been voting
pretty equally divided; also our farm
journals have been leaning to one or the
other of these parties. One in this section
teaching the farmers to organize and help
the Democratic party, and another in
that section teaching them to help the
Republicans, and thus they have been or
ganizing and pulling against each other
| to their own ruin.


| 1t is true there is but little difference
among honest farmers when they come to
understand each other; but so long as they
attempt to. follow old parties, just that
long they will stand divided. 1t seems to
be against human nature for men to leave
the party with which they have long affil-
lated and vote for even an honest and ca
pable man under an opposing party name
Then if this is true, there is no use for
! farmers to undertake to better their con-
dition politically until they can unite upon
a new name under which to fight their
political battles Just SO long as farmers
attempt to vote with the old parties, their
efforts to reform the Government will be
in vain.


lnotice in The PATRON that you ad,
wise the farmers to organize in every beat
in your State and take charge of the
Democratic party and nominate and elect
enough farmers to the State Legislature
to insure the election of farmer to the u
S. Senate this fall Now, will not this
proposition, or rather advice, cause those
farmers who have affiliated with the Re
publican party to bolt and insure the de
feat of the farmers?


Laboring men can and will meet upor
halfway ground, but to expect them tc
go from one extreme to the other is more
than can be looked for.


The Grange in this part of our State il
progressing slowly but surely We hav,
formed Cooperation Association on tn,
Rochdale plan, at Pleasant Hill Grange
which bids fair to succeed THE PATRon
is taken by yseveral members of our Grang'
and all, without exception, are highly
pleased with it. Fraternally,


i 4t S. M. WoOLsEY.