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THE INDUSTRIAL AND EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE PARAMOUNT TO ALL OTHER CONSIDERATIONS OF STATE POLICY.
RALEIGH, N. O. JULY 19, 1892.
No. 23
PR0GEESS17
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-Rational farmers tali-
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UNION.
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JJth Dakota. Address, Washington,
D. C A . Tnoaiirpr J. TT. Turner.
Secreuurv- North Oamtoi
..,n ;iuii --, - r T i
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
ir. Wo till in rrin Ti O
iioiiso Wardall, Huron, South Da-
JUDICIARY.
r' V. Beck, Alabama.
D. Davie, J.cni,uuis.y.
ciTTOWL LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
H L Loucks, Chairman.
W. Macune, v asnmgiuu, u. v.
liana j. y - "V ,.,
L. P. Featherstone, Forest City, Ar
kansas. TTT, ... m
, )BTn Carolina farmers1 state alli
ance. Presi lent Marion Butler, Clinton,
N C
Vice-President T. B. Long, Ashe
.ille, N. C.
Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes,
(aleigh, N. C.
Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown, N.C.
Steward C. C. Wright, Glass, N. C.
Chaplain Rev. E. Pope, Chalk
ievel, N. C.
Door-Keeper W. H. Tomhnson,
'ayetteville, N. C.
Assistant Door-Keeper H. E. King,
s'eanut, N. C.
Sergeant-at-Arms J. S. Holt, Chalk
evel, N. C.
State Business Agent W. H. v orth,
tialeigh, N. C. , w
Trustee Business Agency Fund W.
v. Graham, Machpelah, Is . C.
IECTTIVE COMMrTTEE OF THE NORTH
CAROLINA FARMERS' STATE ALLIANCE.
S. B. Alexander, Charlotte, N..C,
;hairman; J. M. Mewborne, Kinston,
V. C. ; J. S. Johnston, Ruffin, N. C.
TATE ALLIANCE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Cul
oreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell.
TATE ALLIANCE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE.
R. J. Powell, Raleigh, N. C. ; N. C.
inglish, Trinity College: J. J. Young,
Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton, N. C.
V rtfc Carolina Reform Press Association.
Officers J. L. Ramsey, President;
tiarion Butler, Vice-President ; W. S.
Barnes, Secretary,
PAPERS.
progressive Farmer,
C Mic ft ah
The Workingman's Helper,
Watchman.
Raleigh,
Clinton,
Pinnacle,
Salisbury,
N. C.
N. C.
N, O.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
N. C.
Farmers' Advocate,
Country Life,
Mercury,
Rattler,
Agricultural Bee,
Alliance Echo,
Special Informer,
larboro.
Trinity College,
Hickory,
Whitakers,
Goldsboro.
Moncure,
Raleigh,
Each of the above-named papers are
requested to keep the list standing on
the first page and add otliers, provided
they are duly elected. Any paper fail
ing to advocate the Ocala platform tvill
be dropped from the list promptly. Our
people can now see what papers are
published in their interest.
FROM KANSAS.
A. Wonderful Convention Closes with a
Grand Tableaux.
Augusta, Kansas.
Mr. Editor: The recent People's
party State Convention of Kansas, held
at Wichita on the 15th, 16th and 17th
days of June, lfc 92, was a most wonder
ful assemblage in many ways. For
unbounded and ungovernable enthusi
asm, perhaps its equal was never held
in any State. From start to finish, the
most enthusiastic interest was mani
fest in every step in its proceedings.
No matter what was submitted to the
consideration of the delegates, it was
turned over and over, and scanned
and handled so that every possible way
in which it could effect the people's
movement was brought out and under
stood by all. No political whitewash
brush found employment in the pro
ceedings of that convention. No
"slate1' could stand for a moment
the rough handling of the sturdy men
who filled that convention hall. No
favorite so esteemed and honored as if
he overstepped the bounds of prudence,
he could escape the sharpest rebuke.
No place hunter so honored by reason
of push, official or professional stand
ing, as to escape the most rigid criti
cism and interrogation. No public
official so honored in the past as to
escape condemnation if in the thought
of the delegates he had been unfaithful
or even negligent of duty to the great
common people.
If schemers and slate-makers came
there at the beginning, they needed
but a short time to learn that Othello
like, " their occupation's gone." The
delegates were true representatives of
a heroic reform movement, bent on re
lief from the curse of existing con
ditions at any cost and in all events,
and to them the personal interests of
any individual, officially speaking,
were of no importance whatever. They
were there for the up-building of prin
ciples, not men. For the advancement
of reform, not to elevate one or another
individual to any desired position. So
intent was the vehement enthusiasm
that burned in every bosom, that it at
times swept away all parliamentary
rules and orders and spent itself in the
wv outbursts. But having thus
giv expression to its pent up zeal, it
immediately settled back to the most
earnest work.
One most remarkable feature was
the entire harmony that prevailed im
mediately upon the decision of any
matter, however excited may have
been the contest while pending con
sideration by the convention. Once
decided by a vote, it became a thing of
the past, and all seemed fully satisfied.
It has been the writer's fortune to
attend a great many State and other
political conventions, but never before
has such unanimity of acquiescence in
results growing out of so strenuously
contested differences of opinion in
similar convocations, passed under the
writer's observation. But the climax
was reserved for the last, and right
royally was it rendered ; but to be fully
comprehended, it must have been seen.
No pen can give the inspiration of the
scene. At least mine cannot.
The convention really commence 1
its preliminary sessions on the night of
the 14th, holding very late sessions that
night for speeches and a general ex
change of ideas. Then each day and
night thereafter hard working sessions
were held, lasting to long after mid
night, finally closing at about 2 o'clock
in the morning of the 14th.
Day and night, in the midst of sultry
heat, in a closely packed opera house,
those 553 delegates clung to their work,
not letting: up for meals until late meal
hours, when any important matter
was before them.
It seemed as if they would stay all
summer if the work could not be satis
factorily completed sooner. Time to
them seemed of little consideration.
Results seemed to be everything. But
to the climax.
By the order of business the nomina
tion of Congressman at large was left
to the last, and that order was reached
at about 1 o'clock on the morning of
the 17th.
The rule had been to call the Con
gressional districts in the order of their
numbers for the presentation of can
didates. But now Col. Fred Close, a
a one armed ex-Uni n soldier, and the
People's party candidate for Congress
in the First, arose and moved to sus
pend the rules and nominate Col. W.
A. Harris, of Leavenworth county, an
ex Confederate officer, and at one time
a member of Gen. R. E. Lee's staff, to
that office by acclamation. Col. Close
informally followed his motion with a
touchingly patriotic and heroic speech
as to the motives that inspired him to
that action, which electrified the vast
audience. Before closing he suggested
that every ex Union soldier in the con
vention who coincided with him, should
second the nomination by arising and
remaining standing until they could
be counted, and that all others remain
seated. Immediately two hundred and
seventy old veterans arose and stood in
the dim light with right hands raised
(or in the absence of right hands the
left was drafted into service) standing
in silent tableaux, like living statuary,
eagerly leaning forward to be counted
in testimony that with them the war
was ended. That with them the "stir
ers up" of sectional hate had no place.
That with them the bloody shirt had
been decently folded up ana laid away?
That with them the fact that a fellow
citizen with them now. who had in the
past worn the gray, bravely battling
on one side of a great constitutional
question, while they were on the other
side, until the stern arbitration of bat
tle had settled it, should no longer
count against him, since he has patri
otically accepted the result, and has
cast his let in with all good citizens of
our State in giving his best efforts to
the up buildiDg of our country's pros
perity, and the glory of our State.
The effect of the scene was enchant
ing beyond description. The electric
light coming from above and behind
the stage scenery," mellowed by the
colored paintings (the side gas lights
having ceased to burn) gave a soft
golden tint to everything just strong
enough that vision could reach all parts
of the vast room, and yet so soft that
features were not discernable at any
great distance. And there in that soft
ened halo, stood those old veterans of
many battles, their silvered hair lighted
up softly, waiting in perfect silence
while the secretary of the convention
was standing out on the edge of the
stage as silently as possible, counting
them,
A more pathetic scene than that
taken in connection with the sentiment
that gave bjrth to it is rarely if ever
witnessed. On the very front of the
high stage stood Capt. Evans, from
one of the western counties, himself a
hero of many a hard-fought field, wav
ing a beautiful American flag gently to
and fro. His long white beard and
long white hair fairly glittering in the
halo about his head and face as he
stood directly under the electric light
which hung above him and behind the
fall curtain of the stage. On the stage
beside and behind him stood numerous
comrades awaiting the count.
As the writer, from an elevated posi
tion viewed the scene, he said : This
means peace."
Gazing in silent admiration on the
scene, the thought came into mind of
that other scene when on the plains of
Bethlehem a light shone around, and
one involuntarily listened for a repeti
tion of the chorus, 4 4 Glory to God. On
earth peace, good will toward men.
When the teller announced that 274
old veterans a majority of the tire
convention had thus seconded the
nomination of Col. Harris, shouts shook
the building and waked the sleepers in
distant parts of the city, and nearly an
hour was consumed by tneold veterans
in a grand re union and class meet
ing," as our Methodist friends would
call it, in which the fullest flow of
patriotic sentiment of themjst lofty
strain held sway, in all ways recogniz
ing the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, and putting to
shame the narrow, unforgiving vitu
perative hate which has so long charac
terized so many who for unholy parti
zan purposes have sought to keep alive
sectional animosities and acrimonious
bitterness
Prominent among the eld veterans
who thus gave utterance to these
manly sentiments, were Gen. and ex
Congrespman Harrison, Kelly and VV.
II. Biddle, the latter being at present
President of the Kansas State Alliance.
Bro. Biddle was twice punctured by
Confederate lead, and most narrowly
escaped death from his wounds on the
field of battle. He is now the nominee
of the People's party of Kansas for
State Treasurer. He electrified the
audience as he stoo i there saying in
substance, 44 This i3 one of the pT oudest
moments of my life, and I gladly seize
this opportunity to testify that with
me the war is ended, and I am ready
to clasp hands with any and all who
were once my foes on the' field of con
flict, when they come with us in our
efforts to save to this people the grea.
boon of 44 equal rights to all and special
privileges to none."
That the scene attending the nomina
tion of Col. Harris was a most fitting
finale to this most wonderful conven
tion, every one felt who witnessed it.
An ex Confederate soldier said of it :
44 When the wires shall carry the news
of that event over the sunny South, a
shout of joy will go .up from her sons,
and it will bring thousands of voters
there, to the ranks of the People's
party.
In conclusion, let me add that the
verv atmosphere of that convention
hall seemed redolent with victory, and
all went away loth to depart, but nappy
at having been there.
A Delegate.
AN OPEN LETTER.
Congressman Grady Writes to Col W.
E. Hill and Asks that the Let
ter be Published The
Force Bill
Washington, D. C,
July 8, 1892.
Col. W. E. Hill, Faison, N. C:
My Dear Sir: I have just had a
pleasant chat with your son who
stopped here on his way to New York,
on political conditionp in your section,
and he advised me to writo you my
views on the questions agitating the
minds of our people. I have concluded
to follow his advice because I am cer
tain that you feel as much anxiet-y as
I do for our children and our State.
As to the general objects aimed at in
the St. Louis platform I have no doubt
that you and I agree; but we may not
be as one as to the method of attaining
the objects. Take the ownership of
railways, for example, and let us com
pare opinions. Of the 57 railways in
North Carolina, 35 made reports to the
State Railroad Commission, in which
we find that the managers and em
ployees not including attorneys, phy
sicians and others who depend directly
or indirectly on the railways for sup
port--number 11,772; and if the other
22 roads had reported, the number
would doubtless reach 12,000. Now if
Congress should purchase these rail
ways, the appointment of these 12,000
able bodied voters would be thrown
into the hands of the President of the
Uaited States, with the usual conso
quence that this number would be
largely augmented iust before elections ;
and uniting with all the other benefici
aries of executive favor, they would
constitute a dangerous political force
in the State. They would exert a
powerful influence in county and State
conventions ; and co operating with the
vast army of their co beneficiaries in
all the other States some of which
have many times more railway em
ployes than North Carolina they
would dictate the nomination and elec
tion of their benefactor; and we should
soon prefer a hereditary monarchy to
the intolerable corruption of our elec
tion sy stem.
The spectacle of 134 Federal officers,
as delegates, and 2,000 or 3,000 as
strikers, forcing on their party at Min
neapolis the re-nomination of Mr. Har
rison, ought to warn us against the
enlargement of the executive patron
age.
Those who undertake to fortify their
advocacy of the transportation plank,
cite the fact that some European gov
ernments own and operate the rail
ways in their dominions, and that the
system works well. They forget, how
ever, that in these countries there is
no quadrennial election of the King or
Emperor, inviting fierce and violent
struggles for the retention of lucrative
places.
The consequences flowing from gov
ernment ownership of railways seems
to have alarmed others as well as my
self. The Progressive Farmer of June
28, advised the Omaha convention to
4 4 adopt the first two planks finance
and land " and leave out the transpor
tation plank ; and the Omaha conven
tion itself in its third plank says :
4 4 Should the government enter upon
the work of owning and managing any
or all railroads we should favor an
amendment to the constitution by
which all persons engaged in the gov
ernment service shall be placed under
civil service regulations of the most
rigid character so as to prevent the in
crease of the power of the national ad
ministration oy the use of such addi
tional government employes."
Now consider this dilemma: Many
County Alliar ces, Sub-Alliances and
district conventions have pledged them
selves to vote for no man who does not
accept the St. Louis platform and every
part of it; and the candidate for Presi
dent nominated by the People's party
is required to accept one of its most
important planks with a proviso, while
the organ of the party in North Caro
lina advises that that plank should be
dropped altogether. Now how can
these pledged people vote for Weaver?
The Omaha convention took substan
tially the position which I have main
tained all the time amend the consti
tucion and have all Federal officers and
employes elected by the people or se
lected by competitive examination
the members of the cabinet, the judges,
etc., etc., down to the lowest paid
laborer. Do this and the way will be
open for entering upon such reforms
as the menace of executive patronage
deters us from now. There will have
passed away the cause of bitter dissen
si ms among the people.
I need not tell you that my warmest
cvmpathies are with the unprotected
and despised masses as against the
protected and favored classes, but in
seeking remedies I munt be governed
by my conscience and my best judg
ment. And if I cannot get all I want I
will take the best I can get. The Fed
eal despotism controlled by the pluto
crats and their beneficiaries and hench
men, re enforced by all the monarches
in the country, must be checked in its
mad career, if civil liberty is to be pre
servedor, rather, re-established for
our children. In order, however, to
accomplish anything for themselves,
our people, in my judgment, must
stand shoulder to shoulder. In their
anger justifiable as it is they must
learn to exercise patience and tolerance
and maintain a prudent regard for the
consequences of their action. Sup
pose that, failing to do these things,
the People's party nominate nine can
didates for Congress in North Carolina
and the 4 4 straight" Democrats do the
same thing, there would be danger of
having in the 53d Congress nine Re
publicans from North Carolina to vote
with the tyrants and plutocrats, and if
other Southern States were equally un
wise, Mr. Reed might carry out his
threat made before the Americus Club
in Pittsburg two years ago: 4 'It seems
to me that the only wise course is to
take into Federal hands the election, of
President and Representatives in Con
gre s Let us cut toose frooi State elec
tions, do our own registrature, our
own counting and our own certifica
ture." Mr. Harrison urged this course
in one of his messages and the. Minne
apolis platform re-echoes the demand.
The result of our dissensions there
mfght be that we should be bound hand
and foot by a tyrannical plutocracy,
: ik no power to rescue ourselves.
Some people are disposed to pooh
pooh the Force bill, but they have not
correctly interpreted the signs of the
times. Just as Andrew Carnegie's man
Frick brought in a band of armed mer
cenaries to compel the submission of
his discontented laborers, so will what
Mr. Kingsbury calls the 44money-devil"
urged by fear as well as desperation,
resort to any effective means of deriv
ing the people of any voice in legisla
ture. These, my dear Colonel, are the
views I expressed to your son. I have
given them to you at his request and I
beg you, if you see things as I see them
to exert your influence for harmony
among the people and against hasty
and perhaps dangerous conduct.
Trusting that the Qod of our fathers
may guide us in the paths of safety,
I am truly your friend,
B. F. Grady.
JAMES GAVEN FIELD.
James Gaven Field, the nominee of
the People's party for Vice-President
of the United States, i3 a lawyer. He
was born in Walnut, Culpepper county,
Va , February 24, 1826. In 1848 he
went to California, and in 1850 was
secretary of the constitutional conven
tion of that State. In that year he re
turned to Virginia and began the study
of law, and m 1852 was admitted to
the bar. He was attorney-general for
Virginia from 1860 to 1865. In the late
war he won the title of general in the
Confederate Army. At the battle of
Slaughter's Mountain he lost a leg.
Gen. Field is prominent in the Baptist
Church. National View.
DELEGATES KINDLY TREATED
AT KEELY.
Mr. Editor: The N. C. delegation
returning from Omaha, Neb., upon
reaching Greensboro, was met by J udge
W. H. Eller, Manager Greensboro
Keeley Institute, and a committee com
posed of fourteen of the patients attend
ing the Institute from North Carolina
and adjoining States who invited the
delegation to the Institute, where they
found a most excellent supper awaiting
them. It is useless to say the repast
was greatly enjoyed by the tired and
hungry delegates, for the fact that
they had been on the road for three
days and nights is sufficient evidence.
After discharging their duties in a
most satisfactory manner, short and
pointed remarks in behalf of the Insti
tute and the great and glorious work
being done were indulged in by Judge
Eller, S. O. Wilson, Chairman, and
other members of the delegation and
several of the patients who are now
under treatment and some graduated.
Thanking the Judge and committee for
their very kind and hospitable cour
tesies shown them, the delegation
adjourned to the depot to complete
their journey and meet their dear ones
at home. Delegate-
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POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
A Series of Interesting Documents.
Milestones in the Development of Politi
cal Parties Since the Organiza
tion of the Goverr,ment.
1856.
REPUBLICAN, PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 17TH.
This convention of delegates, assem
bled in pursuance of a call addressed to
the people of the United States, with
out regard to past political differences
or opinions, who are opposed to the
Missouri Compromise, to the policy of
the present administration, to the ex
tension of slavery into free territory ;
in favor of admitting Kansas as a free
State, of restoring the Federal Govern
ment to the principles of Washington
and Jefferson, and who propose to unite
in presenting candidates for the offices
of President and Vice-President do re
solve as follows :
Resolved, That the maintenance of
the principles promulgated in the Dec
laration of Independence, and embodied
in the Federal Constitution, is essential
to the preservation of our republican
institutions, and that the Federal Con
stitution, the rights of the States, and
the Union of the States, shall be pre
served. 2. That with our republican fathers
we hold it to be a self evident truth
that all men are endowed with the in
alienable rights of . life, liberty, and
pursuit of happiness, and that the pri
mary object and ulterior design of our
Federal Government were, to secure
these rights to all persons within its
exclusive jurisdiction ; that as our re
publican fa 'hers, when they had abol
ished slavery in all our national terri
tory, ordained that no person should
be deprived of life, liberty or property,
without due process of law, it becomes
our duty to maintain this provision of
the Constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose of estab
lishing slavery in any territory of the
United States by positive legislation,
prohibiting its existence or extension
therein. That we deny the authority
of Congress, of a territorial legislature,
of any individual or association of in
dividuals, to give legal existence to
slavery in any territory of the United
States, while the present Con stitution
shall be maintained.
3. That the Constitution confers upon
Congress sovereign power over the ter
ritories of the United States for their
government, and that in the exercise
of this power it is both the right and
the imperative duty of Congress to
prohibit in the territories those twin
relics of barbarism polyg imy and
slavery. ,
4. That while the Constitution of the
United States was ordained and estab
lished in order to form a more perfect
union, establish justice, insure domes
tic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare,
and secure the blessings of liberty, and
contains ample provision for the pro
teotion of the life, liberty and property
of every citizen, the dearest constitu
tional rights of the people of Kansas
have been fraudulently and violently
taken from th m ; their territory has
been invaded by an armed force;
spurious and pretended legislative,
judicial and executive officers have been
set over them, by whose usurped au
thority sustained by the military power
of the government, tyrannical and un
constitutional laws have been enacted
and enforced ; the rights of the people
to keep and bear arms have been in
fringed ; test oaths of an extraordinary
and entangling nature have been im
posed, as a condition of exercising the
right of suffrage and hoi ding office, the
right of an accused person to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury
has been denied; the right of the peo
ple to be secure in their persons, houses,
papers and effects against unreasonable
searches and seizures, has been violated ;
they have been deprived of life, liberty
and property without due process of
law; that the freedom of speech and of
the press has been abridged, the right
to choose their representatives has been
made of no effect ; murders, robberies
and arsons have been instigated and en
couraged, and the offenders have been
allowed to go unpunished; that all
these things have been done with the
knowledge, sanction and procurement
of the present national administration ;
and that for this high crime against
the Constitution, the Union, and hu
manity, we arraign the administra
tion, the President, his advisers, agents,
supporters, apologists and accessories,
either before or after the facts, before
the country and before the world ; and
that it is our fixed purpose to bring the
actual perpetrators of these atrocious
outrages, and their accomplices, to a
sure and condign punishment here
after. 5. That a railroad to the Pacific
Cfcean, by the most central and prac
ticable route, is imperatively demanded
by the interests of the whole country,
and that the Federal Government ought
to render immediate and efficient aid
in its construction, and, as an auxiliary
thereto, the immediate construction of
an emigrant route on the line of the
railroad.
6. That appropriations of Congress
for the improvement of rivers and har
bors of a national character, required
for the accommodation and security
of our existing commerce, are author
ized by the Constitution, and justified
by the obligation of government to
protect the Iive3 and property of its
citizens.
1856. .
WHIG, BALTIMORE, SEPTEMBER 13TH.
Resolved, That the Whigs of the
United States, now here assembled,
hereby declare their reverence for the
Constitution c?f the United States, their
unalterable attachment to the National
Union, and a fixed determination to do
all in their powercto preserve them
selves and posterity. They have no
new platform to establish; but are con
tent to broadly rest where their
fathers rested upon the Constitution
of the United States, wishing no safer
guide, no higher law.
6. That we regard with the deepest
interest and anxiety the present disor
dered condition of our national affairs
a portion of the country ravaged by
civil war, large secti ms of our popula
tion embittered by mutual recrimina
tions; and we distinctly trace these di
mities 10 the culpable neglect of duty
by the present national administration.
3. That the Government of the United
States was formed by the conjunction
in political unity of wide-spread geo
graphical sections, materially differ
ing, not only in climate and product,
but in social and domestic institutions ;
and that any cause that shall perma
nently array the different sections, of
the Union in political hostility and
organized parties founded only on geo
graphical distinctions, must inevitably
prove fatal to a continuance of the
National Union.
1860.
CONSTITUTIONAL UNION PLATFORM, BAL
TIMORE, MAY 9TH.
Whereas, Experience has demon
strated that platforms adopted by the
partisan conventions of the country
have had the effect to mislead and de
ceive the people, and at the same time
to widen the political divisions of the
country, by the creation and encourage
ment of geographical and sectional
parties; therefore
Resolved, That it is both the part of
patriotism and of duty to recognize no
political principles other than The Con
stitution of the Country, the Union
of the States, and the enforcement
of the laws ; and th it as representa
tives of the Constitutional Union men
of the country, in national convention
assembled, we hereby pledge ourselves
to maintain, protect, and defend, sep
arately and unitedly, these great prin
ciples of public liberty and national
safety against all enemies at home and
abroad, believing that thereby peace
may once more be restored to the coun
try, the rights of the people and of the
States re established, and the govern
ment again placed in that condition of
justice, fraternity, and equality, which
under the example and constitution of
our fathers, ha solemnly bound every
citizen of the United States to maintain
a more perfect union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide
for the common defense, promote the
general welfare and secure the bless
ings of liberty io ourselves and our
posterity.
to be continued:
A GOOD AND USEFUL MAN GONE
HENCE.
At 11 :15, on the morning of June 11,
1892, from his residence in Washing
ton, D. C, Leonidas L. Polk, President
of the National Farmers' Alliance,
passed on to the Busy Beyond, at the
age of fifty-five years. He was a rela
tive of President Polk and one of the
noble hearted men in this country.
During the war he served his cause
and his people of the South in their
gallant and heroic struggle for what
they believed to be their rights, till he
resigned to serve in the Legislature of
North Carolina, to which position he
had been elected. After this expres
sion of preference he was made Com
missioner of Agriculture of North Car
olina. After serving in this position,
he began the publication of The Pro
gressive Farmer, and was one of the
first men in the South to realize that
the surest and quickest way to break
the solid North from Republican par
tisanship would be to break the solid
South ; for the land owners and wealth
producers of the South to join hands
and effort with the people of the North
who are tired of partisan rule and rob
bery, and unite as the people in a Peo
ple's party. Thus inspired by the
Great Father he went into the Farm
ers' Alliance movement with an ardor
that was grand and a fidelity thereto
that was sublime. To the work he
gave his thought and all the physical
efforts he could make. He had but
one great object in view that was, to
be of service to all the people of all this
country, and to help bring them to
gether to the formation and the wield
ing of an influence in and out of Con
gressional and State legislative halls
that would give the laboring man a
better footing and a better condition
of life. His work was a grander one
than ever was any man engaged in
with the sword, that always hurts the
innocent and rarely touches the cause
of the quarrel. He lived to benefit hi3
country, and hi3 death is a loss to the
cause he so well served. But the same
Providence that directed him in the
work he was doing, will send others to
the front, as leaders have always been
sent to the front at the time when they
were needed and the people were ready
to move ahead. Moses did not start
across the Red Sea till came the exact
time he was to start, and this was not
till agitation had done its work in
ripeniDg the movement that led on to
the liberation of those who had so long
been oppressed and who effected their
deliverance from bondage, not by listen
ing to the task-masters, but by moving
ahead on well-directed and necessary
lines Pomeroy's Advanced Thought.
The Progressive Farmer. True to
the people. True to the Alliance.
Means what it says. Siys what it
means. Of the people, for the people.
Forty cents for the campaign.