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ST. LOUIS PLATFORM Unity and Fraternity. Vol. I. RALEIGH, N. C, JUNE 22, 1892. No. 7.. North Carolina Farmers' Alliance. President Marion Butler, Clinton. had now assumed so serious a nature, fricuiture passed by the legislature of Vice-President-T.,B. Long, Ashevillle. Secretary-Treasurer W. S. Barnes, eigh. Lecturer J. S. Bell, Brasstown. ' Steward 0. C. Wright, Glass. Chaplain Rev: E. Pope, Chalk Level. Toi!i k and that on previous occasions he had Pirealized his possible dan erer. But devoted to the work which ab- &Knrhp1 hia t,h orients. wm.rriAfl Tin m a SYcause he was seeking to advance, he had Hnot spared himself and taken no heed of Door Keeper W. II . To tTilinson,Fayetteville.Rithe peril which incessant travelling and Assistant Door Keeper H. E. King, Peanut, constant strain continually increased. 8ergeant-at-rms J. b.Jlolt, Chalk Level. miood poisoning is said to have set in, Trustee Business Aerencv Fund W. A. Gra-ki ham, Machpelah. Executive Committee N. C. F. S. Alliance. S. B.Alexander, Charlotte, Chairman: J M. Mewborne, Kinston; J. S. Johnston, Ruffln,! N. C. vv-,:.;vv::;. j S.Ai Legislative Committee R J. Powell, Raleigh; N.C. English, Trinity College; J. J. Young, Polenta; H. A. Forney, Newton. 8. A. Judiciary Committee Elias Carr, A. Leazer, N. M. Culbreth, M. G. Gregory, Wm. C. Connell. '. ; ; ,": ,v North Carolina Reform Press Association. Ojfieers J. L. Ramsey, President; Marion Butler. Vice-President; W. S, Barnes, Seer etary. PAPKB8. Progressive Farmer, State Organ, Caucasian, . The Workingman's Helper. Watchman, Farmers' Advocate, Country Life. Mercury. liattler, Raleigh Clinton finnacle Salisbury Tarboro Trinity College Hickory Whitakers.! Agricultural Bee, Goldsboro Alliance Echo Moncure, N. C Each of the above-named papers are requested to keep the list standing on Me first page and add others, provided they are duly elected. Any paper fail ing to advocate the Ocala platform will be dropped from the list promptly: Our people can now see what papers aret published in their interest. a Death of Col. Polk. News and Observer. un Monaay morning, dune oui. we received a brief note from Dr. Hays ol Washington, in which he stated thai Col. Polk continued seriously ill but that he hoped to get ''him well enough tc attend the Omaha convention. This was the first intimation we had of the se rious illness of the distinguished head of the Farmers' Alliance in the Union From that day a sincere sympathy was! felt throughout North Carolina, and wt doubt not, throughout the entire South and largely in the Northwest, for 'Col. Polk in the distressing circumstances that thus, with; apparant suddenness,! put him in jeopardy while still in tht vigor of acti ve an d robust manhood. to perform its customary .function, and although his system responded at first to to the enorts of his skillful physicians, and hope was entertained of his recov ery, yet after a short struggle the end fcame and he passed away Saturday morning at 11:15 o'clock, at Garfield Hospital, where his wife and friends had been called to his bedside. Colonel Polk is known so generally to pur readers that it were almost supernu jous to say aught in regard to his lie and . .1 i : ; I ipuDiio services. l iis personality- was striKiner. lie was Lia man of handsome appearance and fine WOO. ' He was I gifted with many personal qualities that lent a charm to his indi-j viduahtv: and in particular was he agreeable in conversation, and courte Sous and pleasing in his manner. As speaker he was captivating. To an easy delivery, and copious vo cabulary, he united the fire of the orator and the zeal and warmth of an eager advocate. He was a handsome speaker, fluent, fearless and bold. His advanced! positions always commanded attention, , while the agreeable manner in which he presented his views won the favor of his audience. The story of his life abounds in inci dents, iiis father was Andrew PolK. a farmer of Mecklenburg, who however had removed to Anson, where Col. Polk iwas born April 24, 1837, When he was ( li i f m i r 1 I'll I duo iourteen, nis iainer aiea, leaving him a good farm and a good name as an linheritance. Young Polk having had Isome early training took a course at Da- i i 11 n : 11 i t viason vjonege and especially siuaiea agriculture. In the spnng of 1860 he was elected a Imember of the State convention, and later he enlisted as a private in Vance's Regiment, the 20th North Carolina, ol which he became Sergeant-Mai or, and (afterwards he was made first Lieutenant. In the summer of 1864 he was elected a member of the legislature. After the war he returned to his farm and was' ed itor of The Ansonian. A few years later he laid off a part of his farm in lots and began the town of Polkton. Being a 1 1877, and he was elected the first com- W missioner of Agriculture for North Car olina. As such he wras brought in close contact with the farmers of the State. Ibut some friction arising he resigned in the spring of 1880 and became an associ ate editor of The Raleigh News. In September of that year the News was consolidated with the Observer, and Captain Ashe invited Colonel Polk to become associate editor ot the News and Observer and he continued with this pa per until the spring of 188 1. His rela tions in the editorial business were ex tremely agreeable to him, but having concluded to open at Raleigh a large de pot for the sale of agricultural imple- ments, he turned his attention in mat direction. We thiillt he later started an agricultural paper at Raleigh, but soon became engaged in some business enter prises at the North. Subsequently ho returned to the State and published the Progressive Farmer at Winston. Along about leob he removed his paper to Ral eigh, and shortly afterwards was elected Secretary of the Farmers' Alliance, a new organization of the farmers then being started tn the South. This posi tion was of great assistance to him in bringing his paper before the farmers, and its circulation soon began to in crease." In the meantime Col Polk had en commissioned on several occasions to represent the State in agricultural Conventions and had become prominent that connection. He was elected The very suddenness of the attack aug mented the general interest. On en-S farmer, he became prominent in the quiry however we learnt that he had i State Grange and aided in drawing the long ueen suuect u me maiauy inaijjoi i uj esiaDiisn ine jjeparnneni oi Ag in President of the Farmers' Alliance and was thrice re-elected to that position. As the head of that organization he had the satisfaction of seeing it increase in numbers, power and influence far be yond the most sanguine expectations of its founders. His paper kept pace with the growth of the Order in North Carolina, and eventually reached the enormous circu lation of twenty thousand, wielding an influence heretofore unknown among the people of this State. Jzore latterly the agitation which was used as an auxiliary to give the Farm ers' Alliance strength led to the develop ment of a sentiment in certain localities for a Third' political party, and Colonel Polk was at the time of his death prom inently spoken of as the probable nomi nee of that party for the Presidency of the United States. His sudden death' thus cut short a career that had reached a national importance, and will be a source of sincere sorrow not only to his immediate personal friends, but to many millions of people from Canada to the Gulf of izexico who had come to regard Col. Polk with all the affection of devo- Lted followers.
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