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Newspaper
Cleveland Progress
Location
Cleveland, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1892
Page
2
The Cleveland Progress reports a strong People's party push in California Texas and Wyoming conventions, with Democratic nominee Cleveland facing a People's party challenge. Editorials urge reform, warn opponents, and note local figures Charters Weav er and others. A Dawsonville editor dies and others switch papers amid party fervor.
The National Watchman from Washington praises the People's party and condemns old parties. It notes floods fires and political upheaval, lauds Alliance Plow Boy editor W. W. Wilson in Georgia, and argues for a Third party as the path forward to reform. It condemns Democratic and Republican machinery and urges voters to embrace the new movement for relief and progress.
The National Watchman denounces Congress for spending weeks refining rules that supposedly govern business while obstructing action. It notes rules are often suspended to pass bills, making the code burdensome and imperfect and wasting public funds.
A brief editorial advocates forming a Third Party born of necessity to serve the people. It argues the old parties fail workers and industry, urging unity with a new movement to promote public interests over partisan skimming. It laments entrenched partisanship and calls for decisive reform.
A Zion church meeting on the 19th featured Rev. Thos. K. Postell and Rev. Thadius Pickett. Postell spoke on universal nation worship and Pickett delivered a powerful evening sermon, with earnest exhortations and a mixed turnout including late-night disturbances outside.
A mixed rural column recalls Mr. Plow Boy plowing deep while a gopher appears and a long sweep is described. It notes Sam with the laboring masses, mentions an old physician aiding with an East Indian remedy for consumption and nervous disorders, offers free recipe and directions, and reports on weather, sermons at Mossy Creek, a Georgia visit, a mail carrier switching duties briefly, and a lighthearted supper incident ending in a dark lamp and a comical description of a hungry suitor.
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