Major Bilkins and Betsy clash over the People's party convention
Wake County correspondent relays a lively exchange about the State convention. Major Bilkins vows to read the riot act against the People's party while Betsy keeps him home. He mocks reform calls, Betsy derides him as an anarchist, and both reflect on the political divide shaping North Carolina politics.
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People’s Party
Kurnul Johnson
Grand Ole Dymakrat
Metropolytan
Sity
Grover Cleveland
Sherman
Shugar Zust
Zeke Bilkins
Grand Ole Dumakrat Party
Shugar Trust
Dymakrat Partie
Betsy
Subscriptions Renewals Report From Several Counties
A periodic note lists subscribers and renewals from multiple counties including Orange Davidson Northampton Alexander Richmond Mitchell Bigecombe New Hanover and New Hanover again. Names include GB Lockhart BC Cole J B Bryan L White John McLean W C Keener W B Harper M A Jones and G W Rogers with multiple renewals and several new subscribers.
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J W Lassiter
Wake County
Little Rock Alliance
C G Jones
Rockingham County
E D Thompson
Mecklenburg County
W Hgillie
Cyrus Thompson
Wilmington
Rock Ridge
J A Newton
Union County
Progressive Farmer
W A Pratt
Unson County
R O Cates
Orange County
D J Allen
Duplin
C Porter
Columbus
David Everitt
Edgecombe
J M Crawford
Clay
O Moore
Wayne County
O Stedman
Rutherford
J R Sanford
Granville
Thos I Shepard
Pitt
R @ Aldridge
Alamance
Rpgremny Sampson
Jesse Porter
Gates
Flynt
Forsyth
Martha J Gerrard
Durham
W L Burroughs
Vance
GT Pate
Richmond
E E Pascall
Wake
A Guffy
Rowan
Thomas Gay
Nash
Satterwhite
H H Draughon
Tyrus Thornton
Sampson
A A Hilburn
R L Guyton
Bladen
N Gibbon
Mecklenburg
Jones
C Tharrington
W B Joyner
A P Joyner
F Wilder
A J Underhill
Franklin
J S Mitchell
C Pearce
Hertford
A J Hudson
A J Johnson
Rockingham
T Sheppard
Stokes
A Shaw
Robeson
H A Finch
Paul Jenkins
H M Hight
J W Kittrells
H W Sawyer
J M Bateman
Washington
John Brady
J R Hathway
G R Marshburn
H Todd
W B Felton
Chowan
V Perry
Halifax
R T Kernoodle
P H Apple
Levi Watson
C B Capps
Wilson
Jas N Newland
Chatham
W P Hailey
Nelson Lee
Edgar Sanders
Johnston
A Hunt
Moore
H A Forney
Catawba
J F Westmoreland
J T Hilton
Davidson
Z P Davis
Ben Casey
Wayne
W Moye
Lenoir
Geo Wilcox
L Allen
J Battle
D F Allen
W Harper
A J Wright
EJ Smith
TN Smith
Caswell
A J Gordon
Orange
J M Williams
Randolph
H L Humphrey
P P O'Brien
B Hicks
O B
Keener
W P Exum
R Morning
Greene
B York
Dinkins
Craven
J C Williams
S M Rowling
PH Knight
JJ Jones
D C Cox
H C Clegg
O D Palmer
William Willis
J L Kelly
William Merritt
Person
S A Hancer
GB Lockhart
BC Cole
Davidson County
J B Bryan
Northampton County
L White
Alexander County
John McLean
Richmond County
W C Keener
Mitchell County
W B Harper
Bigecombe County
State Platform of the People’s Party in North Carolina
The People’s party in convention reaffirms its principles and calls for free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, abolition of national banks, treasury notes as legal tender, expanded money supply, and denunciation of McKinley and Democratic tariff bills as unjust to consumers, urging monetary reform and removal of interest bearing debt instruments.
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Propia
Congress
United States
Jlabor
Washington
Senate
People’s Party
North Carolina
General Assembly
Dari Hole
Democratic Party
People of
People's Party of
Mexico
South American
China
Banda
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Burwell
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M A Jones
New Hanover
G W Rogers
New Hanover County
the People’s Party
Peewee Oo
T. W. Wood & Sons
Seedemen
Richmond, Va
A. B. Farquhar
York
Perry Davis & Son
Providence
D. M. Osborne & Co
Philadelphia
New Southwest
Waco
Texas
National Manufacturing and Importing Co
Chicago
Ill
Phach
Institute For
Raleigh
N.C
Conservatory of Music
Leipsic
Boston
Jas. Dinwiddie, M. A
University of Virginia
Privciga
M . Oosborne & CO
Philadelphia, Pa
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Providence, R. IL
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Logue
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York, Pa
G. P.C
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Winton, N.C
Page Woven
Page Woven Wire Fence CO
Adrian, Mich
Salem
Female Academy
J. H. Clewell
Eee
Trompson School
Business College College
Siler City
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J.A.W Thompson
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J. H. Gil
Davie & McDowell
J. W. Denmark
England
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