Farmers Alliance Platform Shifts On Railroads And Senate Elections
The National Farmers and Industrial Union approves changes to the platform. It shifts toward government ownership only of enough rail lines to regulate passenger fares and weight rates. It endorses direct election of U S Senators by district. A fiscal debate centers on currency policy and opposition to gold bond financing, with strong language on the gold standard and currency contraction. Officers are elected, and remarks honor North Carolina hosts and supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Farmer's and Industrial Union
Supreme Council of the National Soap
Metropolitan Hall
United States
United
ARCE
Waerras
Europe
India
Pacific Railroad State Council
Supreme Council of the Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Reiley
Pacific Railroad
Dream of the Press and Reform Pulpits Echo on Change
A compact snippet surveys reformist papers and satirical lines from The Calliope Farmers' Voice Rural Banner and Southern Mercury. It contrasts wealth creation with beggars, notes congressional mockery and costs, and lampoons politics with razor sharp patriotic verse. The piece underscores distrust of wealth, media, and governance.
Vox Populi endorsements spark satirical letters
A fragmentary note in a Progressive Farmer item references Vox Populi and endorsements amid humorous asides. Names appear garbled, with mock quotes about laughing at pictures and political digs, featuring Asheville and partisan hints without clear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weill
Vox Populi
Mr. Bortur
Laying of the Polk Monument Corner Stone Ceremony
A large crowd braved sleet and cold at Oakwood Cemetery as the corner stone of the Polk Monument was laid in honor of L. L. Polk. Major Mann Page of Virginia delivered an address praising Polk’s leadership of the National Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union and his service in the Confederate army.
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Raleigh
Masonic
Oakwood Cemetery
L. L. Polk
Carrie Polk
J. W. Denmark
M. Mewborne
Marion Butler
Wardall
Kansas
Johnson
Pennsylvania
W. Barnes
Barnes
Davis
North Carolina
W. H. Worth
R. C. Rivers
Chaplain Broughton
Metropolitan Hall
Col
Mann Page
Virginia
Major Mann Page
National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Leonidas Lafayette Polk
Anson County
Andrew Polk
Mecklenburg County
Davidson College
Sarah P. Gaddy
Joel Gaddy
Anson
Twenty-Sixth
Ate Senator
Vance
Kinston
Newbern
Washington
Plymouth
Rich
Snicker’s Ferry
Bunker Hill
Berryville
Kernstown
Army of Virginia
Polkton
State Grange
Agricultural Department
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Atlanta
Colonel Polk
N. C
Col. Polk
South
Polk
Jefferson
Boston
America
L L. Polk
Great Republic
St. Louis
Ocala
Supreme Council
Illinois
Indiana
Michigan
North Dakota
California
Colorado
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Oregon
Ohio
New York
New Jersey
Arizona
National Farmers’s Alliance and Industrial Union
St Louis
Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union
Ocalla
Committee On Constitution
St. Louie
Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association
Indianapolis
J. W. Carter
First Baptist Church
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J. F. Willette
H. CO. Snavely
D. P. Duncan
South Carolina
H. L. Loucks
South Dakota
H. C. Demming
I. E. Dean
A. & M. College, Peace Institute
Holmes
Geological Survey
State Museum
Alliance
National Council
Brothers and Sisters
John Garmon
Cincinnati
Buckeye Refining Co
Cleveland
Dream OF the Press
Texas
Rogers
Southern Mercury
Eorrur
Gorner
Grand Lodge of Masons
Mas Page
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