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Newspaper
The Progressive Farmer
Location
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1892
Page
1
A historical list records presidents secretaries and judiciary leaders of the Carolina Farmers State Alliance and North Carolina State Alliance, naming executives in Huron South Dakota Kansas Tennessee and North Carolina. It also notes allied newspapers urged to uphold the Ocala platform and maintain the alliance’s press list.
The 1851 act created the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School, with Greensboro chosen as site after state and private support. The 1889 91 efforts, Peabody Fund aid, and a teachers assembly push led to a normal and industrial college with collegiate and domestic departments. It will open September 28 with a strong South-led faculty and modest costs, offering teacher licensure and practical domestic science, business, and industrial arts programs.
Republican and Democratic platforms from a 1860 Chicago pamphlet outline party aims. Republicans affirm unity, liberty, and federal power, denounce disunion, oppose slavery expansion, demand a Pacific railroad, and press homestead and naturalization policies. Democrats pledge adherence to 1856 principles, respect Supreme Court decisions, protect citizens, and aim for a Pacific railroad with government aid.
The excerpt cites resolutions praising obedience to the Cincinnati platform, condemning state enactments opposing the Fugitive Slave Law as hostile and revolutionary, and urging respect for territorial government limits as determined by the Supreme Court, with a note that the discussion continues.
Ad from Epwarps and Brownghton of Ghfton reports ten replies to their Progressive Farmer notice, equal to all other papers combined, claiming superior reach in North Carolina advertising in July 1892.
N C Lauisserie reports from July 5 letter criticizes the Republican and Democratic conventions in Minneapolis and Chicago for drunkenness and vice. He claims saloon profits soared and denounces liquor influence on politics, urging Christians to oppose the 21st plank and moral decay led by party leaders.
W J Smips, secretary for the McDowell County Alliance in North Carolina, argues against both Cleveland and Harrison in the 1892 election over the silver bill. He notes alliance members prefer the silver issue and recounts July 2 meetings where officers were elected and the grove vote against both major candidates.
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