State Aid to Education In a Wake Forest Debate
Correspondence of the Progressive Farmer from Wake Forest NC discusses Mr Averitt and State aid for higher education. John Manning LL D argues constitutional support for the University. critics claim denominational colleges rely on private funds. The piece defends taxation, warns against forced support of denominational schools, and calls for a November ballot protest.
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Averitt
Progressive Farmer
Wake Forest
THE
John Manning
the Biblical Recorder
Citizns
Manning
North Carolina
Chapel Hill
State Expenditures and Officials Expenses Exposed
Auditor's notes reveal extensive 1892 93 spending across Governor mansion, governor and state officers. Items include salaries, legal fees, funeral expenditures for Merriman Davis, naval and militia accounts, and mileage. Controversy over Chicago trips for special duties and mansion costs prompts taxpayer questions.
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G. W. Sanderlin
N. C. Firemen’s Association
Pau R H Bradley
Merriman
Paul H. Steinmetz
Merrimen
H. Steinmetz
Baie
Upchurch & Lancaster
Bain
Wm. C. Dalany
W. H. Bragg
John Small
New Berne
A. W. Haywood
Winslow and
Makeley
W. H. Lucas
Hesstmann & Bros
E G. Harrell
J. D. Glenn
Hubert Haywood
Chicago
W. B Grimes
E. G. Harrell
SF. Telfair
Jno
H. Small
Winslow
Makely
W.H. Bragg
State Guard
David Schenck
Guilford Battle Ground
J. A. Wright
Warren County
Long
Wright
House of Representatives
General Assembly
W. B. Henderson
Platform Battles Over Money and Banking History
A long excerpt traces Democratic Party positions on currency from 1836 to 1892, opposing bank notes, endorsing specie payments, and advocating government money separate from banks. It cites multiple platforms and includes 1892 calls for gold and silver coinage parity and paper currency kept at par with coin. It also includes a separate regional farming letter on second crop Irish potatoes from North Carolina Progressive Farmer correspondents.
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Congress
United States Bank
James K. Polk
George M. Dallas
United States
Democratic National
Democratic National Platform
Democratic Party
Demand Adoptions by Farmers Alliance in Topeka
A Topeka meeting of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union adopts a platform calling for a government issued national currency with 2 percent tax ceiling, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, postal savings banks, public ownership of telegraph and telephone, and land reform to curb alien and railroad holdings.
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Farmers’ Alliance and Industria Union
Topeka
Kan
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Eve
Noah
Solomon
Lord Jesus Christ
Taylor
Fiji Islands
Hinloo
Lpoman
J. W. Lassiter
Vance County
Leach
Henderson
Senate
R Harris & Co
Julius Lewis & Co
Governor's
C. M Rotorts
Elias Carr
Governor's Mansion
C. M. Roberts
Governor’s Mansion
Governor
Sreasd
Agricultural Department
Normal School
Henrietta Brown
A. & A. Air Line
W. H. Morris & Son
Governor'’s Mansion
Jas. McKimmon & Co
Thomas & Maxwell
M. W. Beveridge
W. H
W. B. Moses & Son
Peter Henderson & Co
C. A. Reese
Capitol Square
C. M. Roberto
T. H. Briggs & Sons
Stevenson
Supreme Court
C. M. Busbee
Secretary of State
FH. Steinmetz
Jefferson
North State Music Co
W H Hughes
A Watson
W Beveridge
T A Sinclair
A & RS
Tucker & Go
R & Drr
F A Sinclair
G C Flint & Co
House
W G Burkhead
GP Pell
Reading
HS Blair
Maggie Stith
D H Crow
A Fain
Rachael Blythe
Wiley Rush
W P Shaw, Jr
A E Posey
JS Williams
Willians
A B Lewis
AK Smith
V Royster
JS Bell
Paul Kitchen
J T Kennedy
Daisy Branson
R H Cowan
A M Woodall
H B Holland
L G Waugh
W H Young
Howard Haywood
R L Watson
D S Betts
C R Suggs
W V Clifton
J H Hinnant
D Matheson
E R Hampton
Annie R Jones
Margie Busbee
Pattie Montgomery
J C Birdsong
J C Graves
W M Edwards
Bennie Gilmer
Willie Bradfield
Henry Harper
E B Caldwell
Loney Cooley
Wesley Jones
Thomas Vanderford
Grover Gulley
Edgar Caldwell
Ercd Blalock
Ernest Wilson
Russell Sherrill
Willie Smith
Edwin McKee
Sam Wait
Paul Fields
E H Vanderford
Seuate
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Eli Stanford
Cal Alston
Andrew Hanson
Jas Neal
Lee Christian
Thos Gatling
J £ Turner
T J Fields
H Stroud
S J Shelton
Thos Vanderford
D H Reagan
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J C Groves
Ball
Clay County
R M Furman
PFICE
Silvia Mofpey
Corre
Oliiers, Jones Co
N. C
A. M. Hunter
A. P. Barrow
Jas. H. Wright
Carlton
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Wake
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Vance
Dunn
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Robeson
Bladen
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Elijah W. Flake
Rockingham
Harnett
Moore
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Anson
Union
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Gee
E Hunt
Michael
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Stoken
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Yadkin
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J. P. Sossaman
Huntersville
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Gaston
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Chatham
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Aawell
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J. R. Means
Trinity College
Don C. Sanders
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