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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1888
Page
4
A July 4 1888 editorial in Wilson North Carolina urges unity and harmony through primary elections. It argues polls should open at precincts to express candidate support, guiding the County Convention in nominating officials. It criticizes pompous delegations and advocates focus on party principles.
The piece recalls the congressional moment when Mecklen burg county pledged Americans freedom and sent copies to Congress via Captain Jack. It laments the lack of railroad or telegraph and notes the modern spread of news by electric means reaching distant coasts as fifty envoys head to Washington and Columbus to address President Cleveland.
Wake Forest College responds to newspapers regarding a student graduation remark and the proposed Professor Emeritus honor. The letter defends press reporting of campus news and questions the timing and compensation of the emeritus designation. It cites a Supreme Court case on female licensure and urges fair recognition of the professor’s decades of work.
Only seven presidential tickets are listed. Prohibition nominees include Wakefield of Kansas for VP and Coudrey of Illinois for President. Union Labor presents Streator of Illinois and Cunningham of Arkansas, with Belva Lockwood of the District of Columbia as a suffragist candidate alongside Albert Love of Pennsylvania. Industrial Reform fields Redstone of California and Calvin of Kansas, plus the regular Democrat and Republican tickets.
A press convention committee is to report a plan for uniform advertising rates amid a lack of standard pricing. Editors argue that agencies dictate placements for quack medicine ads and press for fixed rates approved by the convention or scaled by circulation to stop destructive rate cutting.
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