The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-16
WAYNE COUNTY MEETING.

Ar q meeting of Wayne County Ali
onca OF Nahunta meeting house, in the
county of Wayne, on the 14th of June,
1892 q committee consisting of C.. H..
Rrogden. DR.. J. E. Person and j. H.
Caldwell was appointed to report suit
able memorial resolutions In regard TO
the death of President L. l.. Polk, and
reported through their chairman, Gov.
Brogden, the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted: i
WHEREAS. Since last meeting OF
Wavne County Alliance, our hOnored
and esteemed friend and brother, l..
r, Polk the eminent and patriotic
President of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union, has
been removed from the field of his
labors and usefulness in this world by
the inexorable messenger Of death,
which occurred in Washington City,
on the 18th day Of June, 1892, by
which sad event the Order which he
did so much to organize and build up
has lost it's greatest leader, and the
country has lost a true and devoted
patriot and an honest and able states
man. He was gifted by nature with
superior talents, and was the acknowl-
edged leader in the great reform move
ment in which millions of farmers and
laboring people of all classes are deeply
and vitally Interested. Col. Polk pos
sessed a warm and generous heart, full
of kindness and charity for all. He
loved his country and her people, and
labored with all the energy of his body
and mind to promote their interest and
prosperity. His ardent desire was to
free the laboring and industrial people
of this country from the thraldOm and
oppression of the money power and
money monopolies. He did more to
destroy and wipe out sectional bias
and prejudice, and to create kindly
and ~fraternal relations between all
sections of our common country than
n other man in the United States.
He was endowed with many excellent
traits of character which qualified him
for a great and successful leader of
men. His patriotism was unbOunded
by any State or section. His states
manship lowered above all local and
sectional prejudices as the mountain
towers above the valley, and among
the great reform leaders in the move
ment to unfetter the shackles which
bend and Cypress the labOring and in
dustrial classes, and to secure equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, he stood, like Saul among his
brethren, ga head and shoulders above
them ALL" He loved the people and
warmly sy~mpathized with them in
their efforts to secure financial reform
in our government, and he was the
great favoriteo of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial Union throughout the
whole country. He earnestly and sin
cerely desired that his countrymen
might discard all selfish ambitions, all
sectional feeling, and all partisan
prejudice, and meet the demands of
the hour in a spirit of exalted patriot
ism, and preserve and perpe6uate our
free institutions and the blessings of
liberty. He was a wise counselor, a
sagacious~ statesman, a powerful advo
cate of the peoples rights, and we sin
cerely regret and deplore his death.
Therefore
Resolved, That we will cherish the
memory of our illustrious leader, Bro.
L. L. Polk, and strive to maintain the
true principles of the great reform
movement of the Order to which he
wasso~ sincerely and jealousy devoted
2. That a copy Of these resolutions
be sent by u Secretary to the widow
of our esteemed friend and brother, L.
L. Polk, as a testimony Of Our high re
gard for him and our sympathy for his
family.
8. That the thanks of this meeting
are due and are hereby unanimously
rendered to the good people Of the
Nahunta meeting house section in
Wayne county, including the ladies
for their kind and liberal hospitality in
providing for the entertainment of this
meeting of Wayne County Alliance.
4. That a copy of these resolutions
be sent to the Headlight, the AgricuL-
turGl Bee, and THE PROGRESSIVE
FARMER, respectfully requesting them
to publish the same, as friends of the
Farmers Alliance.
Approved July 18th, 1892
T. B. PARKER, Pres't.
A. l. SWANSON, Sec'y.