Elias Carr for Governor meant more
for the cause of reform than the
strongest platform could if tl.e nom
inee were opposed to "equal rights
to all and special privileges to none,"
We have frequently asked in what
way the platform was interpreted
and enlarged by the nomination of
Mr. Carr. We answer thee ques
tions by quoting from his two annu
al addresses to the North Carolina
Farmers' State Alliance. From his
address delivered at the fourth an
nual meeting, which convened at
Ashcville, we make the following
extracts:
Perhaps the most' important meet
Ing ever held in this country has
hppii the assembling of the farmfr
and labor organizations in St. Louis
in December last (1889) the necessity
for which was foreshadowed by that
eminent statesman and jurist, the
late Judge David Davis, when he
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Staled legislatures is well grounded
cause 01 alarm. A struggle is pend
ing in the nejr future between the
overgrown power, with its vast ram
ifications all over the Union, and a
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