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Activity Illinois Industrial League 79 During this summer the subject of getting an official organ for the league was much discussed among them. On June 13, Murray wrote Turner that his letter on the subject of "starting at once a State political paper at Springfield which should be in full sympathy with our cause, and the interests of the Industrial Classes, etc." had been received. He said further " U p to this point I am with you and am content to be one of the $100 men to make out the $10,000 but as to pledging the paper entirely to any particular persons I would not be a party to the subscription.'| Kennicott wrote Turner on J u n e 8 that he was heartily in favor of having an organ of their own. He thought V it should be a "nominally" weekly agricultural paper but really the mouth-piece of the industrial league. On August 5 Simeon Francis, editor of the Illinois Journal, wrote Turner favoring the movement for a paper but advising that both Turner and Murray keep out of sight as leaders for *f they had enemies and it might prove injurious if it were known that the leading "industrial" men were at the head of it. He expressed the belief that it was unwise for the industrial league and the state agricultural society to become active in politics because these societies had friends, and enemies, as well, in all the parties. Negotiations were carried to the point of obtaining more than twenty thousand dollars in subscriptions to finance the project, of arranging for an office and for equipment, and then the whole plan was abandoned. Apparently the objections and difficulties outweighed any advantages to be gained by carrying the project to a conclusion. In the autumn of 1854 plans were advanced for bringing influence to bear on the legislature that would meet the coming winter. At an adjourned meeting of the state agricultural society held in the state house at Springfield, October 6, a series of resolutions was adopted, in which the legislature was asked to appropriate funds for the establishment of an institution that would meet the educational wants of the industrial classes.88 On October 20, Murray sent Turner his ideas concerning the beginnings of their university. It bore the heading Ii Suggestions for basis of Illinois Industrial university.'! He took for a model "Murray to Turner, February 20, 1855, Turner manuscripts.
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