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Activity Illinois Industrial League 85 I fully made up my mind that it should not and could not be, before I went to Springfield, but I did not see how to manage it, till Bateman consented to let his name stand for a time then my way was clear and I knew what to do at once. " Still I had no idea of voting for Powell or least of all nominating him myself till I heard his address then I made up my mind, (as I told you as soon as he was through) that I should go for him next, after Bateman." 47 Turner did not think at that time that Bateman would accept the office and as Powell was his second choice he considered it wise to nominate him in order to gain for himself the support of Powell's friends. The violent opposition of the State Register and some other papers he attributed to a Mr. Leach who aspired to the superintendency and who believed that Turner was seeking the same office. Powell appreciated Turner ?s action; a correspondent requested him " t o plant himself square and fair on an anti Professor Turner platform" and assured him of certain defeat unless he did so; he replied that if he were forced to make a choice between the state superintendency of Illinois and the retention of his esteem for Turner, he would unequivocally choose the latter. 48 Thus the public and normal school men and friends of industrial education were coming to a better understanding of each other, and the way was being paved for the next important step which occurred at the state teachers' association in Chicago, December, 1856. Preparations for this meeting were carefully made and the establishment of a normal school was set down as the leading topic. ^Resolutions were introduced to the effect that a state normal school be established at once, and that the next legislature appropriate a sufficient sum to support it for the next five years. During the discussion on this resolution Bateman read a letter from Turner which after stating what the friends of the industrial league had hoped in this connection, concludes: " I t is high "Turner to Murray, January 2,1855, Murray manuscripts. I t is evident that the writer intended the date to be 1856 for the letter refers to the Springfield convention which met in December, 1855. **Powell to Murray, February 12, 1856, Turner manuscripts, Mr. Powell admitted soon after that it was the president of one of the old colleges who had proposed the " anti-Turner' f platform.
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