A normal and industrial college for girls has also proved very successful.

The appropriations to the state university were reduced on the ground that it was an aristocratic institution, but on the other hand funds for public schools were increased.
Not all the members of the Alliance remained in the Democratic party.
Populist electors were nominated in every Southern State in 1892, except in Louisiana, where a combined Republican and Populist ticket was named.
In no State did the new party secure a majority, but in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, the Populist vote was large.

In North Carolina, always inclined to independence, the combined Republican and Populist vote was larger than that cast for Democratic electors.

It was obvious that Democratic supremacy was imperiled, if the new party continued its amazing growth.
The politicians, Republican and Democratic, set out to win the insurgents.

Some shrewd political manipulators, scenting future profit for themselves, had joined the new movement and were willing to trade.
During 1893, 1894, and 1895 the Republicans were generally successful.
In many States there was more or less cooperation in state and county tickets, in spite of the disfavor with which the Republican party had been regarded in the South.