People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ALLIANCE DIRECTORY. Officers of the National Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial Union. President—H. L. Loucks. Clear Lake. Soutli Dakota. Secretary-Treasurer—J. If. Turner, 239 North Capitol street. Washington. I). C. Lecturer—J. F. Willets. McLauth. Kansas. Executive Commltte—«. W. Macune. Chairman. 289 North apitol street. Washington. D. C.; A. Wardall. Huron, South Dakota; J. Fount Tillman. Palmetto. Tennessee. Judiciary Committee— M. M. Demmlng. Chairman. Mnrrisburg. Pa.; Isaac McCracken. Ozone. Arkansas; A. E. Cole, Fowlervllle, Michigan. * Officers of the liHllana State Farmers’ Alliance and Industrial L'nlon. President—Wilson Corev, Anderou. Vice-President—Mrs. Lou Sulder. Mt. Summltt. Secretary-Treasurer—A. C. Jones. Shun gal. Lecturer—B. F. Mam. Michigantown. Chaplain—J. W. Noland. Rensselaer. Executive Committee —James Welsh. Bens--elaur. Chairman; D. H. Yeoman, RensseI icr. Secretary: N. W. Webster, Cicero, Treasurer. State Judiciary—Arthur Clinton. Foresman, John W. Apple. Ouklundou; S. B. Huzeu, Wi mi mac. • State Business Agent—L. A. Stephens, Anderson. Officers of the F. M. B. A. President. ('. A. Robinson. Fountalntown; Secretary. Frank J.Claypool. Muncle. County Officers. President—D. M. Yeoman. Rensselaer. Vice President—Reuben Dlcksrsam RensseSecretary—Frank Welsh. RensselMr. Treasurer—Win. Moover. Rensselaer. Chaplain—J. W. Noland. Rensselaer, l.ecturer—Lee E. Giazebrook. Rensselaer. Executive Committee. Win. Washburn, Rensselaer. Walter I’onsler. Rensselaer. Thus. McMurray. Remington. Tli e regular meetings of the County Alliance urc on the first Saturday of each • lonth. A full attendance is very much dos red at each meeting.

Boss O. P. Tabor has no love for the Pilot and spends all his spare time during the session of the commissioners court in heaping imprecations upon this paper and the People’s party. Keep cool, old man, your turn is coming next. The Republican party of this county is in tough luck. Unpaid bills of various amounts are awaiting payment. Creditors are getting vigorous in their denunciation of the leaders of the party. The money intended to defray the expenses of the campaign has found its way into unauthorized pockets. A sensation that will stir up the muddy political waters will shortly come out. Tt behooves the guilty ones to get under cover.

Was there ever a slaveholder—did you ever know of one who belonged to the Republican party?—Three Stars in Republican. Oh, yes, lots of ’em, General Longslreet. Col. Hill, Billie Mahone, the guerilla Mosby, Chalmers, the red handed murderer of Union soldiers at Fort Pillows and a host of others, all of whom were slaveholders and served in the Rebel army, but have since held office as the gift of the Republican party.

A prominent Republican was l oard to remark recently that lifter 1894 there wouldn’t be a Republican left in, the court house unless the system of bossism fostered by the county commissioners was done away with. W e have one big boss, well known to all, and several who aspire to be little bosses, in conjunction with the big boss. The most prominent aspirant now is O. P. Tabor. Mr. Tabor secured the nomination two years ago by virtue of the skin of his teeth, and although he run behind his ticket was elected. He has distinguished himself since then by playing Polonius to the big boss Hamlet. Was there ever a time in the history of this country when a dollar would purchase as much as it will now?—Three Stars in Republican. No, one ddllar will buy two bushels of wheat, four bushels of oats and three bushels of rye, and from forty to one hundred pounds of good beef on foot, and '