People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1893 — Ringing Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

Ringing Resolutions.

A vote for Harrison, it seems, was a vote for Cleveland. Commissioners' court in session Monday and Tuesday of] this week! Commissioners’ Court has adjourned a few days for the World's Fair. ’Senator Stewart, of Nevada, is now an outspoken, full- i Hedged Populist. “And still there's more to follow.’ 1 When the vote on the' repeal bill is taken yon can see why the three senators from ths Northwest were refused admission to seats in the senate. Commissioner Martindale, being an industrious man and having plenty of work at home to do, is, perhaps, not much in favor of this continued sitting of commissioner’s court. The minority in the V. S. sen-, ate represent an overwhelming majority of the people of the country and the people will uphold them in their efforts to defeat the gold-bought majority. The Democrats and 'Republicans have fused in several counties in Nebraska. Fusion conventions are called in other counties, that look much like the People’s party was organised to help the Democrats? Senator Stewart, of Ne-i vada,, has cast his lot with the' People's party and says it is useless to expect relief through any ’Other party. It is rumored about Washington that two more senators will soon follow Stewart !

If the people of the United States only knew how much of the stock of our great new paper companies is owned in England, they would not be so ready to pin their faith to what those papers say concerning the finances of this country. While Mr. Voorhees is toiling so unselfishly in behalf of the $18,000,000 free gift to the banking corporation, laboring men should be content with their lot and roll under their tongues this delectable maxim, that “you cax’t get anything unless you work for it.” Our Republican friends during the last campaign told us that a vote for Weaver was half a vote far Cleveland. Wonder what they think of it now with the Republican members of congress almost unanimous in support of the administration and every Populist opposing it with might and main. Straws show which way the wind blows. Here are a few of them: Five counties in Georgia have recently Jield eleltions to fill vacancies. Four of them chose Populist. Two counties in Missouri held elections for similar purposes and both went Democratic at the last general election. Did you ever notice how many of the names of the great daily papers* are made up of two words, such as Times-Star, Com-meicial-Journal, Globe-Demo-crat, World-Herald, etc.? If not, do so, and at the same time

observe where they stand on the money question, and who owns them. »Then you will understand the power of England in American politics. The Plutocrats are now finding out that the Populist party like Ericson’s little Monitor, was really a young giant not to be silenced by a few broad-sides of abusive epithets. The party has doubled its strength since the last election. Of seven elections to fill vacancies that have occurred lately, the Populists have carried every one of them. One county in Missouri went 300 Populist that gave a Democratic majority of 1.100 last fall. “So mote it be." There was a time when the president of the United States chose patriotic citizens to represent this government as minis-’ ters to foreign nations. It remained for Mr. Cleveland to appoint a man to the high office of Ambassador to Italy, who is in Anglo-maniac of the worst type, and who says that the United States is not a tit country for gentlemen and ladies to live in. But Mr. Van Allen contributed *50,000 to Cleveland's Campaign fund. “He's all right,’’ A great many Republican newspapers over the country are trying very hard to divide the attention of the voters to the awful tariff question. They are bound to have something to chew on and something, too,| which congress has, so far,| failed to recognite during this session. The great question before the people to-day is the financial question, still the g. p. p. organs claim that the financial. conditions of the*country are due to the tariff. - i rim Senator VoOKßees in reply ! ing to Senator Teller, says he appears in behalf of the laboring classes who are thrown out of employment; yet every labor or-; ganixation has declared for the; exact opposite of what Voorhees advocates. He also appears in behalf of the farmers, and all the organizations of farmers have declared for free silver, while Voorhees opposes it with all his power and is moving] heaven and earth to pass a meas-’ ure that he knows wUI seal the doom of silver as money. Governor McKinley said in a speech at Lancaster, Ohio, “Every dollar that is issued for the people of this country must be issued by the government of the United States. Our money must be as sound and strong and as stable as the government itself.” Thatis mighty good Populist doctrine, but coming as it does from the idbl of the goldbug national bank party, the governor need not be surprised if the Populists and silver men of Ohio doubt his sincerity and refuse to be hoodwinked into supporting him in the coming election.

The Toledo Blade of Sept. 28th remarks: One of the objects of the movement to repeal the federal election laws is to get up a partisan debate and check the growth of the Populist party in the solid south.” The Blade is doubtless right this time, but only one short year ago it insisted that the People’s party was only an annex of the Democratic party, a scheme concocted by the Confederate Brigadier, and aided and abetted by the Democratic campaign committee. The Blade has seen its error as to the purpose of the People’s party, and when the vote in Ohio this fall knocks the scale from the other eye it will see its error as to the strength of that party. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that the auditor of each county of the state shall be required to publish, in a newspaper of general circulation in his county, within ten days after the adjounment of the session of

said Board of Commissioners making allowances, a statement showing all allowances made by the County Commissioners at each term of their court, to whom allowances are made, and for what purpose. Provided, that the cost of the printing thereof shall not exceed five cents for each allowance. —Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, 1893, page 342. So far the allowances of the September term of the commis* sioners’ court have not been published. The purpose of this law is to let the people know what the county board is doing with their money. Just why the auditor has failed to comply with the requirements of this law we are unable to understand. The taxpayers of this county demand the publication of the September allowances, or a reasonable excuse for not doing so. If each separate allowance can not be published for five cents, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county, or if ten days have not yet expired since the close of the September term, then is the auditor not at fault sot; this seeming neglect,

XohcAnfrtrmlst. The following Y'esd'ltitions passed At * targe and intelligent meeting of farmers in Ciaycdunty, Ind.. Thursday. Sestn ifeth, and in the Evening of the same day were takbn to a public meet-; ing of citizems at Clay City where they were adopted wfthoAt a dissenting voice; Wherrmj, The blow given to the silver dollar in 1879 by the combined gold powers of Europe and America was t, blow to the business es every farmer in the land} and Whereas, The effect of that blow has been to reduce the wages of the farmers until they ham arrived at a bare living point; and Whereas, UnAAr tbe present system our Farms are likely to be confiscated completely; therefore be it Resolved, That demand the immediate passage of a law restoring the free free coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. Resolved, That we condemn the policy of the administration which favors the further destruction of the silver dollar. Resolved, That We are deposed to the policy Of ahy senator or representative from Indiana who will favor, by word or vote, the single gold standard or who antagonizes free coinage. Resolved, That the constitutional rights of the silver dollar, to-wit: Equality before the law, shall be maintained and to this end do we pledge our most earnest efforts. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be placed in the hands of our senators and representatives at Washington.