People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Commissioner Tabor is pushing the name of Dexter Jones for commissioner for the third district, on the ground that Mr. Jones fully endorses the policy pursued by the present board. The argument is certainly sound (?) logic. It is to be hoped that the senate will speedily pass the Wilsbn bill and relieve the country of the uncertainty which always attend a proposed change in the tariff laws. The income tax feature is commendable and the same might bo said of the internal revenue feature, while the tariff schedule proper cannot be worse than that which bears the name of McKinley. At the present rate of expenditures the county treasury will soon be bankrupt. The incompetency of the present ' board will make a higher levy necessary next year. Why should it be made a crime to be a citizen of Jasper county, and there are citizens in this county and elsewhere (?) who endorse this policy. What Jasper county needs is brains, not egotism, in the financial management of the affairs of the county. In spite of the stormy day, Saturday a good majority of the committeemen of the different townships of the county met at the court house and reorganized the People's Party County Central Committee, for the coming campaign. L. L. Ponsler was chosen chairman; W. D. Pringle, secretary and treasurer. March 28th was the time set for holding the county convention. The official call for the convention will appear next week.

Mis.si iSii'Pi is coming to the front and will be a Populist state by November, 1894. We glean from the Alliance Vindicator, a Populist paper, of the 19th, that a “dead lock” is on in the legislature’ in the electiou of a Unite ! States senator to fill th ' vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Withal, with Burkett, the Populist candidate almost in the lead of the numerous candidates for that high ofThe Democrats are evidently badly demoralized in that state. The Republican party, when it reorganized its Central Committee, attempted to unify all factions and interests. It made a few foreign born citizens members of its committee, while it courted the support of the A. P. A. by placing several of the outspoken advocates of that organization on the committee. The cash end ,of the strings was fixed to pull when necessary by making a representative of each ■of the banks and note shavine institutions a member of that body. It is a case of turning loose the sheep, goats, and •swine to jfeed from the same ■LWigh. Will that committee that recently went to Barkley township plea&e »rqport to jthe Republican convention all ,the (pledges and promises civen $9? which it' % I