People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

COUNTY CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. To iHi Held in Ilie Court House, in Uenvseluer, on Wednesday, Mareli 2Mi», IH!M, at 1 p. in.

The members of the Peo pie’s party of Jasper county, Indiana, who will be legal voters at the November 'election of 1894, are requested to meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, March 24, 1894, at 2o’clock p. in., for the purpose of electing one delegate and one alternate delegate from each township or precinct to represent such township or precinct in the coming state convention. Also to elect one delegate and one alternate delegate, each to represent such such township or precinct in the coming congressional convention, and to elect delegates to the county nominating convention herein called. The number of such delegates, apportioned on the basis of one delegate-at-large for each voting precinct, and one delegate for each 5 voles, or major part thereof for James 15. Weaver in 1895, is lor the several townships and precincts as follows: Hanging Grove.. .. 1 Gil Jam 8 Walker 5 Barkley Hast 5 Barkley West 0 -.1 anon S.mth (5 Marion hast 4 Marion West *5 Jordan 12 Newton 2 Keener 3 Kankakee l Wheatlield 4 Carpenter South 2 Carpenter East 3 Carpenter West 7 Milroy 7 Union It; The delegates so elected will meet in the court house on Wednesday, March 28, 1894, at 1 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates to be voted for at the election of Nov. 0, 1894, as follows:

County clerk* County auditor. County tieasurer. County sheriff. County surveyor. County coroner. Commissioner, Ist district. Commissioner, 2nd district. Commissioner, 3rd district. By order of County Central Committee. L. L. Ponslee, Wm. D. Beingle, Chm. Secy If Tabor’s man could be separated from Tabor’s policy he might do very well. Let the government affix its seal upon everything that passes as money, and let all forms of that money be made subject to taxation. The Republican party subsidized ship lines to increase our “‘foreign trade and then enacted the McKinley tariff to lessen ini-

portations, thus taxing us to keep goods out and again taxing us to bring them in. As a taxer the Republican party can lay traps “to catch ’em a-comin’ and a-gwine.”

It turns out that the district court dismissed the case of the Knights of Labor against Secretary Carlisle on the ground that they did not represent any property rights. That is, the men who create all the property, are not “in it” when they buck against a scheme of the gold bugs to steal a large part of their labor.

Some of the Republican free silver senators who at the time of the passage of the repeal bill had intended to vote for a reduction of tariff duties in order to compensate in some degree for the scarcity of money, will now oppose the Wilson bill on the ground that if the tariff is not changed and times do not improve, the people will then be convinced that more money is needed. If those senators really believe what they preach, why don’t they do as Stewart and Jones, of Nevada, and go with the party that has the courage of its convictions.

We can judge the future only by the past; and judging by the past, we would naturally expect the conditions, industriously and financially, to remain unchanged under either of the old parties, since neither have brought about any improvement. Supposing the oxisting conditions will remain unchanged, what would be the solution to the following problem? According to the caucus reports, productive industry can add only about two per cent, per annum to the nation’s wealth, while capital accumulates at the rate of six to eight per cent. At that rate how long will it be before capital will own labor? Some of those fellows that are so full of “vim and victory” please answer.