People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

COUNTY CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE’S PARTY. To !>p SZcM in I lie Opera House, Da Kt’Hoclyt’r, oil Wednesday, Ilia re It 2M Si, 1«94, a! 1 p. in. The members of the People's party of Jasper county, Indiana, who will be legal voters at the November election of 1891, are requested to meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, March 24, 1894, at 2 o'clock p. rn., 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, aud one delegate' for each 5 votes, or major part thereof cast for James B. Weaver in 1892, is for the several townships and precincts as follows: Hanging Grove 1 Cillam • 8 Walker 5 Barkley East 5 Barkley West 0 Marion South 0 Marion East 4 Marion West 8 .Jordan 12 Newton 2 Keener 3 Kankakee 1 Wheat field 4 Carpenter South 2 Carpenter East j 3 Carpenter West 7 Mi troy 7 Union ig The delegates so elected will meet in the opera house on Wednesday. March 28, .1894, at 1 o'clock p. m., to nominate can l didates to be voted for at the election of Nov. G, 1894, as follows:

County clerk. County auditor. County treasurer. County sheriff. County surveyor. County coroner. Coinmiss’onfr, Ist district. Commissioner, 2nd district. Commissioner, 3rd district. By order of County Central Committee. L. L. Poxsler, Wm. D. Bringle, Chin. Secy Foe the past two weeks the roads of this county have been lined with movers. Never before has the like been seen here. These movers are not new comers. who are opening up new farms, and laying the founda lions of permanent homes, but they are of the tenantry class, who rent by the year. We have only to stand by the roadside to see that tenantry farming is on the increase and that home owners are on the decrease. This is

a condition much to be deplored in a new, roomy country like ours. Home stands second in that blessed trio of words, “Mother, Home and Heaven,” but to those who live only a year in a place it has not, we fear, that charm it should have. These trancient homes, these homes on wheels, at best, are but half homes. It is the permanent home that makes the lasting impressions, it is to it the wanderer is ever wont to turn his weary feet, of it is he ever ready to say “there is no place like home.” It is from the love of a permanent home that comes the love of country; “my native home” is what inspires the love for “my native land.” We, of late years, are making special efforts to create a spirit of patriotism in the young hearts of the land. We celebrate the birthdays of our heroes, bedeck the graves of our patriot dead, adorn our school houses with the nation’s flags, sing “My Country, ’tis of Thee,” all in the name of patiotism, to instill into the minds of youth a respect and admiration for the land of their birth. Give the

child a part of the land and ho can sing, “My Native land,” etc., give him a home to love and he will love the country that contains that home; let there be one spot on earth where he has intimate, continued, and happy associations, and we will not have to teach patriotism, not have to sing the praises of our land to let the young know that we have a country worthy of their love. “The fowls of the air have nests, the foxes have holes,’’ but many, many are the children of men that have not where to lay their heads, that have no place in all this wide, wide world they can truly call their homes. Statistics and our own observations tell too plainly that the homeless are rapidly on the increase. These wandering, homeless tenants, who have been trudging up and down our muddy roads the past two weeks, are, as a class, industrious, frugal, honest citizens, whose many virtues entitle them to a home in the grand country their labor lias done so much toward beautifying and improving. Something is surely wrong when honest, industrious men are so fast losing tlieir homes.

Had the rooster stood at the head of the ballot containing the words “Yes," and the eagle at the head of the one containing the words “No,” the gravel roads would have been beaten by the usual Republican majorities. The tariff question had just as much right to have been voted upon last Friday at this local election, when a purely local matter was before the people, as it ever has in city and county elections. If people will quit deciding their local questions by voting upon national party issues, they will soon have home affairs much nearer to their liking. Whether the gravel road is right or wrong the people voted for and against it independent of party, just as they should on all local matters.