People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

COUNTY CONVENTION OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. To he Held in the Opera House, in Rensselaer, on Wednesday, ISareh 2Slle, SSfri, at I 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 2 o'clock p. m., 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 congres sional convention, and to elect delegates to the county nominating convention herein called. The number of such delegates, apportioned on. the basis of one <l<>legate-at-large for each voting precinct, and one delegate for each 5 votes, or major part thereof cast for James 13. Weaver in IG)2, is for the several townships ami precincts as follows: Hanging Grove 1 Gillam 8 Walker 5 Barkley East 5 Barkley We5t................ 6 Marion South 6 Marion East 4 Marion West 3 Jordan 12 Newton 2 Keener 3 Kankakee 1 Wheat field 4 Carpenter South 2 Carpenter East 3 Carpenter West 7 Milroy 7 Union 16 The delegates so elected will meet in the opera house on Wednesday, March 28, 1894, at 1 o’clock p. m.. to nominate candidate’s to he voted for at the election of Nov. 6, 1894, as follows: County clerk. County auditor. County treasurer. County sheriff. County surveyor. County coroner. Commissioner. Ist district. Commissioner, 2nd district. Commissioner, 3rd district. By order of County Central Committee. L. L. Ponsler, Wm. D. Bringle, Chm. Secy We wish to call the attention of the voters to the importance of choosing delegates to the state and congressional conventions. who are men of sound judgment, and who will make it a point to be in attendance when those meetings are convened. Don't elect some one and ask him to spend the time and bear hi. own expenses, but chip in and help do it yourself. His work will be as much for your benefit as his own.

The much talked of and long delayed post office appointment has, at last, been settled by the selection of E. P. Honan. This, of course, is satisfactory to Mr. Honan and his friends, but not so pleasing to a couple of other gentlemen and their friends. Any of the three applicants would have been acceptable to us for they are all worthy men and well qualified for the place. With three candidates in the field, somebody had to be disappointed, and with two defeated, somebody, of course, will kick and squeal. The kickers will find advising and consoling friends in the Republican party who will encourage everything that can increase and prolong dissatisfaction, so into their ears they should pour their tale of woe. Four years ago when the appointment was left to a vote of the Republican patrons of the office the present efficient postmaster was elected squarely and fairly, yet some were mad and said he should never be confirmed, but he went in all the same and has filled the office with credit to himself and party. The same we predict for Mr. Honan.

Taxes are raised for the support of government. Governments are supported for the purpose of protecting persons and property. The wealthy classes have more property to protect than the poor, hence, ought to pay more taxes. Under a tariff tax the rich man pays no more than the poor, but under an income tax he will. Therefore, an income tax is just and proper. There is no argument that can be brought against it that will not apply equally against a tariff tax. So far, only two objections have been raised against an income tax, «viz: that it will cause men to perjure themselves, and that it is class legislation. Well, the man who would swear to a lie to evade an income tax would certainly swear to an under valuation. to evade a tariff tax, and no man, who has one iota of respect for the truth, will deny that a protective tariff takes away from one class and gives to another. If it did not do that, there would be no protection in it. Webster’s dictionary says the “cuckoo’’ is a bird of the genus cuculus, and that the European variety builds no nest of its own, but lays its eggs in the nests of other birds. It is the European variety that just now so sorely afflicts this country. The other birds have become tired of building the nests only to be robbed of them, and have organized a gunning party to exterminate the pesky robbers. H. E. Taubeneek is captain of the party and he has in it .some of the finest “shots” on the continent. There are Peffer, Stewart, Allen, Simpson, Pence, and several others, who can stand in the Capitol at Washington and bring down whole coveys of the hated creatures clear across the continent. The mortality of the “cuckoo” will be something fearful to behold next November when CaptaimTaubeneck’s party begin to “beat the bush” in dead earnest.

The Toledo Blade has figured out that the fate of the Wilson bill is in the hands of the Populist Senators. It claims that all the Republicans and two Demo crats will oppose it. These, with the Populists, would defeat it. The Populists have laid down the terms on which they will vote for the bill, and that is, that the income tax be retained a part of it. So it seems that if we are to have any change in the “robber tariff,” we will also have an income tax. Hurrah! for the Populists.

Many Democrats would like to know why Mr. Bland moved to adjourn the first time he got a quorum in sight, after spending a week to get one,