People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1894 — Official Call! [ARTICLE]

Official Call!

FOR THE VARIOU PEOPLE’S PARTY CONVENTIONS. Congressional, Senatorial and Judicial Conventions. The People’s Party of the 10th Congressional District will hold a convention at Logansport on Thursday, June 7th, 1894, to nominate a candidate for Congress. Frazier Thomas, W. H. W. Bell, Nelson J. Bozarth, Congressional Committee. THE SENATORIAL CONVENTION, comprising the counties of Jasper, Newton, and Benton. THE REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION, comprising the counties of Jasper and Newton, and the JUDICIAL CONVENTION, of the 30th Judicial District will meet at Goodland, Newton county, Ind., on Friday, June 15, 1894, at 1 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates as follows: One candidate for State Senator for the counties of Jasper, Newton and Benton. One candidate for Representative for the counties of Jasper and Newton and one prosecuting Attorney for the 30th Judicial District. The basis of representation to each of these conventions shall be one delegate for each voting precinct. W. J. McCullough, J. U. WILDASIN, L. L. PONSLER, Committee.

In compliance with the foregoing the Populists of Jasper county will meet at their respective voting precincts on Saturday, June 9, 1894, and select delegates as aforesaid. L. L. Ponsler, Chairman. Coxey has learned that Congress belongs to Wall street. Harrison says he is not seeking the presidency, but if everybody wants him to have it why of course he will accept. If the man’s modesty don’t kill him, we will insure his life for a thousand years.

We are to be treated to another huge farce in the form of an investigating committee to ferret out the cause of the hard times. It is another junketing frolic by congressional deadbeats, having a gay old time at the expense of an already overtaxed and robbed people.

The Chicago News is hard to please. One day it censures any forcible interference with the commonwenlers, and the next day it gives undeniable proof of its desire to see the whole movement squelched by the strong arm of military power. •

More bonds right away to “maintain the character of your money,” So hump yourselves, you chumps, to pay the interest, but don’t fail to vote the old party ticket, vote her straight, for don’t you see it means more bonds, more interest, lower prices, less clothing and scantier meals, and that is about what you want.

The Chicago millionaires that turned bi-metallists recently have in their circular to the people announced ah astounding discovery, that is ‘‘when money is plenty it is more easily obtained.” Thank you, gentlemen, the world would doubtless have groped bn to all eternity in densest ignorance had not your superior wisdom discovered that long hidden truth.

ANY man or set of men ought lobe "bored for the simples,” that in view of all the light thrown on the snbject of these bankers made panics in the past

twenty years by Greenbackers and Populists, who will ask for an investigation of the cause of the hard times. It has been told hundreds of thousands of times, but notwithstanding all that, here it is again, an insufficient volume of money put under the control of the banks withpporerw r er to contract it at their will and pleasure. But but why tell a man a thing when he has sworn that he won’t see, hear or believe? The Bank of Venice was the longest continuous financial system known in history, and the most successful. It did business by a system of credits, not redeemable in coin. With this system contraction was impossible. It existed and flourished for about six centuries (until the downfall of the Republic), and never knew a panic. Not so with the “cash office,” a branch which was opened for a part of this time, and whose credits were redeemable in coin. On two occasions it was compelled to suspend payments, and its credits fell below par. It was “tided over” by the aid and influence of the main bank, whose credits (remember, not redeemable in coin—in fact, never to be redeemed at all, except the constant redemption of current business) for the last four centuries of its existence were twenty per cent, above current coin value. Contrast this with the numerous and disastrous panics in this and other countries still persisting in a metal basis.

The party that inaugurates the above is certain to have a great and glorious future. It should be passed upon by conventions nominating candidates for congress to be elected next fall. Support should be given to candidates pledged to the above, regardless of party.