People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — People’s Party Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

People’s Party Ticket.

Xf Ticket. Secretary of Slate. C. A. ROBINSON. Shelby County. Auditor of State. E. A. PERKINS, Marion County. State Treasurer. A. B. KER PORT. Cass County. Attorney General, CY HOLCOMB, Gibson County. ('lerk- Supreme Court. J. H. MONTGOMERY. Lawrence County. S:;p’t Public Instruction, J. H. ALLEN. Vigo County. State Statistician, AV. P. SMITH. Marion County. Geologist, EDWARD KINDLE. Johnson County. supreme Court 4th Dist., D. H. CHAMBERS, Henry Count;.-. ->:■ ?c; r z;\A. • c-.- : ..tr:n C'lDgri ;■ I'. iI ATHUR.N, C. County. r Senator, PERRY WASHBURN, ci Benton county. y or ’unit Representative. DAVID B. NOWELS, of Jasper county. For Pr. Attorney, J.. D. RICH, cf Newton count". For C '.'C.'. y Clerk, JOHN A. A GARLAND, cf Jordan Township..

!'’or C gu nty At:di 1 or. THOM AG II ROBINSON. ■I (ill!:', n Thownship. F-w County Treasurer, JOHN NICHOLS, of Liar-dew Township. .’ For County Sheriff, ELLIS JONES, of Carpenter Township For County Surveyor, V, ALTER HARRINGTON, of Union Township. ' For County Coroner, M. Y. SLAUGHTER, of Marion Township. For Commissioner. Ist District JOEL SPRIGGS, of Walker Township. For Commissioner. 2nd District. JOSEPH A. ROBINSON, of Marion Township. For Commissioner, 3rd District, GEORGE G. THOMPSON, of Carpenter Town-ship.

When our old parts’- conventions. in making their platforms, write: “We point with pride to - ’ —they stop and wonder what the dickens they are going to point to. Cleveland is said to have declared that the money power has the country by the leg. Gues- Grover caught it by the other leg. and gave Uncle Samuel a tumble. John Sherman makes a tine argument against the trusts, but he forgets that the trust he created. the money trust, is the greatest of them all. |and the most ruinous to the people.

Remember that genuine reform involves a radical change of systems. Mere changes of men and swapping of officeholders do not reach the spot. The tiling is to make bad legislation impossible and desirable legislation easily to be obtained. The principle of the referendum is a condition precedent to secure real democratic government, when no law can get on the-statute book without the knowledge and consent of a popular majority.

The features of current polili cal events are the republican efforts to get back on a silver platform and hedge on high protection as expounded by McKinley. Anything to win is the motto of this discredited party. Lt is decidedly late in the day for it to pretend to be a friend of silver. Its record on the subject was briefly summarized in these columns last week. Othello said to Desdemona before he strangled her: “I kissed ihoe before I killed thee.” This is the best the Republicans can urge. They did indeed kiss the white metal before they murdered it. But it has always been regarded as an aggravation of Judas’ great crime that his betrayal of the Savior was preceded by a treacherous kiss. — Ex.

Turov.’ down the barriers against opportunity by freeing the land from speculators, and if one company will not furnish cheap coal to the consumer and high wages to the miner, another company will be glad to get the chance, ami it lias every inducement to do so. And wages must rise, and with them the social condition from its present degraded level. What can we say of avarice that will take advantage of another man's misfortune regardless of consequences? This, too, is another curse of our creation, and like the coal itself, lies deep and dark beneath the surface. It is well known that large stocks were on hand at the Lake Superior ports, principally controlled by operators in the Ohio Held. This | coal rose until it fetched fancy ; prices, and the statement from a j reputable Western contempor- ; ary is that those who field it and ! are charged with conspiring to prolong tne strike, have made a I clean £300,00P.

Tile Baiiim ,/n.ouu. one of the •nJest ami most conservative of ;he democratic paper*, starts pts leading editorial of Jane 22, with tiiis remarkable admission: ■‘There can be no question that, with -a. few notable exceptions, the c’-er-’ts, i'-s!: ?d of thebe*t, a.c m camr'/l of the crganizat'.oL'. and m■luagomeni of both of our great parties." The whole article is a powerful argument showing the necessity of a complete reorganization and realignment of parties. If the Sun keeps on it will become a Populist paper without knowing it. It represents the state where for years Senator Gorman has been the democratic boss, and the disgust caused by his venality and subserviency to the moneyed influences has become so general that decent democrats of Maryland see the neces- j sity of turning him down. The : mere shifting of leaders, how I

ever, will not reach the spot. Putting out one boss and allowing another to grasp the reins will simply be a change of cars with no improvement in the engineer. The only hope for honest men in the old parties is to follow the plan of the militia captain who. not knowing the proper order to make his trodps “file right", ordered them to break ranks and fall in on the other side of the fence./ A new party in this country is an absolute necessity for its salvation. Most of the old leaders will have to be knocked in the head or turned out to grass, and all peo pie sincerely seeking reform must combine together under new standards in demand of bet ter methods.

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, the founder of the Christian church, was a political as well as a religious reformer. Here is an extract from one of his speeches: The issue is not between gold aud legal tenders, but whether our currency shall consist of all bank circulation, doled out to the people by a combination of corporations at exhorbitant rates of interest, or of legal tenders, issued directly to the peo in the payment of debts and current expenditures of the government. The issue admits of i compromise; for upon the rest;, depends the question wheiMwe are to have a government the people, or a money oli; chy. It is one of the strop; ■, convictions of my life that u ; . its decisions are suspended fate of our civilization and th - destiny of our country.—W<-»l Texas Sentinel.

Bro. Henry Buck, Ramsey township, Fayette county, Hl., is an original thinker, and gives us the following philosophical conclusions: “If any nation oppresses labor, down goes that nation. If any nation oppresses the farmers, down goes that nation. If any nation learns to do more for the people of other nations than for its own people, down goes that nation. Eighteen years ago I bought my farm in Ramsey, Fayette county, 111. ' It was all woods then but about live acres. Now it is all cleared up, and has a large new barn and new frame house with a good oichard and good fences; and to-day I could not sell it for what it cost me in the woods. Do our democratic and Republican farmers ever think of these things? The price of lands is regulated by the price of what they produce. Restore former prices to farm products, and you at once restore corresponding values to land.

Evi:mm- J' plies daily in an ev>w m .. •• atio that the principle-'- eople’s party wili gurti : .dency inside of thre- ’a Wednesday of las'- we. uerican Railway i/:.-- .. :heir national meeting m Chicago, resolved to

support People's party in ar body, An effort i* making to unite al! the farmers' organizations with the American Rail- • way union for the same purpose. i A meeting is already called to Ahat end. The Labor Union rt I Hammond met last Sunday to discuss the uniting with the Populists. We have not learned the result, but doubt not it will be accomplished. It is difficult to learn news of this kind, and i it takes Argus eyed care to glean ' it, because of the suppression of ! all such news by the Associated Press. Yet it will leak out. Many of the most eminent men • of the nation are joining us or at least modifying their opinions in harmony with our principles. The masses, also, are flocking to us. A Republican, Wednesday, in conversation with the writer, said he favored the free coinage of silver at a ratio of not above 16 to 1, and thought 151 to 1 ample to maintain parity before the world provided our own govern-1

ment officers would not discriminate against silver. The lines are loosening. It now behooves us to stand firm. Compromises will be asked of us, but compromise is wrong. If we are not right we are wrong. If we are right, right will prevail. Stand firm for the right.—Rossville Journal.