People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1894 — A Slight Change. [ARTICLE]

A Slight Change.

With this weeks issue the editorial and business management of the Pilot is changed; the same working force is retained in the office with C. B. Harrold acting as foreman. With the additional help this change brings, we hope to make our paper more interesting to the public and more profitable to the company. Politically, we will first of all, advocate economy and retrenchment in the management of our local affairs; and in this we knowno national party organization; lower taxes for Jasper County is a matter that has nothing whatever to do with state and

national concerns. In national politics the Pilot is of course, a Populist organ, but while we advocate the doctrines of this party, we have charity and respect for those who have other political views. If by reason and sound argument we can convert the votes of this country to our way of thinking, well and good, but if reason and right are not on our side, we will in the end fail just as we should. We, on public questions, shall try to make the Pilot’b course mild and fair; avoiding, as much as possible, what is abusive and harsh. We ask of the public, aeon tinuauce of the support it has so dndly given us, promising that we will try to make ourselves more worthy of that, support in the future than we have been in the past.

Governor McKinley, in his Bangor speech denounced the new tariff law as sectional, claiming that it fostered the sugar industry in the south and oppressed the wool interest in the north. The day following this speeh wool advanced 4 cents and the sugar Democrats of Louisiana met and declared themselves out of the democratic party, because, it legislated against their interests. Will these democrats and republicans never find “where they are at?"

Hoke Smith entreats Georgians to beware of Populist doctrines. Now, who are these Georgian Populists? Are they wild, dangerous, ignorant men who have just come into the state? These Georgian Populists are natives of that state, they have helped to build up Georgia, the greatest state of the South. Many of them have, until quite recently, been Hoke Smith's political advisers and supporters; can it be that these men have suddenly embraced doctrines that are dangerous to tile state? All the fears we have of the Georgia Populists is that there are not enough of them.

The county board held a special session two weeks ago. The reason why a special session was necessary was kept a profound secret from the other county ofticials. Auditor Murray, who is an officer of the board was not even entrusted with the secret. After a star chamber session they announced that the object of the session was to contract for an iron bridge on the Pleasant Ridge road over the Iroquois river, and said contract had been awarded to Geo. M. Robinson. Now, wh wasn’t bids advertised for? Why were others prevented from competing with Mr. Robinson for the contract? If Mr. Robinson could build the bridge cheaper than anyone else he should have had the contract; otherwise he should not. If too great a price was allowed for the construction of this bridge the people should hold Commissioners Martindale and Paris strictly responsible (Tabor being absent).

’ Speaker Crisp said in his speech at Atlanta the 7th inst.: “While not professing to understand this question fully, in all its bearings, I have always been in favor of free coinage of silver. lam in favor of it now. ” i

Congressman Holman refuses joint deoate with Mr. Creeg. his Populist opponent, because, be says, they bold the same views on silver coinage. Senator Vilas, before the W isconsin Democratic state convention, speaking upon the currency question, said the monthly addition to the circulating medium produced by the operation of the Sherman' law was “no more wanted than so much cheese," and he said the demand for bimetalism was conceived wholly in the interest of silver producers and the legislation growing out of it was “nothing! but the triumph of greenback-! ism." These are the views of three • of the leading Democrats of the i United States on the silver question. They do not at all agree. In the Republican party we find the same condition. In California, Colorado and Wyoming their state platforms promise free silver without any quibling or mixing of words; further east they are not so out-spoken, and upon the Atlantic coast not a platform favorable to it is found. There is harmony on the silver question in but one party, the People's party, and in this party is the natural home of all bimetalists.