People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — SIBLEY THE NEW LEADER. [ARTICLE]

SIBLEY THE NEW LEADER.

so He Nominated for President by the 10 to 1 Coinage Men. Washington, March s.—The Bimetallic league will soon issue an address to the American people asking their support for a new party having for the principal planks of its pla tforra unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to 1 and demand that the money of .the country shall be Issued by the government itself. The address will call upon the people themselves to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President by petition, feeling delegates to conventions do not always represent popular views. The address will also put in nomination Joseph C. Sibley of Franklin, Pa., whose term as representative expired yesterday-. Mr. Sibley declined to run for re-election last fall, preferring to retire to private life, and it was only at the urgent and persist- | ent solicitation of the members o? the conference that hefinally consented to head the movement for a new silver party.