People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1895 — Silver To Nominate. [ARTICLE]

Silver To Nominate.

From The Chicasjo Record. Chicago is to be the national i political center n«ext year and j silver will be- the dominant issue !i n the presidential campaign. This straightforward statement was made yesterday by a man who is a leading factor of rhe ! silver propaganda, and it was I conceded by a number of conservative local financial men to be j the only logical conclus ion which i could be drawn from a series of j suggestive recent even ts. i A plan of campaign has been paid out which will bring the I headquarters t<f thes»jlv »r prop-

aganda from Denver to Chicago. I and already the boast has been made that “silver will split the republican and democratic parties, and that the Alleghaney mountains, next year, will be the great divide which will separate the yellow Atlantic coast from the white Mississippi valley and Pacific coast.” This plan contemplates an arbitrary demand on both national conventions, for it is said that the silver men of both parties have arrived at a perfect understanding in the matter, that a plank for “free silver coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent of other commercial nations,” must be placed in the platforms of the respective par ties. According to this plan, should either or both conventions refuse to be dictated to by the aggressive silverites the silver delegates will withdraw and an independent silver party will be formed, with its headquarters in Chicago. The first choice of the leader of this political enterprise is Congressman J. C. Sibley of Pennsylvania, a democrat. Second choice falls upon R. P. Bland of Missouri, a democrat; W. J. Bryan of Nebraska, a democrat; Senator H. M, Teller of Colorado, a republican, and Senator John P. Jones of Nevada, a republican. It is taken for granted by the silver men that organized labor and the people’s party will continue with them to form the silver party, and they have ex pressed a willingness to accept government control of transportation provided that this modification of plank 10 is made a subordinate issue to free silver. An organized movement for Hie purpose of sending silver delegates to the democratic national convention is well urder way in the northwestern states and is paralleled by a similar movement on the part of silver republicans. The progress of this preparatory work has ar rived at the tangible degree and the various state committees of both parties are beginning to watch it closely. Probably the most active agent in spreading the silver gospel is W. H. Harvey, author of “Coin Financial School,” “A Tale of Two Nations,” “The Elementary Principles of Money” and other financial books.

The sale of bis books has reached figures which appear incredible, but the fact that more than 250,000 copies of “Coin’s Financial School” and “A Tale of Two Nations” have been sent out of Chicago each month for some months past is vouched for oy the several news companies which handle his publication. Over 10,000 volumes a day have been sold for the last month, and the geographical distribution of this free-silver literature discloses the fact that silver already is of dominant interest east of the Mississippi river. Tiie books of the shipping clerk show that Michigan has received more than 1,500 of Mr, Harvey’s books a day since March 1; Illinois oyer 1,000 a day. Indiana 1,000 and lowa and Wisconsin, Ohio and Missouri each nearly the same number. When “Coin,” a tiny weekly, made its appearance in Chicago early in 1893 it attracted little attention. It gained some strength when it presented a pamphlet on “Bimetallism and Monometallism,”

■written by Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, Ireland. This was followed by Mr. Harvey’s “Elementary Principles of Money” and then “Coin’s Financial School” was brought out. The last book issued in the series -was “A Tale of Two Nations,” a financial novel, and this book has been dramatized, and the production, with “living pictures,” will be placed in a few weeks on a Chicago stage. It was the marvelous success of Mr. Harvey’s free-silver books which assisted in directing the 'attention of western silver men to Chicago, and which caused them to select it as their headquarters for next year. • Recently two Colorado papers have moved to Chicago and it is asserted that before the presidential campaign opens the silver men will have a democratic paper in this city which will be the official organ of the silver party. [Ed. —The Pilot reprints the above as evidence of the wonderful work being accomplished for “free silver coinage” by “Coin’s Financial School” and “A Tale of Two Nations,” either of which books are given free to every subscriber to the People’s Pilot who pays SI.OO on his account, whether it be for the past or in ad nance. They are also given free to every new subscriber who

pays 25c for a trial term of three months.]