People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

It is said that Secretary Carlisle will take the stump for "sound” money, and talk through the south. The convention at Memphis on May 23 promises to be a notable gathering. Leading men of all the southern states will be present. Silver is to be the topic of discussion. New Orleans has appointed a committee to locate the next democratic national convention there if possible. Kansas republicans, at a convention, declared for silver. The meeting was practically unanimous. The “Honest Money league” of Codk county, 111., has issued an address asking voters to abstain from participation in the primaries to be held May 3, and to entirely ignore whatever action the state convention to be held in June may take upon the money question. A convention of lowa democrats, after a bitter wrangle, went on record for “sound” money. Decatur, 111., is to have an “Honest Money League.” The Mississippi‘democratic convention ■will be held at Jackson Aug. 7. The executive committee is for silver, 18 to 5. Ex-Congressman Thomas E. Watson of Georgia has returned to the practice of law, though renominated by the populists.