People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1895 — Smothering The Populist Vote. [ARTICLE]

Smothering The Populist Vote.

If you had to rely on the Associated Press,nand party papers for the newsirelating to the vote cast by the populists in the several states where elections were held this fall,..you will not know there was anyiPeople’s party in existence i® lowa, Kentucky, Mississippi and other states. In Kentucky the : populist vote is entirely ignored, while in Mississippi where Ho republican ticket was in the field, but where the democrats are confronted with the most formidable enemy they have had for .years—the people’s party, the Impression is given out that the late contest down there was between the two old parties. Thisdsno mere oversight nor accident, but is a part of plutocracy’s, devilish scheme to keep the people ignorant of the real strength’-and movements of the reform fforoes. >the power and influenoetof which that element feels butddare not acknowedge by even, ’tolling the truth about them.—S&ownd Money. j