People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1895 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Cheer up. Monopoly Is a robber. Wall street is a den of thieves. f " Down with all kinds of monopoly. The Populists made a glorious fight Vote for your principles if you have any. Corporation rule is worse than monarchy. The dems are sick —and the reps are drunk. The political waters are getting very muddy. True principles are greater than office or party. England is no doubt satisfied with the result Be careful to send true men to all your conventions. And now it is reported that the new silver party is a blufT. While the reps are Whooping, the populists will go to work. Tammany is all there is left of the Democratic party in the East. The more the Republican, party wins this year the more it will lose next year. Grover Cleveland’s policy is victorious and the Democratic party non est.

W T hy don’t Bland, Bryan, Wolcott and Teller go into the new free-silver party? The gold bugs of the East have evidently united in electing the Republican ticket. The next democratic platform will be another trap, but it won’t catch so many suckers. An increase of the currency helps the debtor class and the debtor class is a majority of the people. The trusts, banks, corporations and other dangerous combines are represented by the two old parties. The drifting of public sentiment is toward the adoption of the principles contained in the Omaha platform. Mr. Bland still insists that he is a democrat. Why don’t he get out of a party, then, that is not democratic? Whenever a man begins to talk Jeffersonian democracy nowadays he is promptly put down as a populist crank. For the past seven months the receipts fell $43,000,000 short of the expenses of the Cleveland administration. Mayor Pingree of Detroit is called a Republican—but he represents Populist principles, and we are glad of his election. The democrats seem to have buried the “crime of 1873.” It is expected, •however, that they will resurrect something else. Suppose that we admit that both old parties are telling the truth about each other. Isn’t that enough to condemn them both? When you hear a Republican bragging of the great victory just remind him that his party endorses the policy of Grover Cleveland.

The result In Kentucky is an example of how silver democrats can get “silver inside the party.” It is a bald-headed, empty, transparent fake. If the silver men of the democratic party in Kentucky had voted the populist ticket they would have secured a silver senator to represent them. There is likely to be a sort of Kilkenny cat-fight in the republican party over the silver question. “Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.” We are just as much opposed to the extreme socialists adding to the Omaha platform as we are to the anti-so-cialists wanting to trim it to suit some other party. Is there a legion or populist club in your township? If so, do you attend regularly? If there is no club, why don’t you make a move to have one organized at once? There is a great cry for “honest money,” and most of it comes from the hankers. The fact is, if we had honest money, three-fourths of the banks would have to go out of existence. One great daily paper headed a dispatch the day after election: “Washington All Ears.” That is a roundabout way of poking fun at the kind of animals we have now in the government stable. Where both old parties declared in favor of a gold standard the Republicans won. That is as it should be —the Republicans are the original gold bug party, and there is no use for two gold bug parties.