People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — Keeping Step to the Music. [ARTICLE]

Keeping Step to the Music.

Don’t you wool-hat, one-gallused boys remember how the Democratic officeholders and stump speakers followed after Tom W T atson in ’93 and ’94 and told you that Tom and the Populists were heading for the Republican camp? Don’t you remember how hard they hit the Republican rascals for the demonetization of silver? Don’t you remember bow they begged you to give the Democratic party “a chance” to undo that crime of crimes and restore silver to its constitutional functions? Don’t you remember they told you that the act demonetizing silver was done stealthily by John Sherman, and the Democrats didn’t know it until long after the act was passed ? Don’t you remeber they told you the Democratic party was the only party that was friendly to the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1? Don’t you remember that they told you that there was only room in this country for two political parties, and if you followed Tom Watson and the Populists you would soon find yourself a full-fledged Republican? Many a good, honest, hard-working farmer believed them, and quite a number of the fellows that did much talking in ’93 and ’94 believed it themselves. But how is It today? Men and newspapers that in ’93 and '94 told you there was only room for two parties In this country are now begging you to aid them in establishing a fourth party—the Bimetallic party. Men who in ’93 and *94 told you that the Democratic party was the only party that would, give you free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 now say if the Democratic party declares for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1 they will vote the Republican ticket. Men who in ’93 and ’94 told you that Tom Watson and the Populists were heading for the Republican camp have got their tickets ready and their baggage checked for Republican beadquarters, while Tom Watson and the Populists are in the “middle of the road” packing mud from which to mold the brick to erect a monument to the memory of these politically defunct montebanks. Keep close to your standard; comrades! Feel the elbow touch of the comrade upon your left and upon your right Move steadily forward with an unbroken front. Your banner is the only bunting which carries a cross; your cause the only cause which the people will crown. —People's Party Paper.