People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — SILVER MEN MEET. [ARTICLE]

SILVER MEN MEET.

Consolidation ot Sever ! Organizations Into One Body i.«> ked For. Washington, D. C.. Jam 22.—A meetof prominent silver men from all ■s of the country -. ill be held here t..::; week, beginning to-day. A preliminary conference of the mem- ! rs t f the executive cc nmittee of the ?, .. ;ican Bimetallic League was held Tuesday, when steps were taken looking to the consolidation of the several silver organizations into one body, with headquarters at Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and at some point in the south. One purpose of to-day’s meeting will be to fix upon a time and place for holding a national silver conference, at which a national silver ticket shall be nominated. This action, however, is contingent upon the failure of both of the old parties to recognize silver by nominating candidates unequivocally pledged to its rehabilitation on a basis of 16 to 1.