People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1896 — Electric Bitters. [ARTICLE]

Electric Bitters.

A solid south united with a solid west. Union of all the reform forces is assured. The money question can not be shelved this time. The people cannot be fooled again by meaningless platforms. In self-defense the old parties must meet the party of financial reform. At St. Louis, July 22, will the glorious consolidation be consummated. The south and the west demand silver and they will vote as they think. Without the sacrifice of any vital principle a union of all the reform forces is possible. Partisan association will be abandoned in the hope of effecting a change for the better. Well the senate has “gone on record” for silver; the same gang that went against it wnen their votes counted. There are seven pgpulist members now in congress and five more will be seated when the contests are decided. Would that the supreme contempt evinced by the old party leaders for the populists and free silver advocates was genuine. The republicans of this, the tenth district, will meet in convention at Michigan City. June 4th, to nominate a candidate for •congress. The only party which will declare for the free coinage of silver this year will be the one which formulates its platform and names a ticket at St. Louis, July 22.

The currency question, after twenty years of persistent demands for recognition, will this year overshadow all other issues and completely bury the dead tariff farce. Owing to '.he death of a demo cratic member of the Kentucky legislature the election ofUnited States senator has been postponed until the vacancy can be filled by an election. Ex-Governor Barney Gibbs of Texas has quit the democratic party and joined the populists. The gold-bug democratic News of Daingerfield admits that this acquisition is worth 20,000 votes to the populists. Despite all the objections that can be urged against it, the subtreasury plank in the Omaha platform has made more populists where its provisions were understood than any other feature of the platform and it will be a mistake if it is removed. From a democratic paper it is learned that L. L. Woods, chairman of the fourth congressional district of Texas has resigned and quit the party. From all over that great state similar instances could be mentioned, and the same is true throughout the the south and west. The silver men have already discovered that it will te useless for them to appeal to either the democratic or republican conventions for recognition in their platforms. They will present their petitions to them only as a matter of fdrm that it may not be said afterwards that they did ask for it. The more we ponder over the action of the populist national executive committee, in naming July 22 as the date for the national convention, the more wisdom we see in their course. By that time the republicans will I have met and straddled the great issue, and the democrats will have met and declared for the gold standard, and both will have nominated goldbugs for president.— People’s Guide. Irwinton. Ga. I

Events in the political world are changing rapidly; what a few mouths ago appeared but a dos sibility to accomplish in 1900 now seems within our grasp this year. A spirit of revolution is rife in the ranks of both the old parties, and all the reform elements are coming together with a determination to join hands for the mighty battle this year. Victory is in the air.

Indiana seems to be- in a fine predicament since the recent supreme court decision on the gerrymanders. There appears to have been no legally constituted legislature since 188| and that one may not have been better. That being the case it is difficult to see how any acts of the legislature could be legal, though it is understood that the court intimated that it would be against public policy to invalidate them. At least the next legislature will have to be elected according to •the apportionment of 1885, or if that is thrown out, of the previous one. Representation in the coming peoples party national convention to be held at St. Louis, July 22, will be on the basis of one delegate for each United States senator and congressman and one for each 2,000 populist votes or a major fraction thereof. This will give Indiana thirty votes out of the 1,303 which will compose the great convention. The southern states will have 500 delegates and the west and south combined will compose two-thirds of the convention. A man in the western part of Nebraska, having a large bunch of horses, and the market being overstocked, wrote to a friend in Washington city to ascertain if he could not help, him sell a carload or two of stock. The answer was very brief, and read as follows: “The people of Washington ride bicycles, the street cars are run by electricity, and the government is run by jackasses. No demand for horses.—lowa Searchlight.

“I pledge six people’s party votes in this chamber to either party that will stop the further issue of-bonds, and six votes will give a majority to either side. In fact, either party can have a majority in this body when it desires to pass any law in the interest of the American people.” The above are the words of Senator Butler of North Carolina, expressing ihe sentiment, not only of the six populist senators, but of the 2,250,000 populist voters, and of a large majority of all the people of this country. The old parties are agreed on the one great issue that is engaging the attention of the masses and those six votes will not be accepted on the terms offered. Practically the senate stands six to eighty-four on propositions of real benefit to the people.

I remember very well in 1881 that we attempted to force the national bank to he'p us fund the public debt. We thought, as the supreme court has decided, that they were agents and creatures of the government. They asserted that they were not, and their officers thronged these lobbies and corridors, and told us that if we dared to force them to take 3 per cent bonds they would create a panic that would rock, this country to its center and destroy its credit. We passed the bill through both houses, and a panic came in New York. That was the response of Wall street to the legislation of congress, as the incipient panic now in Wall street is the response to the bond order of the presi dent. Over $18,000,000 of national bank notes were retired in one day. If I had any doubt about the dangerous power in .the hands of these corporations, that would have been a lesson which would have lasted me during my public lite.—Extract from recent speech of Senator Vest of Missouri. But then. Senator Vest, your party will endeavor to give the national banks still more of the same dangerous power. Will you help them do it?

Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for any season, but perhaps more generally needed, when the languid exhausted feeling prevails, when the liver is torpid and sluggish and the need of a tonic and alterative is felt. A prompt use of this medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine will act more surely in counteracting and freeing the system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. 50c. and 1.00 per bottle at Frank B. Meyer’s Drug Store.