People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1896 — ANOTHER BREAK. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER BREAK.

OUR FREE-SILVER FRIENDS ARE TOO FRESH.Popnllatt An M At billy Led by the Hone h the Adbareata •( tha Two Old Pbrtlro —Will Jfot Ooaeada Both PUtform and Coodldataa. We clip from a Washington dispatch dated Jan. 25, the following: “It is not expected that anything will be done about candidates for the silver ticket until after the republican and democratic national conventions. Then a silver republican and a silver democrat wjji be selected from among the most prominent members of the old parties willing to accept places on the ticket.” In view of the contemplated union with the Populists that is very refreshing indeed. Where do the Populists come in? They are expected to furnish the votes and then sit on the fence and watch the procession go by, I suppose. It makes us tired. Hatch said the Populists ought to have voted the Democratic ticket in Kentucky. No doubt Teller thinks they ought to have voted the Republican ticket in Colorado. There are some things doubtful and some things are very plain. It is doubtful if the rank and file of the People‘B party will ever consent to make any concessions at all to thp silver people, if such talk as this continues. It is plain that they will not concede both the platform and the candidates, under any circumstances, at any time, or to avoid any kind of an anticipated catastrophe. The Populists would have more confidence in the sincerity of the free silver people if they conld hold one meeting that was not made up almost wholly of politicians, lawyers and place hunters. We are willing to admit that the action of some of our men who have been clothed with authority is not calculated to inspire enthusiastic admiration for us in the breasts of our free silver friends. They have been approached, and perhaps bled, by an element that is not representative of the integrity, sincerity, and inherent worth and strength of the Populist party. In time this will be remedied by retiring some of those men to private life. For the present we have got to make the best of the situation. While we will make no predictions as to the success of uniting the anti-gold bug elements on one presidential ticket, we do say that if it falls it will bo principally on account of trigger-

moutneo ropuitsta and free stiventss whose egotism loads them to rush la to print with s lot of predictions, preconcerted plans, and balderdash that is calculated to disgust the rank and tie of the People's party. If the so-eafled leaders (Populists and free silver) are sinoere and honest in their efforts to bring about thib-nn-ion, they should button up thetr lmn eschew newspaper interviews and wood. V Already too much has been said and protests are coming from every part of the country. This is unfortunate at this time. Every Populist should be actively at work organising and educating the masses. Instead of this, doubt and discouragement cornea tram these silly interviews. It is not sußcient for the men whose Interviews are published to try to take refngo behind the declaration that they are'falsely represented. They are always falsely represented, to hear them tall it. Then why in the name of consistency ever submit to them? There is no reams in the world to be given hut than to satisfy their inordinate egotism. If the plutocratic papers would publish the Interviews correctly there might be no harm in it. But they never do. Then, we again ask, why sebmit to being interviewed? When the national committee is reconstructed, as it will be this year, each candidate should be required to sab- • mit to a cranial examination, and ealy men who have the bump of selt-es-teem ordinarly developed should be placed in any prominent position. We say this In all seriousness. It is not so much the weakness of our national committee and the sliver men that is doing us harm as their Inordinate vanity. Vanity should never be mistaken lor self-reliance, nor stubbornness for manly courage. In the meantime, while the people will necessarily doubt, they should not relax their exertions. The harder they work the more compact will become our organisation, and the better nMe wo will be to withstand the storm* from without and within. We admonish the people to relax their fears. Things are not half as bad as they seem. Almost all this trouble oemes from a weakness to be interviewed. There 1b no serious danger threatening the Populist ranks. Let us go to work and have an effective organisation in every township and county. Send your truest and best men to all your conventions. Keep your shirts on and yeur heads cool. See that none but Populists are Bent to the national convention. “Trust in God and keep your powder dry," and the gates of hell cannot prevail against our cause.

W. S. MORGAN.