People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — Page 8
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OHTJKOHES. FIRST BAPTIST Preaching every two weeks, at 10:45 a. m. and 7 p. n..; Sunday school at 9:38; B. Y. P. U. 6 p. ni. Sunday; prayer meeting 7p. m.; C. E Voliva pastor. CHRISTIAN. Corner Van Rensselaer and Susan. Preaching. 10:45 and 8:00; Sundav school. 9:30; J. Y. P. S. O. E.. 2:30; S.Y. P. [?. C. E., 6:30; Prayer meeting. Thursday, 7:30 Rev Findley, pastor. Ladies' Aid Society mee f s every Wednesday afternoon, by appointment. PRESB YTERIA X. Corner Cullen and Angelica. Preaching. 10:45 and 7:30; Sunday School. 9:30; Junior Endeatorers. 2:30p. m.; Y. P. S. C. E.. 6:30. Prayer meeting. Thursday. 7:30 Ladies Industrial Societv meets every Wednesday afternoon. The Missionary Societ y. monthly. HETHODIS TE. Preaching at 10:45 and 7: Sundav school 9:30; Epworlh League. Sunday 6: Tuesday 7: Junior League 2:30 alternate Sundays. Prayer meeting Thursday at 7. Dr. R' D. Utter; pastor. LADIEp’ AID SOCIETY every Wednesday afternoon by appointment. The pastors of all the churches in Rensselaer are requested to prepare notices similar to above, which will be inserted free in this directory.
SOCIETIES. MASONIC.— PRAIRIE LODGE. No. 12'». A. F. and A. M-. meets first and "third- Mon«ay> of each month. .1. M B l - Fendig. W. M - J EVENING STAR CHAPTER. No. HI. O. E. s - meets first and Thir.i Wednesday's of •ach month Lirzie. W. M.: A If. Hopkins, sec y. ODD FELLOWS IROQUOIS LODGE. No 149, I. O. O F., meets every Thursday. L. L. Ponsler. N G.. J F. Antrim. Secretary RENSSELAER ENCAMPMENT. No 201. I. O. O. F.. meets second and fourth Fridays of each month. T. J. Sayler. C. P.: John Vannatti. Scribe. RENSSELAER REBECCA DEGREE LODGE. No. 346. meets first and third Fridays of each month. Mrs Laurie Shields. S. G.; Miss Blanche Hoyes. Sec'v. I O. OF FORRESTERS COURT JASPER. No. 179 R. Independent Order of Forresters. meets second and fourth Mondays. Geo. Goff. C. D. H. C. K.; ,1. W. Horton. C. R Degree lodge, n. a. a.. No 75 beneficiary Department F. A. A I. U..i meets on the second Saturday nights of every other month at the Centre School House in Union township. Jasper Countv. Ind. D. E. Hudson. S. T. Hamacheu. Pres. Secretary. /TENTER ALLIANCE. No. 75. JASPER V County, meets regularly every second Saturday night at Center School House. Union .'township. Geo. Casey. Secretary.
CITY AND COUNTY.
J. 11. Cox has received a fresh ear load of lime. He also has hair and coal. David Thompson was at Lafayette Sunday to consult his physician. For fresh lime, hair and coal call on J. H. Cox. Coming, the Chicago Ladies’ Military Concert Hand. Hev. Mr, Wilkinson, evangelist left Monday for his home at Kewana. Ind. The Chicago Ladies' Military Concert Hand leads: all others follow. Ed Bowman left last week for Nashville, Tenn., for his health. He will remain a month and then go west. There is not an imitator in the Chicago Ladies' Military Concert Hand. They are all originators. J. A. Overton was in Lafayette Sunday. He is being treated by a specialist for the hay fever habit. All is preparation now for the plant of another crop of oats and corji in Jasper county, to be sold again next fall for less than it will cost to raise. Heat that bed room with one of our $5 hard coal burners that will keep lire all night with a hat full of coal. X. Warner & Son. B. P. Parker, who has been an employee of the Pilot office for the past four months returnqd to his home in Atlanta, Georgia, Sunday. It not only is so, it must be so, One Minute Cough Cure acts quickly, and that’s what makes it go. A. F. Long, Druggist. David B. Nowels adjourned his school in Wheatfield last week because of a summons to appear in court at Kentland as a witness. Don't fail to inquire for prices and terms for lots in Leopold’s addition: best situated, wider and larger than the lots in any other addition to Rensselaer. Mrs. McKellips returned Monday to her home in Westville, Ind.. with her baby, now six weeks old, born at the home of her parents. Rev. and M.is. Utter. To day is the time to have your seats reserved for the entertainment to be given in Ellis' opera house Saturday evening bv the Chicago Ladies' MilitaryConcert Band. Soothing, healing, cleansing. De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve is the enemy to sores, wounds and piles, which it never fails to cure. , Stops itching and burning. Cures chapped lips and cold-sores in two or three hours. A. F. Long. Druggist. Married. March 3. 18!H!. at the home of the officiating minister. Rev. R, D. Utter. of Trinity M. E. church. Rensselaer. Jnd., Miss Catherine Powley. of Jasper county. Ind.. to Mr. Theodore Wadleigh. of Herscher, Ills. The James school, three and half miles south of town. Bonj. F. Coen, teacher, will give an entertainment Wednesday evening, March 18. Proceeds for the benefit of of library. An entrance fee of 10 cents will be taken. Come. Bring a load with you and enjoy yourself. Re\. 1 indley and family are to occupy the home of the late George 11, Brown in a short time, Mrs. Brown having decided to make her home with her daughter, who will sqon become the wife of Rev. J. L. Brady, and reside with her at Fow ler for the present.
The Pilot to June 15th for 10 cents. New subscribers only. Trial subscriptions stop when out.
Frank Meyer visited his physician tu Lafayette again last Sunday. The Meyer Sisters are nicely located in their new quarters east of the jmstotfice Another Hurry of snow fell Friday and also one Tuesday night. Miss Helen Kelly has given up her place as teacher in the Rensselaer schools because of ill hea.th. Miss Alice Irwin is teaching the grade in the Rensselaer school recently taught by Miss Kelly. Lewis Stone of Minneapolis was the guest of his old friend Andy Lawson the first of the week. A.F. Long, wife and children. Mrs. Hordman and Mrs. Percupiie attr-iuiiHl the funeral of R. A. .Purcupile in Monticello Saturday returning Sunday afternoon. •‘Give me a liver regulator and I can regulate the world," said a genius. The druggist handed him a bottle of De \\ itt's Little Early Risers, the famous little pills. jL F. Long. Druggist. •A high liver with a torpid liver will not be a long liver. Correct the liver with De \\ itt’s Little Early Risers, little pills that cure dyspepsia and constipation. A. F. Long. Druggist. Father Augustine of St. Josephs college left Sunday afternoon for Rome where he expects to remain for several months. A large number of his friends were at the train to see him off. It will take about seven days to tg-oss the Atlantic and reach Italy. It is reported that X. W. Reeve has been offered a promotion in the American j Express Company, and that Arthur Xowels will be made the agent in Rensselaer. Mr. Reeve deserves all the preference that the company can favor him with, for no one could be more obliging and reliable. Mr. Xowels has been in charge of the office here before and will make a most efficient and agreeable sue- j cessor if the change is made. Local theatre goers will no doubt be] pleased to learn that Manager Ellis has I specially engaged the Chicago Ladies’ j Mil%iry Concert Rand to give an enter- j tainment in Ellis' opera house Saturday j evening of this week. The band is one of the best known attractions on the road, and it conies to this town highly endorsed bv both press and public. Remember the date and don't fail to attend. Reserved seats are now on sale at the usual place.
Advertised Letters
Postmaster Honan has the following unclaimed letters which will he sent to the dead letter office on the 28th of March if ifr>t called for by that time Miss Clara Miller. Mr. J. C. Maxwell, Mr. J. L, Anderson. Robert Allen.
It is probable that no review of the current month is so rich in able discussions of Social. Economical and Political Problems of special interest as the Arena for March. Among the subjects treated with vigor, foreefulness and frankness, we mention: Dr. John Clark Ridpath, the eminent historian's third’ paper on the history of “The Bond and the Dollar;” Professor Frank Parson's masterly arraignment of the Western Union Telegraph Company. Justice Walter Clark, LL. D„ on “The Prosperity of Mexico." magnificently illustrated; B. O. Flower’s paper on "A Successful Experiment for the Maintenance of Selfrespecting Manhood," (illustrated); "Why the South Wants Free Silver.” by United Statee Senator Marion Butler. Professor George D. Herron on “The Social Value of Individual Failure." and a discussion by George B. Waldron. A. M„ on “Wealth Production and Consumption by the Nation.” illustrated by numerous diagrams and tables. The Pilot has copied in this issue the splendid article on “Why the South Wants Free Coinage of Silver.”
Condensed Testimony
C-has. B. Hood, broker and manufacturer’s agent. Coiumbus. Ohio, certifies that Dr. King’s New Discovery has no equal as a cough remedy. J. D. Brown, Prop. St. James hotel Ft. Wayne, Ind., testifies that he was cured of a cough of two years standing, caused by La Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwinsville. Mass., says that he has uned and recommended it and never knew it to fail and rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. 28th St., Chicago, always keeps it hand and has no fear of croup, because it instantly relieves. Free trial bottles at Frank Moyer’sdrug store.
Your Boy Won't Live A Month
'Sm> Mr. Gilman Brown of 3-1 Mill St., South Gardner, Mass., was told by the doctors. His son had Lung trouble, following Typhoid Malaria, and he spent three hundred and seventy-five dollars with doctors, who finally gave him up. saying: -Your boy won't live a month." He tried Dr, King's New Discovery and a few bottles restored him to health and enabled him to go to work u perfectly well man. He says he owes his present good health to the use of Dr. King's New Discovery, and knows it to be the best in the world for Lung trouble. Trial Bottles J 4 roe at Frank B. Meyer's drug store,
THE WMiTJK HOi SMC .-The Populists Will.capture it in ’H6. Sow the country down with Populist literature. I will print your name and address on the People’s Party Exchange List for a Silver dime. and you will receive a large n urn tier of leading Populist papers for reading and distribution. Write er.AIM.V, J. 11. pADOKtfT. Lock Box 410. Ennis. Texas.
THE PEOPLE’S PILOT. RENSSELAER IND., THURSDAY. MARCH 12, 1896.
Commissioners' Fat Job.
Editor of tin- People's Pilot. If Union township had a vote there is not six in the township that would vote for the new court house at present. The people should have something to say as I they have the burden to bear. A certain man made that as the Republicans had it all their own way they hail better build the house now. for if the vote was dose lietwcen the part ice there would never be a house built. If any party, because it has it all its own way. should go ahead and put such a burden on the people it should be de featcil at the next election, which I think will he the result at next election. The house and equipments will cost not less than S'JOO.OOo. The commissioners’ salaries will be quite an item as they will be in session twelve months in the year dining the construction of the building. Of course it will be a good job for the. com-
missioners on their last term. There is no question but if there-was a remonstrance circulated ninety out of every hundred Voters would sign it, so it is plain that the commissioners are hound to bull the thing through regardless of the wishes of the people. It would be more sensible in the commissioners to appropriate money to make the approach to Burk's bridge passable, either by raising the grade or lowering the water in the river, as it is impassable two to three months in the year. There would he no objection to that in the north end of the county, as it is their main road to Rensselaer. L. Davisson. Aix. Ind.. March 1 181)0.
Quite a serious runaway occurred on the streets, Monday, in which one of the occupants of the vehicle sustained severe injuries. J. E, French, wife and mother were riding along the street near Murray's store when the neck yoke broke aud the horses started to run. When reaching Washington street they turned toward the river, and just opposite Frank Meyer's drug store one of the rear wheels of the buggy struck a lumber wagon and threw the occupants out in a violent manner. Mrs. J. E. French received serious g injuries. The vehielewas a complete wreck.
For the Public School Library.
The following is the program of entertainment for benefit of public school library to be rendered at opera hwjge. Friday. March 13. 8:00 p. m. Music, y. Male Quartet. Lecture. “The Land of Evangeline,” by Mrs. F.tnnia Mont. Mcßae. Professor of English Literature. Purdue University. Laiayette, Ind. ' Music Male Quartet. Tickets on sale at each of the drug stores. Rates 15c, 25c, & 35c. Seats reserved at Long’s.
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.
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. Tli'ere is only ona way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound Or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closod, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can lx: taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten tire caused by Catarrh, which is not fling but, an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused bv Catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure Send for circulars; free. ..... F J - Uheney A Co.. Toledo, O Sold by Druggists. 75c. ? Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
Epicorth League Notice.
The next Indiana state Epworfh League conference will be held at Andderson. June 25-26. As the location is central it is expected that this will be the largest Epworth League conference ever held in the state. No effort will be spared to secure the very best speakers and to make the meeting practical and spiritual. Special sessions will be held for each department. Every E. L. chapter in the state is urged tosend delegates. The railroad rates will be ,•announced Inter. ' M. Vayhinger.
a *25 WiNfIIESTBII SHOT GIN EHE! We Will give- a new u six .shot- Winchester Repeating Shot Uun 9 ol'the latest pattern, worth Wr*. absolutely ■ free to any one who sends in a list of :fii 9 new subseribers.prepaifl for one year in 9 advance. Eaehsub seriher wili he eiit.it-9 led to tme premium hook only. Four it- 9 months’ trial subsections . includone hook each) will count as ■ qtm yearly subscription. As we have ■ but one of these Phot Guns the party who.■ accepts this oiler must write at once ■ and give full assurance that die 38 sub- ■ scribers will be obtained. Remember 9dial no better Gun is made than the ■ Winchester. IiIONON TIME TABLE. SOUTH BOUND. *». -Louisville Mail. Daily 10:.NT A M No. :t!l —Milk aceomin.. Daily tic’o p’ [q So. 3.— Louisville Express. Daily. 11:23 |\ M. N° is—Local freight "... o:di P. M. north bound No. 4 —Mail A M No. 40—iM || k Aceomin.. D,aily . 7:31 A.’M. No b—Mail and Express. Daily :t:2i P M v ' Freight !»;:» a! m" No. i4 —l l relglit ii;22 p. M. No. 74 carries (passenger, between Lafayette and Rensselaer. J
Serious Runnaway.
Electric Ritters.
The Pilot to June 15th for 10 cents. New subscribers only. Trial subscriptions stop when out.
Colonial Ball.
The great closing event in the social whirl of Rensselaer for this season will lie the unique reception to lie given by the Iroquois Dancing Club onTuesday evening. March 17. 1896. All the members of the club will affect- the costumes of the eighteenth century, as will also a number of married couples. Invitations have been accepted by a sufficient number to assure it a complete success. Excellent music has been engaged and the whole occasion promises to be away up in G. Dry hickory wood for sale at farmers’ prices in Pi or 16 inch lengths. Two blocks east of court house.
For Sate Foots. 2.000, burr oak and white oak. for sale at 6c each, 3\4 miles west and one mile south of Rensselaer, by Carr Rros. Wanted. C. W. Coen wants 25,000 bushels of corn within the next 30 days and will pay the highest market price for the same. \\ hen you want a farm loan call on J. H. Chapman & Co. Loans made prompt ly and at the lowest possible rate. Office with Burget & Penn in Leopold's block. The Chicago Ladies’ Military Concert Band is the only organization of its kind in the world. It will he seen and heard in Ellis' opera house next Saturday evening, March .14. Don't invite disappointment by experimenting. Depend upon One Minute Cough Cure and you have immediate relief. It cures croup. The only harmless remedy that produces immediate results. A. F. Long. Druggist.
New Upholsteriny Shop.
John Monaghan has opened a general furniture repair shop in the rear of Liberal Corner. He is an experienced and competent workman and will take the greatest pains with all work entrusted to him.
Farm Loans.
prepared to make farm loans at a lower rate of interest than any other firm in Jasper county. The expenses will be as low as the lowest. Call and see us. Office in the Odd Fellow’s Building, near the Court House.
Cheap Farm Loans.
Call on Valentine Seib, Rensselaer, for the cheapest farm loans offered in Jasper county. Large or small accounts. Quick in effect, heals and leaves no scar. Burning,- scaly skin eruptions quickly cured by De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve. Applied to burns, scalds, old sores, it is magical in its effect. Always cures piles. A. Long, Druggist.
Did You Ever
Ury Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not. get a bottie now. and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all female complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength an tone to the organs. If you have loss of appetite, constipation, headache, fainting spells, or are nervous, sleepless. excitable, melancholly or troubled with dizzy spells. Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and strength are guarantee by its use. Fifty cents and $1 at Frank Meyer's drug store.
Free Pills
Send your address to H. E. Bucklin & Co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of Dr. King's New Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merits. These pills are easy in action and are particularly effective in the cure of Constipation and Sick Headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they have been proved invaluable. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from every deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weaken by their action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigorate the system. Regular size 2r>c, per box. Sold by Frank B. Mover druggist.
WS. PARKS. DRAYMAN. All kinds of hauling done in the most careful and prom pi manner. Pries the very lowest. lsa<3c^Clazebrook AND GENERAL Blacksmithing. Repair ngrieutt lira I implements and all kinds of machinery. Wheelwright incoitneclinn Shop on Front street near Saylor’s Mill. Rensselaer. I nd. ©Thurston’s PILLS Are perfect health jewels, nrr. erknownto distress but Infallible to relieve. When everything else has failed to briar you relief for headache, biliousness, stomach and liver complaints nr ASK YOUR druggist for tih:kston’B PIMA Ily ataii ccaU package. For Sale by Fr&'nk B Meyer.
ANSON STEWART.
WARREN & IRWIN.
HALL THE TRAITOR.
EIGHT SENATORS ARE POLITICAL COWARDS. Between the Cowards aad tha Traitor* the Liberties of the People Are Being Crucified—Time to Call a Loud Halt. Congressman U. S. Hall, of Missouri, who, like Livingston, of Georgia, and others, owes his position in Congress to the deception he practiced on the Alliance, or Farmers’ and Laborers’ union of his state, has been creating a little sensation in Congress. Hall is one of those shrewd fellows who took advantage of a popular uprising among the people against existing evils to boost himself and a few friends that helped him intjtra salaried positions. He never codid. haye broke into Congress any other way, and his treachery to the organization that elevated him to the position is a fitting evidence of the unscrupulousness of the man. He went to Congress as a free silver advocate. He assisted in constructing the St. Louis demands at the joint meeting of the AHiauce and Knights of Labor, in December, 1889, and also the Ocala demands a year later. He was then a warm advocate of fsee silver. In 1892 he took a prominent part in the Missouri campaign, running against Chas, H. Mansur, and aided other l£aderk\in deceiving the members of his party into the bel,ief that the national platform adopted at Chicago meant free silver. Now he says the platform don’t mean any such thing. He was speaking on the free silver senate amendment to the bond bill, and said:
“I observed a remark of my friend from Georgia this morning to the effect that in voting for this first section of the Senate amendment he was standing upon the democratic platform adopted at Chicago in 1892. I know that I am talking for a body of men who know that platform by heart, and I defy any one of them to produce one section of that platform that warrants a vote by any democrat for the first section of this Senate substitute. You can not find any such provision in the Chicago platform of 1892. You will find in that platform of the democratic' national convention a declaration that one dollar should be made as good as an other in the United States and the world over. You will find in the platform of one national convention a doctrine corresponding exactly with the first section of that senate resolution; I refer to the national platform of the populist party, announced at Omaha, July 4, 1892. That is the only political platform in the United States that has ever laid down such a doctrine as that embodied in this senate resolution.” Mr. Talbert, of South Carolina, asked him if he did not vote for free silver when he was first elected to congress? Mr. Hall replied: “The gentleman from South Carolina, asks if I did not vote for the free silver coinage bill in the extra session in 1893. I answer,, yes. But I will tell the gentleman that I have progressed since that time.” Now “progressed” is a very good word. Some one has called it “succumbed,” but in our opinion “progressed” is much more respectable. Besides, there is no suggestion about it of any undue influence being used to accomplish the desired result. Just “progressed.” Carlisle has “progressed.” Hoke Smith has “progressed.” J. Sterling Morton has “progressed/ We know of “oodles” of postmasters too, who have “progressed.” Benedict Arnold “progressed.” Judas “progressed.” The people have “progressed,” tod but it is backwards, and towards great er destitution and poverty. What Mr. Hall’s constituents ough to do with him is to “progress” to th< ballot box and elect him to stay a) home.
Mr. Hall’s sensation was that he hat heard that eight senators had votei for the free coinage amendment whi said they believed that the free coin age of silver would ruin the country. Of course nobody believed any sue) thing, and if they did it ought not t» startle the country, because the peoph know that there are several times eigh senators that could be relied upon to dt almost anything in the play of politics Mr. Hall tried to justify his changi of attitude and in so doing showed how near he was getting over towards thf republican camp. He said: “But let us take legislative proceed ings; take matters of parliamentary law. My friend from Georgia has hac occasion on this floor to cite a cast where our present speaker varied from the position which he now occupies up on the question of counting a quorum Certainly Mr. Reed, of Maine, held ai the time the view attributed to him, but further investigation showed him that he was wrong; and when he found he was wrong, what did he do? Once when the question arose in this house as to the right of the speaker to count a quorum, Mr. Reed, then a member, thought that such power did not exist. But investigation of the matter subsequently opened his eyes upon that question. What is the result? He changed his position upon that great rule of parliamentary law, aqd wrote himself down what history, after partisan prejudice and passion shall have passed away, will justify, as one of the greatest pioneers in parliamentary law that ever lived. (Applause.) That was a violation of consistency. I never in any l public utterance of mine condemned Mr. Reed for the position he took on that question, and I never in-
tend to do so; for he was, in my judgment, absolutely correct.” Mr. Hall then announced himself as “the one democrat from the rural districts, west of the Mississippi, in a purely agricultural region, that dares stand up and say that sound money is the salvation of the agricultural and labor* ing classes of this country.” Yes, indeed, Mr. Hall has “progressed” since we knew him in the Alliance, and between the “political cowards,” to use his own words, and the political traitors, the liberties of the people of this country are being crucified.
STILL THEY COME.
Another Democrat Repudiate!* the Grand Old ra^j. Southern Mercury:' Hardly a day passes that does not record the accession to Populist ranks of some leading Democrat or Republican. We are just in receipt of a letter from Hon. W. a Blanks, of Willis Point, Tex., from which we make the following extract: “At one time or ahother in a man’s life he is confronted by a dilemma which calls him to a halt and serious contemplation of which horn he will take. Just such a dilemma is presented for the consideration of every thinking free-silverite in Democratic ranks to-day. The Democratic party is a house divided against itself, a union of dissenting elements, a combination of faiths so politically incompatible that it will be an utter impossibility to harmonize them. The larger faction proclaims with a flourish of trumpets the fidelity to the peculiar doctrine that we may increase our prosperity by adherance to a principle that fair practice has clearly demonstrated is ruinous to our financial success—the gold standard. The other faction is as unyielding, apparently, in its allegiance to the doctrine of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It is a practically demonstrated truism that discrimination against the money of the people deleteriously affects the price of the products of farm and daily labor. Believing in such a doctrine, should I continue with either wing of the Democratic party, or should I turn my back upon them and seek the companionship of the Populist hosts, who are now, and have been since the organization of their party, staunch and unequivocal advocates of that favorite theory of the money-making classes. The majority of the big guns in the Democratic party announce themselves and their party favorable to gold-buggism. If I continue with them and vote their ticket, I implicitly proclaim my belief In that idea, which, believing as I do, would make me a political hypocrite of the first water. It is no more excusable to be a hypocrite in politics than it is to be a hypocrite in religion. On the other hapd, why should I go with the silver wing of Democracy ? What hope have the members of that faction? Frowned upon by the majority of Democratic leaders, hopelessly disorganized, they have, under the name of Democracy, less prospect than any set of wanderers on the political desert. The only reason advanced to me by Democrats that T should remain with them is that they retain the name “Democrats.” The most hopelessly befuddled brain in the lunatic asylum should be enabled to bury that argument beneath an ocean of logic. An examination of the record of the Democratic party, and a dispassionate review of its boasted achievements, but leads us to the conclusion that it can be depended upon to always do the wrong thing at (he critical moment. The result of its labors is but ‘a comedy of errors.’ “I see no reason why I should continue in the stranded ship of Democracy, and so I part company with it and announce myself with the Populist party hereafter, ‘teeth and toenail.’ Yours very truly,.
The Patriots of America.
The Order of the Patriots of America now has lodges in twenty-eight states and is growing rapidly. Its method ig becoming widely endorsed everywhere, especially among the intelligent voters of the country, who see in it an instrument of education that could not se very easily duplicated. Patriotic and jducational organizations we have had. out in name only. With the exception of the Industrial Legion and Alliance they have come and gone by the usual routes chosen by false leaders seeking self-praise and doing no actual work. There is r.o false leadership in the new jrder. It means business, and will fight he battles of the people to a finish. The work of organization is being vigorous y carried on and the grand old spirit >f 1776 is the war cry. The latest is me of the Patriots’ Bulletin, the official ‘rgan of the order, makes the announcpnent that the Silver Knights of Amerca, of which Senator Stewart of Nevada s at the head, have joined the Patriots n a body. The paper also contains »ther cheering news for the populists Ind reformers generally. The bond brokers of London and Xew York never had a better paying latron than Grover Cleveland. He has nortgaged the whole United States to a god for the people to worship vhiie the bankers are picking their Hickets. Congressman U. S. Hall, of Missouri, s reported .as saying that “somebody >n deck ought to anonunce that tjiere is a storm brewing.” Is it possible Jiat Mr. Hall has not read Senator Tillnan's speech. Everything saved out of the wreck of s he democratic party points to the inca>acity of its leaders and their failure •edeem their promise. a i
“W. C. BLANKS.”