People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — A Utah Recruit. [ARTICLE]

A Utah Recruit.

The Utah Democrat, a free silver democratic paper published at Ogden, Utah, has a clear conception of the political situation, and joins the Peoples party with the following editorial: “The proposed silver party promises nothing but free silver. They have no press save a few sheets that have sprung up in Utah. These obstacles are all overcome in the Peoples party. They have an organization, national and most perfect, with more than 2,000;000 voters at the 1894 election. They have an army of over 3,000 newspapers that are valiently fighting (every one of them) for free silver and other much needed reforms. Besides. this, this party is fast growing. While in every state that held an election this fall the total vote was from 10 to 20 per cent less than the congressional election of 1894. still the Peoples party made clear gains in every state. They gainecjju Nebraska 7,000 votes, in lowa, 20.000 votes, in Ohio 5,000, in Kentucky 15,000, in Kansas we have not the total vote, but they gained 24county officers: in the city of Denver alone they gained 7,000 votes, and in Utah they gained more than 1,000. Looking things squarely in the face, j we believe it better policy to* be ! able to be part of the great young party of the nation than to simply be a tail of the people’s Pfirty kite. That is all the | silver part y could hope to he—|as after the People's part y have | held their convention it would jbe suicidal for a silver party to put a ticket in the field in opposition to them. It would be the very thing the republican party wo : Id want to see done.

“Farther than this, the peo pie's parly deals with tne railroad question and the land monopoly question.' Surely, both of these questions are vital questions for Utah. We are being most unmercifully fleeced in this valley in the matter of freight rates, and land monopolies are fast gobbling up the public domain, and our small farms are fast passing into the hands of the usurer. After looking at these questions fro* every side, we have concluded to unfurl the people’s party banner, nail to our mast head Finance, Transportation, Land, Free Silver and Death to Inter-est-bearing Bonds, and abide by the result.” —Progressive Farmer.