People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1896 — Attention Populists. [ARTICLE]

Attention Populists.

Please remember that you are called to meet in precinct caucus on Saturday March 21. to elect a chairman who becomes a member of the county central committee. Do not neglect to attend this meeting, and have a care to elect your very best man for that office. Selecta worker, a man of integrity, ability and character. This is to be a campaign of more than ordinary importance; one in which judicious acts will count for much. Do not weight the party down with impracticable enthusiasts, there are plenty of level-headed men who can put their time and business ability into this work and you must insist upon their putting on the harness.

The White County National is the very appropriate name of a People's party paper published in Monticello by J. C. Smith, the initial number of which was issued yesterday. It is a venture in tlie right direction and merits the best support the Populists of White county can give it. Its editorials are to the point and show a keen insight into the political issues of the times. The Pilot extends a cordial welcome.

In the fight “inside the party,” the white metal democrats, of this state, have scored the first knock down. The efforts of the gold-bug wing of the party to postpone the state convention, at Indianapolis, till after the Chicago convention, completely failed. To all appearances the silver men have things about their own way. Were the democratic state convention to be held to-day it would surely indorse the silver course of Sen ators Voorhees and Turpie, and instruct its delegates to vote for Gov. Matthews who stands with Voorhees and Turpie on the money question. What the outcome of all this will be is hard to tell. The leaders of the Indiana democracy and the rank and tile of the party are beyond question 16 to 1 silver men, but neither their presidential candidate nor their national platform will be silver. The Indiana demoorat who likes crow will vote a gold-bug ticket this fall but the independent voters, the men of the party who have opinions of their own, will eith er winter their votes or join with the Populists.