People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — Mr. Taubeneck is Sanguine. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Taubeneck is Sanguine.

St. Louis, March 21.—H. E. Taubeneck, chairman of the national executive committee of the people’s party, who has just returned from the Hutchinson, Kan., convention, said in an interview: “I believe we will carry next fall all the territories and a majority of the states of the south and west —Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Nevada. Wyoming, California,.Utah, Oregon, Washington, Kansas, Nebraska, the two Dakotas and, I believe, lowa We have a good fighting chance in Missouri, and are certain of sweeping Texas, and will carry every congressional district in the latter state, with the possible exception of three. In the .south we will carry without question Alabama. Georgia and North and South Carolina. If the union of -forces between the silver advocates and ourselves is as harmqjiious as everything now indicates it will be we ex-1 peetto capture all the states

south of the Ohio and Potomac, rivers, with the possible exception of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee, where the fight will be between us and the republicans . This would leave the republicans sixteen states east of the Mississippi and north of the Potomac, without taking the democrats into the calculation at all. “When the national convention of the people’s party and of the national silver party assembles in St. Louis, speaking as chairman of the national executive committee of the former, I assure you every effort consistent with party honor and every concession not involving a departure from principles will be made to form a coalition between the two organizations. Candidates for the first and second places on the presidential ticket will be selected with reference to their ability to draw votes from all the reform parties in the country and from the dissatisfied among the two old parties as well. Whether our candidate for President will be Stewart or Tillman or Cameron lam' not prepared to say. Jones, of Nevada, is out of the question, because he is not a native of the United States. My individual belief is that our candidate will come from the west or south. The people distrust a man from the east. “While our declaration of party principles will involve an expression in other issues, the financial plank will form the broadest and biggest part of our platform. We demand the fr.ee and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, independent of the action of any other nation.”