People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — Free-silver Resolution Tabled. [ARTICLE]

Free-silver Resolution Tabled.

Roanoke, Va., April 1. —The state prohibition convention met here Tuesday. A strong prohibition platform was adopted. A resolution in favor of free silver coinage was tabled. Speeches were made by Samuel Dickie, of Michigan, chairman of the national prohibition committee, and ex-Governor St. John of Kansas.