People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — Favors Late Conventions. [ARTICLE]

Favors Late Conventions.

Maj. Page of Virginia, national president of the Farmer’s Alliance, and member from that state of the people’s party national committee, writes: “I am decidedly of the opinion that the people’s party should not hold their district conventions to nominate congressmen, nor should an electoral ticket be put in the field until after the national conventions held in July at St. Louis, and the actions of the silver republicans and democrats have been ascertained as to the formation of a joint ticket for president and vice-president. By this delay the claims of the people’s party can bp presented to the voters much more successfully, as we will be able to show that we are actuated solely with a view to the interest of the people and the prosperity of the country. We should see to it that the financial question is kept prominently before the people in the coming campaign, for unless we. achieve victory in the line of our financial demands it will be impossible for us to gain any substantial advantage. So anxious am I to see this great and productive country regain its prosperity and independence, that we, as true American citizens and faithful representatives of the people, should not allow party to .dictate or bind us, when by a united effort on the part of all true lovers of our country and its cause, we can win a substantial victory and free ourselves from the dominating influence and control of English and European financiers.”