People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — GOV. BOIES AND FREE SILVER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOV. BOIES AND FREE SILVER.

l“wa Democrats to Give the Money Question a l’.-»t Vote. Ottumwa, lowa, April 7.—Ex-Gov. Boies has consented to go to Chicago as as a delegate-at-large from lowa if the Dubuque platform declares for free silver. This is practically the first move to secure the democratic nomination for president for Mr. Boies. His answer to a letter sent him requesting him to run is a tacit admission that he will accept the nomination if tendered him. He says: “I am in full accord with your view that some plan should be adopted by which, as nearly as practical, a full and explicit showing of the sentiment of a majority of the democratic party In our state upoa the question of currency reform, and especially upon the question of the free coinage of silver as money of final redemption, may be had; and, inasmuch as I am now unable

to suggest a method by which we would be more likely to accomplish that end than the one suggested in your letter, I have concluded to adopt your suggestion apd allow the use of my name as a candidate for delegate-at-large to the Chicago convention; with the under-/ standing, however, that if our state convention at Dubuque, by resolution or otherwise, approved of our present financial policy I will not be expected to serve.” The letter sent him signed by C. A. Walsh and E. W. Curry of the democratic state central committee and hundreds of prominent democrats hints of a bolt if the convention declares for gold.

HORACE BOIES, IOWA.