People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1896 — Democratic County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Democratic County Convention.

Altgeld and 16 to 1 is to be the slogan of the Illinois Democracy unless all signs fail. Returns from the election in Cuba will begin to come in just as soon as the Spaniards dare to go out into the country districts and get them. A battle royal is in- prospect for the national Democratic convention at Chicago. Both gold bugs and silverites threaten to bolt if are disappointed in platform building. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio are vying for first place as the “pivotal state” in the contest as .to whether free silver or the single gold standard shall rule in the party platforms.—Record. The greatest convention ever held in the world will convene in St. Louis on the 22nd of July, 1896, to declare for the emancipation of man, not tj>e> black man, nor yet the wmte man, but man, the human race. Coxey has been speaking in Texas and the west to overflow houses for several weeks. This is what S. F. Norton’s paper says of him: Mr. Coxey is having the biggest kind of meetings wherever he goes. He draws large crowds, and when he gets them makes them a good speech, as all his Texas associates can testify. The usual rule is that more than half the crowd is turned away. Representative Hatch protests that, though he is a candidate for re-nomination, he is attending strictly to business at his post of duty in Washington, and taking no personal hand in propping up certain proverbial fences. He should have his hired men attend to such odd jobs on rainy days, for it is reported that Congressman Hanley and Judge Crumpacker have considerable stock running at large, and liable to break over into his growing crops.

In the wording of a financial plank the Prohibitionists of Illinois have about covered the ground. It certainly is vastly more than a free silver plank. “We declare that money should consist of gold, silver, and paper and be issued by the government directly to the people, without the intervention of any private individual or corporation, and to be a full legal tender for all debts, both public and private. That the government should not discriminate in favor of gold as against silver, and that its mints should be open upon equal terms to both at the ratio now established by law. We oppose the issuing of government bonds in time of peace.” Governor Boise of lowa has come out flat-footed for free silver at 16 to 1 and will accept an election as delegate- at-large to the National Democratic Convention only on condition that the state convention declares for the white metal. The Governor has a presidential bee in careful training for an emergency. When he accepted his last nomination for reelection to the executive chair in lowa three years ago, he refusod to run on a 16 to 1 platform and was in perfect harmony with Clevelandism. It is said, however, that after being soundly whipped at the polls he bought some books on silver and gave the subject a little study and meditation with the result of the above radical change. Associated press dispatches, of last week, announced that the faculty of Chicago university had barred Eugene V. Debs from speaking before the students, which they had invited him to do some time within the next quarter. It appears that the illustrious labor organizer and orator had been extended a cordial invitation from the oratorical association of the university, and when the members of the faculty had been apprised of the intended visit they imme-

diatelysent out for the repre sentatives of the association and demanded that the invitation be recalled. They declared that Mr. Debs belonged to a dangerous element, and his appearance at the University of Chicago with the sanction of the faculty, would endanger the standing of the institution among the orthodox. The members of the oratorical association, very justly, are inclined to resent the po sition which the faculty has taken, and the outcome is somewhat undecided at present. When the faculty of as supposedly a great institution as Chicago university takes such a foolish and unwarranted stand against the representative of the laboring interests of America, it is time for the patriotic who wish to get a correct and unbiased education, to taboo snch one-sided affairs as the U. of C. The aforesaid institution, it is well known, was established for no other purpose 1 han to instill into the minds of American youths the tyrannical doctrines of the wealthy class, and to forge the chains of oppression more tightly around the common people. Numerous acts of this institution are in evidence of this fact.

The Democratic voters of the various townships will meet in mass convention at their respective voting places Saturday May 16, 1896 and elect delegates to the democratic county convention to be held at Rensselaer, Indiana, Saturday May 23 1896 to nominate a county ticket to be voted for at the November election and to elect delegates to the state and district conventions. The apportionment will be one delegate for each ten votes cast for William R. Meyers at the election of 1890 but one township or precinct shall have less than two delegates. The various townships and precincts are entitled to delegates as follows: Hanging Grove 3 Gilliam 2 Walker 6 Barkle Hwest p preci D 0 ct::::: 1 MARION. Ist 5 2nd 5 3rd 6 4th 7 Jordan 2 Newton 6 Keener * 2 Kaiikakee 6 Wheatfield 6 CARPENTER. East 5 West 3 South 3 Milroy 4 Good speakers will be present. A. Nowels, David Shields, Secretary. Pres.