People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — Struck an Idea. [ARTICLE]

Struck an Idea.

Read Altgeld’s reply to Carlisle’s Chicago speech in this paper.’ A fair count would give every southern state to the Populists to-day. Read the Pilot's letter from People’s party headquarters and know how the great reform work is progressing. In another place is a notice of People's party convention souvenir, headed, "Struck an Idea." It is the product of Bob Schilling’s fertile brain. There is no longer a shadow of doubt that the Republicans will put up a gold standard at St. Louis. What the Democrats will d-> at Chicago remains to be developed. Dunn’s report gives us the cheering news that times never were so bad; that there are more failures now than ever before, and no prospect of that myth, Confidence, putting in an appearance very soon. If you have a German neighbor ask him to subscribe for Robert Schilling’s great German People’s party paper, the National Reformer, ten cents for two months. See the notice elsewheje in this paper.

The People’s party candidate for governor of Louisiana, J. L. Parr, was elected on the 21st of April, and though enormous democratic fraud characterized the counting of the ballots, he says he will be inauguerated on the second Tuesday in May.

Congress has at last recognized the proof of fraud by w’hich Cobb of Alabama held his seat, and given his place to the legally elected Populist. The same fraud that counted out Populist congressmen, also counted out a Populist governor.

Every sane man knows that Cleveland called his extra ses-’ sion of Congress in the summer of 1893 because there was a financial crisis in the country. No one will deny that he promised an immediate return to prosperity if the Sherman law was repealed. It is evident that he was not a wise prophet, or was ignorant of the cause of the famine, or was deceiving the people. The law was repealed and times have steadily grown worse. But it makes us blush with shame to see our free silver Republican friends throw the responsibility of repeal on the Democratic party. A majority of that par:.\ in both houses of congress voted against repeal, and the measure w r as only carried by the almost unanimous rally of the Republicans to the support of the gold standard president. Give the devil his due.

Suppose some one had struck the idea of issuing a souvenir of the convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln—such a book would be wotth 1100 now. Robert Schilling conceived the idea of publishing a souvenir of the coming national People’s party convention and has received the official sanction of the national executive committee for that purpose. The book will be a fine work of art and contain a history of the various movements that culminated in the People’s party. Some of the most eminent men of the nation will be contributors, among them H. E. Taubeneck, Col. W. H. Harvey, author of Coin’s Financial School, Robert Schilling and others. Active workers who would like to have their portraits inserted should write before May 10, to Robert Schilling, Milwaukee, Wis.