People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1896 — DELEGATES TO ST. LOUS. [ARTICLE]

DELEGATES TO ST. LOUS.

Call to Indiana Populists Authorizing Their Selection. To the Voters of the People’s Party. Under the call of the Peoples party. Indiana is entitled to thirty delegates to the national convention. The state central committee by virtue of the authority vested in it bv the national committee have apportioned the delegates among the several districts of this state as follows: Each district under the new apportionment is entitled to two delegates, and the First, Second, Fifth and Ninth districts are each entitled to additional delegate. on the basis of the vote cast for Dr. Kobinson for secretary of state. The Seventh district having already selected two delegates at its district convention, the action of said district, and any other districts having taken similar action, has been approved by the state committee. The basis of representation to the district convention will be the same as for district conventions under last call. District committeemen are authorized to reconvene their district conventions, or oa'l new’ one.>. for the selection of national delegates. Under the foregoing apportionment there will be no delegates at large, as it was thought best to apportion all among the several districts as above indicated. District chairmen will, under the above instructions, fix such time and place as their respective judgments may indicate. N. T. Butts, 1 Attest. J Chairman. S. M. Shepard, Secretary. Reform papers will please copy and keep standing.

Same old story, another bond is.sue. And still the grand gold standard times produce their bountiful crop of failures. If you want higher priced corn and beef, make more dol-lars--that means free silver and greenbacks. ’ The Sunday papers announce the probable necessity of, another bond issue before the summer is over. The cheap silver dollar will pay just as big a debt, just as much.of your taxes, and just as much of the officeholders salary as the gold dollar will, and -the greenbacks will do the same. High priced dollars for the money loaner —don’t blame him. it is to his interest—low priced dollars for the man in debt—and don’t blame any one but yourself if you don’t try to get them. If you want high priced dollars make them scarce, same as you have ’em now. If you w T ant them higher priced, make them scarcer, same as the old parties are planning to give you.

The government could employ one million men upon the highways, or other pubiic improvements, three hundred days per year for ten years, at the daily wage of $1.66f, payment to be made in new issues of legal tender paper money, and it would then lack sl7 per capita of hav ing as much money in circulation as it had at the close Of the civil war. If the government could maintain a million men in the terrible destruction of war and prosper, what would be the result if all men now idle could be employed in public improvements. The answer seems plain.