People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — DELEGATES TO ST. LOUIS. [ARTICLE]

DELEGATES TO ST. LOUIS.

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 by 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 cab new ones, 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 indi cated. District chairmen will, under the above instructions, fix such time and place as their respective judgments may indicate. N. T. Butts, [Attest.] Chairman. S. M. Shepard, Secretary. Reform papers will please copy and keep standing. The Omaha platform is none too comprehensive. The trimming of the populist platform should be done with caution. Cleveland in destroying the democratic party has aroused democracy. The people’s party owes all its marvelous growth to the Omaha platform, and its cardinal principles will not be changed. The next issue of the Pilot will contain the full text of Governor Altgeld’s speech at Chica go last Saturday in answer to Secretary Carlisle. The gold standard barrel has been opened and its potent influence is already becoming manifest at the Chicago convention. Let’s see, does any one Ye member whether or not there was a vice president elected about four years ago, and what his name was, and what became of him. Horace Boies is splitting the lowa democracy on the silver issue and a bolting gold bug faction is preparing to send a separate delegation to the Chicago convention. Carlisle’s gold speech recently delivered in Chicago, is now being printed by the tons at government expense and sent free through the mails, a flagrant abuse of the printing privilege. John P. Altgeld, governor ot Illinois addressed 5,000 \people at the auditorium in Chicago last Saturday night. It was a silver speech and the thunders of applause that accompanied his remarks from start to finish was evidence that he was addressing a silver andience. It should make the Hon. John G. Carlisle turn green with envy from comparison with the puny demon stration of approval accorded him on his recent effort from the same platform, in. defense of the gold standard.