People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — People’s Party congressional convention. [ARTICLE]

People’s Party congressional convention.

The chairman of the people’s party central committe of the tenth congressional district will issue next week a call for the district convention to elect delegates to the national convention to be held at St. Louis July 22d. He has decided upon Monon as the place of meeting, it being the most central and accessible point in the district. It is his intention to make it the occasion of a grand rally and have an address by an orator of national reputation, negotiations for which are now in progress’ The railroads have promised half rates and effort will be made to make it the grandest people’s party gathering, in the history of the party in this district 4 It is probable that the date will be decided upon next week and will be in Jnly not later than the 15th. The convention to nominate a candidate for congress will not be called until after the national convention. The Chicago Record’s Indianapolis correspondent was at his old business of undertaking again in yesterdays paper, and for Magnificent transparent fabrication from that proverbial piece of whole cloth the production of his fertile imagination is worthy a prize. This is the way he begins: “The populists of Indiana make the announcement that within the, last ten days an understanding has been reached whereby the populists of every state in the union are to accept the platform and candidate of the Chicago convention in case both are for silver. Leading populists, who do not care to have their names used at this time, say it is likely that the party will be a thing of the past by Aug. 1.” That reads all right to the silver democrat who is figuring on being on top at Chicago, but to the populists, who hold that there are several things vastly more important to the country than their demand for free coinage of silver, would be pleased to know ypho are some of fhese leading populists, that the correspondent is so careful to keep in the dark. This same correspondent announced tne dis : bandment of the Indiana poplists a few weeks ago, giving names of certain jjleailers, but they still seem to be so actively in the populist party that he has to spring a new dodge to deceive the people.