People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — NOTES AND COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

NOTES AND COMMENT.

What the People Are Saying Thinking and Doing. Silver Dick Bland seems to have put down a stake at the “parting of the ways” and hung out the red lantern of danger. In other words Missouri has gone free silverwards by a ratio of about 100 to 1. The delegation may possibly allow ex-Governor Dave Francis and Riley Hall to sit in the delegation at Chicago for two reasons. First, it would tend to keep them out of mischief, and second, they could be exhibited as relics of the expiring goldstandard element in that State. * * * Arkansas will also send a solid free eilver delegation to Chicago. The canvas between the candidates for Governor in that State is developing the sentiment there to be almost unanimous for free silver. In one county (Yell), in the Democratic primaries, 2,208 votes were cast, and 2,201 were cast for free silver; only seven being cast against it. Not only is Arkansas Democracy espousing the cause of free silver, but its representatives oppose banks of issue, favor government issue of money, and strict railroad control; the candidates for Governor taking this open stand. * * * This being the case, and the trend of many leading Populists, being in the direction of adopting substantially the Same kind of a platform, the Arkansas Democrats don’t understand why the Populists can’t join the Democratic party. In a recent interview with Hon. Dan W. {ones, one of the candidates tor Governor, and the leading one, he eaid the Democrats would nominate a man at Chicago whom the Populists could support, and he thought that they would do so.