People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — Peoples Party News Bureau. [ARTICLE]

Peoples Party News Bureau.

The Skirmish Line. Populists prepare for Battle. Convention Votes. Colorado Republican Bolt, Goldbugs Will Control Both the Old Parties.

Peoples Party News Bureau., ) Headquarters National Ex. Committee > St. Louis. Mo.. May2l. j Gen. Alger, the republican millionaire of Michigan, has interviewed McKinley and pronounces him a sound goldbug. This will be comforting news to the free silver voters in the republican party, no doubt. The Arkansaw Gazette, the leading democratic newspaper of Arkansas and a gold standard ad vocate, has recently changed hands and will be made an independent free silver paper. Senator Teller, of Colorado, reiterates-that under n© circumstances will he support a gold man for the presidency Congressman Cockrell, of Texas, is out in a red hot letter, scoring the gold bugs and predicting dire disaster to the democracy if a -‘sound money” platform is adopted at Chicago. Chairman Parker, of Kentucky is useing every legitimate means to induce free coinage democrats and republicans to unite with the people’s party. The Bland boom, launched by the democrats of Missouri, has gone glimmering. The populists could not be caught with that kind of bait. Populist publishers and committeemen can favor this Bureau by sending in important, up to date news—not editorial dissertations. Secretary Carlisle has been notified by the Senate Finance Committee of the passage of the Peffer bond investigation resolution and asked if he desired to be heard. He replied that he did but asked for time to prepare a report. The Secretary is too busy jdst now setting up the pins for the gold bugs to attend to his official duties. The prohibitionists of Missouri in state convention voted down a free coinage resolution. The result will be more votes for the people’s party iu Missouri. Coniplete information regarding hotel and railroad rates for the national convention on July 22 will be furnished by this Bureau at an early date. The new hall for the national republican convention, in which the people’s party convention will also be held, is rapidly nearing completion. The populists of Sumner coun ty, Kansas, recently in convention passed a resolution recommending to the populists of Kansas the name of Judge Hyman Naugle, the able editor of the

Wellington Voice, as a candidate for the office of secretary of state. The central committee unanimously decided that the people’s party in Johnson county, Missouri. should nominate candidates and put out a complete ticket in the county, composed of populists. Democratic and republican papers are publishing many garbled and fake interviews with populist leaders. Gen. Weaver’s name has been used in some instances in the place of Gen. Warner, which put Gen. Weaver in a very compromising position. The populists thronghout the United States must remember that we have no way of protecting ourselves from the misrepresentations of the old party papers. We have no corrtrol over their columns and populists must be careful in what they accept from published interviews. Very seldom do they report a populist correctly. We make this statement now because, as the time for the campaign approaches these misrepresentations will be increased ih order to sow discord in our ranks. Populists should therefore be very slow in accepting published interviews by the daily press. William P. St. John, the only free silver New York banker, insists on the most radical reform measures—the initiative and referendum, the free, unlimited and unconditional coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1. He also advocates the immediate issue of $300,000,000 of paper money. The populists of Obion county. Tennessee, have endorsed the candidacy of J. H. McDowell for congress. The people’s party club of Stanberry, Missouri, invites any speaker in Gentry county, of either the democratic or republican party, to publicly discuss the issues of the day with members of said club. The free silver democrats of Nebraska are pretty well along the road of populism. Their state platform declares not only for free coinage, the income tax and election of senators by a direct vote, but also for the initiative and referendum. The Kentucky people’s party state committee met at Hotel Enterprise, Louisville, Kentucky, May 12. They issued a call for a state convention to elect dele gates to the national convention to be held at Paducah, Kentucky, July 20. The committee also issued a strong address favoring a union with all the discontented elements throughout the United States who favor monetary reform and direct legislation, and in the strongest language advised all populists not to vote in the democratic primaries in that state. The address is one of the