People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Mr. Bland Is a Candidate. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Bland Is a Candidate.

St. Louis, Mo., Special: Although exGovernor Boies, of lowa, will, as a presidential candidate, go at the head of his state delegation to Chicago, “Silver Dick” Bland will not attend the convention. James Bradshaw, of Lebanon, one of Mr. Bland’s closest friends in the state, in speaking of the convention outlook, said: “It is true that Mr. Bland was unwilling to have personalities injected into the campaign which might react against the cause of silver. He diet not want it said that Missouri was interested in the success of a presidential candidate rather than the success of 16 to 1 silver coinage. Bu» It can be stated now with positiveness that Mr. Bland is a candidate for the presidency, since it has been practically assured that silver will win at Chicago.”