People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 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 th is state as follows: « Each district under the new apportionment is entitled to two delegates, and the First, Second, Fift'h/and Ninth districts are eacji entitled to additional delegate. on the basis of the vote 'cast for Dr. Robinson 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 caH 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 indicated. 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.

Tell the average republican who is struggling under a burden of debt, that what he needs is a measure of value that is harder to get hold of, and a tax that is harder to pay, and he will think, if he does not say so, that you are a fool. When his party tells him the, same thing but calls it “sound money,” and “protection,” he will accept it as the true gospel of political economy.

Isn’t it a little inconsistent, not to say “cheeky,” in the free silver men in the old parties to appeal to the populists to come over and help them win the fight for silver? Populists are ready and anxious to help you, gentlemen, and will meet you half way, but they can never come to your assistance while ypu remain in the ranks of your enemies. Come out from amons the Philistines and fight them in front, and the victory is certain.

Did you ever stop to think how childish, not to say foolish, is the fear expressed by some that under free coinage the rest of the world would make the United States a dumping ground for their hoards of silver? Is silver something so despised as to be “dumped” upon us without an equivalent in value? Certainly not. Every ounce of silver “dumped” will take its value in our products, which will create a demand for more labor, and that, in time, will increase home consumption and thus a sure way to prosperity will be established.

Dear money and higher faxes is she remedy for hard fimes. So say she admirers of she “advance agenf of prosperity. ” Whaf matters it if the gold standard dollar stretches out over more and more of the products of your labor, year after year? What matters it if the present tariff rates are in most cases twice as high as the labor cost of the goods on which the duties are collected. On the principle that “the hairof the dog is good for the bite,” money must still be made dearer and taxes still higher. David H. Nowels left Sunday evening for a short trip to the northwest. He will visit Minnesota and the Dakotas.