People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — HEY YE POPULISTS! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HEY YE POPULISTS!

DEMOCRATS AT LAST COMING TO THEIR SENSES. About to Seise the Principal Plank of Our Platform —Will the Party Shake Off Clevelandistn at Chicago—Will Be Lively Bolting. Over two months ago, Walter Wellman, the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Times-Herald, write that paper: “President Cleveland, lam able to say on competent evidence, believes it would be better for the democratic party to take a gold standard position on the money question and lose the election than declare for free coinage and win it." On the 15th of April the Washington correspondent of the Evening Post, of New York, telegraphed this paper that, in case the silver men control the Chicago convention, and declare for the free coinage of the white metal, “there will be a wholesale administration bolt of the regular democratic ticket, beginning with the president.” It will be remembered that, more than a year ago, Secretary Carlisle declared he would oppose the election of ,a free silver man to the presidency should one be nominated. A year prior to this declaration of the secretary of the treasury. Secretary Morton, of Nebraska, headed a bolt from the regular democratic organization in his state, and has recently caused to be elected a contesting goldbug delegation to the Chicago convention to antagonize the free silver delegation headed by Mr. Bryan. In Texas, the gold standard democrats are preparing to send a contesting delegation from that state while, even in Colorado, with its overwhelming free silver sentiment, the chairman of the democratic central committee of that state, a Cleveland office-holder, threatens to head a contesting delegation. There are symptoms of similar movements in other states. The national committee, as at present composed, is in the hands of the gold standard men, who will have the make-up of the temporary roll of the convention. Carrying out the administration plan, they will be expected to recognize these bolting delegations. When they do that, a fight will be precipitated in the convention, before any permanent organization is effected, the result of which may lead to disruption. Should the gold-bug wing of the democracy attempt to carry out this program—and it Is the only way they can hope to control even the temporary organization—ought the silver men to submit to It? Who are the bolters anyway? Cleveland bolted the action of the New York state convention in 1892 and was foisted upon the national convention against the protests of the delegates from his own state. Secretary Carlisle and his friends in Kentucky bolted the ticket put out by the democrats of Kentucy headed by Gen. Hardin for governor, and followed it up by refusing to support the caticus nominee, the Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn, for the United States senate. Secretary Morton bolted the convention of his party in Nebraska in 1894 and still keeps up an independent organization. Shall these bolters be permitted, through the means at their command, to obtain control of the national convention to convene in Chicago in July? We think we voice the sentiment of the democratic legions of the country in an overwhelming No!—Ark. Gazette.

□ New Presbyterian Church, Rensselaer, Ind., Dedicated Sunday, May 31, 181)6.