People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 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 this state as follows: Each district under the new apportionment is entitled to two delegates, and the First, Second, Fifth and Ninth districts are each entitled to additional delegate, on the basis of the vote cast for Dr. Kobinson 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 ca'l 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.

Of one thing there is no question the populists will adopt a silver plank that cannot be misunderstood.

With lower prices and the greater purchasing power of tne dollar, takes should be lower. It is true anywhere? We know it is the reverse in Jasper county.

“Great, and splendid and powerful as our government is. it cannot by legislative fiat make fifty cents worth a dollar.” —Candidate for Senator, Fairbanks, at Indianapolis. We never met Mr, Fairbanks, but he is either a durned liar or a blamed fool. The reader excuse the brevity of the above paragraph. During the last dozen years rich gold mines have been discovered throughout the globe. The output of the yellow metal has been unprecedented. There has been no increase demand in the acts. In fact every reason given (except the fiat reason which he laughs at) for the cheapening of silver is a better reason for the cheapening of gold, and to-day the richer powers of the world are coining fifty cents worth of gold into gold dollars. The fifty cents worth of gold is made a hundred by fiat Most of the gold-bugs have said that they were in favor of international coinage of both silver-gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. Now, what is that? , By common consent England France, Germany and the United States declare fifty cents worth of silver a dollar And it is.—Fowler Leader.