People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — Peoples Party News Bureau. [ARTICLE]

Peoples Party News Bureau.

HEADQUARTERS AT ST. LOUIS. J Plutocracy is Alarmed at the Growth of > the Reform Forces. > THE INDEPENDENT VOTER IN THE SADDLE FOR HIS RIGHTS.

The Tenth Congressional Dis- i trict of Missouri in recent con- , vention Brother Shat-j tenger. of St. Louis, the well- i known lecturer, as a delegate ■ to the Natiqnal Convention. Another Populist congress-' man has been seated from North Carolina —C. H. Martin, of the the Sixth Congressional District. Reform editors desiring to secure transportation to attend the St. Louis Convention, July 22nd, on advertising contracts, should make application at once to the General Passenger Agent of the lines over which they wish to travel. Gen. Weave)’ made several speeches in Idaho, enroute to lowa, after the Oregon campaign. The Republican National Con vention held last week in St. Louis, was exceedingly tame and uninteresting. The program throughout, including the balloting, was cut and dried, and the absence of genuine enthusiasm was painfully apparent. There -was no k meeting of the .National Committee of the People's party at St. Louis last week, as given out by the Associated Press. The only thing that could give rise to such a report was tiie presence of a number of Populists in the city, watching the drift, of things in the Republican National Convention, in order to take advantage of republican mistakes. The Press reports indicate the election of Mr. Benoit. Populist, to congress, from the Fifth Louisiana District, on the 9th inst.. to fill a vacancy. With all the bolting and talk of bolting in the other political organization, there is a manifest disposition for harmony in the Populist ranks. Our people are ..earning the lesson that in ”union there is strength." The Populists of the Fiftieth Missouri District held a rousing convention at Lamar, on the 13th inst., and selected four strong delegates to the' National Convention. The Omaha platform was re affirmed with rhe Initiative and i’t f rendum added. . T/he Populists of South Caro lina are or gaul zi u g cl ab s throughout the state preparatory to the real work of the, campaign. Reports from Georgia show an unusually active cunditiou among the Populists of that state. With a free ballot and a fair count. Georgia is ours this year. Tiie following are the names of delegates chosen to the National Convention from tee S xth Missouri DWri—-W D. Atkeson. E W. L nigt'e : >v. Jno. K ! Byers an I I. I M w : o J. H M‘.Di.vtT, mtnbn’ of'

: the People's Party National {Committee for Tennessee, has { been elected Sergeant-at-Arms. Ito take charge of the hall and : arrange the details for the : People’s Party National Conven- ' tion, to be held in St. Louis on July 22nd. He will have charge of an Information Bureau at headquarters for the purpose of locating the different state deleI gations who have not already secured quarters, also making arrangements for reduced railroad fares including special tram service for those desiring to come to the Convention in large bodies, the printing and distribution of the tickets for the Convention, the provision of badges for the delegates and visitors, arranging of details in the Convention Hall including : the seat of slate delegations and visitors and providing quarters i for the press representatives. All State, County and Local Committees and members of the party everywhere, are urged to i organize clubs to bring as many ; people to the convention as possible. especially from the states : within two hundred miles of St. Louis. Tickets to the convention will be furnished to the edit tors of all reform papers attending the convention and they are requested to do all in their power to their convention a ! grand success, by assisting to bring as many Populists to St. i Louis as possible. All letters’ which refer to the details of the convention should be addressed to Hon. J. H. McDowell, Room 525. Commercial Building, St. Louis, Mo. The reform Press Associat ion . will hold an important meeting ■ in St. Louis June 20th, just prior II to the National Convention, i which, promises to be largely attended. A. A. Carnahan, of Concordia, • Kas . writes that "Kansas will be at St. Louis like on a/ Fourth of July. Give us a short and sweet platform and a clean candidate and take our electoral vote. Regarding state issues in Gebrgia. W. E. Smith, of Attapulgus. "writes “It is a notorious ; that the democrats will steal I anything from the best plank of i the Populist platform to a dead i negro's vote. therefore the ■ I strongest plank in our State I Platform will be a free ballot and a fair count.' Owing to acceptance of the duties of Sergeant-at-arins of the People's Party National Convention. .1. 11, McDowell has been compelled to cancel dates ■ for a two weeks’ stumping Hour : in Arkansas./ ' J. Odum,, of Lowe, N. C.,

{writes that two-thirds of the voters of that section will vote ; the people's party ticket. State Chairman Young, of Oregon,writes that it is probable >hat. four populist members elected to t-be legislature will be counted out by the repulican election officers as well as both Congressmen and the chances are of even others being defeated in the same manner. He , adds, "I am not advised as to whether or not Quinn and Vanderberg will contest the seats of Ellis and Tongue.” He hopes they will. The work in Oregon was accomplished by an e’xpen diture of less than $600.00. J. L. Pate, of Swansboro, N. C., informs the National Committee that in his state, or in his section of the state, at least, nearly all the populists favor a protective tariff. Oscar Parker, secretary of the people's party of Georgia, writes “We are marching straight to a great victory in Georgia this year. The result in Oregon is having a remarkably good effect. The declaration of the Georgia democrats in iavor of free coinage will have no effect upon the populist voters who are already in the majority in the state." L. C. Bateman, candidate for governor of Maine, predicts that two or three speakers of national fame will secuie 20,0CX) votes to the populist party in that state. The election will be held in September. W. S. Morgan is now systematically stumping in Arkansas. “Cyclone” Davis began work in the state June 20.

Bob Schilling, the irrepressible member of the national committee from Wisconsin says the populists will carry Milwaukee at the coming election over the combined opposition, and Bob is not in the habit, of talking through his hat” either. The National Reform Party will meet in conference with the National Committee of the people’s party in St. Louis the day preceding the latter party’s convention. The Nationalist party, led by John P. St. John, has also been invited to the conference, but has not replied. The conference has been arranged wholly upon the request of the National Reform party. Accessions to t.he populist’s ranks from the free silver republicans are reported daily, in almost every state in the union. It is a notable fact that little discussion has thus far been heard throughout the country regarding candidates for presidential *<.d vice-presidential nominations, by the Populist National Convention. The peo pie are evidently trusting to the logic of events to bring ’ forth their standard bearers. It is two whole weeks now since a fake report was started at Indianapolis, calculated to injure the people’s party. The fakirs trolley must be off the track somewhere. Minnesota is one of the states from whence comes reports of the greatestgains to the people's party. Late news regarding the worl< of organization 'is

especially encouraging.

A. R.