People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1896 — Peoples Party News Bureau. [ARTICLE]

Peoples Party News Bureau.

HEADQUARTERS AT ST. LOUIS. . Plutocracy is Alarmed at the Growth of j the Reform Forces. j THI INDEPENDENT VOTIR IK THI j BJKDDLrE FOR HIS RIGHTS. J

The result of the republican national convention is before the country. It is the first time that any party in the Unitea States has made An unequivocal declaration in favor of the gold standard. The republicans have abandoned the West and hope to make good their loss in that section by securing the support of border states like Kentuckey, and West Virginia. They cannot depend upon a single state west of the Mississippi, river. All these states, from now on, belong in the Populist column. The address recently issued by the bolting republicans was followed by a similar address by a number of representative Populists from the Mississippi Valley states who had gathered at St. Louis during the republican national convention. The address outlines the opportunity for a union of all the forces opposed to the gold standard and expresses the individual opinion of its signers as to the duty of Populists under existing conditions. Cyclone Davis is campaigning in Arkansas at present. His meetings are largely attended and many free siiver democrats are-being converted to Populism. Capt. C. A. Power, one of the most effective speakers in the reform ranks, can be secured for a list of Western or Southern appointments on very reasonable terms. Applications should be addressed to him at Terre Haute, Indiana. Dr. J. J. Mott, chairman of the national executive committee of the free silver party has established head-quarters at the Lindell hotel in St. Louis, preparatory to arranging for the silver convention July 22. E. Taylor, of Edwardsville, Kans., a delegate to the national convention of the People’s party, "writes: ‘ ‘There will be one vote in that convention for a union of all the anti-gold forces, under Teller or someone else.” Chas. E. Palmer, writing from Pittsfield, 111., says: “There is trouble in the republican camp. If this locality is an indication of the feeling elsewhere the stampede to Teller will be a sight fit for the Gods to wituess. Tho business tnen are coming our way and I feel very much encouraged.” H. L. Brian, chairman of the Louisiana state committe, reports that the Peoples party trippled its vote in that state at the recent election. Wm. P. Huddleston, of Arkansas, says that state is opposed to Bourbon democracy, if the voice of the people could be heard. The people are oppressed financially, which makes it hard to inaugurate a lively campaign. But, notwithstanding all drawbacks, the cause of reform is making rapid growth in that state.

It is authoratively reported Pierpont Morgan, conspicuous in the late bond deals has recently beerrto Europe to secure funds to carry on a political campaign in America—for the gold power of cqprse. The People’s party of Eureka Springs, Ark., passed resolutions last week endorsing the action of Senator Teller in bolting the republican party and pledging their support in case of his nomination by our party at St. Louis. Editor M. E. Dittman, of the Redding. California, Searchlight, says; “I consider the bureau news letter excellent and of great value in showing the growth of reform all over the country. Old party “heelers” say we are dead, but the remarkable exhibition given by the corpse in Oregon will do much to help us carry California in the fall.”

There are nineteen straightout Populists in the Louisiana legislature. Andrew E. Lee, of Clay county, S. D., who was strongly spoken of as a possible Populist nominee for governor, has declined to make the race, owing to entanglements of private business. Delegates from Michigan to the Free Silvor convention at St. Louis will be chosen by mass convention at Lansing. The purpose of the convention is also announced to be the completion of the organization of a free silver party in Michigan. It is expected that when the right time comes Mayor Pingree will be found at the head of the new party. During June Kansas was pretty thoroughly stumped by J. S. Coxey. Leo Vincent and F. S. Pulliam are being urged by the Oklahoma papers as deserving of the .Peoples party nomination for congress. Ten prohibitionists in one township near Lyndon, Kan., have announced themselves as Populists since the split in their national convention. Populists and democrats of •the Second congresssional district of Kansas have united on M. S. Peters, a firm Populist, as candidate for congress. Populists of the Fifth congressional district of Illino i s have instructed their delegates to place Eugene V. Debs in nomination for president and to /‘vote for him first, last and all the time.” C. O. Sherman, organizer of the American railway union, was nominated fpr congress by acclamation. George M. Munger is the favorite of the Populists of Greenwood county, Kan., for governor. The Eureka, (Kan.) Union is dead set upon the Populists 'nominating Judge Caldwell. The Populists of Gentry county, Mo. , voted to place a plank urging direct legislation at the hand of the national platform. Populists in Washington evidently believe in the referen dum. M. P. Bulger, chairman of the state central committee, has submitted to a vote the questions as to when and where the next state convention shall be held and determining what are the “fundamental principles of

the Omaha platform.”

A. R.