People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Page 4

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National People’s Party Ticket

For President, WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President, THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. Indiana State People’s Party Ticket Governor, REV. THOMAS WADE WORTH, Ragles ville. Lieutenant-Governor, A. P. HANNA, Wayeland. Secretary of State, N. M. JENNINGS, Franklin. Treasurer of State, F. J. S. ROBINSON, Cloverland. • Attorney-General, D. H. FERNANDEZ, Anderson. Reporter of the Supreme Court, THOMAS FORCE, Loogootee'. State Statistian, J. S. McKEVEVER, Third District. Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. FREEMAN, Guy. Judges of the Appellate Court, NELSON J. BOZARTH, Valparaiso; ADAM STOCKINGER, Versailles; I. I. PIERCE, Terre Haute; JOHN TORNBURG, Anderson.

THE PLATFORM.

The peoples party, assembled in National convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles declared by the founders of the republic, and also to the fundamental principles of just goverment, as enunciated in the platforui of the party in 1892. We recognize that through the eonnivance of the present and preceding Administrations the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our declaration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the supreme duty of the hour. We realize that while we have political independence our financial and industrial independence is j yet to be attained by restoring to our ' country the constitutional control and | exercise of the functions necessa'ry to a i people's goverment, which functions have been basely surrendered by our public servants to corporate monopelies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legislation than the voice of the American people, Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our Legislatures and defeat the will of the people and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democracy. To restore the Government intended by the fathers, and for the welfare and prosperity of this and future generations we de nand the establishment of an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs, and independent of European control by the adoption of the following declaration of principles. FINANCE. 1. demand a national money, safe and sound, issued by the general Government only, without the intervention of banks of issue, to be a full lega 1 tender for all debts, public and private; a just, equitable and efficent means of distribution direct, to the people and through the lawful disbursement of the Government. 2. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent of foreign nations. 3. We demand the volume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficent to meet the demands of the business and population of this country, and to restore the just leuel of prices of labor and production. 4. We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the public interstbearing debt made by the present Administration as unnecessary and without authority of law, and that no more bonds be issued except by specific act of Congress. 5. We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by private contract. 6. We demand that the Government, itspayment of its obligations, shall use in option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preceding Administrations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligations. 7. We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the recent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the income tax law as a misinterpretation of the Constitution and an invasion of the right, ful powers of Congress over the subject of taxation. 8. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the Government for the safe deposit of the savings of the people and to facilitate exchange. TRANSPORTATION.

1. Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the Government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people and on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be acorded the same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny and political power now exercised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment, if not the destruction, of the political rights and personal liberties of tne citizens, may be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in emariner consistent with sound public policy. 2. The interest of the united States, in the public highways built with public monevTs and the proceeds of extensive grams of land to the Pacific railroads, should never be alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and prbtectedF for .the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United

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Congressional Convention.

A convention of the Peoples Party of the tenth congressional district of Indiaaa is hereby called to meet in delegate convention at Monon, Ind., on Thursday, September 3, 1896, at eleven o’clock a. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress, and transacting any other business which may properly come before the convention. Said congressional convention to be composed Ciof one delegate from each township and one additional delegate for each fifty votes cast for Dr. Robinson for secretary of state, which will entitle the several counties to representation as follows: Benton 12, Jasper 24, Lake 19, LaPorte 23, Newton 13, Porter 15, Tippecanoe 16. Warren 13, White 16. F. D. Craig. Chairman Central Committee P. P. 10th Congressional District of Indiana.

States on these roads should at snee follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the Government shall purchase the same if it becomes necessary to protect its interests therein, or if they can be purchased at a aeasonable price; and the Goverment shall operate said railroads as public highways for the bentit of the whole people and not in the interest of the few under suitable provisions for protection of life and property, giving to all transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freightn. 3. We denounce the present infamous schemes for refunding these debts, and demand that the laws now applicable thereto be executed and administered according to their true intent and spirit. 4. The telegraph, like the Post Office system, being a necessity fer the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the Goverment in the interest of the people. LAND.

1. The true policy demands that the national and State legislation shall be such as will ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a home, and that land should not be monopolized for speculative purposes. All lands now held by railroads and otner corporations in excess of their actual needs should by lawful means be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers, and private land monopo ly, as well as alien ownership, should be prohibited. , 2. We condemn the frauds by which the land grant Pacific railroad com panies have, through the conivance of the Interior Department, robbed multitudes of actual bonafide settlers of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demard legislation by Congress which will enforce the exemption of mineral land from such grants, after as well as before patent. 3. We demand that bona tide settlers on all public lands be granted free homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the case of Indian reservations when opened for settlement, and that all lands that are not now patented come under this demand. DIRECT LAOISLATION. We favor a system of direct legislation through the initiative and referendum under open constitutional safeguards. GENERAL PROPOSITIONS. 1. We demand the election of President, Vice President and United States Senators by a direct vote Df the people. 2. We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their heroic struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United States, the great republic of the wourld, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be a free and independent State. 3. We favor home rule in the Territories and the District of Columbia and the early admission of the Territories as States. 4. All public silaries should be made to correspond to the price of labor and its products. 5. In times of great industrial depression idle labor should be employed on public works as far as practicable. 6. The arbitrary course of the courts in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injunction should be prevented by proper legislation. 7. We favor just pensions for our disabled Union soldiers 8. Believing that the elective franchise and untrammeled ballot are essential to a government for and by the people, the People’s party condemn the wholesale system of disfranchisement adopted in some of the States as unrepublican and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the v duty of the several State Legislatures to take such action as will secure a full, free and fair ballot and an honest count. 9. While the foregoing propositions constitute the platform on which our party stands, and for the vindication of which its organization will be maintained, we|recognize that the great and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon which the present presidential I election will turn is the financial question. And upon this great and specific issue between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organizations and citizens agreeing with us upon this vital question. I

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1896.

Jasper County Convention.

Voters of the People’s Party will meet in copvention at their usual places of meeting in the several townships of Jasper County, Ind., Saturday, Aug. 29, 1896, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the district convention to be held at Monon, Sept. 3, 1896. Under the call. Jasper County is entitled to twenty-four delegates, being one at large from each township, and one for each fifty or major fraction of fifty votes cast for Dr. Robinson for Sec. of State in 1894. By this apportionment the different townships are entitled to delegates as follhws: Hanging Grove l Gillam 2 Walker, l Barkley, 2 Marion, 3 Jordan, 3 Newton, l Keener, 2 Kankakee, l Carpenter, 3 Milroy, l Union ; 3 Wheatfield l The district convention at Monon will nominate a candidate for congress for the tenth district and transact any other business which way properly come before the meeting. Let every voter see to it., that he is properly represented at these meetings.' J. A. McFarland, Chairman Co. Cen. Co. L. Strong, Sec.

Was Silver Demonetized In ’73?

The assertion has been freely made on the street in Rensselaer for several days past that the act of Feb. 12, 1873, did not demonetize silver dollars already coined. That law not only suspended the coinage of the standard silver dollar, but it absolutely demonetized all silver coin in sums exceeding five dollars. See section 15, page 37, Coinage Laws of the United States, the following is the wording of the legal tender clause; “The silver coins of the United States shall be a legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding five dollars in any one payment.” We would suggest to our gold standard friends that they compare the literature upon which they base their arguments with the laws published by the government itself.

The silver dollar has always contained 371£ grains of pure silver.

Herr Most advises his anarchist followers to vote for McKinley and the gold standard.

A reward has been offered for finding the law that requires the maintainance of a gold reserve.

The silver dollar was made the unit of value April 2, 1792, and so remained until Feb. 12, 1873.

The gold dollar was first authorized to be coined by act of March 3, 1849, “each to be of the value of one dollar, or unit.”

371 i grains of fine coined silver was made the unit of value in 1792; Washington, Jefferson, et. al. were the legislators of that day.

The credit strengthening act became a law in 1869, at that time the United States was paying its debts, and needed no credi nor credit strengthening.

A thing is always worth what it will bring, and a gold monometalist will not take less than one hundred cents for his so called fifty cent dollar.

A gold dollar when measured by itself, will always be worth one hundred cents because the law says it shall be; and the law has the same effect on any other material.

i Turkey is the sick man of Europe; it has been taking the British gold cure treatment for several years, in consequence of

,which the Turkish rug manufacturing business has been transfered to England and the Turks have gone into the busi-' ness of murdering their Armenian neighbors.

In 1873 twenty-five and eighttenths grains of gold was made the unit of value; John Sherman of Ohio and Earnest Seyde of London had much to do with legislation in 1873.

Alabama populists have once more fallen under the vicious counting methods of the Bourbon democracy. Significant is the fact that the populists carried everything except the celebrated “black belt”.

The law that deprived the trade dollar of its legal tender quality was an ex post facto law; and it accomplished its purpose of enabling the money changers to make twenty cents on each dollar that they had hoarded.

While silver standard Mexico is making more rapid advances on the line of civilization than any people on earth, gold basis Egypt is sinking deeper and deeper into barbarism and gold bonds.

A trade dollar of 420 grains of silver nine-tenths fine, was substituted for the standard 412£ grain dollar, and the legal tender quality of all silver limited to $5 in 1873. This trade dollar was demonerized, by sloping its coinage, and depriying it of legal tender quality in 1876.

Suppose you duop a card in the postoffice with the addresses of some of your friends on one side and the Pilot on the other; they will thereby get a copy of a paper that possibly they will desire to stick to, just as it is bound to stick to you aDd to them.

PORK THE FEATURE.

THE RULING MARKET AT CHICAGO. Opened Strong, Sustained a Sh-ir; llreak. Then Rallied Some wlmi- tv • • Busier at a Slight Decline C.or Firmer —In Wall Street. Chicago, Aug. 5. —September iv. .. closed at 58%c, September co*u ~ 25%c, September oats at 18%c. September pork at $6.80, September lard at $3.47% and September r.os a 13.57%. The interest of operators again centered largely in the provision pit, where the transactions in pork were enormoui and the excitement at fever heat, wiu the fluctuations wide and sharp. Before noon the fluctuations in September pork had covered a range of $1.25 per barrel. At the start September sold from $7.45 to $7.60, but quickly fell to $7 .00. Shorts were active buyers early and there was a good deal taken tor the long account. But the country longs, finding a good profit in the.r favor, sent in selling orders and as soon as the selling oecame noticeable tne local professionals started to unload and the market turned very weak. In this condition Baldwin inaugurated a raid and the crash commenced. Stoploss orders were reached and more s.utf came out, and it took scarcely five minutes to carry the price from $7.25 to $6.85, there being sometimes a drop of 25c between sales. September reacted to $6.95 and was $6.85 at noon, or 4oc lower than it closed yesterday. The market seems to have every evidence of manipulation. January pork sold to $7.60 —the same as September— but did not sell below $7.20 on the drop in September. September lard has ranged at $3.35 to $3.42% and September riba up to $3.70 and off to $3.50. The market kept feverish during the closing hour, but September pork went below the close yesterday, with January higher.

Wheat was higher early, on the firm cables, the lighter receipts and the excited advance in pork at the start, but broke later on the fair weather and the drop in the pork pit. September sold early at 58%c to 5994 c, then started off and sold to 5894 c, but at noon was 58i4c. December sold up to 61%c, off to 60%c, and at noon was about 6J94. The market held very steady during the last hour and featureless as well, September selling at 5894c@5894c, with the bulk of Che trading at 5896 c. December kept at 60%@60%c, with the bulk of the business at 6094 c. Corn was stronger early, but lost much of tbs advance later. It was helped some by wheat and pork, but more by the continued reports of damage by hot winds in Kansas, September sold from 2594 c to 2594 c, oft to 25c, and at noon was 2594 c. May sold up to 2S%c, fell to 2894(0i2894c split and at noon waa 2894 c. The market held

steady during the last hour at 25%@ 25%c for September and 28%@28%c for May. Closing quotations were:

—Closing— Articles— High. Low. Aug.s. Aug. 4. Wheat— Aug. ..| .58% | .57% $ .57% | .58 Sept. . .59% .58% .58% .58% Dec. .. .61% .60% .60% .61 Corn — fug 24% .24% Sept. . .25% .25 .25% .25% Dec. .. .26% .25% .26% .25% May .. .29 .28% .28% .28% Oats — Aug. 17% .17% Sept . .18% .18 .18% .18% May .. .20% .20% .20% .20% Pork— Aug 6.80 7.20 Sept. . 7.65 6.35 6.85 7.25 Oct.. .. 6.75 6.20 6.40 6.30 Jan. .. 7.60 7.20 7.35 7.17% Lard — Aug. 3.45 3.32% Sept. . 3.55 3.42% 3.50 3.37% Oct. .. 3.57% 3.45 3.52% 3.40 Jan. .. 3.90 3.75 3.82% 3.67% Short ribs — Aug ... 3.55 3.47% Sept. . 3.70 3.50 3.57% 3.52% Oct. ... 3.75 3.60 3.62% 3.55 Jan. .. 3.77% 3.65 3.72% 3.65

Chicago Produce Market. The following quotations are for large lots only; small quantities are usually sold at advanced prices: Butter—Creameries, extra, 14c per lb; first, 12%@13c; second, 10c; dairies, extra, 12c; first, 10%c; second, 9c; imitation creameries, extra, 10@llc; ladles, extra, 9%@10c; first, B@B%c; second, 7c; packing stock, fresh,7c; grease, 4@sc. Beans —Hand picked navy, 90@ 95c per bu; fair to choice cleaned, 75@ 80c. Kidney beans, red, $1.30® 1.40; lima, [email protected] per 100 lbs. Live poultry—Market steady. Turkeys, fair to good, 8@10c; chickens, B%c; spring, B%c; ducks, 9@loc; geese, s3@s per doz. Cheese —Young America, 6%@ 7c; twins, 6%@6%c; Cheddars, 6@6%c; brick, 6@6%c; limbufger, 6%c; Swiss, new, 9%@10c. Eggs—Salable at 10%c when cases are returned; cases included, 11c. Apples—Green stock for cooking purposes, 75c @sl a brl; red stock, [email protected] a brl. Potatoes —Early Ohios, 20@25c per bu. Sweet potatoes—Baltimore, $2.75@3 per brl.

W«*.U Street. New York, Aug. 6. —The stock market was favorably influenced at the outset by the fractional gains In London prices and the market opened firm and higher. Trading was in small volume. The Improvements scored, aside from Sugar, were unimportant. The trading up to 11 o’clock was without feature, and not much significance was attached to fluctuations, In view of the ultra-profes-sionalism of the operators. The general public was holding aloof pending a clearer aspect of the general situation, and the room operators were also disposed to move can tiously, awaiting developments. To.ward midday stock prices stiffepad all around. The improvements were maintained up to 12 o’clock. Money on call easy at 2@2% per cent prime mercantile paper, 6%@7% per cent; sterling exchange steady, with actual business in bankers’ bills at 489 @489% for demand and 488@458% for. sixty days; posted rates, 488% and 489%@490; commrrc’al bills, 487%. Silver certificates, 63%@69; no sales. Bai silver, 68%. Mexican dollars, 53%. Government bonds steady. Closing quotations were:

Atchison 10% Lake Shore.... 140 Am. Tobacco.. 57 h Manhattan Con. 85% Bay State Gas . .. Missouri Pacific 16% Balt, and Ohio.. 15% North Pacific C. B. and Q 60% N. Pacific pfd... 11 Can. Southern .NY Central... 90% Con. Gas Northwestern.. 93 Cordage 3% Nj American.... 3% Chicago Gas .... ‘O% Omaha 34 Ches’p’ke & Ohio 14% Ont & West’n.. 12% Del. & Hudson Pacific Mail ... D. &W Heading io% Dis &C. Feed Co 10% Rock Island 54% Den. & R. G. pfd .... Southern Ry.... 6% Leather 6% Soth’n Ry. pfd. 20 Leather pfd 47% Sugar Reflnery.lo2% Gen. Electric.... 23% St. Paul 66% Hock V a11ey.... 15 |St. Paul pfd.... 120% Illinois Central .... Susque. & West. Jersey Central.. 92% Tennessee Coal.. i 5% Kan. & Tex. pfd 19% South’n Pacific.. .. . i-ead .... Tex. & Pacific.. 6 L., N. A. &C. . 5% Union Pacific... 5% L ,N A & C pfd 12% U. S. Rubber Louis. & Nash.. 42% West’n Union.. 78 Linseed Oil Wabash Jr*- 14% Wabash pfd .. is% L. E. & V , pfd. ■ 61% W. & L. Erie... 7% Government bo-ds stand at the following bid prices:

Registered 25.... 93 Registered 5s ..110 Registered 45.... 106% Currency 6s ’97 100 Coupon 4s 17% Currency 6s ’9B 102% ? ew C0up0n45,.112% Curr-ncy 6s ’99 104%

% Bargains Bargains * Three Car Loads of ’jf Buggies, Surries and X Driving Wagons unsold. Must be sold in the next Sixty Days regardless of cost. Your ijfc price is mine X w m f ••••Robert Randle•••• * * ♦ . 7] V

Ayer’s Sarsaparilla The Remedy with • Record. SO Years of Cures

Live Stock. Chicago, Aug. 5. —Cattle —Receipts, 7,500; calves, 200. Sales were made from $3.30 to $3.50 for a few very common native dressed beef steers up to $4.55 for several lots of choice, and fancy lots would have brought $4.60 or more. There was a fairly acflve stockei and feeder trade at [email protected], and quite a number of common western range cattle were taken by feeders at $3 @3.15, their average weights being about 1,150 lbs. There was not much change ln the cow trade. Bulls sold anywhere from $1.75 to $3.25, and calves were active and firm at [email protected] for any desirable lots. Hogs—Receipts, 14,000. Heavy hogs sold at [email protected], medium weights at [email protected], mixed lots at [email protected], and light weights at [email protected]. Sheep—Receipts, 12,000. Common to choice native sheep se!d at [email protected], few going below $2.25, and western range flocks brought [email protected]. Lambs old at [email protected], not many going above $5.65. Feeding sheep sold at $2.30 @2.50. Not many sheep sold above $3, the export demand having ceased.

Wheat and Corn. Closing prices of wheat and corn at the following named cities were: Wheat—New York—August, 63%c. September, 64c; December, 66c. St Louis —August, 60%@60%c; September, 59%@59%c. Duluth—Cash, 57%c; September, 57%c. Minneapolis—Cash, 55%c; September, 54%c. BaltimoreAugust, 61%@61%c; September, 62%@ 62%c. Toledo —Cash, 64%c; September, 58%c. Detroit—Cash, 65c; September, 65%c. Corn—New York—August, 30%c; September, 31%c. St. Louis—August, 22%c; September, 23%@23%c. Balti-more-August, 29%@29%c; September, 29% @ 30c.

New York. New York, Aug. s.—Butter—Receipts, 8,117 pkgs; western dairy, 9@l2c; western creamery, U%@lsc; Engine, 15c. Cheese—Receipts, 4,589 pkg 3; large, 5% @7%c; small, 5%@7c; part skims, 2@ 4%c; full skims. I@l% C . Eggs—Receipts, 8,098 pkgs; state and Pennsylvania, 13@14c; wes era, 11@ 12%c. Coffee steady.

ENGINEER’S BODY BURNED.

Wrack In Pennsylvania Kills Two Man and Fatally Injures a Third. Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 5. —Two men were killed and another fatally injured in a freight wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad six miles west of Shamokin yesterday. The wreckage took fire from the dismantled locomotive, and the knowledge that on the siding where the accident occurred was a carload of gunpowder prevented any attempt at rescue until the explosion had occurred. The body of Engineer Michael Smock was burned within view of the workmen. It was pinned beneath the engine and fiercely burning debris. The victims are: MICHAEL SMOCK, engineer, of Tamaqua. * ALEXANDER SMITH, conductor, of Tamaqua; dead. JACOB DREISBACH, fireman, of Tamaqua: badly scalded; will die. The wrecked train was running about forty miles an hour when it ran into a freight-car door that had fallen across the track from a passing train. The engine jumped the track and twelve cars were piled within a space of fifty feet

“Oom" Paul Scores Again.

The Digger News prints an interview with President Kruger in which he says that he has declined to interfere in behalf of Dr. Jameson. The president points out that the British government has still to decide who were the ringleaders in the Jameson