People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Campaign News. [ARTICLE]

Campaign News.

From Different Localities In the national Field. THE STATE CONVENTIONS BEING HELD. Reformers Everywhere Getting Into Line for the Coming Political Battle. John Breidenthal, state chairman of the people’s party of Kansas, has uttered a strong denunciation of the plan to put up populist electors instructed for Bryan and Sewall. He maintains that tljeparty in Kansas mufet be true to Watson and the action of the national convention in all things. John Martin, the democratic leader, says that his party will put no state ticket in the field this year and will make no demands upon the populist state convention. He thinks, however, that the democrats should be* recognized by being given the nomination for chief justiceship and that Ed. C. Little of Abilene, the prominent bolting republican should be nominated for attorney general. The people’s party convention in Tennessee placed a full elect-

oral ticket in the field, but gave the state executive committee plenary powers to treat with the democrats to arrange a joint electoral ticket on which populists should be given representation in proportion to the last vote. The platform is mainly an indorsement of the one adopted by the national convention. It also condemned the late gubernatorial steal. The convention nominated A.. L. Mims, of Davidson county, the nominee last time for governor by acclamation. J. H. Burnham, of Lincoln county, -and J.T. Miller, of Wilson county, were nominated for electors for the state at large. J. H. Davis, General Weaver and J. R. Sovereign, under the direction of the national executive committee, did yeoman service on the stamp in Alabama in the closing days of the campaign. At this writing it has not been decided where national headquarters will be located this year but 'Chairman Butler strongly favors Washington. H. E. Taubeneck, ex- national chairman, has closed up affairs in St. Louis. He will take the stump in Illinois at once. The central committee of Butler county passed a half-column of resolutions in •ourse of which it says: “We are astonished, humiliated and insulted at the action of the delegates to the national convention and hereby express our indignation at the nomination by them of a democratic office seeker, and we also denounce and condemn such action as both cowardly and treacherous. We denounce and condemn the unparliamentary,

unprecedented and tryanical ruling of Senator Allen in not allowing the middle-of-the-road men their right in the convention; - and we further denounce Gen. Weaver for his arbitrary rulings iu the convention on resolutions.” The platform of the Vermont populist convention indorses that of the people’s party passed at St. Loftis. The new idea im-

bodied in the state platform is to declare that bribe giving and bribe taking should be a felony, The ticket nominated is; Joseph Brttle, of Middlebury, for governor; William Dexter, of Sheffield, lieutenant governor; Dan Sallies, Montpelier, treasurer; Abel T. *Gay, of Burlington, secretary of state; Columbus L. Clough, Waterbury, auditor; for presidential electors, O. C. Wilder, Dr. W. S. Curtis, Randolph; Sam McAlister, Stowe. For member of congress—First district, A. L. Bowen, of Dorset; Second district, T. J. Aldnch, Wheelock. The state committee organized with A. L. Bowen as chairman and A. J. Beebe secretary. The latest utterance of Mr. Watsan regarding the national campaign is as follows: “Unless Sewall retires I know of but two plans; First, two district electoral tickets, one Bryan and Sewell, and the other Bryan and Watson. Second, one electorial ticket, composed partly of democrats and partly of populists. The executive committee of the peoples party must decile on the plan,”

W. D. Vincent has been nominated for congress by the populists of the Fifth Kansas District. Free silver republicans in Kan sas continue |o them selves with the by the score. In over half the repupliteq jCdunty committee have rhsiiteeid and declared themselves popvlists. At the people’s party convention in Cape Girardeau county, Mo., E. S. filler was nominated for representative; J. S.Bowers and R. W. McNeely t.y judges. The remainder of the county ticket was left vacant the purpose being to fuse with the democrats. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says he sees no propriety in the populists communicating to Mr. Bryan what occured at St. Louis or asking him to accept their nomination or platform. Such a course, he adds, could have no other object than to embrace the candidate.

A conference committee of democrats and populists met in Sedgwick county, Kan., and divided the offices for fusion. The democrats get county attorney, commissioner and state senator, and the populists get district clerk, superintendent of public instruction, three representatives and probate judge. The populists will vote to in dorse the democratic electors. Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, has declared that he will not accept the populist nomination unless all other candidates on the democratic state ticket are indorsed. A. R. The law that requires a one hundred million dollar gold reserve does not exist.

Gold appears to be as efficient at driving itself out as it is at measuring its own value. After gold has “driven itself out,” it is a demonstrated fact that nothing but bonds are sufficiently strong to bring it back. Herr Most leads the anarchists of America, and not-with-standing they are opposed to law on general principles, he advised them to vote for McKinley and Hobert to establish the gold standardly law. If the gold worshiper does not find in Mexico a heaven to his notion, on account of its use of silver money, suppose he gives Egypt or Turkey, two Christian killing gold based nations, the benefit of Ms favors. \