People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 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 WADEWORTH, Raglesville. 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, EREEMAN. *•'* GuyJudges of the Appellate Court, NELSON J. BOZARTH, Valparaiso; ADAM STOCKINGER, Versailles; I. I. PIERCE, Terre Haute; JOHN TOKNBURG, Anderson.

THE PLATFORM.

The peoples part}’, 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 platform of the party in 1892. We recognize that through the connivance 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 yet to be attained by restoring to our country the constitutional control and exercise of the functions necessary to a 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 legisation 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 tne 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 legal 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 uemand 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 iuterstbearing 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 <;< struct. 6. We demand that the Government, inpayment ot 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 Corn t relative to the income tax law as a misinterpretation of the Constitution and an invasion of the rightful 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 p'-' -1 '”"p and a public necessity, the Government should own and operate the »dju .acts in tile 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 resuii in the impairment, if not the destruction, of the political rights and personal liberties of the citizens, mav be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in a mariner consistent with sound public policy. 2. The interest of the United States. In the public highways built with public moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants of land to the Pacific railroads, should never be alienated, mortgaged or eold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United

The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG, (Lessee.) PILOT PUBLISHING CO., (Limited,) Proprietors. OJ.VID H. Yeoman, President. Wii. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook, Sec'y. J. A. McFahland Treas. Tbe People’s Pilot is the official organ of -he Jasper and Newton County Alliances, and • published every Thursday at •ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM tntered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer. Ind.

Silver and silver certificates are not redeemable in gold.

The Silver Dollar of the United States will purchase more than twice as much, both of commodities and labor, as it formely did.

In Mexico the products of labor have had a practically uniform price for thirty years, but labor itself is steadily being advanced to better pay.

Coxey at Morocco.

Gen. Coxey will speak on the money and bond question at the Morocco Fair next Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1896. Mr. Coxey has a great reputation as an entertaining speaker and no one oan afi<?rd tQ miss hearing him upon this question. S. Smith, Chm. P. P. Com.

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 ttte ben tit 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 he executed and administered according to their true* intent and spirit. 4. The telegraph, like the Post Office system, being a necessity for 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 iy, 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 bonatide settlers of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation by Congress which will enforce the exemption of min* eral land from such grants, after as well as before patent. 3. We demand that bona fide sottlers 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 of 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 salaries 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. t>. 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 w;e declare it to be the 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 election will turn is the financial ques tion. 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 uppn this vital question.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, AUGUST T 3, 1896.

The unfortunate borrower is obliged to accept silver or silver certificates, which the government will not redeem in gold, but the note he signs is made payable in gold.

The Mexican silver dollar will now purchase in the marts of that country as much of the com - modities of commerce as it ever did, but not so much of the labor that produces those commodities.

The salaries of the president, members of the cabinet, senators, congressmen, and all the others of the multitude of federal officers, will purchase more than double the amount of labor products that they would when the “salary-grabbers” stole their million and made the steal perpetual.

During all the period previous to Feb. 21, 1853, the silver half dollar, quarter dollar, dime and half dime, were legal tenders for all amounts equally with the standard silver dollar and gold coins, and they also contained a 3 much pure silver proportionate to their value as the silver dollar.

With the election of a freecoinage of silver president and house of representatives-there is a silvel senate—the banks and others holding money will tumble over each other in their haste to loan it before the free coinage of silver causes a fall in the rate ot interest, and we will have a boom in business such as we have not had since silver was demonetized in 1873.

When figuring on the amount of silver this country used as money previous to 1873, do not omit the fact that for over fifty years the gold and silver coins of nearly all the commercial nations of the world, were current full legal tender money in the United States, their respective values being fixed by law. This foreign coin, circulating and in general use here, amounted to $100,000,000, and this should be added to the $145,141,834.60 coined at our mints.

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Logan’s Startling Prophecy.

the defenders of an independent and sound American financial policy have been pointing out as did Gen. Logan the terrible results which were bound to follow the retirement of greenbacks aud the demonetization of silver, but so subtle and powerful were the gold interests of England and the American Torie that they denied the existence of facts which have been time and again verified, and denounced all patriots who stood for the prosperity and happiness of the wealth creators of America as alarmists, and in various ways have sought.to discredit, those who sought to avert the impending, exactly as Wendell Phillips, John G. Whitter, Charles Sumner, and Abraham Lincoln were assailed bv the selfish conservatism of their day before the cause they stood for proved triumphant. But the constant verification of prophecies mfide by such men as Oliver P. Morton, Thomas E. Hendricks, John A. Logan, and numbers of others has had its effect. Moreover the last cen sus report was a revelation to hundreds of thousands of thoughtful people, while it emphasized in a most signal manner the truth which the betrayers of our national prosperity had denied or sought to explain away for several decades.—Edtior The Arena.

We are prepared to make farm loans at a lower rate of interest than any other firm in Jasper county. The expenses will be as low as the lowest. Call and see us. Office in the Odd Fellow’s Building, near the Court House. Warren & Irwin.

Farm Loans.

Trustee’s Report to Commissioners.

Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana, by D. H. Yeoman. By the Trustee of Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana, from August 5, 1895, to August 5, 1896. ROAD TAX FUNDS. RECEIPTS. August 5, 1895, amount received from Wm Cooper $ 370 53 January 2, 1896, amount received from county treasurer... 32 32 June 6, 1896, amount received from county treasurer 992 64 Total rpts road tax fund 1395 49 Total exp since last rpt 1733 69 Overdrawn 338 45 EXPENDITURES. Aug 5, 95, 1 DH Yeoman pr Cooper brdg lmbr 11 16 Aug 17 “ 2 C F Hunt brdg for tp 193 64 Sept 16 “ 3 AM Garriott fixing grde 600 “ 9 “ 4 John Call hldng scps 750 “ 16 “ 5 W B Hurley hldng scps 66 Oct 4 “ 6 M Petty grading 76 27 “ 14 “ 7 Isaac Kight rd wk ordr 13 50 “ 21 “ 8 John Clager bldng bdg 15 00 “ 26 “ 9 John E Alter ditch work 16 00 Dec 24 “ 10 D W Mellon bldng brdg 25 50 Nov 30 “11 Si* Brusnahan. serv scps 925 Dec 4 “ 12 Jas Wiseman nails 25 Jan 896 13 A Makus srv as sup 100 Feb 25 “ 14 A See road work 5 50 “ 25 “ 15 Geo Cover road work 500 Jan 6 “ 16 S B Moffiitt road work 11 02 Apr 4“ 17 S D Warne road work 26 25 “ 6 “ 18 John Garriott road work 41 00 May 4 “ 19 B G Blair&co blank book 4 45 Mar 26 “ 20 H B Murray road recps 102 10 May 9 “ 21 Joseph Hall road work 10 00 Apr 16 “ 22 N Snow road work 67 May 19 “ 23 Jos Williams road & tile 9 00 “ 28 “24 B D Comer draining rd 10 00 Jun 6 “ 25 Co aud rd ret 783 52 “ 5 “ 26 J C Cox grading 36 05 “ 6“ 27 W Harrington wk on grade 250 “ 6.“ 28 c o Hooper&Petty gradng 104 60 “ 8 “ 29 SABrusnahan serv superv 20 00 “ 8 “ 30 Joseph Hall wk on grde 110 00 “ 8 “ 31 J H Chapman wkon br iify 625 “ 10 “32 G M Wilcox nails 47 “ 16 “ 33 J C Thrawls meas exc rd 2 50 “ 22 “ 34 Joseph Hall grd &cl rd 22 00 “ 22“ 35 Amos Alter tile for road 9 35 Jul 2“ 37 A Garriott serv as surp 15 00 “ 2 “ 38 A M Munden “ “ “ 16 50 Mar 27 “39 G M Wilcox freight 4 48 Total 1733 94 ADDITIONAL ROAD TAX FUNDS. RECEIPTS. Jan. 2, 1896, amount received from county treasurer 2 84 June 6, 1896, amount received from county treasurer - .... 650 82 \ Total receipts additional road tax fund 653 66 Total expenditures siuce last report 1 457 50 Balance 196 16 EXPENDITURES. Mar 12 96 1 Ormetus for 3 bridges 225 00 “ “ “ 2 “ “ 1 “ 75 00 “ “ “ 3 “ “ “ “ 75 00 “ “ “ 4 “ “ “ . “ .75 00 July 7 “5 Wm Pierson framing bdg 1 50 “ “ “6 Jas Yeoman “ “ 150 “ “ “ 7 S T Comer rep bdg &dt 450 Total 457 50 ACCOUNT OF TOWNSHIP FUNDS. RECEIPTS. Aug 1, 1895, amot reed from Wm Cooper 1552 58 Jan 2, 1896. amt reed fr county tresurer 5 67 July 25, 1896, ditch repairs 30 36 Total receipts township fund 1588 .61 Total expen since last report 756 73 « Balance 832 88 EXPENDITURES. , Aug 5 95 1 II B Murray qualifyg &c 7 07 “ “ ’ “ 2 Wm Cooper serv trustee 192 00 “ “ “ 3 H B Murray reeding bnd 1 00 “ ? “ 4 J E Alter ditch notices 3 70 “ 12 •• 5 Lara Bros bk cse & dsk 22 00 “ “ “ 6 E P Honan stamps 1 50 “24 “ 7 S C Irwin copyg report 160 “ 30 “ 8 H B Murray mak roaa lit 7 00 Sep 2 •• 9 J F Warreu sch book rec 3 00 “ 3 “10 C Miline cleaning dich 20 00 “ 7 “11 T Florence serv as surpr 22 70 “ 14 “12 R Stephenson cleang dith 3 75 “30 “14 News Pr co trustees reprt 10 00 Oct 2 “15 N W Reeves express 50 “ 5 “16 L A Bostwick co maps 3 00 5 *’ 17 John Humes cleaning dtch 28 50 7“ 18 T W Snovv cleaning ditch 500 “10“ 19 W W Petty surveying dith 150 “12 “20 C R Warne cleaning ditch 500 “21 Levi Hodge serv supervisr 27 00 “25 “22 W Harringtn cleaning dtch 900 “26 “23 SABrusnahn serv as super 25 00 “29“ 24 A Makus “ v “ 40 00 “30 “25 R Sephesou dump boards 3 50 “31 “26 John Clager serv as super 10 40 No 15 “27 John Clager “ “ “ 12 50 “16 “28 W P Barnett receipt book 1 00 4“ 29 J C Gwin benefits to hy 89 79 “22 “30 A Garriott serv supervisr 12 75 “23 “31 Joseph Hall repairing grad 100 De 27 ‘32 R Ryce blank book 50 “ “33 Con Ins co insurance 3 20 “ “ “34 “ “ “ “ 320

“““ 35 “ *• “ “ 0 20 “““36 “ “ “ .. Ja 13 96 37 A Schultz helping survv i Mr 26 “38 E P Honan stamp! 7 200 Ap 17 “39 V P Yeoman unloading pip 100 “23 “40 J Hunt rec ceme platt 420 “41 HB Murray aud ceme “ 10 50 “28 “42 L Davidson locating road 2 40 Ma2o “43 T Warne appra cem Its 200 “ “ “44 B Moffiitt “ “ “ 900 Mr 33 “45 L N A&Cry freight 4 84 No 16 “46 “““ ““ “ ». 00 Mr 17 “47 “““ “ “ “ j \l "i 8 ““•• “ se p,p 16 50 Ju 13 49 J E Alter ditch assest 841 ‘ “ “50 F D Craig pr cemet deed 4 90 ‘‘“ 51 C Lakins fencing cemet 44 50 Ma _8 “jo2 Ins Cn N Y insurance 7 00 Jul 14 “53 A Makus serv super 10 00 “25 “54 Thos J Fay rep on grads 2 00 “55 J E Alter dtem &rd sur 15 50 Total 75i 7a SPECIAL SCHOOL FU^D. RECEIPTS. Aug 5, 1895, amt on hd at dt of It rp ovd $437 88 Jan 2, 1896, amt reed fr county treasure 241 46 June 6, 1896, amt reed fr county treasur 879 74 Tot receit special school fund 1121 20 Tot expendit since last report 1113 77 Overdrawn 7 4a EXPENDITURES. Aug 595 0 Union spec amt ovbr set 437 88 30 “ 1 T R Woek school desks 105 25 “ “ 2 “ “ “ black board 15 12 Sep 3‘ ■ 3 W H Eger bell & fixturs 425 18 “ 4 C J Martin clean sch hou 500 “23 “ 5 Abe Warne “ “ •• 4 50, “ "“ 6 J C McColly buld out hou 20 00 Oct 3 “ 7 D Brockus clean house 405 10 “ 8 W Hurley sawing wood 63 15 “ 9 J Borem lumber fr sts 30 30 “10 J Stibber rep on sch hs 250 1 Nov 2 “11 A Garriott wood No 9 23 92 7 “12 GW Casey pntg dw well 9 48 “ 8 “13 B F Coen dictionary 925 15 “14 C Garriott repr sch hse 8 00 “ “15 SPThompson cd wood 800 “ 16 “16 L NA&Cry freight diets 25 “ “ “17 “ “ desks 63 “ 20 “ 18 Rns fur co desks 10 00 Nov 27 “19 A Warne buket & repr 185 28 “20 J Winer repairing hse 500 Dec 6 “21 E Hooper sch hse wood 16 00 “ 21 “22 C Harrington broom 25 “31 “23 C Wiseman sch house wod 18 00 Jan 196 24 A B Long rep school hse 800 Dec 295 25 Lam Bros glass & chair 2 40 “ 10 “26 T Hay wood & glass 9 35 “ 13 “27 W Barnett dictionaries 25 50 Mar 25 96 28 D Brockus rep school hse 2 IE) Apr 4 “29 Porter & Yeoman towels 40 “ 6 “30 C Garriott brooms go “22 “31 M Petty fixing bell no 9 500 “ 11 “32 A Garriott wood 26 00 ' “ 27 “33 Lessie Bates cleaning schl 2 00 Ma 7 “34 D Goble home sch visitr 625 “ 7 “35 J F Warren 3 stars 300 Jan 15 “36 A Garriott wood 15 00 Feb 8 “37 E J Wilcox institute 12 00 “•10 “38 A Sholtz wood no 4 16 00 “ 27 “39 JRFaris co maps 48 00 Jue 8 “40 C Garriott tending instit 18 75 “ “ “41 co treas pr F Gant wood 12 75 “ 6 “42 Robinson Bros lumber o h 33 12 “ 9 “43 N Warner & Sons sch fixtu 12 70 “ 13 “44 F Warren ex grad exes 3 45 “ “ “45 Em & Mary Goetz tend inst 3150 “ “ “46 Jos Williams-wood furnsh 10 80 “ 20 “48 Paul Shoitz wood furnishe 10 00 Jul 7 “49 W Taylor “ “no 4 16 00 “ 7 “50 S T Comer “ “ * • 10 80 Jue 20 “51 P A Gant tending institu 16 80 Jul 16 “52 Lessie Bates “ “ 10 00 “ 25 “53 D W Shields “ “ 15 34 Nov 495 54 M F Chilcote tuitin fr hs p 300 Jan 31 96 55 “ “ “ “ 300 1113 77 TUITION FUND. RECEIPTS. Aug 15, 1895, amt on hd at date of It rp 1587 55 Jan 2, 1896. amt of Com school fund rec 489 70 Jan 31, 1896, amt of com school fund rec 631 67 July 15, 1896, com sch fund rc fr dog fd 688 39 June 6, 1896, com sch fund rec fr dog fd 542 14 March 3, 1896, Received from dog fund 56 05 Total of tuition fund 3995 50 EXPENDITURES. Paid out since last report .2689 00 Balance 1346 31 EXPENDITURES. Feb 8" 96 1 E J Wilcox teaching 200 00 Apr (3 “2 Chas Garriott “ 280 00" “ g “3 E Louther “ 80 00 “ 9 “4 Mary Goetz “ 294 00 “ 10 “ 5 Elzie Grow “ 315 00 “ 10. “6 D Shields “ 294 00 “ 11 “7 Emma Goetz “ 336 00 “ 13 “8 PA Gant “ 336 00 “ 15 “9 Fred Tyler “ 280 00 “ 27 “10 Lessie Bates “ 274 00 2695 0C DOG TAX FUND. RECEIPTS. Aug 5, 1895, received from cooper J 108 16 Jan 2, 1896, received from county treas 12 95 June 6, 1896, received from county tres 39 81 Total receipts dog tax fund 160 86 Total expenditures 15 00 Turned over to tuition fund 56 05 Balance 89 81