People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — TO DEFEAT BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

TO DEFEAT BRYAN.

Banks and Corporations Indus* trtously at Work MANIFACTIIRIXG A PANIC. Convetition Driftwood. . ■ Personal Dossil*. . . More Fake “Interviews’ ’ Dun to Sarth and Halted. Peoples Party News Bureau. \ Headquarters National Ex. Com. > St. Louis, Mo. Aug. 13. ) The bank's, factories and railroads are evidently unified in a conspiracy to prevent better conditions for the people and to intimidate voters into supporting McKinley. They are trying to bring about a scare or a panic which shall defeat Bryan and are declaring all the facts of hard times to be due to a feeling of insecurity in the business world —meaning the world of monopoly and monopolists —on account of the campaign of reform now on. The big Tudor Iron works in East St. Louis have shut down and give as an excuse, fear of free coinage of silver being successful in the election, and a number of smaller factories have followed their example with the same purpose of creating a scare in the minds of the people. The money stringency in the banks becomes tighter every day and it is now practically impossible to secure loans on any kind of security in any part of the country. Correspondence to the bureau shows that these conditions exist in every section of the United States without difference. It remairs to be seen whether the moneyed lords and monopolistic interests have the people by the throat so tightly that they can never again accomplish reform for themselves and the benefit of their children. The struggle seems to be the final one in deciding whether liberty is to live on the shores of the western hemisphere and the republic of our fathers is to be perpetuated. This is what Tom Watson has to say of William J. Bryan in an open letter: “As I stated in my paper a week before the convention, when I had no thought of being connected with him in a political campaign, Mr. Bryan is a man of unblemished character and brilliant ability. We served together m the FiftySecond congress, voted together on nearly every question, and were persona! friends. When my contested election came up ir the Fifty-third congress and Mr. Outhwaite of Ohio made the motion to eject me at once and without a hearing, Mr. Bryan was one of tfce three democrats who had the courage to vote against it.”

Henry George has anuounced himself as a determined supporter of Bryan. J. H. Davis, of Texas, has been nominated for congress by the Populists of his district. The democrats and Populists of Cherokee county, Kans., have fused, the democrats getting the offices of probate judge and representative. Free silver republicans are forming Bryan clubs all over Missouri. Two-thirds of the members of these clubs will vote for Bryan and Watson in preference to Bryan and Sewall and will become permanently identifier*. with the People’s party or ganization. The People’s party state committee is claiming a certain increase of the party vole by 20,000 or 25,000 and perhaps greater. In the address reported by the committee on resolutions and

passed by the state convention of the People’s party in Missouri is the following declaration, “We now offer to all voters and parties of our state an honorable alliance for the campaign by a union of forces on national electors on any basis that is fair, just and legal.” In the same report the state committee was given full plenary powers to decide what basis of union was fair, just and legal. A Rozelle was re-elected state chairman and M. V. Carroll, of Lamar, was chosen secretary of the state committee. Considerable effort is being put forth on the part of a number of prominent members of the National Bimetallic party in Missouri to secure endorsement of several of the candidates on the People’s party state ticket. Gold men can’t even by pretense accept Bryan. They have come to realize that in case they should vote for him he would consider himself under no obligations to give them any chance

in the affairs of government and and even in Missouri they are organizing fdr the purpose of putting a third ticket in the field. * Senator Palmer, of Illinois, favors Congressman Bynum, of Indiana, as th® presidential candidate of the gold-democrats. The railroads have already begun their work of intimidation in the interest of McKinley. One of the Gould lines is sending our circulars to all employes demanding that they express their preference on the questions of coinage. No purpose is indicated in the circulars but it is so clear that those who run may read. Both Mr. Bryan and Governor Altgeld have denied the Associated Press story to the effect that the latter has been promised the attorney-generalship in case of the former’s election.

There are but two McKinley clubs in all of Idaho. The Hon. Joseph C. Sibley has been renominated for congress in Pennsylvania. The resolution to give the state central committee of the People’s party in Tennessee full plenary powers to arrange a fusion with the democrats on electors was passed without a single dissenting vote. Richard Parks Bland has been renominated for congress in his old Missouri district-the Eighth. Contrary to democratic prophecy, however, he has not been endorsed by the People’s party, but the Populists have a strong candidate in the race in the person of Rev. J. H. Steinceipher. J. D. Hess, national committeeman from Illinois, has been nominated for congrers by the Populists of the Sixteenth district. William H. Henrichson, the present democratic secretary of state, sought the Populist nomination and his name was presented to the convention for

endorsement but the People’s party would have none of him despite the radicalism of his free silver views. Senator J. K. Jones, the chairman of the democratic national committee, has denied the purported interview in which he was made to say that the “Populists would go te the niggers where they belonged.” Judge W. L. Clark, of Fairbury, has been nominated for congress by the Populists of the Fourth Nebraska district. It is probable that his nomination will be endorsed by the democrats. The Populists of Morgan county. 111., in the convention in which they chose delegates to the congressional convention voted to place a full county ticket in the field. At a meeting of representative republicans of Montana, called

by the state central committee, it was decided to put up a full state ticket first, harmonizing both the gold and silver mem bers of the party on that issue; then by understanding, the convention will put up McKinley electors, and the free silverites, probably a majority, will withdraw from the convention after announcing that they intend to vote for Bryan. These are the vain means by which they hope to maintain the republican organization in the state. Of the Bryan democrats, according to advices received from leading Populists, two-thirds will vote the People’s party national ticket in preference to the one nominated by the democrats, unless Sewail should withdraw and the present complication be brought to an end. In editorial comment the Globe Democrat, the leading republican paper of Missouri, admits that the Populist vote in Bland’s district has materially increased in the last two years

and is uow sufficiently large to make the result of the present triangular congressional race interesting and doubtful. The democrats of Oklahoma have agreed to support the People’s party candidate for delegate to congress, and it has been mutually agreed that all free silver forces shall be united in each county and legislative district. The resolutions of the state convention of the People’s party in Louisiana bitterly arraign both the democrat and republican parties. The action of the national convention in nominating Bryan and Watson was endorsed, however. The platform adopted by the state convention of the People's party of Oklahoma declares for the immediate admission of the territory to statehood, and demands that pensions of privates and officers be equal.

The Knights of Labor Journal comes out in a strong endorsement of Bryan. Pennsylvania Populists, in state convention at Pittsburg on August 5, nominated J. T. Allman and J. P. Correll for con-gressman-at-large. J. Edwin Leslie, of McKeesport, was elected state chairman and empowered io appoint a committee to confer with the democrats and arrange a union electoral ticket. Gov. Silas A. Holcomb was renominated by the Nebraska Populist state convention at Hastings on August 5, and John Z. Harris was nominated for lieu-tenant-governor. The state central committee was authorized to confer with the deipoc rats for the purpose of arranging a union electoral ticket. Charles A. Lloyd was nominated for congress by the Populists of the Second lowa district at Davenport, Aug. 5. The latest Alabama election returns obtainable on August 6, given by democratic officials, in-

dicated that Johnson’s majority over Goodwyn would be about 35,000. The official the returns will probably change tlmse figures. a. R.