People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Prof. C. Vincent, of Indiana, is campaigning in Texas. ***** * * The People’s party state nominating convention in lowa will be held at Des Moines Sep. 10th- ******* C. D. Bell has been nominated for congress by the People’s party of the Second Kentucky district. ******* A majority of the republican state committee of Montana have declared their intention to support Bryan, ******* Headquarters of the People’s party in Texas have been located in Dallas, with Chairman J. S. Bradley in charge. ******* The democrats of South Dakota have endorsed the Populist State ticket, which practically insures its success. ******* John W. Breidenthal the recognized Populist leader in Kansas, has been reelected chairman of the state committee. ******* Populists and democrats of the Fifth Nebraska district have fused on the same candidate for congress, R. D, Sutherland.

******* Mr. Bryan denies emphatically that he has at any time been in the employ of the silver mine owners or the Bimetallic League. ******* Capt. H. B. Linton, a prominent farmer, has been nominated for Congress by the Populists of the 6th Missouri district. ******* The democrats and Populists of the Eleventh lowa district have nominated the same candidate for congress, Judge A, Van Wagenen. ******* The Populists of the First Missouri district have nominated the redoubtable J. Weller Long, ex Secretary of the State Committee,, for Congress.

******* The Populists of Michigan are asked to endorse Mayor H. S. Pingree, of Detroit, the republican nominee for governor, which they will probably do. ******* The name of Lase Pence, the brilliant ex-congressman from Colorado is being mentioned in •onnection with the Populist nomination for the governorship in that state. ******* The free silver men of Sedalia, Mo., democrats, Populists and republicans, held a meeting Aug. 18 and organized a “Bryan Free Silver Club,” the name of Sewall being omitted. ******* Eugene V. Debs, the great labor agitator, is a staunch friend of Tom Watson, He thinks the democrats should substitute the Georgian for Sewall, on their National ticket. ******* The policy of uniting the democratic and Populist forces in Missouri, on a state ticket, congressional candidates and presidential electors, is being quite generally discussed.

**** * * * Nearly all the democratic county conventions in Colorado have endorsed Senator Teller and Congressman Shafroth, republicans, and Congressman Bell, Populisi, for re-election. Ik * * * * * * The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad has issued an order against the sale of silver literature on their trains. Silverites might reciprocate by refusing to ride over their iine. *******f All reports agree that there never has been such a demand for campaign literature-before, as this year, and that nine-tenths of all matter sent out by various committees deals with the tinauce question. ******* The state executive committees of the People’s party, of California, met recently and endorsed the action of the national