People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Free silver will save the farm ers from bankruptcy. ******* Governor Boies has gone on the stump for Bryan in lowa. ******* Free silver will prevent the further depreciation in property values. ******* By fusion in California the Peoples party secures five of the nine electors. ******* Free silver will build up an immense commerce with Japan, China and India. ******* The Populist of Colorado will hold their state nominating convention at Pueblo, on Sept. 9th. ******* Dr. J. T. Polson, of Laclede, is the People’s party nominee for congress in the second Mis souri district. ******* The People’s party of Knox county, 111., has agreed to a division of couunty offices with the democrats. ******* Populists and democrats of Marshall county, Kans., have fused, the division of .officers being about even, ******* The Populists and democrats in the Fifth Nebraska district have nominated R. D. Southerland for congress.

******* The Kansas City World has started a “Bryan campaign sub scription” and is raising a fund to aid in his election. ******* Fusion in Michigan has been accomplished. The name of the ticket will be the “Democratic People’s Union Ticket.” ******* The democrats of Oregon have entirely surrendered and the joint electoral ticket will cast its entire vote for Bryan and Watson. ******* The reason England objects to our coining of silver is that it will give us the immense trade that she now enjoys with the silver using nations. ******* Populists and republicans of Milford, 111., are associates as members of a newly organized Bryan bimetallic club with i6O members.

******* If we would monopolize the trade of Mexico, Central and South America, silver must .no longer be prohibited free coinage at our mints. ******* Marion Williams, member of the Populistcampaign committee of Texas, has issued an address advising the Texas Populists, to fuse with" the republicans. ******* The Missouri gold bug democrats variously estimate their strength from 15,000 to 64,000. Their convention was composed of bankers, note-shavers, lawyers and Federal office-holders. ******* . It has been established by actual reproduction of letters in the newspapers that the delegates to the recent “sound money” democratic convention were furnished with free transportation by the railroads.

******* Judge Samuel Maxwell has been nominated for congress by the populists and democrats of the Third Nebraska district. Judge Maxwell was the People’s candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court of Nebraska in 1894. ******* The silver forces of Vernon county Mo., will hold a big rally at Nevada Sept. 19, and have invited Gov. Altgeld and Senator Blackburn, democrats, and Hon, Clarence L. Pinkham, the “Jerry Simpson of Missouri,” as speakers. ******* John P. St. John, former pro hibitionist governor of Kansas, has taken the stump for free silver. He recently held several joint debates in Illinois with William E. Mason, the leading republican candidate for the United States senate.