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

Republican headquarters of Jasper county are significantly located in a money loaning office, where notes payable in gold and secured by gold mortgages are required of the farmers who are gradually losing their lands under a gold standard policy. ******* The adoption of free coinage of siver and gold by this country will force every European country to do so too; even England with all her immense foreign investments will be obliged to yield or lose her prestige as the greatest commercial nation. ****.*** The Silver clubs of Polk county, Mo., held a reunion at Bolivar, Aug. 29, which was addressed by Hon. P. Allen, of Springfield, and M. V. Carroll, of Lamar. The goldbug crowd have had control of that county for along time but will be ousted at the coming election. ******* The Peoples party of the sixth Minnesota district has endorsed the candidacy for re election to congress of the brave congressfirst delegates to walk out of the man Towne, who was one of the republican national convention upon the adoption of the gold standard platform.

******* Hon. Thos. E. Watson, candidate of the People’s party for Vice President, has resigned the editorship of the People’s Paper, at Atlanta, Ga., in order that he may devote his whole time to the campaign. J. L. Sibley, secretary of the state committee, succeeds Mr. Watson as editor of the paper. ******* Among the prominent workers on the stump for the People’s party cause who will speak in Missouri this campaign are J. JN. and Cora Diehl Harvey, of Oklahoma. Mrs. Harvey, at the age of 20, was elected register of deeds of Logan county, Ok., by the largest majority cast for a succesful candidate. ******* Tom Watson has reconsidered his intention of making a tour of the western states and all his dates have been canceled by the, national committee. He believes that if he confines his stumping to Georgia the People’s party can carry the state at the October’ election, and if this is done the influence on the national election will be of incalculable value.

******* Ex Congressman Amos J. Cummings of New York says that not only will Senator Hill come out for Bryan but that Tammany will support him most loyally and that free silver will carry the state, a consurnation made the more probable since the split in the republican forces made oy the walking out of the state convention of ex-Senator Miller, who refused to be placed absolutely under the thumb of dictator Tom Platt. * *' * * * * * It appears that free railroad passes were issued to the delegates to the gold democratic convention is session at Indianapolis this week, as well as to the delegates and attaches who made up the republican national convention. Even the banker chairman of the republican congressional committee of this, district was favored with a pass to St. Louis. It is easy to discover who the railroad corporations consider friends. ******* W. D. Vandiver, the democrat ic candidate for congress in the Fourteenth Missomi district has declined the eminently fair proposition of A. H. Livingstone, the Peoples party nominee., to leave the question as to which candidate should remain in the race to a vote of the state committees of the two parties in joint session. The patriotic course of Mr. Liv ingstone has resulted in greatly strengthening his candidacy to the relative weakening of the chances for Vandiver. A. R.