People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — Jesse Grant a Populist. [ARTICLE]

Jesse Grant a Populist.

San Diago, Cal., Sept. 4—At the populist county convention to-day a great sensation was •caused by Wade McDonald, one of the delegates, reading the following from Jesse R. Grant, son of Gen. U. S. Grant: ‘•My Dear Judge: I have noticed with much interest your withdrawal from democratic party and espousal of the people’s party. This action meets my approval. since I have concluded to •enroll myself in the same cause. The financial plank in the re publican platform must drive from that party any one who believes as I do. and the anarchical plank in the democratic platform must lose io it any person who believes in the protection of American citizens at home as well as abroad. “The platform of the people's party has, on the contrary no ob jectionable principles and seems to offer a political home that an American can proudly enter. Yours truly, Jesse R. Grant.” Mr. Grant has been a resident of San Diego for several years. He has large property interests here, but has taken little part in public affairs. His letcer provoked prolonged applause in the convention.