People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — Call For Free Silver County Convention. [ARTICLE]

Call For Free Silver County Convention.

We the undersigned voters of Jasper county, Indiana, believing that prosperity can only be restored to our country through the restoration of silver to its coinage rights equally with gold, the same as existed from 1792 down to 1873, and feeling that the time has arrived for the putting aside of party considerations and uniting in a common cause for the good of all the producing people, and relying upon the patriotism, honor and intelligence of our fellow citizens to accept the guage of battle thrown down to us by the consolidated money power of the world, the class that lives largely beyond the sea and dictates to us a foreign financial system, for their enrichment and our impoverishment; and further believing that a distinctively non-partisan free silver county ticket would the better unite and harmonize all the elements of our people who oppose the single gold standard and make victory for the white metal and prosperity certain in this county; We do hereby call a mass convention of all who believe with us on the silver question, regardless of party affiliations, to meet in the oprea house atßensselaer Thursday, Sept. 24, 1896, at eleven o’clock a. m.. to nominate candidates for county offices to be voted for at the election this fall. A Beasley Henry Welsh J W Lock Chas. Littlefield G E Vincent G G Thomoson J A Wake JOB McDougle Thomas Callaghan Wm W Lyons A Gallagher G A Hemphill

I) Connor J L Allman Thos. Harris T Maguire John Eek B Cawley George Besse George Msrehead R R Pettit George W Vincent J H Green Henry C Vincent C W Harner Charles Sommers D O Riley David II Yeoman D A Kiley ’V H Ritchie J S Barnes Frank Welsh Joseph Vogel James Welsh George Eck Bert Welsh Geo D Meyer - Henry Fisher C F Swigert Bazil Hunt Wm Mann O K Ritchie Daniel G’Conner B W Hammonds James Bullis AG W Farmer W T Elnore Louis Davidson D V Garrison Amos Davidson Moses Ligo Josla Davidson Marlon I Adams Geo. W Davisson Mahlon P Hinds Isaac Miller C G Daley J W Iliff James W McCleary N S Snow J C Norman Wm H Snow Fred Anderson C E Harlacher George M r ooper C W Gilmore Chest. Morgenegg M P Booton

It is thrown in the free silver man’s face every day, that the silver dollar is so large as to be absolutely impossible to use it in large transactions without the use of a horse and wagon to haul it about. While suggesting that bank checks could as easily obviate the difficulty under free coinage as now, we would ask what difficulty the section hand, who works a month for S2O, has now in carrying his salary (?) home in silver dollars? If he can carry eight foot oak ties for 75c a day he will not kick on carrying 40 or even 60 silver dollars.

McKinley favors basing the paper currency of the country on interest, bearing gold bonds and making the debt perpetual: Bryan favors paying off the bonds in gold and silver according the contract and issuing a limited amount of government legal tender notes in plcae of the non legal tender national bank notes. We all admit that food is as necessary to life as money is to civilization. We also know that if we have an insufficient supply of food we will starve as certainly as though we had no food at all; and as certainly will civilization vanish with aq insufficient quantity of money. We know also that prudent people, when they are able to do so, will always keep their larder well stocked, and a prudent people and wise will not fail to do the same in money matters. The republican platform permits the gold miner to have his gold bullion coined free at thd government mints. The democratic and populist platforms ask the same right for the silver miner.