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

Silver County Convention.

As per a call numerously signed by voters of Jasper County, and published in another part of this paper, a convention will be held at the Opera house, in Rensselaer, on Thursday Sept. 24, 1896, for the purpose of naming a non-partisan free silver county ticket This call is the result of a very general feeling among all the friends of the silver movement that such action would strengthen the national ticket in this county. Among those who have signed the call are several republicans who pro pose for the campaign to make every other question secondary to the one great and all important issue, the free coinage of silver equally with gold. Dem ocrats, populists, silver republicans and silver prohibitonists, have asked that this call be made, and even more names would be attached If the petition had been presented to them. It is believed that all the candidates nominated by the Democratic convention will present their resignations before the meeting of this silver convention, leaving the convention perfectly free and unimbarrassed to name such candidates as in its judgment will best meet the requirements of these changed political conditions. It is further believed that both the democratic and peoples parties will endorse ths nominees of this convention and place them on their respective tickets. It is thought that this is the most satisfactory way to unit all the silver forces of the county, and it is earnestly hoped that party and personal consideration will be laid aside and a ticket named so worthy in each personality that the cause of silvei will be given its strongest possible support.