People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Down witu uiviiujrOiy ©r ererj Which do you want, more bonds or nore money? You shall not crucify mankind upon % cross of gold. Let It be a campaign of education upon principles. The people are tired of boodle and brass band politics. Yes, Grover will be a very humble member of his party. The Initiative and Referendum got there by a large majority.

Bryan has the merit of having been only one kind of a Democrat. Hoke Smith has tumbled again; he is out now for Bryan and silver. It seems as though plutocracy did not hurt Bryan when they called him a Populist. No more government by Injunction say both the Populist and Democratic platforms. It was Populists that forced the necessity for the Democratic party to change front. Why don’t the plutocratic papers do some more howling about the “silver craze dying out?" This is a year of break-up and new alignments; be sure to get on the side of God and humanity. The question/ is shall we pay our debts with the dollar of the contract or with a 200 cent dollar. Bryan refused to ride home from Chicago on a special train offered him by the Burlington railroad president. Democratic abuse of middle-of-the-road Populists will not strengthen Mr. Bryan. Democratic papers take notice. Plutocratic wealth is arraying itself on the side of McKinley; the people should lose no time to get on the other side. Many are not pleased at the result of the convention but all should endeavor to make the best out of the situation.

The gold bugs are talking of putting out another ticket. There is no call for that, why not vote for McKinley just the thing. Again the sacred gold reserve calf is below the danger (?) point—sloo,ooo,000. We know by that our money is good in Europe. The Southern Populists had good reason for objecting to “jining” the Democratic party and therefore their fight for a straight ticket. Mr. Sewall now has the best opportunity any American ever had to show himself a patriot. Let him resign and calm the troubled waters. It begins to look now like the Democratic party would get another chance. If it does, the first thing it ought to do is to sit down upon the gold bugs. William J. Bryan is a far better man than his party and if he can succeed in having his party to redeem some of its promises he will prove himself a giant. It is all right to rise above party, but it goes pretty tough to “rise” back into the party you have repudiated, and this is the condition wi.b most Southern Populists.

Tom Patterson was a discordant element in the People’s party national convention. It was such men as he and such speeches as he made that engendered most of the ill-feeling exhibited during the holding of the convention. Grover Cleveland for a time seemed to have everything his own way. In this he was aided by such men as Carlisle, Vorhees, H<»;e Smith and others. Grover is now getting the reward for his iniquity and the new democracy should see to it that his aiders and abettors are also relegated to the rear. The charge that the middle-of-the-road men were influenced by Mark Hanna’s money at the recent Populist national convention was as unjust as it was uncalled for. It could have been said with much more propriety that Chairman Jas. K. Jones was distributing Democratic funds and promises. - ■. i . The People’s Party national convention is over, but out of the differences of opinion which resulted in so much wrangling there are scars left which a wise and judicious course of the national committee might heal over. The majority of the delegates who voted for Mr. Bryan no doubt did so believing that he would accept the nomination. If Mr. Bryan sees his way clear to do this, and it can be arranged to make Mr. Wataon his running mate, we think all will be well. Blit if Mr. Watson is to be Ignored, there might arise complications which will not only endanger the perpetuation of the People’s party, but also the election of Mr. Bryan.