People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1896 — Page 4

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National People’s Party Ticket.

For President, WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President, THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. Indiana State People’s Party Ticket Governor, REV. THOMAS WADSWORTH, Raglesville. Lieutenant-Governor, ’ A. P. HANNA, Way eland. Secretary of State, N. Jtf. JENNINGS, Franklin. Treasurer of State, f. j. s. Robinson, Cloverland. Attorney-General, D. H. FERNANDEZ, Anderson. Reporter of the Supreme Court, THOMAS FORCE, Loogootee. State Statistian, J. S. McKEVEVER, Third District. Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. FREEMAN, Guy. Judges of the Appellate Court, NELSON J. BOZARTH, Valparaiso; ADAM STOCKINGER, Versailles; I. N. PIERCE, Terre Haute; JOHN THORNBURG, Anderson. For Joint Repre»entative. WILLIAM W. GILMAN. For Judge. WILLIAM C. DARROCH. For Prosecutlug Attorney, MEADE S. HAYES. NEWTON COUNTY. For Sheriff—John Wildasin. For Kecordar—Ezra P. Tweedy. For Treasurer—James B. Roberts. For Assessor —George A. Cummings. For Surveyor—Chas. Mullin. For Coroner—Dr. J. C. M. Chaffee. For Commissioner 2d Dlst.—John Putt. For Commissioner 3d Disr..—Chas. Holley

We are in the midst of a gold standard panic today. The free silver panic is upon us now; it is the panic of republican politicians. The banks of Rensselaer have suspended specie (gold) payments. It is nothing specially new for they never have been overloaded with the precious metal, but now that people realize what it is to have their notes payable in gold they are trying to get a little of the yellow stuff against the day of reckoning with their money loaner.

Four years ago, after the close of thirty-two years of uninterrupted republican tariff legislation and republican financiering this country had reached such a condition of commercial depression and distress among the producing classes that the party responsible for the distinction of prosperity was overwhelmingly defeated at the polls. Through the treachery of legislators elected to correct the laws that caused the ruin to American industries, the same republican financial policy has been adhered to and the same condition of business paralysis has been intensified. This same financial policy the republican party proposes to continue; it is the gold standard of England, do you want it?

Peoples Party Convention.

The delegates to the Peoples Party County Convention are called to meet at the Opera House in Rensselaer, Ind., on Saturday, Sept. 26, 1896, for thepurpose of nominating a county ticket to be voted for at ths election in November. J. A. McFarland, L. Strong, Chairman, Secretary. Have no fear of the free silver panic, the gold money<bags will get in out of the wet before it rains. The republican managers are making frantic efforts to direct attention from the financial question to the tariff. They are tired of their gold plank. Think of the consistency of declaring that the free coinage of silver would be a good thing and then refuse to adopt it. That is the republican platform on the silver question.

The people four years ago demanded a change in the financial system of this country; they did not get it. but they are making the demand again and are determined to have it this time. The republicans are perfectly satisfied with all the financial legislation enacted by the Cleveland dynasty and propose to finish the job intrusted to him by Mr. Harrison and which he has so faithfully superintended for three and one half years. What is a panic? It is something unexpected. If it was known that a bank would fail in six months every body would prepare for the event and when the time came there would be no panic. That is just the kind of panic we will have when Bryan and free silver is triumphant in November; the people will be prepared for the event.

The Indiana Electors.

In justice to the committee of thirteen, that met in Indianapolis today and named a full electoral ticket for the people’s party, the actual facts of their conference with the sub-committee of the democratic state central committee should be given, in refu tation of the report that has gone out through the daily press. It is reported that the democrats offered the populist three electors on a fusion electoral ticket. That is absolutely false. The democrats refused to concede the populists even one elector unless the populist state ticket was withdrawn, and even on that quite impossible condition, but three, or at most four, electors would be given the populists. The democratic committee told the populist committee that they they did not need their votes and could carry the state for Bryan and Sewall by 40,000 majority. Further it is not true that populists submitted any ultimatum to the democratic committee. The most that was asked was a consideration of the advantages which would result from granting the populists sev en of the fifteen electors. No demand was made for the removal of Mr. Sewall, and no suggestion was even made that the populists had an ultimation, for they had none, and were willing to unite on any equitable terms, they were emphatically refused any concession what ever. It might be well to note that the democratic sub-committee was composed oj the same gold plated jurists wr.o were appointed by the lately disposed goid standard state chairman, Mr. Holt, and whose frigid courtesy was lavished upon the populist committee two weeks ago. Just why the new democratic chairman should send these men to meet the populists is hard to un derstand. It is well known that their sympathies for the silver cause is measured by their interest in the success of the state ticket In-as-much as the leading free silver democrats and the state chairman are really honestly trying to effect satisfactory fusion on electors, it is within the probabilities that a union may yet be effected.

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896.

Cail 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 Thompson J A Wake J O B McDougl Thomas Callaghan Wm W Lyons A Gallagher G A Hemphill I> Connor J L Allman Thos. Harris T Maguire John Eck B Cawley George Besse George Merehead R R Pettit George W Vincent. J H Green Henry C Vincent C W Harner Charles Sommers I) O Riley David H Yeoman I) A Riley W H Ritchie J S Barnes Frank Welsh Joseph Vogel James Welsh George F.ck Bert Welsh Geo 1) Meyer I Uentj Fisher C F Swlgert I Bazil Hunt Wm Mann / O K Ritchie Daniel O’Conner fi-W'Hammonds James Bullis A G W Farmer W T Elnore Louis Davidson I) V Garrison Amos Davidson Moses Ligo Josia Davidson Marion I Adams Geo. W Davisson Mahlon P Hinds Isaac Miller C G Daley J W Iliff J antes W McCleary N S Snow J C Norman Wm H Snow Fred Anderson C E Harlacher George M I'ooper -C W Gilmore Chest. Morgenegg M P Hooton

Democrats of the Twelfth Illinois congressional district have endorsed the candidacy of George L. Vance of Joliet.

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 ticker. 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 impor-* tant 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 w*ould 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 oil 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 hopeci 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.

Lots in the Leopold addition in pro ximity to the court house are very much sought for at present by local real estate .buyers.

Advantage of Free Silver.

The great abvantage of free silver lies in the fact that it will introduce an era of expanding currency and rising prices in place of the falling market that has so long depressed us. Although the immediate effect of free silver may be to lessen the volume of the currency by driving our gold away, yet very soon the influx of silver will more than make good the loss of the th i volume will rapidly expand. The consequence will be that prices will rise, commerce and manufactures will be encouraged, iabor will be in demand, many who are unemployed will get work, competition for employment will become less severe, wages will rise, and, in the end, workingmen will be benefited as well as merchants and manufacturers. Debtors who have been wronged by the shrinkage of prices will secure at least a partial justice and be able to pay off their notes and mortgages with something like equivalent for what they got when they borrowed.—Prof. Frank Parsons of Boston University, in October Arena.

Watson Honored at Home.

Hon. John Temple Graves, one of Georgia’s most brilliant orators’ who, with Hon. Thos. E. Watson was Democratic elector for the state at large in 1888, in a public speech at Cartersville, a few days ago, said. “lam supporting Tom Watson for vice president of the United States.” I support Watson because he is a Georgian, who has won his way to fame and enduring honor through the thorniest trials that ever compassed a public life in Georgia and because his nomin

atiou represents the first organized political courage that has dared to do national honor to a southern man since the civil revolution. His nomination types the last gasp of sectionalism, and the first full breath of actual equality and fellowship that the south has drawn in the new republic of to-day. I support Watson because I feel that the Democratic party is bound in honor to support him —bound by the contract, solemn and honorable, implied in the presence and attitude of Jones and Bland at the Populist convention at St. Louis.

I support Watson because he represents a party that in its members and in itrj concurrence here, furnishes to the Democratic party its best and only hope of victory. One million eight hundred thousand votes is a fair exchange for this inferior honor to a superior man—a fair price sos the Democratic party to pay for the ransom of its principles. . We have no votes to spare. We cbmnot win against the money power* without the Populists, and we know it. If we win at all we win by the aid of the magnificent re-enforcement, and I believe that for this mighty help, the Democratic party is bound in honor to an act of reciprocal generosity.

I support Watson because he represents a party that has educated our Democratic party to a due consideration for the welfare of the common people, I say it fearlessly, and it cannot be denied, that reforms for which the masses have been clamering for years—whether it be silver or labor or income tax or popular rights or resistance to governrhent by injunction—had never been written, and might never have been written in a Democratic platform, until the Populist party, 1,800,000 strong, thundered in the ears of Democratic leaders the a mouncement that a mighty multitude demanded these reforms. And among the men who have molded, through storm and struggle, the the party that has educated ours to popular liberty. Tom Watson, of Georgia, stands easily as the

first and foremost of them all. I am in favor of paying this tuition fee in full. I support Watson because Sewall does not represent the platform on which he stands. Unheard of and unhei aided, picked up by chance and accident in the apathy and haste that marked the closing hour of the Chicago convention, he is out cf touch with his platform on almost as many points as he touches it. By the record he is at variance with his platform as a national banker. Re is on record in opposition to its tariff views. He was advocating a gold standard Democrat for governor three months ago, and this is to the credit of his judgement if not of his consistency. He is in opposition to his platform in the bounties which come to him from his ships. I believe that this very party is indifferent to him, and I am sure that Bryan, his commander-in-chief, has written his explicit condemnation in the public statement that a candidate ought to stand above suspicion on every plank of the platform which supports him. I support Watson because I have good reason to believe that three-fourths of the people of Georgia, without regard to party would prefer him to Sewall and and would vote for him if they were as free as I am. The gold-bug democrats were so well satisfied with the republican tariff that they practically endorsed it. The gold-bug republicans now are so well pleased with the existing financial policy that they reciprocate by claiming it is their orginal invention.

McKinley’s Prayer.

Our father, who art ; n England Rothchild, be thy Lane; thy kingdom come to America, thy will be done in the United States as it is in England, give us this day our bonds in gold, but not in silver; give us plenty of laboring men’s votes to keep monoply in power and its friends in office. We know, our father, that we have done many things that were wrong; we have robbed the honest poor and brought distress to many a poor man; we know that it was wrong to refur d the bonds and make them payable in coin; we know that it was wrong to water our railroad stock, but thou knowest that we make money by that. Now, our father, thou knowest that we are above politics. It is the same with us whether Gold Democrats or Republicans rule, fn’* thou knowest we are able to sway such parties in our favor. Lead us not in the way of the common people, the farmer or laborer, and. above all. deliver us from 16 to 1. Thus shall we have the kingdom, bonds, interest, pow T er and gold, until the Republic shall end, amen.

At the People's Party judicial and representative conventions held at Goodland last Saturday, themominees of the democratic party were unanimously endors e l and made the candidates of the People’s Party. Hon. William W. Gilman, an able reasoner and successful farmer of Newton County, who recently left the repbulican party on the silver question, has the place for representative. William C. Dar roch, an able jurist, is the nominee for jhdge, and Meade S. Hayes, a brilliant young attor ney, has the race for prosecutor. Aside from all political preferences the above gentlemen are eminently fitted for the positions to which they aspire.

State Central Committee.

The state central committee of the peoples' party met in Indianapolis today and organized for active work. Julius Rosenheimer was chosen chairman, F. D. Craig secretary and Charles X. Mathews, assistant secretary. Headquarters will be opened in English hotel. W. J. Reed of Jordan township leaves tomorrow for Bloomington to enter the state university, Charles Hensler of Jordan has been seriously sick for several days, with some nervous disorder and mental aberation. John Jessen has finished laying the sewer to the court house. Some twenty hands are now employed ia laying thd sub-walls for the courthouse and the work seems to be progressing though it is believed that some matters will yet have to be adjudicated by the court.

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