People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1896 — Far Reaehing Benefits. [ARTICLE]

Far Reaehing Benefits.

Free coinage will open the closed silver mines and set thous ands of idle miners at work. By the opening of the mines new machinery will have to be purchased to replace the costly plants that have been destroyed by water and rust. The demand for this new machinery will set the idle shops of the east at work to make it, and they will continue to make more and more machinery as new mines ace discovered and opened up, and as the old machinery wears out. The opening of idle machine shops will have a beneficial effect on the iron and coal miners who will be set to work to produce the raw material. The railroads will be benefitted by the transportation of the raw material, the finished machinery, the supplies consumsed by all the workers, from the silver mines down through the shops to coal mines at the other end of the string. The output of the mines must also be transported, and many more railroaders given employment and transformed into liberal consumers of the necessities of life. Next to the men who arep aid wages, directly or indirectly as a result of opening the silver mines, the men most benefitted are the merchants who sell the wage earners their living supplies.

When merchants are prosperous and selling plenty of goods, they in turn are buying the pro ducts of the factories and of the farm, and besides stimulating business with wholesalers, jobbers, commission men, the railroads, etc., the idle mills call foxmen to operate them arid again more wages are paid, more machinery purchased, more wages paid to make it, etc. And at every turn in the great chain of transactions connected with the revival of the great mining industry where men are set at work the farmer is called upon to feed them. The whole commercial and productive structure rests upon agriculture; miners in the Rocky mountains must be supplied With wheat, corn, oats, hay, butter, eggs, pork, beef, poultry, vegetables, and their wages pay for it. The same is true of laborers in the various factories where goods, machinery and other supplies are made for consumption in the mining industry. Activity in the silver mines directly affects the farmer by increasing the demand for his products, and consequently raising prices, and furnishing employment to thousands of idle farm hands. The new lands in the arid region, which irrigation would make to blossom as the rose, would be sought by the many landless farmers, for with the hundreds of busy mining camps to consume the products of this land, there Would an incentive to redeem it and establish homes upon it. In fact no great industry can be so seriously crippled, as has the silver mining industry, without detriment to the whole productive system of the country, causing great commercial depression. A full electoral ticket has been nominated by the people’s party of Alabama. ***** The Kansas Coloiied free sil ver league has endorsed the people’s party state ticket. ***** Dr. D. W. Day, of Hartselle, has been nominated for congress by the Populists of the Eighth Alabama district.

Senator Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, despite his goldbug record. has come out for Bryan and is stumping in his state. ***** Fusion between the democrats and Populists has been effected in Morgan. Franklin and Moniteau counties, Missouri. ***** C. B. Deans, of Shelby county, has been elected chairman of the campaign committee bf the people’s party of Alabama. ***** Arkansas has been heard from and the democratic free silver majority is more than double the gold majority in Vermont. ***** The populists of Marion county, Hi., have endorsed all the democratic county ticket with the exception of the nominee for surveyor. ***** Tom Watson will return to Georgia from his western tour September 25th and will speak in his own state every day until the October election. ***** Tom Watson spoke at Dallas, Tex,, Labor Day, and from there went to Kansas. He is quite bitter in his speeches, in denunciat;on of Sewall. ***** The democrats of the Fifth Minnesota district have endorsed the candidacy of S. M. Owen, of Minneapolis, the people’s party candidate for congress. ***** M. W. Howard, author of “If Christ Came to Congress,” has been renominated for congress by the people’s party of the Seventh Alabama district. ***** By fusion with the democrats in DeKalb county, Missouri. Ihe Populists secure the certainty of election of representative in the state legislature, and judge of the district. ***** Populists of Nodaway countv, Missouri, have endorsed the candidacy for congress of Col. Cochrane,editor of the St. Joseph Gazette, who has been nominated by the democrats. ***** The platform of the people’s party of New York demands the initiative and referendum, a graduated inheritance tax by state law and a graduated income tax by national statute.

The middle-of-the-road populists in Colorado have nominated Davis H. Waite for governor. ***** The people’s party national committee has decided that it will not recognize fusion in any -state where there may not be an equitable proportionate division of presidential electors. ***** Jesse Grant, son of ex-Presi dent Grant, has declared his allegiance, to the people’s party. Mr. Grant lives at San Diego, Cal., and was a delegate to the last national republican convention. ***** Democrats and Populists in the county, representative and sena torial district in which Perry, Ok’., is located, have fused and the certainty of the success of the fusion ticket is admitted by the republicans. ***** Fusion in Nebraska has been finally accomplished. The people’s party secures four of the eight electors, all pledged to Bryan and Watson, and the entire state ticket with the exception of attorney general. ***** Although the republican convention of Silver Bow county, Montana, split, both factions of the party repudiated the money declaration of the national convention of the party and endorsed Bryan and Congressman Hartman. ***** The silver republicans of Idaho, led by Senator Dubois, who bolted the national convention. I having shut out of representation on the, fusion ticket selected by democratsand populists. have nominated a straight state ticket. ***** Chairman Butler and Secretary Edgerton. of the National Executive Committee, have made a strong appeal for one dollar campaign contributions, which should be sent at once to M. C. Rankin, treasurer of the committee. Terre Haute, Indiana. ***** The democrats and populists of Missouri have made arrange for a division of electors; the democrats taking 13 and the Populists 4. which is considered an equitable division. A union may be perfected latex - on several congressional candidates.

Judge J. G. Ramsdell, hitherto a strong republican leader, residing at Traverse City, has been nominated for congress in the Eleventh Michigan district by a joint convention of Populists, democrats and silverites. ***** M. S. Hayes, corresponding secretary of the Cleveland Central Labor union and a delegate to the last People’s party national conyention, is reported to have deserted the party and joined the Socialist party and has so far refused to deny the daily press story. ***** A conference committee of Populists and democrats in California have arranged for congressional fusion in all districts of the state. By the arrangement the following Populists are to have a clear field: Kinne, Barlow and Cutler in the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh districts, respectively. # ***** J. R. Thomas, People’s party candidate for congress in the Seventh Missouri' district, has proposed to his democrat opponent that the question of which candidate shall be withdrawn from the race shall be determined at a joint meeting of the democratic and People’s party state committees. ***** The New York World, a gold standard paper, makes the state ment that the agents of Mark Hanna are at work in all the mills and factories in the country, trying to coerce the workers to support McKinley, and that gold standard arguments are attached to their pay envelopes given to employes. ***** By fusion of the democratic, People’s and Silver parties in Wisconsin, the Populists secure two offices on the state ticket and three electors. The people's party nominees are Col. C. M. Butt, of Vernon county, for secretary of the state, and Fred W. Thai, of Milwaukee, for Insurance Commissioner. ***** Warren R. English and W. K. Vain, the respective democratic and people’s party nominees for congress in the Third California district, have agreed to submit the question as to which should withdraw from the raqe to a joint committee of twenty-four, on which the parties supporting each shall have equal representation. ****** A letter written to Mr. Bryan by Sewal] during the session of the people's party national convention has been made public by the democratic national committee: In the letter Mr. Sewall says: “My advices are that you have been nominated as candi date for president and Mr. Watson for vice-president. * * * Now I desire to say to you with the utmost frankness and good feeling that you must not allow any personal consideration for me to influence you in your action.’’

* * ,* * * It appears that fusion has been rendered permanently impossible in West Virginia by the refusal of the democrats to en-. ter any coalition which did not provide for the casting of the people’s party yote for their candidate for governor. As a result the people's party has putout two electors at large and has nominated N. W. Fitzgerald in the place of Ralphsnyder, the nominee for governor, who resigned in order that democracy might accomplish its demands. A. R.