People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1896 — Page 4
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PEOPLE’S PARTY TICKET.
For President, WILLIAM J. BRYAN, of Nebraska. For Vice-President THOMAS E. WATSON, of Georgia. Governor, Bev. Thomas Wadsworth. Lieutenant-Governor, A. P. Hanna. Secretary of State, NTreasurer of State, F. J. S Robinson. Attorney-General. D. H. Fernandez. Reporter of the Supreme Court. Thos. Force. State Statistian, J. S. McKeever. Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. B. Freeman. Judges of Appellate Court, Nelson J. Bozarth, Adam Stockinger. I. N. Pierce, John Thornburg. For Joint Representative. WILLIAM W. GILMAN. For J udge, WILLIAM 0. DARROCH. For Prosecuting Attorney, MEADE S. HAYES. \ NEWTON COUNTY. For Sheriff—John Wildasln. For Recorder—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 Dist .—John Putt. For Commissioner 3d Dist.—Chas. Holley
The crisis has arrived. *** * * Hurrah for Prince Bismarck. ***** You cannot be to well posted on this money question. ***** There is noway to compromise; it is free coinage on gold standard. ***** The free silver panic is upon us now’; it is the panic of republican politicians. ***** Shall civilzation maintain its upward course or by the greed of man be distroyed? ***** Now is the time to drop party lines and work for personal interest: the cupon clippers will vote for theirs. ***** Be earnest, brothers, in laboring with your be tolerant, they are as sincere, most likely, as we are. . ***** They who advocated the gold standard are voting to deprive their brothers and sisters of the means of livelihood, while taking up the empty cry of s*an honest dollar and a chance to earn it.” ***** Those holding bonds, notes and mortgages payable in gold should not vote with the “repudiators,” provided they have left margin enough in their securities to ajlow for a further decline of yalues. ***** The threat is held' over the heads of a hundred renting farmers in Jasper county by Landlord Gifford that they will bedisposessed if they vote for free silver. That is vigorous campaigning for you. " ***** The methods employed by the Yale republican hoodlum of New Haven, Conn., to prevent Mr. Bryan from being heard at that place, reminds a person of the reception by another gang of aristocratic roughs, in another section, accorded the Populist nominee four years ago. v
We publish in this issue a letter written by the Hon. W. W. Gilman and published in The Toiler, (Fowler, Ind.,) Oct. 2, 1891, in which his declaration ’bn the silver question are as lucidly set forth, and is a refutation of the report that Mr. Gilman is a recent convert to the silver cause. He was then a republican. ***** 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 nd free silver is triumphant in November; the people will be prepared for the event. *** * * Tne republicans are now denouncing the democratic platform for exactly the same “fault” that their platform of 1860 contained. We acknowledge that the democrats are a little late in expressing themselves but then the occasion did not arrive to do any resolving on that line until Mr. Cleveland sent his troupes in to Illinois two years ago. See the item headed “Republican Anarchy in 1860”, in this paper. ***** We have been asked if a widow who has her little all invested in a first mortgage should advocate the election of the democratic or republican candidate. If she advanced no more than one-third the present value of the security she may be safe no matter who is elected. But unless she has figured on a further drop of onehalf the value of the property let her protect herself by the election of Mr. Bryan and a restoration of values.
The Silver Convention
’ The Opera House was well filled with delegates in attendance at the Jasper County Free Silver Convention, and the fol lowing ticket was named by unanimous voice, as it came from the conference committee. It is subject, of course, to the action of the People’s Party Convention to be held Saturday and the ratification of the Democratic Qounty Committee. The following is the report of conference committee: Rensselaer, Ind.. Sept. 24th, 1896. To the Silver Convention / Held at Rensselaer, Ind. ) Whereas, it is the desire to harmonize and combine the Silver elements in Jasper County. Indiana, we, the Committee appointed by this Convention, hereby recommend the following ticket to be submitted to the voters of Jasper County, Indiana, at the next general election. For County Recorder. JUDSON J. HUNT, For County Treasurer, AMMON BEASLEY. For County Sheriff, FRANK W. FISHER, For County Surveyor, EUGENE DILIE. For County Coroner, WILLIAM W. REEVES. For County Assessor, AUSTIN LAKIN. For County Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM COOPER. For County Commissioner 3d District. ' JOHN STILLMAN. Ira W. Yeoman, Chairman Committee. Lee E. Glazebrook. Secretary Committee.
Prices of Grain in 1856.
A gentleman writing in the Chicago Record of recent date, refering to statements made by another writer says: “The gentleman says that wheat sold, in 1856, at 40 to 50 cents a bushel, corn at 20 to 25 cents.” Why is that statement made? Is it a deliberate attempt at the usual gold argument? Here (St. Louis) are the facts as taken from the Republican of Dec. 31 1856, in its summary of the year’s trade. Lpst he was mistaken in the exact year, I give the average also for 1855 and 1857 at the same market: Lowest aver- Lowest averPrime white age for any age for any wheat. month. Corn, month. 1855 81.69 81.32 80.68 $0.57 1856 1.29 1.13% 0.44)4 0.36 1857 1.28 0.90 0.60 0.51 The above prices, are not the much ridiculed greenback prices but the prices that maintained under free coinage of silver.
THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER*IND.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1896.
Rich has been the harvest of lapsed life insurance policies during these hard times, and it is no wonder that the great corporations that pay theiriofficials such enormous salaries as to lead Li Hung Chang into ridiculing a nation that pays such officials as much as it does the president of the republic, should attempt to frighten their patrons into supporting the gold standard; it certainly is to the officials interest to have it maintained. Like professional politicians, corporation officials salaries are the same now as they were before demonetization (if not even larger) and, by the virtue of the fall of commodities, have nearly a double purchasing power. Both classes are generally men who care more for the “honesty” of their dollar than they do for the welfare of the people. But the truth is that the profit in life, accident or endowment insurance lies in the lapsed payments —few agents make any secret of that. About 75 per cent of the annual premiums is put into the legal reserve fund, leaving 25 per cent to pay all salaries and running expenses. A conservative estimate places the number of policies that lapse payment of at 50 per cent. When a policy lapses the reserve fund no longer requires the deposited 75 per cent as a guaranty for payment of the policy. The agent is required to “write up” a new policy for each lapse, without receiving any commission for it. Hence all that has been paid up on a lapsed policy is clear profit. The Metropolitan alone wrote up nearly $>200,000,000 of insurance in 1895. Imagine the amount that must have been paid in to all the companies this year, and think of 50 per cent of it x being actually presented to them by the class to it may “mean bread and butter! The per cent of lapsed policies must ever increase as the burden of the wage-earner and salaried man increases under a continued contraction of the currency. How splendidly the poor working bird’s feathers will contribute to the feathering of the twelve-story corporation nest! The more lapses there are the less liability there is of death lo&sps, and the harder the times the easier it is to induce men in desperate circumstances to attempt to provide for their families in case of their death, and the greater the certain!ty that the policies will lapse. No wonder the companies favor hard times and tfie gold standard.
Poverty and Filth of Chicago.
In the Chicago Record of Sept. 23, in the correspondence of William E. Curtis, there appears an illustration of abject squallor in a so-called tavern for the poorer class of farmers in Mexico. It shows hogs and men occupying the same , quarters, and the article speaks of the smell that arises from the abundance of filth. Bad as is the description it cannot compare with what discovered in every division of Chicago. In the columns of the Record but a few years ago there appeared the testimony of its own reporters of conditions in the every day life of Chicago that cannot be paralleled in degree of poverty, dirt and offensive odors. The writer distinctly remembers reading a description of four families of fifteen persons in all occupy ing one room 20 feet square as their sole accommodations. A chalk line designated the partitiqn, and in that room the entire four families lived, cooking, eating, sleeping, and doing so in the most wretched uncleanliOess, the odor being so oppressive as to sicken and drive visitors from the place. Nor are such instances uncommon; it is not placing it too-strong to say that the conditions of the lower classes of Chicago are as deplorable and as degenerated as are those of the Mexican Indian farmers as portrayed in the Record cartoons.
They Have a Reason.
Prince Bismarck For Silver.
Governor M. A. Culberson, of Texas recentlv addressed a note to the great German statesman, Prince Bismark, asking his opinion as to the best policy' of the United States on the great question, free coinage of silver. The foiling are the two notes in the correspondence: Prince Bismarck. Sir:—The great question of finance is now of importance to the people of the United States.,It is presented in various forms, but in a general way it may be said to bs, first, whether the United States shall adopt the single gold standard, or, second, whether they shall adopt bimetallism with both gold and silver as the standard or primary money. The argument in favor of each is well known to you, but it is particularly insisted that we should not adopt bimetallism because such a standard will still furthur depress the values of all property. Which, in your judgement, is the best policy to adopt, the gold standard or bimetallism? Give your reasons. What effect, in your judgement, will the immediate adoption of bimetallism in the United States have on the cause of bimetallism n Germany »and other commercial nations? . (Signed) M. A. CULBERSON. • Governor of Texas. In reply, Prince Bismarck said: Friedrichshruhe, Aug. 24. Honored Sir:—Your esteemed favor has been duly recieved. I hold that this is the very hour that would be advisable to bring among the nations chiefly engag ed in the world’s commerce a mutual agreement in favor of the establishment of bimetallism. The United States are freer by far ir their movements than any nation of Europe, and hence if the people of the United States should find it compatible with their interests to take indepenpent adtion in the direction of bimetallism, I cannot but believe’ that such action would execute influence upon the consummation of an international agreement. , (Signed.) BISMARCK.
A Republican For Silver.
I have been a republican from the election of President Grant to the nomination of Maj. Me* Kinley, and from the' first time that I understood tariff for protection I became an advocate of protective tariff, not because I was a republican, but because I believed that better prices made better w’ages, better wages made better meh and better men made better government. For years our party avoided the issue of the remonetization of silver, simply for fear- of disturbing business interests, until our losses could be counted by thousands. Ms. McKinley fought the gold standard no more earnestly than myself, or for protection with no less zeal. In his address to the Republican league in 1892 he used these words, speaking of Mr. Cleveland at the time: “During all his years at the head of the government he was dishonoring one of our precious metals, one of our great products, discrediting silver and enhancing the price of gold. He endeavored even before his inauguration to office to stop the coinage of silver dollars, and afterward and to the end of his administration persistently used his power to that end. He was determined to contract the circulating medium and demonetize one of the coins of commerce, limit the volume of money among the people, make money scarce, and therefore dear.- He would have increased the value of money and diminished the value of everything else—money the master, everything else its servant.” The principles of the G. O. P. were deeper imbedded in my heart than the success of any party. I advocated tariff and reciprocity because they elevated the condition s of labor and the result of labor. Topposed the gold standard then and do now just as he did then, and for the same reason—i. e,, it made money dearer and prices cheaper; it elevated our money and degraded the man who produced our money—-
rfor money is but a commodity, and must first be produced by labor. An appreciating dollar depreciates-prices. The republican party admits weakness in the face of the issue, thereby maintaining the single standard, and in doing so abandons its protection plank. Bryan stands upon the pledge* to adopt the double standard, gold and silver, which in itself is a protection that tariff legislation has failed to accomplish, except where leagues and unions have by or ganization forced capital to divide that profit which tariff laws have j?rought to them. Benefits from laws that must reach the producer through the employer make organization a necessity. In return this makes labor and capital enemies, when as friends 'they could wield a power that would civilize the world. C. T. Stone. ; Chicago, Sept. 12.
The Senator’s Work
Hon. W. W. Gilman has been speaking all the week to crowded houses in the school districts of Jordon, Marion, Milroy and Union townships. The old man has lost 'none of his old time fire or - logic and has recieved the most enthusiastic demonstrations of approval of the cause he is so ably defending. He spoke yesterday before the silver convention in the opera house at Rensselaer, and last night at Center school house in Milroy township and organized a silver league with twenty-nine members. Tonight he will speak at Brushwood, Union township. Tomorrow night at James schoolhouse in Marion four miles south of Rensselaer.
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 the purpose of nominating a county ticket to be voted for at the election in November. J. A. McFarland, L. Strong, Chairman, Secretary.
Name The Next President.
The Braddock Manufacturing Company of Burlington, Wis., has, in order to intfodifce their line of hose supporters, ladies fancy belts, etc., offer as follows: To the one who comes the nearest to naming the ndxt president and the states he will carry, will receive a Mystic Cycle, 875. Should several give the same answer the one first received will be awarded the wheel and the others a 10.000 mile Perfection Cyclometer, 81.50. The one coming second will receive goods from the Braddock Company valued at 86, while others with same answer, a ladies fancy belt, with supporters, 81.00 The third will receive goods valued at $5,00, while others with same answer, a 1,000 mile Perfection Cyclometer, SI.OO, or ladies fancy belt, SI.OO. In the forth all will have the choice of our SI.OO goods.
WORD MAKIMG.
To the one who will send us the,most words made out of “Mystic Cycle” we will award a Mystic Wheel and other premiums as offered above. We will also give the same premiums on “The Braddock”, At a private trial of word making among our employes none could form 50 words out of Mystic Cycle. If after you have sent in your list you find another word you may make out another list and be treated as a new individual. But all trials must be mailed not later than Nov. 2nd. Proper names not allowed. terms. Send 25cts and 2 cent stamp for reply, and if you do not receive a premium you will get a 'set of fancy, hose supporters, retail 35 cents. Agents wanted at §2.00 to §3.00 per day. Lady agents in demand. Write for particulars. Enclose stamp for reply. Address, Braddock M’f’g. Co., Burlington, Wis. N. B. As lam interested in the Braddock Manufacturing Company and president of the Mystic Cycle Works, and inventor of the Perfection Cyclometer I can assure you the above offer wilt be carried out to the letter and you will get value received whether you get the wheel or not. A. H. Craig> Mukwonago, Wis. The above advertisment fe all right, for (Mr. Craig is my brother and. he would not guarantee these premiums if he could not meet them. ——Editor. Tetter, eczema and air Similar skin troubles are cured by the of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It qogthes at and restores the tissues to their natural condition, and never fails to cure piles."
The Silver Daily, 25 eta. for campaign Children’s photos a specialty at the . 1 Pavillion. Before buying a tailor made suit see my line. L. Leopold. Buggies and carriages sold cheaper by C. A* Roberts than elsewhere. A. L. Willis can do your bicycle repairing. Shop in Nowels block. For first-class windmills and water ■ tanks call on Judson H. Perkins. See Boys long Pant Suits from 82.09 upward. Louis Wildberg Manager. Four dollar pants a specalty; fit and warranted. Office at Model Store. L. Leopold. > Go to the Rensselaer planing mill for water tanks or cisterns. Prices the ' lowest. , Positively, going to quit the clothing business. All goods are going at cost at The Model. Lots in the Leopold addition adjacent to the court house are the choicest of any in the city. See Rinehart about your cement walks at once. Now is the best time in the year to build. A thousand or two put of date newspapers are for sale at this office at 10 cents a hundred. Cancer positively and permanently ’ cured. No cure—no pay. Address Dr. A. W. Armocost, Brookston, Ind. E. M. Parcels guarantees satisfaction on all laundry; new neck bands and repairs free. Sends every Wednesday.
D. E. Hollister has one of those machines for cleaning cisterns; with a good man to run it. Telephone sor 163 will receive prompt attention. B. S. Fendig has added poultry and eggs to his link of business. He always pays the highest market jlrice in cash Place opposite the Makeever house. Come to the Ideal and see what I can do for you, even if you are not prepared to buy today. No trouble tb show goods Louis Wildberg Manager. “Wake up little Jacob, day is breaking!” so said DeWitt’s Little Early Risers to the man who had taken them to arouse his sluggish liver. A. F. Long. Don’t fail to call and see Judge Haleys complete line of men’s, ladies’, and children's shoes; the finest selection ever shown in Rensselaer, and at gold basis prices. Mrs. C. E. Hershman has received her fall stock of millinery, consisting Of walking hats, sailors, and Tam o’ Shanters. Her prices are always below all competitors. Hollister & Hopkins have leased the Monitor Roller Mills for another year refitted the same with some new machinery and are prepared to do all kinds of milling. They thank the public for its liberal patronage in the past and trust to merit a continuance of the same. A. Lewis, the Rensselaer , cigar manu facturer, has moved into his new factory and keeps six hands constantly at work. He has just added a new brqpd to his other celebrated brands, calling it “Our New Court House.” This is a very good 5c cigar. His old standards, are “Coleridge”, “69” and “Florida L”, the last named a 10c cigar. He makes special brands for several patrons. Telephone Dumber 196.’ ————- r - Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt J3heujn, Fevor Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25c per box. For sale by F. B. Meyer. An Answer Awaited, At the republican meeting held in the tabernacle oh last Saturday, when Mr. Elliot -was speaking, oue Henry Fisher, a venerable and respected citizen, who is a radical free silverman, found it necessary from a physical infirmity to withdraw temporarily from the audience, whereupon he was unmercifully cheered and guyed by the leading republicans, led by the mayor of the city, who is the district chairman of the tenth district. Mr. Fisher and other parties would like to know if they are to expect such treatment in the future. Summer Resorts on the Rotton. The summer resorts on the Monon Route are more than usually popular this year, West Baden and FJrench Lick Springs, in Orange Co., are overflowing with visitors, and the hotels have all they can do. Paoli, the county seat, has opened a rival sanatorium, which is well patronized. The waters of the various springs differ materially, in their constituents, and are successprescribed for a great variety of maladies. The wdods ‘in the neighborhood abound in game and all the streamy teem w<th fish—some of them having been stocked by the government fish commission. All jddications point to West Bad eq ■ (and the neighborhood springs) as the. great sanatorium and popular summer resort of the west. Cedar Lake, forty miles from Chicago, is a favorite picnic and outing spot whefe the Monon has a fine wooded park of nearly 400 acres. The fishing is first rate.’’