People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1896 — Summer Resorts on the Monon. [ARTICLE]

Summer Resorts on the Monon.

The summer resorts on the Monon J Unite are more than usually popular this year, West Baden and French Lick Springs, in Orange Co., are overflowing with vis t<- and the hotels have all they can d. oli, the county seat, has opened <d sanatorium, which is well pati t. The waters of the various spri.. tfer materially in their constituent dare successprescribed for a gr. iriety of maladies. The woor.s neighborhood auound in game ,1 the streams teem with sish —so them having been stocked by 1 -.eminent fish commission. All i tions point to W est Baden (air neighborhood springs) as the pi. natorium and popular summer r< the west. Cedar Lake, ; les from Chieaifo is a favorite j nd outing spot w! ere the Monon but a fine wooded park •i • arly 400 acres. The fishing is first i’rl IC.

Remember that this is the month of actual work for and against the people. Do not be content with the present outlook, but beware of the subtle power of gold. * * * Reuben F. Kolb and P. G. Bowman, of Alabama, the former candidate for governor on the People’s party ticket in 1894, the latter former state chairman, have taken the stump for Bryan. * * * No bill will be sent to anyone who gets this paper. Every subscription is paid in advance and if you did not do it some friend did. Take, read and hand it to your neighbor, and vote for Bryan and tree silver. * * * October usually decides the results of presidential campaigns and this year is no exception. The work of the patriot has to battle with the “barrel” of the treasury plunderer; which shall win? * * * Prof. E. A. Ross of the Stanford University, charges that professors in all of the leading colleges of the country are being coerced into supporting McKinley and opposing free silver on pain of losing their positions. * * * Where--a month ago but forty or fifty silver republicans could be counted in Jasper county there are now four times that number; the republican committee have grave fears of their ability to hold their own, and they cannot, * * * Hon. Thomas Watson gave out a statement to the press last week in which he bitterly arraigned the democratic party for retaining Sewall on the presidential ticket. Mr. Watson’s rather extreme position is being criticised by Chairman Butler, of the National Populist Committee, and many influential members of the party.

The depth of desperation to which the gold-bugs are driven in their fight on silver is shown by their action in the Seventh Kentucky congressional district where the republicans and gold democrats have united and will support “Billy” Madeline Pollard Breckenridge for congress. * * * A prominent mechanic of this city, who keeps a horse, remarked that though hay could be bought now for $2.50 per ton, it was harder for him to fill his mow than it used to be when he gave $lO for the same hay. He simply has had no work, no

chance to earn the gold dollarswhich have such high purchasing power. * * * There is abundant evidence that republican money is being used in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and several other close states, to prevent a fusion on electors between the Populistsand denaocrats. It is very probable that some sensational developments will soon be made in all of these states and the most gigantic plot disclosed to dividethe silver forces and perpetuate the infamous reign of the gold power.