People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1896 — A Base Slander. [ARTICLE]

A Base Slander.

Harry Skinner, of North Carolina, has been returned to Congress. W. C. P. Breckenridge, of evil odor, is defeated. Senator Dubois will be returned from Idaho. The “Industrial Cannibal” is Soverign’s most fitting title for Hanna. W. C, Vincent, of the Fifth Congressional district of Kansas, is elected. Missouri was saved to the New Democracy by the support of the Populists. .Jerry Simpson, in spite of ' heavy odds is elected by s handsome majority. The next Senate will be distinctly Silver, standing: Republican 44, Democrats 32, Populist 12, doubtful 2. The People’s party has elected full state tickets in several of the Western states, Nebraska heading the list. ■ —P— l ——w Honest Dick Bland, of Missouri, is elected by a larger majority than ever, after being out of Congress for two years. Fusion in Ohio gives 8 silver Congressmen where there were formerly two. In this state the full Populist vote sustained the fusion ticket., , : - This same Mark Hanna has I been indicted by the grand jury j

at Dallas, Texas, for offering $40,000 as bfc-ibeg to members of the People’s Party Committee of that state. Foreign dispatches note the satisfaction of England at McKinley’s election. Bimetallism abroad, notably in Germany, re gret the temporary check toward proper monetary conditions. Neither Mr. Bryan nor his party is defeated. The Hannacrats have had a good scare. This struggle will but give to us and our brave young leader strength for the conflict of 1900. Right is might and we will triumph yet, y*—l—MMi—Mß! “Cyclone” Davis of the Fouth Congressional district, Texas, is reported eiacted. Mr. Davis was seiiously , \art by a blow on the head givi by an ex-member of the state islature when making his la ampaign speech.

Secret? Sdgerton claims for the Peoj party in the next House 24 gressmen: Kansas 6, Nebra t, South Dakota 2, North Ca \ 5, Idaho I, Colorado I, ( uia I, Alabama I, Minnesot. id Indiana I, with possibly i nore each from California ama and Illinois. Later rel dd to this as follows:, Te> Vashington 2 - The pin >al vote in Illinois devel fact that Hanna had a va: -er, of men imported th* ' eastern states that wer- !.y republican. This impoi began immediately after Louis convention. Tran ion and wages were paid o he republican campaign fir hese arrivals continued u) % last day of registration ; a, result 110,000 unexpeck s registered in Chicago alo Eleven Con£ ; .-an are returned from No. t alifornia by the fusion vote. Not a single McKinley republic u Was elected in the Idaho Legislature. Fusion ists will control the legislature in South Dakota by a majority of 20 on joint ballot. In Kansas the “majority for the combine ticket is overwhelming. In Delaware; it control of the legislature. The balance of power in the Missouri legislature will be in the hands of the Populists. The Fusionists will also control the North Carolina and Utah legislatures.

Bring on your prosperity! We have heard enough about it. It; has been promised to us by the Plutocratic Press. They put it on the transparencies and had the weary laborer carry it through the street. The orators have yelled that it was coming. Even the goldbug preachers pledged it. Now lot it come. We will take no excuses. Begin at once. We are eager to see the difference between gold basis democratic rule and gold basis republican rule. We, the common people, the silver fana tics calamity howlers, cranks, will, not sit as spectators at this continuous show, but while we pay our price we will jeer the clown and. hiss the villain and ring down the curtain in 1900 upon the whole sorry lot.

The Government must own the telegraph lines of the United States. When a corporation has spread its meshes over a great country, crowding out all competition, arraying itself against the people as they align themselves against the power which makes the existence of such a trust possible, it is indeed time for government control of the telegraph to be considered. No man who stood and read the onesided reports of the election could question this. Only after two hours of false reports did the Western Union begin to admit anything favorable to Bryan. Just what is gained by this delay is not manifest, but that the wires should deliver only the truth to a waiting people, and that such a condition cannot be obtained under present circumstances is indisputable. The first returns reported a republican landslide but later came the assurance of a strong Bryan vote. This being the first presidential election under the secret ballot system has caused much delay in returning the vote but the slowness with which reports have come in from doubtful states suggests the trickery of 1876. The believe that such manipulation was progressing has caused widespread.anxiety. William J. Bryan is not elected but he is hot defeated. ‘Such noble; patriotic labor aS hiis lias been., during the campaign just closed, cannot be in vain. Had’ the true will of the people been registered at thVpdlfe, had ruption, intiniv'’ t r nr* . ] barter of votes bet.

candidate would have gone to the White House With such a majority as America has never seen. Bryan has made a campaign without a parallel. None but a phenomenal man, mentally and physically, could have endured the tremendous work and constant strain to which he has been subjected. He has gone everywhere, calm, strong and confident in the midst of turmoil, weakness and doubt. He believed in the great common people and they responded. They wanted Bryan and Free Silver. That an avalanche of corruption spread over the land, that capital made its cruel hand felt at the throat of labor, that the workman had to choose between a free ballot and bread “for Mollie and the babies,” that all partisan and sectional feeling was appealed to, made it possible for Hanna’s tools to pose as president. But all of this has demonstrated that Mr. Bryan’s backers had no money with which to buy or bribe, that they were in sympathy with labor, that partisan and sectional spirit could be vanquished by patriotism and their leader has gone on record as the friend of all true, Americans and as the fearless foe of all trusts, monopolies and enemies of freedom.

The Home News this week prints the following unjust and absolutely false item: About fifty of the students of St. Joseph's college, it is said attempted, illegally, to vote at the election last Tuesday, Their votes were challenged and only two or three got in their votes however. The facts are that but four people from the college were challenged, all of whom swore in their votes. Oue of those challenged has lived there for five years and was a mail carrier for four years. Another has lived there four years ,and is captain of the college military company. Neither of the other two have resided there less than two years. There were 44 votes cast by attaches of the college and farm; thirteen were by the faculty, about as many more by the* working brothers and 1 - the balance by members of the class who are studying for the priest hood. All of those who voted are.'actual residents at the college and haye no other home. There were over fifty students' u a id vote nor attempt to vote. \ / ■ they do not claim to beeper-

man eh t residents of the college. No one-attempted to vote who was prevented from doing so, though the challenger in the four instances mentioned went to the full limit of the law in obstructing them. Just what excuse the author of the malicious slander can give for misrepresenting the plain facts, know to every person in Rens. selaer, it is difficult to guess. 4